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JT is a no oars off-shore wind powered water on the water and beer on the pier serious sort of sailor. Me, if my 60 horse merc doesn’t fire up I’m fishing off the dock. Jimmy Buffet was a smooth singing son of a son of a sailor.* All of this sailing segue is for this...
From Chambly in the Belle Province, just East of Montreal, to just East of everything else. It’s a whitecap rolling in from the far East coast, as in the Rock. A Newfoundland ultra-light from Port Rexton, this NEIPA is in session. While sight-seeing in PR in addition...
I remember meeting Daryl Sittler in the mid-90’s. His business card simply said “Daryl Sittler; Businessman”. We had just taken our company public and he was a board member. When we met he said “So you’re the cashflow part of the business” because my part of the...
If you think the three towers has a familiar ring to it, you may be thinking of Tolkien’s Two Towers. Or maybe the good folks at Gateway City are referring to the castle located south-west of Highgarden and Oldtown, on the edge of the Redwyne Straits?* But if you...
Ah yes, tiny cars with friends. Fond memories of the COMDB AGM with RA as the designated driver, an expression you sure don’t hear too often. Driving that tiny car in search of my last drive. This is another Refined Fool’s Summer Beer League special, brewed...
You’ve got your Doobie Brothers, and the Allman Brothers, there’s the BeeGees and Dire Straits, and the Police. How about the Kinks or the Beach Boys, ACDC and INXS too.* Time to add another brother supergroup to that list, the Brothers MacKinnon. Yep, there’s some...
How low can you go is an expression often applicable to the COM AGM, but in this case it’s this beer’s ABV. The trend of 0% ABV has been quickly followed with the Micro beer trend, extra low ABVs for those who can’t handle a light beer but don’t want to be a zero....
Back on the farm for some MacKinnon malt and some home-grown hops. Yep, it’s another MacKinnon Brothers special, this time a Philly light. We enjoyed their bread baking beer sipping Nanna’s namesake, Philomena Pilsner. Could this be another reference to Grandma...
So what’s new at New Ontario Brewing? Well to start with New Ontario isn’t new and isn’t New Ontario anymore either. What is new is a new name, Wildwoods Brewing.* I made a visit and inquired as to what brought on this name change, because I thought New Ontario had a...
After some down and dirty double trouble at 8.2% it was time to lighten things up with a 3.8% Local Light from Blackburn. A wise man once said “It is better to pour a light than to curse the darkness”, a quote I found quite illuminating. * The last time I cursed the...