I spent a few days this week at the same cottage where I was last August. Once again, we had a ridiculously bright moon while there. I visited some of the same sites as last time (County Cider Company, Buddha Dog, the cigar store, the Sandbanks) and a couple new places (Fifth Town Cheese, Duke [...]
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I hadn’t been to GRB since the spring for Curmudgeon IPA (my mouth waters just thinking about it). I finally gave up on their website as an information delivery vehicle…it hasn’t been updated in six months. However, I noticed a new beer on their profile page on BA so I gave them a call and [...] My mother made a trip stateside recently with my nieces and sister-in-law to visit a Sesame St. theme park in Pennsylvania. She kindly offered to go beer shopping for me. My mom is the best! As Matt once said to me in library school while admiring a pair of handknit socks from her, “You don’t [...] Well since there’s no local distribution of ABA and I have little interest in crossing the border these days, I decided to take a whack at brewing something like it myself. I found a few homebrew clone recipes online and took them to the Brew House and asked about adapting them (here’s one of the [...] Fitting that just in time for Ontario Craft Beer Week, I would receive a growler of this very fine pale ale from my brother and sister-in-law from their local brewery. I’d previously tried their House Ale which did not make a big impression on me. However this beer has everything a good pale ale should: [...] I was camping in Killarney again this week. Overall, a great trip except for one soggy day. The usual activities: hiking, kayaking, swimming. I did a hike I had not done before on my two previous trips (not sure why) to the top of “The Crack” and Killarney Ridge. Pretty good view from there. And [...] Three years ago, I decided I wanted a vintage mechanical wristwatch so I bought this Swiss manual winder from the early 50s on ebay: That watch worked fine until it took an unintended dip in Mazinaw Lake last September. After a couple of subsequent service attempts, I was in the market for another watch. The first [...] I found a pleasant surprise on my desk at work Monday morning: a bottle of San Diego’s Arrogant Bastard Ale. My co-worker Phil had been on vacation in Florida and kindly brought it back for me. I’d heard good things about this beer and had been wanting to try it for some time so I [...] Well I guess that spam was even more relevant than I thought…it turns out there is yet another thing the archos has in common with netbooks: retrogaming abilities! sideways over at the archosfans forums has been messing around with porting sdl apps to the archos. The first one he tried was an nes emulator called FCE [...] I returned to the lcbo to replace some of the beers I’ve been sampling for a xmas eve tasting at my parents. There was no more ola dubh to be had so I picked up a bottle of Fuller’s Vintage Ale. I guess I did not read the box carefully enough as it seems they [...] |
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