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Your Frankly A Bit Too Humid Post-Canada Day 2026 Doldrums Edition Of The Beery News Notes
Happy day after Canada Day! I’ve been hiding in the basement near the air conditioner outlet myself. Because Wednesday days off are the worst of the days off in the schedule, aren’t they. But it’s still a day off for so many so we should not begrudge the lack of mail delivery and all that … Continue reading "Your Frankly A Bit Too Humid Post-Canada Day 2026 Doldrums Edition Of The Beery News Notes"
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Session #150: Martyn Cornell – Porter And Stout
It is difficult to write about Martyn Cornell’s last book, Porter and Stout: A Complete History without being caught up by the sad fact of his passing a little over a year ago now. As many had written after the news of his passing circulated, he seemed always able to be available at the other end … Continue reading "Session #150: Martyn Cornell – Porter And Stout"
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Welcome To Summer 2026! Here’s The Thursday Beery News Notes That I Dug Up
Taking a break from the TV and all the fitba, I was out and about this week doing a bit of visiting and looking for ice cream. Fields of grain. Sunny skies. I heard Indigo Buntings on separate country roads. Had me a mango sugar cone, thanks for asking. And no brain melting heat like … Continue reading "Welcome To Summer 2026! Here’s The Thursday Beery News Notes That I Dug Up"
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The Thursday Beery News Notes For The Week We Are All Cape Verdean
We need a new anthem: Let’s root root root for Cape Verde If they don’t win it’s a shame… Actually, that tie will do just fine. Just fine. Still, Uruguay has have the best strip. We remember the Graf Spee after all. Isn’t it fun how many old simmering bigotries and grudges come out during … Continue reading "The Thursday Beery News Notes For The Week We Are All Cape Verdean"
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The Charming Disarming And Slightly Alarming Beery News Notes For A Thursday In June
The nice thing about the youngest kid having a job with shifts that end at 11 pm is a fella like me can stay up late for the NBA Finals, listening to 660 AM every second evening when I am waiting out in the parking lot for the kid’s shift to end.* I am not … Continue reading "The Charming Disarming And Slightly Alarming Beery News Notes For A Thursday In June"
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The Most Moon In June-y June June-ster Set Of Beer New Notes Of The Year So Far
It’s been a fabulous week hereabouts. Hard to suggest otherwise. A whole twelve days since the last close call with frost means I have about 45 tomato plants now out in bigger pots and into plots, one seen above. Last year’s dried garlic stems are one trick to keep the bugs away. You… are welcome. … Continue reading "The Most Moon In June-y June June-ster Set Of Beer New Notes Of The Year So Far"
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The Dreamy But Sadly Last Beery News Notes For May 2026
I have liked May so much this year that I am already missing it. Forty-eight weeks to May 2027. I’ve already circled it in my calendar. Just in the last few days it finally feels like spring. I’ve got more twenty tomatoes outside into the spot where they’ll be sitting until November. Isn’t that twine … Continue reading "The Dreamy But Sadly Last Beery News Notes For May 2026"
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Another Fabulous Set Of Thursday Beery News Notes For The Marvelous Month Of May
Was I always a May-man? Attending graduation ceremonies were never my thing when I was young or when the kids were. I spent most of the time, as with the movies, counting up the crowd’s investment in cut flowers… coming as I did from that family business. But it is otherwise extremey pleasant, what with … Continue reading "Another Fabulous Set Of Thursday Beery News Notes For The Marvelous Month Of May"
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A Magnificently Monarchist League-less Mid-May Beery News Note Extravaganza For Victoria Day Weekend
Victoria Day weekend.* A most welcome springtime Canadian holiday about something and someone not a lot of Canadians take much time thinking about but, still, many don’t mind it – as long as we don’t pay the bills. And more birds are back as my new pal, one of a pair of Rose-breasted Grosbeaks proved. … Continue reading "A Magnificently Monarchist League-less Mid-May Beery News Note Extravaganza For Victoria Day Weekend"
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It’s A Thursday In May And Here’s Your Greener Than Green Cheery Beery News Notes
The tide has turned. The seasons have shifted. The dandelions have popped. The penny has dropped. It is time. So the Beast has been released. I say Beast but it’s really Beast II, Son of the Beast. The Beast is still back there, there at the back of the shed. An over a decade old … Continue reading "It’s A Thursday In May And Here’s Your Greener Than Green Cheery Beery News Notes"
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Your Mindblowingly Fabulous Beery News Notes For The Start Of The Best Two-Thirds Of The Year
April showers bring May flowers yet they are at the heart of what makes the most cruel month. I don’t get it. It’s good that we can put the whole thing behind us. Along with the payment of what was dues on the taxes. Done. And stuff like will it be a blizzard warning or … Continue reading "Your Mindblowingly Fabulous Beery News Notes For The Start Of The Best Two-Thirds Of The Year"
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Your Sunny Warm Bountiful Springtime Beery Beer Notes For A Satanically Chilly Late April Week
On Monday as the sun came up I thought I might do a little weeding in the garden. But something was strange. Wrong even. The top of the soil was like rock. Solid. The hoe just cracked it intopt large chunks. Then I realized it was under zero. Oh. My. Lord. A month into spring. … Continue reading "Your Sunny Warm Bountiful Springtime Beery Beer Notes For A Satanically Chilly Late April Week"
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Your Alluring Beery News Notes For The Magical Week When The Cowbirds Returned…
We all know that the swallows Capistrano in California and it’s all yada yada yada, right? But here – the Cowbirds are back. Yes! See… I have an app on the phone that identifies birdcalls and sitting in the parking lot of a municipal park the other day it clearly picked up the squeek of … Continue reading "Your Alluring Beery News Notes For The Magical Week When The Cowbirds Returned…"
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Your Scattered Beery News Notes For The Lunar The Low The Looney And Perhaps Even The Ludicrous
Happy lunar loop de loop week. It’s hard to find a glimmer of good in an ugly world but the Artemis II mission into outer space did its best to try. As has the prospects of the Two-Tailed Dog Party in this weekend’s elections in Hungary. Coming in at a solid 3.27% of the vote … Continue reading "Your Scattered Beery News Notes For The Lunar The Low The Looney And Perhaps Even The Ludicrous"
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And, Just Like That, We Are In Q2 2026… Can August Be Far Behind?
Springtime. That’s what this is supposed to be right now. Yes, my Red Sox are out there choking as the season begins and, yes, my Leafs are out there choking as the season winds down. So the calendar looks like it’s on the right page for sure. But… where is that first sweater and shorts … Continue reading "And, Just Like That, We Are In Q2 2026… Can August Be Far Behind?"
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I Declare! These Beery News Notes Are Extra Interesting! Fascinating Even!! Aren’t They… They Are, Right??
Is this fascinating? I think about that at certain quiet moments. I mean I do my best but I can’t answer that question. Only you can. That is the one thing writers don’t talk that much about. The readers. 1.7% of me fully believes that any attention I receive in response to these scratchings is … Continue reading "I Declare! These Beery News Notes Are Extra Interesting! Fascinating Even!! Aren’t They… They Are, Right??"
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The Very Last… Summative Even… Fresh Yet Thoughtful Beery News Notes For Winter 2025-26
Spring! Tomorrow is spring!! On a Friday even. How swell. The sort of moment that always reminds me of some lyric or another from Old Blue Eyes himself: Spring is here Why doesn’t my heart go dancing? Spring is here Why isn’t the waltz entrancing? No desire, no ambition leads me Maybe it’s because nobody … Continue reading "The Very Last… Summative Even… Fresh Yet Thoughtful Beery News Notes For Winter 2025-26"
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Your Thursday Beery News Notes For The Week Of The Green And The Black
It’s that time of year. When being born of Scottish parents means nothing. Nothing!!! I think that is what Governor Kathleen Mary Courtney was actually saying when my FB pal (and fellow garlic grower) Sean took this photo at the Executive Manstion in NYC the other day. The Governor even has a pint of stout. … Continue reading "Your Thursday Beery News Notes For The Week Of The Green And The Black"
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Well… Welcome To Your “It Is March And The Good Times Are Here Again!!!” Beery News Notes
For well over 20 years, I have lost my marbles over March arriving as it did again last Sunday. I may have created that image to the right in 2004. Such a clever boy! So well centered. Why do I love March, you ask? Not the green beer. Maybe not the green grass which might … Continue reading "Well… Welcome To Your “It Is March And The Good Times Are Here Again!!!” Beery News Notes"
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Your “Don’t Let The Door Hit You On The Way Out, February 2026” Edition Of The Beery News Notes
February does one decent thing each year. It is short. We were also one goal short the other day. But that is a different thing. Canada is outraged to the point of almost saying something. In our house, the cat spoke for us all. Stunned disbelief twinned with a day dream about what was in … Continue reading "Your “Don’t Let The Door Hit You On The Way Out, February 2026” Edition Of The Beery News Notes"
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