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I’m not an alcoholic, closer to a connoisseur. And it is because I like to try new and unusual beers that I started blogging about it explicitly. My posting about Sleeman being for sale actually started to get read frequently when more news of a possible takeover came out. Popularity is relative of course, the [...]

Although not the most electrifyingly original posting title, I’m running with it. I’ve written before how people actually read the crap I write, no matter how trivial or dubious, especially the dubious… Now people have expectations, they are actually encouraging me to blog about events that they were present to observe. I’m not sure of [...]

In both today’s Vancouver Sun and Globe and Mail are articles dealing with the possibility that Sleeman will sell itself to a larger brewer. The article in the Globe and Mail is far superior noting that Sleeman is Canada’s third largest national brewer and the only one still Canadian owned. Molson and Labatts having been [...]

Dave’s Canes and my Devils are on a collision course. Of course the Devils swept the Rangers whereas the Canes had a lot of trouble eliminating the Canadiens. The Canes have some guy no one had heard of two weeks ago in net while the Devils have Martin Brodeur. Lets just say I’m not worried. [...]

I bought five more new (to me) beers when I was at the liquor store in Courtney last week. During the hockey playoffs I’ve been sampling them. This was a disappoint batch. I bought many dark beers and most of them I did not care for at all. The best of the bunch was Monty [...]