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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

3 years

54% of Canadians are willing to throw anyone with an immunosuppressive condition under the bus so they can go to Boston pizza.

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2 years

If he cancels CPP and EI, understand that the person who does it is never going to give you back the money you paid in. It won't be a lump sum. It won't be a gradual payback. It'll just be the person cancelling it taking the money you already paid in. Y'know. Theft.

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5 years

@DerekSloanCPC You have a bachelor's degree in business and ran a furniture liquidation warehouse. People with actual medical expertise and credentials are talking. Go and sit in the corner and maybe later you can sell a discounted couch.

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5 years

Hey, joggers. You need to maintain MORE than the six foot social distance if you're passing people. You're exerting yourself and exhaling heavily. If you're asymptomatic and infected and within six feet, you're creating a vector. I don't care about your 5k, bud.

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2 years

If you read the about section, every brewery everywhere was started by three guys who were doing something else and then decided they should make beer instead. All of them. All breweries.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

4 years

Some day in the next couple weeks. America is going to blow past our total COVID case numbers in a single day. They cannot contact trace, they will not wear masks, they have no plans, and letting them in will kill people. #keeptheborderclosed

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

4 years

If you're Toronto public health, you pretty much have to shut down Adamson BBQ with absolutely everything you've got immediately and strip them of all certification and fine them to the maximum extent of the law and ensure they never do business again.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

2 years

@BrewDog Yeah, I hate it when prominent men won't step down after a series of scandals.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

1 year

You see all this stuff? Listen: Increasingly, Toronto is going to become the landing pad for disposessed LGBTQ+ people from around the world. They're going to come here with fairly little fleeing bullies. Hell, let's not mince words, people who want 'em dead or disenfranchised./1

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1 year

A parade to infinity

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Jordan St.John

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6 years

@FightOwensFight It is legal only on the condition you thread each strand of spaghetti through a piece of elbow macaroni. It's time consuming, but it's the price we pay for living in a society.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

5 years

I think a good beer festival concept would be: All Lager and Pilsner Hold it on December 21st Call it Merry Crispmas

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

4 years

The thing I like about Ontario beer twitter during the pandemic is we've been basically sans American imports for 70 days and everyone is starting to realize we haven't really needed them for about two years. I see a lot of argument over who has the best local stuff.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

4 years

Hey folks, just a reminder: Support your local brewery. Especially the ones who have laid off restaurant and taproom staff. If we can get them through the winter, there's thousands of jobs waiting on the other end of this. Economic recovery's the stakes here. Do what you can.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

5 years

Apologies for all the effing and jeffing.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

7 years

Hey, if you think the bread price fixing thing is bad, wait until someone sensible starts asking why a 24 of Molson Canadian and Budweiser are always the same price in The Beer Store, which is owned by two theoretically competing companies.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

1 year

If you're in possession of a million dollar home and they're threatening you with a tax increase? Give it up. It's a meal out. It's a theatre ticket. It's half a Leafs Ticket. You won't miss it. Your life will run smoother if everyone around you feels easier.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

5 years

The founders brewing situation has now reached the point where my Mom knows about it and is sending me links to it. When a negative PR situation is able to reach 74 year old people in another country, there's a good chance the term omnishambles can safely be applied.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

4 years

@qikipedia I wonder if he's will to license a Toronto branch. I'm already doing that and I'm willing to accept that fee.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

4 years

@marwilliamson I feel like they might be anthropomorphizing that a touch. Birds is just birds. Except for crows. And that one African Grey that called me jerk.

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Jordan St.John

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6 years

Speaking as a man who has gotten his mom out of emergency and had a friend pass away in the last 24 hours, I am going to impress upon you the following: Enjoy yourselves. It's later than you think.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

5 years

Hey. I want to get in your ear about something. The brewing business is hard this time of year, and with the switch to a taproom model, small brewers are part of the hospitality space now. Coronavirus is going to hit them hard. Go buy a lot of their beer if you value them.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

6 years

I don't know about you, but every time I see a craft beer delivery truck in Toronto going about its rounds there's a couple seconds of pride in how far we came and how fast. Still going.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

5 years

I want to tell you a story about the @MYBrewingCo collaboration brew I have coming out Saturday. It is based on the diaries of William Helliwell, who was the brewer at Todmorden Mill in Toronto up until the mid-1840's. His diaries are the best story you've never read.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

1 year

They're gonna rent. If you believe in human rights, basic human decency? You have to vote for someone who's going to allow for that. Tomorrow? Choose wisely. Fix transit. Fix housing. Tax the rich and allow for that. If you won't, no one will.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

6 years

Ok. One more time for the cheap seats. Buck a Beer is not going to come back in the way you want it to. The big brewers lobbied for a position where the cost of a 24 of value brand beer goes up annually sometime around 2007. They set their own prices now.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

6 years

Congrats to @DrunkPolkaroo for winning the @GoldenTapAwards . I like polk's stuff because he genuinely has fun doing what he does. I have a pool in my building and it never occurs to me to swim. Polk? Part dolphin. He is about fun. Beer should be fun.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

3 years

Best thing I've seen this week.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

5 years

If you see a young lady being harassed on a train, go over, ask "would you like some help?" and then, if she says yes, help. It was neither dramatic nor heroic. I mostly just smiled at the guy blinking until the next stop. Then I made sure he didn't follow her. Simples.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

6 years

Cleaning the hard drive for space. Check out this photo of the most OCD draught cellar I ever saw. Dude was an artist.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

4 years

Brewery asks me to delineate off flavours for them. I charge them the consultancy rate because free beer don't buy kale or catfood. Guess what shows up with the beer?

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

4 years

@JordanPeele Sometimes help emerges from strange places.

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@saints_gambit

5 years

@DerekSloanCPC Saw it the first time, but you're still not a doctor. Your medical opinions aren't valid, and you're still a discount furniture salesman. But if we want to upsell the WHO on scotchguard for their discount loveseat, we still won't call you.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

3 years

I am shocked... SHOCKED to learn that @beausallnatural and @SteamWhistle have merged. I'm so totally blindsided by this development that I told the Toronto Star about it in November.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

4 years

Ok folk. As we head into stupid martial law and stupid lockdown because of stupid policies enacted by a stupid man, I'm going to recommend that you support your local craft brewery. At least someone is consistent.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

4 years

Pleased to announce I'll be taking over duties as Listing Editor for @thegrowlerON , which is to say I'm making a list and checking it twice. So be good, for goodness' sake.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

8 years

@ddale8 He literally cannot see things from another point of view. Another point of view must be "deceit." Baffling.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

6 years

If you had told me in 2010 that the most prolific reviewer of beer in Ontario was going to be a goateed dude in an above ground pool I would have been more than a little surprised. #teampolk @DrunkPolkaroo

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

2 years

The first guy is the money guy. He is from an unrelated field, but he has done some back of the napkin math and he's pretty sure this will work. The second guy is a homebrewer who doesn't know enough, but gosh darn it he has pluck! The third guy is a guy both of them know!

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

4 years

@britrbennett @nlyonne As is much of life.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

6 years

The @LCBO ladies and gentlemen. A 100/100 rated Belgian ale for less than a penny a ml.

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Jordan St.John

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4 years

I am about 12 minutes into ted lasso and everyone undersold this.

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Jordan St.John

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2 years

@JohnFetterman I just want to tell you good luck. We're all counting on you.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

5 years

Hey. You wanna do better at sensory and palate development? Every week spend five bucks on something you've never tasted before. It doesn't have to be something fancy. A new kind of fruit or vegetable or candy or beverage. 260 bucks a year can make a lot of difference.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

4 years

No, Don Cherry shouldn't be Governor General. He shouldn't be put anywhere near power unless they want to make him Ambassador to Fabricland.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

3 years

Woke up to an email from a student who took the online version of the course, used it to pass the BJCP and Cicerone entrance exams and managed to get a job in the brewing industry in Ottawa. This is a person I've never actually met, but I'm still very proud of her.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

4 years

I have the feeling that I'm mostly going to be writing positive things about beer, attempting to promote local breweries and industry members for the rest of the year. Please forgive the optimism and effort. I am trying to not have to cross them off the spreadsheet.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

4 years

For all the breweries out there, I know there's not a lot of downtime, but I want you to look at you calendar for the last two months. We're at May 3rd. I guess we're on day 49. Take a minute and look at what you accomplished in 50 days.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

5 years

It's hard as a beer historian to say you're cool, but tonight I served a recreation beer from 1832 to the descendants of the brewer after giving the keynote at the 150th anniversary of the province's oldest historical society. Thanks for the assist @MYBrewingCo . Supercool.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

1 year

Just let people be themselves and maybe give them services so their lives aren't miserable.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

3 years

AZ vaccine get. Arm slightly sore for approximately two hours, but I suspect that's what happens when you jam a bit of metal into your arm and insert a few CC's of liquid.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

6 years

Periodically I step back a little from what I am doing and remind myself that in 2009 I just wanted a beer. Today? Well I developed a recipe for a collab beer made with a homebrewing company that didn't exist in 2009 for a community college program I am in charge of. The heck?

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

5 years

I do a lot of complex stuff professionally. Pouring beer at a festival is practically a vacation. You can solve every problem with a wrench or some ice or a new keg and everyone who talks to you is happy to get something you are happy to give them. Can feel my spine decompress

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

6 years

Proud to have titled a slide about dimethyl sulfide detection 'sliding into your DMS' Someone get me off Instagram.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

5 years

@jnikolbeckham I'm a classically educated 39 year old white guy. I have written five books about beer. Without craft beer, I'd probably be privilege defined. Instead my life is about tailoring a school to teach beer to anyone who wants to know about it. You gotta serve someone. #iamcraftbeer

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

4 years

I can't believe I gotta do this. Listen up Canadian Brewers. The #MakeItCanadian hashtag is trending because Molson has a website trying to get you to buy into giving them popularity. The product is meant to ship in 9 days. Whoever is in it is already in it. /1

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

8 years

If you're going to teach a beer course at a college, you should probably be an "all grain professor" instead of an "adjunct professor."

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

4 years

@meakoopa Noted biblical hero Goliath.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

5 years

The ultimate beer snack is a salted radish. Hear me out. Go get a can of pilsner. Get some radishes. Wash the dirt off, quarter and salt them. Enjoy. Bout 60 cents.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

6 years

@thelindsayellis Paging @zmanbrianzane

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

3 years

You know, if there are going to be shortages at the LCBO, you can always ask your local store to bring in your favorite Ontario made brands. That's a useful and public minded way to support your local brewery; an idea pointed out by a very clever beer rep.

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@saints_gambit

5 years

Just once I want to see a brewery use something other than "the finest ingredients." Just a discounted beer called "Old Code" that uses "stuff we had lying around, you plebs."

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

7 years

The best thing about not writing a column anymore is I can just ignore pumpkin beers until they go away again.

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@saints_gambit

4 years

Been sitting on the knowledge that Erica McOustra is the new Brewmaster at @SteamWhistle for about ten days, and it's a relief to be able to celebrate that a little. Before I really appreciated technical nuances in beer and packaging, she kindly took me on a personalized tour. /1

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

5 years

If you are a local brewery get your online sales going now. Your licensees will not need anything and your trucks can make home deliveries. You gotta find an alternate route here or this is going to suck.

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@saints_gambit

4 years

I don't know who needs to hear this: @Fullers London Pride is back on LCBO shelves with a BB date of Dec 31, 2021. I've never seen it fresher in the province and I'm drinking one right..... now.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

3 years

Notice from the landlord under the door and it's a rent... reduction? Miracles do happen.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

2 years

Working on a project for @GreatLakesBeer that involves archival research. When Canuck launched in 2011 it was $4.95 for a 650ml bottle. It is now $3.00 for a 473ml can. It is actually proportionally less expensive a decade later. By 60 cents a unit. Wild.

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@saints_gambit

3 years

I have it confirmed, and while I'm waiting on precise information in the form of an official release, @steamwhistle and @beausallnatural are announcing a merger.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

4 years

The @Unibroue winter pack is out at The Beer Store. It contains La Resolution, Maudite, Fin du Monde, Trois Pistoles, Blonde du Chambly, and the Cranberry Ephemere. The first four score 97 or higher on ratebeer. Less than 30 bucks.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

9 months

I want to suggest that you go and buy some beer from @matronfinebeer in PEC. You may be in dry January, but you will want beer February first. They make very good beer with Ontario ingredients. They are exactly what we want from brewing. Don't let them get lost in the flood.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

5 years

Been looking at the @CaskDays list, and I have advice. Just wander in without preparing. Sure, hit the ATM, but just go be delighted by the excellent list. Don't plan. Don't engender your own disappointment by needing something that sold out. Just waft through and enjoy.

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@saints_gambit

5 years

Check this out: 1. Acknowledge the problem 2. Apologize sincerely 3. Retain customers Well done, that brewery.

Sawdust City Brewing Co.

@sawdustcitybeer

5 years

Yesterday, a group photo was shared by the Ontario Craft Brewers Association that included Niagara MPP Sam Oosterhoff, as well as former Sawdust City COO Rick Dalmazzi. First and foremost, we want to express our support for our female and LGBTQ staff and customers...

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@saints_gambit

4 years

30 to 50 UNDEAD HOGS!

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

6 years

The English drink like they don't want to live.

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@saints_gambit

6 years

I don't know whether it is my place to relay this information, but I have just learned that @MillStreetBrew brewmaster emeritus Joel Manning has passed away. In light of this news, I am imploring any local wags to stow criticism of their corporate structure for the next week.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

3 years

It's CANADIAN BEER DAY. Which, for most of my followers would have been observed regardless. Carry on.

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@saints_gambit

3 years

@normwilner @MagsVisaggs Welcome back to Top Gagh. Before the break our contestants had traded their bat'leths for woks. Let's see if these honourless Ha'Dibah can impress the Chairman.

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@saints_gambit

3 years

You know back at the beginning of the pandemic when we'd go out on balconies and bang pots and pans for healthcare workers? Could we institute a 7:30 PM visceral primal scream? Just all the effing and jeffing and wailing and gnashing, but you get it out of the way before bed.

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@saints_gambit

4 years

Hey, @Molson_Canadian . Can you explain why breweries that didn't sign up to be included in your case are being included in your case? I'm seeing @CentralCityBrew @WaterlooBrewing @FlyingMonkeys @OldTomorrowBeer and @TobogganBrewery . Seems like a good way to get sued.

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@saints_gambit

5 years

@beatonna That's a fine snow potato you got there.

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@saints_gambit

5 years

Y'know if I'm one of these rapidly apologizing Ontario breweries like @GreatLakesBeer or @sawdustcitybeer , I'd be seriously considering the competence of the leadership at OCB which posted this photo op and delights in sending out letters supportive of things like buck a beer.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

8 years

I hope all you Ontario breweries have your bottle shops loaded up just in case the strike happens. Gonna move beer like March 1985.

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@saints_gambit

4 years

@AndrewNJohns That idea won't work for the hospitality, tourism, and education sectors. Those people will just starve and get evicted. Maybe you should consider that other people exist.

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@saints_gambit

2 years

Oh that's hilarious. The Beer Store has added a category. Beers that used to be imports that are now brewed in Ontario are now "international." Well, hell. Maybe I'll get some of that continental feel by visiting Guelph.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

6 years

In Re: Trillium or indeed any brewery in North America paying people five dollars an hour. You may not support AB InBev owned "craft" because of the ownership. AB InBev's people probably get dental. Don't support a brewer whose employees don't even get bus fare.

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@saints_gambit

4 years

Anything good happen today, Jordan? Well, Other Jordan, the people next door who I have been giving beer to made Argentinian style empanadas and shared some with me. Damn good day, if you ask me.

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@saints_gambit

7 years

I want to explain something if you're a craft brewer in @BeerCanada and you're with this #axethebeertax effort. If you're under 2000 HL, the maximum this tax increase is going to cost you is 100 dollars. The big guys? About 1.2 million each in Ontario alone. #notyourfriends

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@saints_gambit

4 years

I don't feel like writing a blog post about it, since I've covered it many times now, but here's a short thread on The Beer Store's current predicament. 1) The Beer Store is not government owned. It's owned by Molson, Labatt, and Sapporo. /1

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

7 years

In which I explain how Excise works and why Beer Canada's petition is dumb.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

6 years

No, he won't. First of all it isn't a decade ago. Secondly, the big brewers who make discount beers don't want to do that. It would bankrupt them. This is a pathetic omnishambles with no relation to the market, The players or reality. A lot like the party itself.

Ontario PC Party

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6 years

For too long beer consumers have been forced to pay inflated prices for beer in order to increase the profits of big corporations. Doug Ford will bring back buck a beer. #onpoli #onelxn

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

4 years

Talking to a brewer friend last night, and we think the Ontario market reached the point in 2020 where making a quality product isn't enough. It needs vision and personality and a sense that it's being created for a reason. "Why" is as important as "what". Feels like far.

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@saints_gambit

7 years

@IAmJericho Tell you what. The long time frame on the match obscured the prop set-ups and the villainy was exceptionally good. I forgot the chair was there when he went head first into and I forgot about the table entirely. Good match. Good camera work. Good Canadian boys.

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@saints_gambit

6 years

Really odd to see entire twitter threads where people are using my data to own Andrew Scheer on the beer tax. One man with a calculator... not bad.

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@saints_gambit

3 years

Hey. @fordnation ain't giving you a dollar an hour. He delayed giving you a dollar an hour by four years. If you assume annual minimum wage at 40 hours a week is 28 grand, you could have had 30. Doug cost you 8 grand and he wants kudos for it.

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@saints_gambit

4 years

Right. Outdoor Dining is back. If you do open, be aware they'll be locking it back down in a couple weeks. It's inevitable. This is just a pressure release valve. If you decide to go out, 25% is appropriate. These folks ain't gettin' hazard pay. Be safe.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

3 years

My pub is aliiiiiiiiiiiiiiive. 490 days later my pub is aliiiiiive and there's no draught beer. Just cans and no specials on the menu but my pub. Is. Alive. @wallacegastro

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

10 months

With Greg Clow having retired from Canadian Beer News, I thought it was important to have some sort of record for news and events in Ontario. For that reason, I'll be doing an update on happenings within the province of Ontario for The Growler.

News and Notes: January 12, 2024 - The Growler – Ontario's CRAFT BEER GUIDE | ON Craft Breweries |...

Here at the beginning of 2024, we find ourselves in interesting times for the Ontario beer scene. The expansion of sales to convenience stores is in the offing for 2026, but in the meantime the...

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

4 years

Huge news that @CollectiveBrew has acquired @thesixbrewing 's Dundas Street location. It'll be interesting to see what they do with the direct draw tanks. Maybe tankovna Pils? Maybe just hazy IPA. Will be good to have a local retail shop in Toronto. No Go Train for me.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

4 years

"Oh hey! Welcome to our place! You want to buy our things?! WE LOVE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO BUY THINGS! Let's get you comfortable! What would you like to buy? I can recommend things!" That's it. That's all taproom service is. Fire anyone who doesn't get that.

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Jordan St.John

@saints_gambit

2 years

People tend to focus on @LFBrewery IPA and Sours online. Is there a brewery doing a better basic range, though? Between Ice Cold Beer, Outstanding Pub Ale, and Cannonball, they pretty much cover the majority of mainstream taste. Very clever. But that's Left Field.

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