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Jordan St.John

@saintsgambit.bsky.social

Head of the Beer Certificate at Toronto's George Brown College. Author x5, Editor Emeritus of The Growler Ontario, Contributor of Odds and Sods to various publications.

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war overseas, war in american cities, the largest tax increase on the middle class in history…no reason for any of this just stupid people doing stupid things and making your life worse

04.03.2026 15:17 β€” πŸ‘ 276    πŸ” 65    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1
Diary of a Local Beer Man - Week of February 23rd - St. John's Wort Monday, February 23rd The week before you start a new job should be filled with preparation, and it has to some extent. I’m spring cleaning, which takes some doing when it’s too cold to air the place ...

Delayed this week due to a hell of a lot of balls in the air, it's the Diary of a Local Beer Man, starring me, Sir Digby Chicken-Caesar.

This week: More Belgian Tripel than you can shake a stick at! Meuse Brewing! Kevin Head! Thoughts about memory!

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04.03.2026 03:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You mean like paragraphs of perfectly equal length and a tone derived from marketing pitches?

03.03.2026 13:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm just rewatching Better Off Ted, and Portia de Rossi is absolutely hilarious. Easily the best part of the show, and the rest of it is tightly written and well characterized.

03.03.2026 03:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I work part time as a carney, and I gotta tell you. We could do better than that building.

Just don't touch the horse barns. The uptown crowd would get upset.

02.03.2026 22:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He was always pro-river and anti-kangaroo violence.

27.02.2026 22:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Man, that's a real down doobie do down downer about Sedaka.

27.02.2026 22:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well, if that doesn't take the biscuit.

27.02.2026 17:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

They don't come up all that much because of their PEC location.

They had been using a lot of locally malted barley, which is what you're tasting there. That light confected sugar thing.

27.02.2026 12:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Max. The Warrior Max.

Just can't get beyond Thunderdome.

26.02.2026 21:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Just nice to see Michael Palin getting work.

26.02.2026 13:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

And some leftover for a sausageinnabun

25.02.2026 01:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Jesus, he looks like Will Ferrell playing James Lipton

24.02.2026 23:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I know we're past the point of metaphor and irony and satire, but an aircraft carrier so full of shit it's literally backing up?

Even Joseph Heller would have found that cack-handed.

24.02.2026 00:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If they could bring back 90's boxy shoulders, the 46R people would really appreciate it.

23.02.2026 23:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You're saying it's just part of his rotini?

23.02.2026 20:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Man, I hate agreeing with Doug.

23.02.2026 20:07 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Diary of a Local Beer Man - Week of February 16th, 2026 - St. John's Wort Monday, February 16th Due to a combination of factors, I had been in for the long weekend.Β  The isolation of working on a text leads you to interesting places, and the Harmonicist John Popper once san...

It may be an hour or so late, but I didn't forget about Diary of a Local Beer Man.

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This week: Cider! Educational opportunities! Gently kicking Brewdog while they're down! Curried Haggis?!

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23.02.2026 16:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ha. He's a violent profligate hooligan.

23.02.2026 01:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How would you characterize Blillyum?

23.02.2026 00:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

All because you had to have yer labubu.

22.02.2026 23:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It's going to be an interesting couple of years, Pete.

22.02.2026 23:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

At some point, every story about Trump will simply be, "Dying antichrist finds a way to make everything slightly worse faster."

I'm sure Frankie Boyle said it already.

22.02.2026 02:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Listen to me and take my advice. Pull down your pants and slide on the ice.

22.02.2026 01:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Bout the size of it, super chieftain.

21.02.2026 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I can't imagine how smug and insufferable he would be.

21.02.2026 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

What a cheeky little mug.

21.02.2026 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Definitely flinters.

20.02.2026 22:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Non-negotiable negotiables aren't negotiable.

20.02.2026 18:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The copy editing really is the hard part. I'm doing it at the moment and the galling part is that you can't quite do it full time.

20.02.2026 14:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0