Luna and I left Hugo home this afternoon and went and explored a new trail around Long Lake
Category: Life 🎉
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Craft Draught Showdown – August 2020
For the second time since March I went to a fancy dinner, and like the last time it was back to The Carleton for another of their Craft Draught Showdowns. This time featuring Big Spruce and Upstreet
The Menu
Salmon Gravlax
Big Spruce: Inhaled Affirmative
Upstreet: Lime Light Lo-Cal Lager
Fennel Salad
Big Spruce: Tag! You’re It!
Upstreet: Go Devil – IPA
Green Risotto
Big Spruce: Tripel
Upstreet: De Novo V – Farmhouse Saison
Prochetta
Big Spruce: She’s Maibock
Upstreet: Do Gooder IPA
Apple Pie Cheesecake Moose
Big Spruce: Snowmageddon
Upstreet: ‘Million Acres’ Barrel Aged Cherry Saison
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It’s been two years since I had gotten out for a ride. Thankfully a former coworker asked me to go for a ride and coffee at The Bike & Bean Cafe.
Tommorow morning should be an interesting game of “what hurts and how”
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As is tradition when out with Colin and Ross we take a group selfie. #selfieswithoutgrant
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Craft Draught Showdown – July 2020
For the first time since the beginning of March I went out to dinner last night. One of my favourite restaurants in Halifax, The Carleton, started hosting Craft Draught Showdowns last year. They let their Chef go wild creating a five course meal and have two local breweries compete bringing five beers to pair with each course. It is a fun time with friends and really interesting to hear from the different brew masters about their process of brewing the beers and how they choose the pairings.
Unfortunately COVID wiped out a lot of these events over the last few months, but it was great to see how they put together the event as safely as possible. There were only 1/3 of the normal number of tables, all the staff wore masks at all times, and many patrons were also masked anytime they were up from their tables. The Chef talked about how they designed the menu to source as many of the ingredients from local farms and vendors as a way to help out the community.
In a lot of ways it was super strange being back out in public, but overall it was a lot of fun.
Beet Carpaccio
Brightwood: Backyards
Propeller: ESB
Scallop Crudo
Brightwood: Mojito Crushable
Propeller: Lotus
Canestri au Chardonnay
Brightwood: Minutes
Propeller: Spooky
Chicken Piccata
Brightwood: BMAC
Propeller: DDH IPA
Lemon Posset
Brightwood: Made Me Blush
Propeller: Dark Berry
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Happy Pi Approximation Day!
As a Canadian and former math teacher today satisfies my desire for proper date standards and fractional approximation.Pi Approximation Day is observed on July 22 (22/7 in the day/month format), since the fraction 22/7 is a common approximation of π, which is accurate to two decimal places and dates from Archimedes.
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This is your Nova Scotian reminder that militarization of Police is not just a US problem.
Last year Halifax Police slipped an “Armoured Rescue Vehicle” into the budget at the last minute but when pressed couldn’t publicly provide any examples of when they would need it.
