Lunch with friends again! Nature is healing!
Also @grantisagrant took a moment to capture the beauty of my lockdown flow.


Lunch with friends again! Nature is healing!
Also @grantisagrant took a moment to capture the beauty of my lockdown flow.

Last night @crobaricus, @ziggityzig and I went out to The Carleton for another of their Craft Draught Showdowns. This time featuring Gahan House and Church Brewing


Atlantic salmon, pickled daikon, coconut milk, lime juice, dehydrated kimchi


Miso glaze, sesame seeds, fermented turnips, citrus gremolata, crème fraiche


Creamy polenta, roasted wild mushroom, spinach, pine nuts


Charcoal pasta, pork ragú, pecorino.


Peanut butter mousse, rum, strawberry fluid gel.


And lastly, my low key favourite Christmas ornament of all time that has been with me since I was a child.
Ghost! 👻

Last night @crobaricus and I went out to The Carleton for another of their Craft Draught Showdowns. This time featuring New Scotland Brewing and Spindrift Brewing Co.







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

Big Spruce: Inhaled Affirmative
Upstreet: Lime Light Lo-Cal Lager


Big Spruce: Tag! You’re It!
Upstreet: Go Devil – IPA


Big Spruce: Tripel
Upstreet: De Novo V – Farmhouse Saison


Big Spruce: She’s Maibock
Upstreet: Do Gooder IPA


Big Spruce: Snowmageddon
Upstreet: ‘Million Acres’ Barrel Aged Cherry Saison


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.

Brightwood: Backyards
Propeller: ESB


Brightwood: Mojito Crushable
Propeller: Lotus


Brightwood: Minutes
Propeller: Spooky


Brightwood: BMAC
Propeller: DDH IPA


Brightwood: Made Me Blush
Propeller: Dark Berry


Took delivery of several litres of beer from a local brewer today. Looking forward to digging into my growler of “Tom Waits for No One” stout. 🍻

Time flies when you are having fun!
This quarantine period has really demonstrated this proverb in a strange way since it feels like it has been 9 years since the beginning of March.
On a more fun note, 9 actual years ago today my friends and I performed this sketch in Wolfville.
Scale 📷
More desk photography today. Everyone has a scale model Batmobile on their desk. Right?

Reflect 📷
When you get stuck on a hard problem it is important to have a place like the “hammock district” at work to go and reflect on the issue.

Caught up on my LEGO advent calendar just in the nick of time!

Christmas party tonight with friends, hosted by the Glitter Moose

Nine locks really gets who I am.

Sometimes photos manages to surface a real gem of a memory.

I learned that it is National Bow Tie day today because my hotel is celebrating it with free mint julep’s.
There is no one that knows how to kill time in an airport quite like my wife.

You may be able to take 7 eleven out of america, but it will be clearly american wherever it goes.

It is really hard not to giggle when reading signs in another language.

Found everything I could need today!
(Including what I affectionately called the burglar’s exit)


