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Craft beer sucks.

Pretty sure TCB has overtaken all of them or will overtake them in short order. Helps to be owned by the Princess Auto family.

Can you guys just start a beer thread in the general section.

Or he’ll learn quickly on the job and progress into a really good CFL HC. Thats my hope for him.

Source?

Everyone gets basically all their hops from the same place... The Yakima "Hop Cartel"... It's essentially the best place in the world to get hops, so everyone pays them a ridiculous amount of money on a big contract. Lots have tried to grow their own hops, and I know some in AB are trying local hops, but it's pretty much all **** compared to Yakima.

Wait so you're telling me breweries in winnipeg don't do water adjustments? That's also a bullshit argument too. Calgary has hard water as well. I don't know what winnipeg is like but I know Calgary is comparable to Munich and I think the Germans managed to brew ok... Hard water does lend itself better to malt forward beers where as soft water does make the hop character shine through more but even a ton of people who home brew adjust their water to the style they're making.

QBs have had 5000 yard seasons but their team missed the playoffs. Playing on a team that's missing other pieces, does not make Dru Brown a bad QB.

Yeah it's weird now.

I was pretty involved in the domestic beer marketing for a number of years and no indie brewery has the clout to match dollars with Inbev or Molson/Coors and if an indie gets popular enough they get bought by them. Manitoba has a market in which craft and indie brewers struggle for in house space and don't have the resources to get people tasting their product. Farmery has probably had the most success doing so and their market share is negligible. I don't disagree that our IPAs are awful here, but so are many other provinces. Our hops are kind of ****. Part of Manitobas problem was even getting a brewery going and listed by MLCC. Until 10 years ago it was extremely difficult for our breweries to even get into their stores. That has changed but our breweries are way behind.

Not a word. He was fired.

Thanks, so if another QB takes some snaps than their Fullback would probably need to come on to replace Butler or a receiver.

Yeah for 22 snaps on designated players. They have no Designated Nationalized Americans and Rourke isn't designated either to be subbed as the Canadian for that.

My Dad used to coach track and basketball. If anyone would wear dark socks with shorts, they’d never hear the end of it. “You know, white socks would make you run faster” “Really?” “No, you just look stupid with those ones”

You could’ve saved a bit of typing and just said “I don’t wanna learn”

You could have saved a lot of typing and just said Personal Preference..it's totally fine. You and Dave come from the exact same spot and that's fine.

Does the league still have the rule where Americans can replace an injured starting Canadian?

Shitty game plan, went away from rushing, tunnel vision from O'Shea.

I don’t need to go through the cicerone process to have a full understanding of flavour profiles. I also don’t need to have a full understanding of flavour profiles to know what is “good” and what is not “good” Winnipeg’s biggest problem in the brewing process is its water. It’s too hard and nobody invests the time, effort or capital into a solution, because that takes away from a brewery’s primary function - profit. The second problem is that because of our market, every brewery’s favourite adjunct into a beer is “local” - we are roughly 3-5 years behind the rest of the country in terms of process and technique. We have exactly one brewery (Kilter) with an established barrel program, we have almost zero clout outside of our own provincial border other than just networking collaborations (although this is going to be changing soon) and the breweries typically rely on “local” style branding to mask major flaws in their beers or overall lack of effort in the brewing process. There’s a reason TCB has to pay vendors for front row shelf space, there’s a reason Stone Angel shut down, there’s a reason Half Pints (gonna miss them, sad they went downhill) is up for sale. These places haven’t changed, never adapted and got lazy. I don’t need to be a cicerone to see that. Sookrams, Kilter and (sometimes) LBJ are the big three in Manitoba and it’s going to stay that way for a long time with reason. Nobody else wants to put the effort in, why bother when you can coast off local collaborations with charities, awareness causes and vendors because that’s all our market tends to care about because that’s all they’ve been taught to care about. We’re gonna see some evolution this summer / fall and I know you’re not going to believe me, but I’ll say it anyways - I’ve got quite a bit to do with it. Hopefully the change results in some positive progression moving forward, our market will be better for it. It’s going to be nice to see some Manitoba branding on beers brewed outside of this province.

I'd like to know what you're basing your opinion of Good and Bad on.... Is it personal preference, or did you go through the Cicerone process and have a full understanding flavour profiles and such?

Havnt heard that lol...I'd rather hear that than anything outta Kate's yap

Even when he calls touchdowns tuddies? lol

Lol... Yeah I don't mind him at all

He had a much better supporting cast by the looks of it. That Oline is brutal