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8 hours ago, Mike said:
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 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.
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5 minutes ago, Booch said:
Thats what I thought...I thought he was long gone from this world
yah...i like beer...the kind you drank from the 90's on back...Always liked and drank Coors Banquet...we used to always say...I"f it's good enough for Magnum PI...It's good enough for me"
Carlsburg Gold was another fav back in the day
He mostly is gone. Not sure who gave him the time of day by retweeting his insanity.
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9 hours ago, 17to85 said:
let's be totally honest, most of the new IPAs these days are just dump a **** ton of hops in and make it taste like juice.
bring back more of the classic west coast IPAs I say. The hazy ones have their place, but too many beers these days are neglecting the malt aspect of a beer.
I am in complete agreement. The fascination with killing beer with hops these days is ruining beer. Hops should be a background flavor not smacking you in the head with every sip. A beautiful, smooth, well rounded malted barley with a hint of hops should be the goal...but it isn't. Now it's can you taste the pine and grapefruit.....well yea actually...it's all i can taste....for days afterwards. I actually had to stop drinking IPAs because of my gout. Hops are terrible for gout and nowadays the overwhelming hoppiness of the IPAs just sets it off.
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On 2025-06-04 at 5:15 PM, Booch said:
Look at the tackle numbers that Awe got...he'd be highest paid player in league by your metrics...now go look at him...and the others...where relative to l.o.s were they made...how many were after yards were gained....2nd downs converted...how many were for 0 yards...or lost yards...then get back to me...obviously you've never graded a football game
Who the eff is Marty York lol
Marty York was a former Sportsnet CFL guy for many years. His epically poor track record of making up rumors and hilariously poor prognosticating eventually embarrassed Sportsnet so much that they had to let him go. Not before he completely destroyed Sportsnet CFL coverage so badly that the company had to give it up almost entirely because of York destroying all credibility. He is EASILY the worst CFL journalist of all time.
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12 minutes ago, Booch said:
As opposed to kolo consistently allowing that several times a game...for yrs...and has a real hard time working with his guards in tandem? Not saying Eli is all world...but he is better...and if he played...would get even better yet
Kolo hasn't really won anything...I'd say there are 6 guys on our roster...active.. and pr and injury who are better than him
Unfortunately Eli is not one of them. I banged his drum for a long time to be starting over Kola, he just fails to seize any chances given to him.
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39 minutes ago, wbbfan said:
Seems like it. I'm very curious to see how the roster shakes down for week 1. Is Griffin staying at Dime as a DI? If he does, who is going to KR? How are we going to work the imp Lbers?
Week 1 bye sucks as a fan lol.
I am kind of glad we have it this year tbh. An extra week to prep in a new offensive system for a QB that has not had a start since early last year with a couple of new receivers can't hurt.
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48 minutes ago, Fatty Liver said:
I think Eli will remain a backup until the next best Natl. O-lineman displaces him. This pre-season clearly illustrated he's never likely to become a starter, couple of times every game he allows the guy he's blocking to waltz right by him and lay a solid lick on the QB. It's hard to gain trust when the QB is always worried about his backside.
I agree, Eli has to win the job and he clearly has not done so.
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12 minutes ago, rebusrankin said:
Is Milligan Ed Gainey 2.0?
Definitely. Milligan was burned a ton in coverage all year but had a ton of interceptions from QBs throwing the ball right into his chest. He wasn't taking balls away in coverage like Ford did, he just happened to be standing in the right spot at the right time for a tip from the DL, or an errant throw.
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16 hours ago, Brandon said:
What I read was that Joss and his husband had a history with all of the neighbours as they would get messed on meth and would do weird stuff such as banging pots and screaming at anyone walking pass the house.
Last year when he was on drugs Joss tried heating the house by making a fire pit inside the house and burned it down.
The husband apparently was also cooking meth so that's why it went up in flames so quickly.
They came back to the neighborhood got into a shouting match with the accused and he went inside and found his rifle and shot him.
The police have found zero evidence of a hate crime towards gays but instead a feud between neighbours.
The husband posted a rant on Facebook saying it was purely anti gay, however other neighbours posted on Facebook with the claims of drug usage and bizarre behavior.
I assume the media is waiting until more info before starting a firestorm.
Always 2 sides to the story I guess. Still very tragic tho.
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5 minutes ago, 17to85 said:
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers made a move that surprised some fans during their post-training camp cuts, keeping veteran receiver Dillon Mitchell while releasing second-year target Myron Mitchell.
Really? Fans were surprised? Which ones? We kept the vet free agent over a 1nd year guy who underwhelmed in year 1... this is a shocker!
The media was shocked because they are lazy and one of their colleagues told them Myron played well, and they jumped aboard the Myron Mitchell express. Fans surprised? Nope...we pay attention.
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6 minutes ago, johnzo said:
This isn't nonsense. He is definitely one of the best of all time. He and Sean Whyte are tenths of a percent apart in lifetime accuracy.
Sean Whyte played a significant amount of time under a head coach that would not attempt anything longer than 45 yards.
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7 minutes ago, wbbfan said:
First, I'll say I don't see a lot to bash in this set of cuts either. The NI wr depth is a side effect of us trying to draft just teams guys for a couple years. But you are basically always in a situation of needing to restock NI depth at at least one position in the CFL.
That said, If you look at the argos of the dinwiddie time or the stamps previous dynasty, both teams would've had the last 3 years of roster turn over in vets in one year, and then some. Guys like kyrie and thomas would've been gone long ago. We aren't stuck on a lot of old vets any more. It's just a couple under achievers that get penned in now.
I also don't see considerable discourse. Last year was much more controversial. And the year before that. I see people discussing the cuts and questioning some moves, which is the point here yeah?
Don't get me wrong, I'm disappointed in a couple moves as well but overall I like it. I don't think we needed to re-invent the wheel with our roster. The biggest changes we made this offseason will pay off once Logan gets healthy and Hogan gets his feet under him. We had a darn good team last year, and appears we will have one again, Our biggest flaws are mostly addressed and imo this is the best looking PR we've had break camp in a while. I get that Thomas and Wilson appear to be weird keeps this year, but at the same time if their play time is reduced I see no problem with keeping either around.
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4 minutes ago, Blue In BC said:
Bailey would make more sense than Weitz IMO, if we choose to roster the 2nd global. At least he would get some reps at DE. However, it comes at the cost of a Canadian and I'm not sure where we'd trim. 3 Canadian LB's, 1 receiver drafted and Peterson acquired in trade all added to the roster for 2025. That said, that's a lot of Canadian LB's.
Until they sort out the import LB's ( 4 counting Griffin ), I'm not sure what we're doing exactly.
Our DE's in 2024 were not good except for Jefferson. Adding Vaughters is great but depth? Yikes.
Pretty sure that Munier-Bailey will be on our roster sooner rather than later.
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20 hours ago, JuranBoldenRules said:
Our entire defense aside from Jefferson Gauthier and Thomas has turned over since 2022.
Kickers, receivers.
Not sure the emotional reaction to cut down day is warranted. But I guess football is too boring.I'm not seeing a lot to bash either. People are complaining about the lack of roster turnover without actually acknowledging that we have had a lot of roster turnover in the past couple of years. Always lots of emotion on cut down day tho, as guys that we have grown attached to from our own internal hype get let go and then we find out we were mostly wrong about them as they never make another team either.
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7 minutes ago, JuranBoldenRules said:
Like $700 per week.
The decision on receivers has to be who fits the offense best mostly meaning who works best with the QB's.
Kind of in a bind if our returner isn't an offensive player so it would be nice if a guy like Stearns saw that as a path to make the team and refused to take no for an answer on getting reps on punts.
Return game is another reason that D. Mitchell may get the nod. He's no Janarion Grant, but he is miles better than his M. Mitchell.
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1 hour ago, Arnold_Palmer said:
His salary is the biggest thing against him. If he’s going to be a 5/6 guy we can’t be paying him to be a 2/3 guy. I feel like we have enough guys that can “get the job done” on the bottom of our depth chart that it’s pretty hard to justify the salary.
We've already paid a lot of his salary. What's left owing is basically minimum contract or even slighty less. At this point his salary is a non factor.
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46 minutes ago, Goalie said:
Dillon Mitchell needs to do something no? Tough time I think keeping him if he’s outshined by rooks and 2nd year guys. I think you keep the guys Zach likes regardless tho.
D.Mitchell definitely needs to up his game a lot, but it would take a pretty big performance from someone else to see him cut imo.
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25 minutes ago, Super Duper Negatron said:
TIL Jake Thomas only speaks in the third person, and is REALLY hard on himself.
As he should be...you don't play until you are 49 years old without being hard on yourself, and being able to look at yourself from the outside in.
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2 minutes ago, Super Duper Negatron said:
My money is on Jake Thomas.
I think you mean Booch Thomas, as Fatboi is known to his closest friends.
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16 hours ago, wbbfan said:
Given our previous camps it isn’t ridiculous at all. We’ve cut guys the day after a ps game who didn’t play, who played extremely well, we’ve failed to play guys enough to get the rust off etc
I think game action and TC action both count for sure, but we have the games for a reason. Yes, we've sat guys that needed to knock the rust off, a mistake that looks like it hasn't been repeated this year. Not every player can play his way onto the team in preseason game action but some definitely can and that is especially true in the trenches. The skill guys can be assessed pretty well without game action, but it's tough to see what kind of motors you have competing in your trenches in practice.
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Camps have a second game for a reason and it is ridiculous for people to assume that anything is set in stone other than our star level players. Some vets are at home because we know what they bring to the table already, and some to shield them from injury, but players play themselves onto and off of the team all the time in game action (including this one) in preseason on every team every year.
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Carey was an excellent running back. but the Argos didn't hesitate to release him and I have to think there was a reason behind it. RB's lose the mileage and speed battle faster than any other players on the field and I have to wonder if his odometer has rolled over.