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.
Pinned
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Why not sign up for George Brown Polytechnic's WSET Beer Level 1 course, which starts on January 26th?
It's a four week course that gives you the basics of understanding the subject and comes with international accreditation from WSET!
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It's a four week course that gives you the basics of understanding the subject and comes with international accreditation from WSET!
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If Epstein funded 75% of Bitcoin, and it is therefore in fact an Op, do you think it has a backdoor to ownership, you credulous nitwits?
But the Blockchain!
But the Blockchain!
February 2, 2026 at 8:56 PM
If Epstein funded 75% of Bitcoin, and it is therefore in fact an Op, do you think it has a backdoor to ownership, you credulous nitwits?
But the Blockchain!
But the Blockchain!
You know, I don't know much about Bad Bunny's musical career, although I have seen him wrestle.
Seeing the hubbub from the folks who don't like him, I guess I'll check him out.
Seeing the hubbub from the folks who don't like him, I guess I'll check him out.
February 2, 2026 at 8:24 PM
You know, I don't know much about Bad Bunny's musical career, although I have seen him wrestle.
Seeing the hubbub from the folks who don't like him, I guess I'll check him out.
Seeing the hubbub from the folks who don't like him, I guess I'll check him out.
It's Monday, and therefore time for Diary of a Local Beer Man.
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This week: Cold! Thoughts about how to write! Imperial Stout!
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This week: Cold! Thoughts about how to write! Imperial Stout!
Diary of a Local Beer Man - Week of January 26th - St. John's Wort
Monday, Jan 26th The deep freeze is well and truly upon us, and looking at the forecast for the next couple of weeks, it looks like we’re in four-layer territory. If your primary mode of transport and...
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February 2, 2026 at 3:13 PM
It's Monday, and therefore time for Diary of a Local Beer Man.
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This week: Cold! Thoughts about how to write! Imperial Stout!
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This week: Cold! Thoughts about how to write! Imperial Stout!
I'll say it, just to normalize it:
I had a very serious crush on Catherine O'Hara as a twelve year old watching SCTV.
I had a very serious crush on Catherine O'Hara as a twelve year old watching SCTV.
January 31, 2026 at 3:47 AM
I'll say it, just to normalize it:
I had a very serious crush on Catherine O'Hara as a twelve year old watching SCTV.
I had a very serious crush on Catherine O'Hara as a twelve year old watching SCTV.
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I have Jazz FM 91.1 plugged into American Truck Simulator.
Life is a pretty sweet fruit.
Life is a pretty sweet fruit.
January 30, 2026 at 12:50 AM
I have Jazz FM 91.1 plugged into American Truck Simulator.
Life is a pretty sweet fruit.
Life is a pretty sweet fruit.
I kinda feel bad for Jesse Welles. In a better world he would have been the next John Hartford, but instead he has to be a Guthrie.
January 29, 2026 at 8:28 PM
I kinda feel bad for Jesse Welles. In a better world he would have been the next John Hartford, but instead he has to be a Guthrie.
506 Snowpiercer, please call control.
I think that Toronto streetcars should be permitted to ram parked cars that are blocking the tracks. In fact, I they should have devices affixed to the front to better facilitate this.
January 28, 2026 at 3:11 AM
506 Snowpiercer, please call control.
Somehow puts me in mind of e.e. cummings line:
More brave than me.
More blond than you.
I think it's the Minnesota-ness.
More brave than me.
More blond than you.
I think it's the Minnesota-ness.
I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work.
I don’t let bullies win.
Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.
I don’t let bullies win.
Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.
January 28, 2026 at 2:50 AM
Somehow puts me in mind of e.e. cummings line:
More brave than me.
More blond than you.
I think it's the Minnesota-ness.
More brave than me.
More blond than you.
I think it's the Minnesota-ness.
Monday morning and you're on a snow day. You're not going nowhere. Here's something to occupy you before you begin to think.
It's Diary of a Local Beer Man. This week: 50 Best Bars Voting! Haggis! Radio and Print Interviews! A Decent Non-Alc finally?
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It's Diary of a Local Beer Man. This week: 50 Best Bars Voting! Haggis! Radio and Print Interviews! A Decent Non-Alc finally?
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Diary of a Local Beer Man - Week of January 19th - St. John's Wort
Monday, January 19 I know things are going badly when local radio wants to talk to me. With talk radio, since I am brought on as an expert on beer taxes and the craft beer segment, there is usually s...
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January 26, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Monday morning and you're on a snow day. You're not going nowhere. Here's something to occupy you before you begin to think.
It's Diary of a Local Beer Man. This week: 50 Best Bars Voting! Haggis! Radio and Print Interviews! A Decent Non-Alc finally?
saintjohnswort.ca/diary-of-a-l...
It's Diary of a Local Beer Man. This week: 50 Best Bars Voting! Haggis! Radio and Print Interviews! A Decent Non-Alc finally?
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And this is why you can't deal with them. Perfidious idiots.
Trump one week ago: "It's a good thing for him [Carney] to sign a trade deal. If he can get a deal with China, he should do that."
Trump today: "If Canada makes a deal with China, it will immediately be hit with a 100% Tariff against all Canadian goods and products coming into the U.S.A."
Trump today: "If Canada makes a deal with China, it will immediately be hit with a 100% Tariff against all Canadian goods and products coming into the U.S.A."
January 24, 2026 at 4:30 PM
And this is why you can't deal with them. Perfidious idiots.
It's possible he invades Cleveland.
Burn on, Big River.
Burn on, Big River.
January 22, 2026 at 4:00 PM
It's possible he invades Cleveland.
Burn on, Big River.
Burn on, Big River.
Ontario Brewery Map - St. John's Wort
A map of Existing Ontario Breweries. Updated Monthly
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January 21, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
January 20, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
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The president is a mad king threatening war against America’s closest allies because he’s got a psychological fixation on an empty frozen island and a Nobel Peace Prize snub and the best the media or opposition can manage is “Trump changes America’s priorities, perhaps for the worse”
January 20, 2026 at 2:07 PM
The president is a mad king threatening war against America’s closest allies because he’s got a psychological fixation on an empty frozen island and a Nobel Peace Prize snub and the best the media or opposition can manage is “Trump changes America’s priorities, perhaps for the worse”
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Come with us on a journey through time and space with the Diary of a Local Beer Man. This week: Bad Angels! Copy writing! Thirsty and Miserable! Complaints about PAPERWORK!
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January 19, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Come with us on a journey through time and space with the Diary of a Local Beer Man. This week: Bad Angels! Copy writing! Thirsty and Miserable! Complaints about PAPERWORK!
saintjohnswort.ca/diary-of-a-l...
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If awards are transferable now, does this mean I can rough up @margaretatwood.bsky.social and become a Giller Prize winner??
What a stupid day. I'm sure she'd agree.
What a stupid day. I'm sure she'd agree.
January 16, 2026 at 12:32 AM
If awards are transferable now, does this mean I can rough up @margaretatwood.bsky.social and become a Giller Prize winner??
What a stupid day. I'm sure she'd agree.
What a stupid day. I'm sure she'd agree.
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Trump has a broken filter in his brain that makes him tell his version of the truth, always. So you should always take the idea seriously. Yes, it requires execution, there are still some guardrails, etc, but here's the thing: look at what he has gotten away with *so far*
He's ruining cities that voted D and disappearing citizens who don't like him. When he said he would "fix it" so Republicans didn't even have to vote anymore, what the fuck did you think he meant? Did you think that was casually tossed out there?
January 15, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Trump has a broken filter in his brain that makes him tell his version of the truth, always. So you should always take the idea seriously. Yes, it requires execution, there are still some guardrails, etc, but here's the thing: look at what he has gotten away with *so far*
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“As a reasonable centrist, I think the paramilitary death squads need better training.”
January 15, 2026 at 4:04 PM
“As a reasonable centrist, I think the paramilitary death squads need better training.”
It's that time of week again. Please follow along with the thrilling saga of a Local Beer Man. Thrill as he has hops shipped from Vermont! Editing! Orval! Shawarma!
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Diary of a Local Beer Man - Week of Jan 5 - St. John's Wort
(Ed. Note: This is a feature that I have been doing for a little while as a separate page on the site, and which I have decided to keep around based on feedback. I shall probably archive the first fiv...
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January 12, 2026 at 3:12 PM
It's that time of week again. Please follow along with the thrilling saga of a Local Beer Man. Thrill as he has hops shipped from Vermont! Editing! Orval! Shawarma!
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*Extreme Bruce McCulloch Energy*
January 12, 2026 at 2:19 PM
*Extreme Bruce McCulloch Energy*
Oh, so that's who Carl Hiaasen based Skink on.
Jesse Ventura may be radical in some of his views but he is a true patriot. I'll stand behind Ventura any day.
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Jesse Ventura on Minneapolis ICE shooting: 'We're a 3rd world country now'
YouTube video by FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul
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January 11, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Oh, so that's who Carl Hiaasen based Skink on.
Why not sign up for George Brown Polytechnic's WSET Beer Level 1 course, which starts on January 26th?
It's a four week course that gives you the basics of understanding the subject and comes with international accreditation from WSET!
coned.georgebrown.ca/courses-and-...
It's a four week course that gives you the basics of understanding the subject and comes with international accreditation from WSET!
coned.georgebrown.ca/courses-and-...
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January 9, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Why not sign up for George Brown Polytechnic's WSET Beer Level 1 course, which starts on January 26th?
It's a four week course that gives you the basics of understanding the subject and comes with international accreditation from WSET!
coned.georgebrown.ca/courses-and-...
It's a four week course that gives you the basics of understanding the subject and comes with international accreditation from WSET!
coned.georgebrown.ca/courses-and-...
4.7 million for the all time single postseason hit leader?
Alright, Big Ern.
Alright, Big Ern.
January 9, 2026 at 1:41 AM
4.7 million for the all time single postseason hit leader?
Alright, Big Ern.
Alright, Big Ern.