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brianboyer.net
Shit. We’ve lost the beer school.
dinfontay.com Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 20d
NEW: Today the Siebel Institute—the US' oldest/most prestigious brewing school & a cornerstone of the industry globally—announced its relocation from Chicago to Montreal, citing "[r]ecent regulatory changes in the US [that] have made it much more challenging for many of our international students."
Siebel Institute of Technology & World Brewing Academy's Post Facebook Facebook Facebook Facebook Facebook Facebook Facebook Facebook Facebook Facebook Facebook Facebook Facebook Facebook Facebook Facebook Facebook Facebook Facebook Facebook Facebook Facebook Facebook Facebook Facebook Facebook Facebook Facebook Facebook Facebook Facebook Facebook Facebook Siebel Institute of Technology & World Brewing Academy ntosdSpreo39546 h 70hghau15c20a1ccli67t31866hu79 2 7uc1m1ti5af7f · Siebel Institute of Technology Announces Strategic Relocation to Montreal Chicago, IL / Montreal, QC — Nov 20, 2025 — The Siebel Institute of Technology, the oldest brewing school in the Americas (established in 1872), is officially relocating its operations from Chicago, Illinois (USA) to Montreal, Québec (Canada) effective January 1, 2026. The new location address will be 3035 rue Sainte-Catherine E, Montréal (Québec), near Molson’s original brewery site (1786), the oldest brewery in North America. Siebel will be co-located with the new Lallemand Baking Academy and Application Technology Training Facility. This move marks a significant milestone in Siebel’s evolution, aligning with the changing dynamics of the global brewing industry and the need for the business to remain competitive and sustainable far into the future. The decision follows a comprehensive review of operational costs, industry trends, increased student visa challenges to enter the United States and is fully supported by Siebel’s longstanding partners and stakeholders. “Lallemand has proudly owned the Siebel Institute since 2000 and has consistently supported its autonomy as the center for world-class brewing education," said Antoine Chagnon, CEO of Lallemand Inc. "we are excited about the opportunities this relocation brings for the future of brewing education." Throughout its history, Siebel Institute has maintained a reputation for excellence in brewing science and education. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Lallemand’s financial support was instrumental in ensuring the school’s survival and continued service to the global brewing community. The relocation is also strongly endorsed by Siebel’s strategic partner in Munich, Germany, which makes up the World Brewing Academy (WBA). "We fully support this move and look forward to many more years of successful collaboration," said Dr. Werner Gloßner, Managing Director of Doemens Academy. The new facility in Montreal offers a unique opportunity to integrate brewing and baking education under one roof—two disciplines that have shared a rich history for millennia (as evidenced from the ancient Egyptian frescoes and scriptures). Montreal itself provides a vibrant, safe, and culturally rich environment for students, with world-class amenities and a thriving food and beverage scene. Siebel Institute will continue to offer its renowned online and campus classes and programs from its new home in Montreal, remaining committed to delivering the same high standards of education and training that have defined its legacy. "Maintaining the quality of education while keeping Siebel Institute and World Brewing Academy offerings affordable was key for us,” said John Hannafan, General Manager and Director of Education, Siebel Institute. “Recent regulatory changes in the U.S. have made it much more challenging for many of our international students, who have become the majority of our student body, to attend classes in person. This relocation of North America classroom operations to Montreal allows us to pivot without sacrificing the student experience." About Siebel Institute Siebel the oldest continuously operating professional brewing school in the Americas and part of Lallemand Brewing since 2000. www.Siebelinstitute.com About Doemens Academy Doemens, based in Munich (DE), is an internationally recognized institute for vocational development and training in the brewing, beverage, and food industries. The key to its success is the consistent combination of theory and practice, which is also reflected in the vocational training courses offered by the World Brewing Academy. Doemens is also the world's leading institution for training beer sommeliers and offers a wide range of consulting and laboratory services for companies in the beverage industry. https://doemens.org/en/ About Lallemand Brewing Lallemand Brewing, headquartered in Milwaukee, WI (USA), is a business unit of Lallemand Inc., a private family-owned company and one of the global leaders in the development, production and marketing of yeasts, bacteria, other microorganisms and their derivatives (such as yeast fractions, enzymes and other metabolites) for use in many foods, beverage, agricultural, health and nutrition applications. Lallemand is headquartered in Canada but has operations on all 5 continents. www.lallemandbrewing.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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3ohio.bsky.social
A note on a monitor that says "an editor is an advocate for the reader."
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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johnpfaff.bsky.social
Just got an alert that ICE is showing up today in Park Slope. I have a feeling that their presence is going to grow quickly in retaliation for Mamdani’s win.

Chicagoans have learned a lot. I have to think ppl have put together good resources to post about how to effectively resist them?
a hologram of obi-wan kenobi is displayed on a disney+ screen
Alt: a hologram of obi-wan kenobi is displayed on a disney+ screen Wow. That AI is bad. It’s LEIA, In all white, ASKING for Obi-wan.
media.tenor.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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docrevan.bsky.social
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper

www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.
November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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alexip718.com
Zohran picked 「卓蘭」("excellent orchid") for his first name and「夸梅」("brilliant plum") for his middle name.

The orchid and the plum are among "The Four Noble Ones" in traditional Chinese art, the former symbolizing an indifference to fame and fortune, the latter an indomitable, incorruptible spirit.
bbghost.bsky.social emily 🩷 @bbghost.bsky.social · Oct 30
highlight of my day!!!! vote @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social vote @workingfamilies.org ❤️❤️❤️
part of a ballot listing zohran kwame mamdani under the working families party (not bubbled in yet) close up photo of red sticker with the brooklyn bridge on it that says “brooklyn votes early”. i’m holding it up to the camera and my nails are painted a grey purple metallic
November 3, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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jackjenkins.me
Per @chicagotribune.com, the pajama-pants-guy is a former county prosecutor.

And he had some things to say. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/25/c...
A different video captured after agents unleashed tear gas showed plumes of smoke billowing down the street as the crowd's piercing shouts and whistles reached a fever pitch. Onlookers scurried to the sidewalk to get away from the chemicals, with one neighbor, Brian Kolp, seen walking away barefoot and in Chicago Blackhawks pajamas. Kolp, 41, said he was drinking coffee on his couch and watching the news as he always does on Saturday morning when he saw what's become an all-too-familiar scene unfold outside his window. Two U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents were tackling a man to the ground on his front yard. Meanwhile, Kolp's TV continued to blare a news segment discussing the ongoing temporary restraining order restricting federal immigration agents' use of tear gas. Kolp, a former prosecutor with the Cook County State's Attorney's office, sprang into action as he sometimes wondered he would have to do throughout the Trump administration's "Operation Midway Blitz" these last two months. He didn't even have time to put on his shoes or change out of his pajamas, he said, drawing jeers from one of the agents as he screamed "Nazis!" and "Gestapo!" at the agents. "Quite honestly, when all this started happening, I thought to myself that if the opportunity ever came my way to have to get involved in one of these situations, I was certainly going to do what I could to make sure that they weren't openly and flagrantly violating the law or the Constitution," Kolp said. "And yet, they just went ahead and did it anyway."
October 25, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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poemless.bsky.social
People are so brainwashed about Chicago being a crime infested hellhole that they assume white people and single family homes must be in the burbs. This is in the city.
unavaleable.bsky.social Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · Oct 25
its remarkable to see random suburbanites in their fucking PJs have more courage than the vast majority of america's political, social, and civil elites
mandophotos.bsky.social armando l sanchez @mandophotos.bsky.social · Oct 25
More from the scene
October 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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edsbs.bsky.social
These guys are so vulnerable to defecting to Chicago
wesleymorgan.bsky.social Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · Oct 7
Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot
October 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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dansinker.com
Tonight of all nights I’m going to re-up my benediction for Chicago.

We are everything.

dansinker.com/posts/202…
No matter what happens in the coming weeks, we are Chicago. We rose from the ashes. We never quit.&10;&10;We are the lake in the morning, the sun rising over the water, its reflection drawing a line straight to our shores.&10;&10;We are the Haymarket Martyrs, the Pullman strikers, always demanding better than what we've got.&10;&10;We are the words of Sandburg and Algren and Brooks and Wright.&10;&10;We are the 90s Bulls, making the impossible possible.&10;&10;We are the dipped Italian Beef. Messy, sure, but incredible.&10;&10;We are the humidity in the summer, the frostbitten cheeks in the winter.&10;&10;We are smoke-kissed rib tips.&10;&10;We are elotes on the street. We are pierogis in a pot.&10;&10;We are Curtis singing Hush now child.
October 6, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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bicycleidiot.bsky.social
RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/
I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee. You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.
September 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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dansinker.com
Dave Matthews has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.
September 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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auroraworeblue.bsky.social
You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
#romancelandia
A grainy screenshot of the sidebar of the desktop version of Goodreads. It says: RECOMMENDATIONS: Because you enjoyed A Wedding to Protect Her Fortune: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism. On November 9th, millions of Americans woke up to the impossible... View all books similar to A Wedding to Protect Her Fortune
September 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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desarrayed.bsky.social
social media gold
Follow + HE bob_harris_uk 2d So, as a bloke, could a lady please explain the difference between a Left and Right Tampon? picture: two tampax tampons, one labeled with an 'L' and one with an 'R' The L tampon supports your right to choose and comes with free healthcare while the R packet is actually empty because only whores use tampons to stem the bloody tears of a disappointed uterus, Bob. traciesearing: It's not left and right, champ. It's light and regular. But thanks for confirming why men shouldn't be in charge of reproductive health policy. thediaryofrihanna: Why are ppl roasting him? It's an honest question. You wear the L if your favorite Taylor Swift album is Lover and the R if its Reputation. ladypartsdoc: As an Ob/Gyn, I feel compelled to answer. It's basically a choose your own adventure situation, and choosing L or R depends on the type of period you want to have. L is for 'Lovely', you wake up feeling awesome, get lots of compliments, and everything goes your way. R is for 'Raging', you feel awful, and I know it's different over there in the UK with your parliamentary system, but here in the USA, L is for Democrats and R is for psychopaths. scrappy: Totally tracks that a man could go his whole life and not realize we have two separate vaginas to attend to. brittle_14: pictured - a women's health summit from Trump's first term with the words "not a single woman was invited to the white house meeting on women's health L = light flow which means you have 20 minutes or a hard sneeze before you completely underestimated what is actually going to happen and an underwear change is coming. R = Regular flow which means you have an hour, or a hard sneeze, before it's a bloodbath. There is also S for Super which simply means stay home cause you're just asking for trouble otherwise. voxoutthebox: One tampon always tells the truth. One tampon always lies. yvonnelorkinsta: Lefty loosey righty tighty alliewarshaw: As a vagina owner I appreciate you asking instead of trying to tell me why they're left and right.
September 7, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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joshuajfriedman.com
"We are celery salt and tomatoes and onion, sport peppers and a dill pickle and relish so green you swear it's not real." dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
A Benediction for Chicago on the Eve of Occupation No matter what happens in the coming weeks, we are Chicago. We rose from the ashes. We never quit. We are the lake in the morning, the sun rising over the water, its reflection drawing a line straight to our shores. We are the Haymarket Martyrs, the Pullman strikers, always demanding better than what we've got. We are the words of Sandburg and Algren and Brooks and Wright. We are the 90s Bulls, making the impossible possible. We are the dipped Italian Beef. Messy, sure, but incredible.
September 6, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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wearthepeace.bsky.social
A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.
September 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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helenkennedy.bsky.social
The city should market vaccine and beef sandwich weekend getaways.
jeffhauser.bsky.social Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser.bsky.social · Aug 29
I guess we're visiting Chicago this fall!
gregsargent.bsky.social Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · Aug 29
This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me.

Dem govs must step up and fill the void.

New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1998...
August 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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dannybirchall.bsky.social
the scenario we all feared
Sausages and cheese, German supermarket
August 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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nicmiller.bsky.social
Such a great piece!
August 6, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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unfortunatalie.bsky.social
This is also me in any workplace
phdhurtbrain.bsky.social Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · Aug 4
My philosophy and experience with students is that they can almost always do incredibly difficult work, but if you ever waste their time with soul-killing meaningless work, you have essentially poisoned the well when it comes to getting them to spend any additional effort on your class.
August 5, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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pandamoanimum.bsky.social
You’ll never truly appreciate your mobile phone on holiday abroad unless you ever, to ring home, had to find a shop selling phone cards, find a public phone box, then queued for 40 minutes behind a drunk girl crying to her boyfriend back home while her mate puked ouzo on her flip flops.
July 20, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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tbqtalks.com
I keep saying it: The push for AI made so much more sense to me once I realized tech bros talked to it like a woman who won't talk back.
karenattiah.bsky.social Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · Jul 16
There's something about the way men use LLMs that feel like those men at the strip club who believe that the dancers like them for their personality and wit.

They just want a toy that makes them feel good.
paulwaldman.bsky.social Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · Jul 16
My god these guys are such spectacular morons

gizmodo.com/billionaires...
July 16, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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johnbrooks.bsky.social
Never change, England
A street sign in Upton, England reading "Play Area and Cholera Burial Ground"
July 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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bugmom.bsky.social
can a scientist tell me if it’s good for a mysterious hand print to be smeared on a cryptic door in the 100 year old cabin I’m staying in
a mysterious brown hand print smeared on a wooden chestnut door in an old cabin
July 11, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
This is the thread Americans needed to see this weekend to feel better about our country.
coachd21.bsky.social Boneless Wings…Lover @coachd21.bsky.social · Jul 5
Here’s a thread of cheese fries you can get at soccer stadiums in the U.K.
July 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM