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Fat Tug | IPA | Driftwood Brewery

May 5, 2017 by Hopped & Bothered Leave a Comment

I first drank this at CRAFT Beer Market in Ottawa in the winter with a friend and loved it immediately from the cask. So when a few days later I found a bottle of the same at the LCBO, I bought a bottle to bring home for Jess and I to sample together. Read on…

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Filed Under: Beer, Beer Reviews, Hopped & Bothered, India Pale Ale (IPA) Tagged With: BC, bitter, craft beer, Driftwood, Fat Tug, Hopped and Bothered, hoppy, IBU, IPA, Review, Victoria

Textures in Wood ~ Weekly Photo Challenge

August 9, 2014 by Dale 7 Comments

Trees — they give us life. They give our world texture. Perhaps it is the fact I that grew up with trees all around me and spent so many days of my youth playing in them, on them, with them, but, whatever the reason, there is a beauty in them that I can’t get enough…

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Filed Under: General, Nature, Shoots, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged With: bark, BC, British Columbia, burnt, Photo, Photography, Shoots, Texture, Textured, Textures, Travels, tree, trees, Weekly Photo Challenge, Wood

“Brockton IPA” (American IPA) Granville Island Brewing

August 3, 2014 by Dale 2 Comments

Mmm, I remember when … I remember when the Granville Island Brewing Co. began its production (1984) … or near to it as it was 1986 that I moved to Vancouver for a year . I remember when it was one of the first microbreweries in country that was still either “Do you drink Canadian…

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Filed Under: American Pale Ale, Beer Reviews, Eats, India Pale Ale (IPA) Tagged With: BC, bitter, British Columbia, craft beer, food, Granville Island, Hops, IBU, India Pale Ale, indian pale ale, IPA, jammy, malts, microbreweries, ordinary, Review, Vancouver

A Room of My Own ~ My Canadian Voice

June 7, 2014 by Dale Leave a Comment

Any discussion of a writer’s voice will surely evoke allusions to Virginia Woolf’s emancipating book, A Room of One’s Own. Writing with her own strong voice, she breaks barriers and all but seizes a voice that she proclaims her own … and in the process she creates an anthem for women writers the world over….

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Filed Under: Canadian Food Experience Project, Eats, Writes Tagged With: A Room of One's Own, BC, British Columbia, Canada, Canadian, canadian food, Canadian Food Experience Project, Canadian voice, Cooking, food, food experiences, home, identity, Ontario, Ottawa, privilege, Virginia Woolf, voice, writing

Red Rooster – Gewürztraminer (2012)

February 25, 2014 by Dale 2 Comments

One sip, and you’re caught in a flavourful and syrupy bouquet of white fruit: pear and lychee. And, if fruit-forward isn’t enough, well, it ends with a splash of citrus: yes, as the label reads, you will certainly taste a fully-ripe and sweet grapefruit at the end. Produced on the southern tip of Okanagan Lake…

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Filed Under: White, Wine Reviews Tagged With: BC, British Columbia, Canada, Canadian wine, Gewürztraminer, Grapefruit, lychee, Naramata, Okanagan, Okanagan Valley, pear, Penticton, Red Rooster, white chili, white wine, wine, wine review

Split-Rail Fence 2 ~ Winter

January 13, 2014 by Dale 3 Comments

 

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Filed Under: General, Nature, Shoots, Travel Tagged With: agriculture, BC, fence, field, Ontario, pasture, Perth, Photography, Shoots, split rail, split rail fence, Winter, wooden fence

Beauty in the Weeds

December 2, 2013 by Dale Leave a Comment

 

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Filed Under: General, Nature, Shoots, Travel Tagged With: BC, beauty, British Columbia, grass, Okanagan, pasture, Photography, Shoots, summer, thistle, weeds

Barnboard Cattle Chute

November 25, 2013 by Dale Leave a Comment

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Filed Under: General, Nature, Shoots, Travel Tagged With: agriculture, barnboard, BC, black and white photo, British Columbia, cattle, cattle chute, chute, dilapidated, Okanagan, pasture, Photography, ranch, rust, Shoots, sky

Picturesque Sublimity

November 23, 2013 by Dale Leave a Comment

 

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Filed Under: General, Nature, Shoots, Travel Tagged With: BC, black and white photo, British Columbia, dead tree, nature, Okanagan, Photography, picturesque, Shoots, sky, sublime, summer, toxic, trees, Water

Split-Rail Fence

November 20, 2013 by Dale Leave a Comment

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