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.
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I have altered the Ontario Craft Brewery Map. Which is to say updated it for the first time in about a year.
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The 60 Minutes piece on the Trump Administration’s torture prison that Bari Weiss doesn’t want you to see has leaked.
December 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM
The 60 Minutes piece on the Trump Administration’s torture prison that Bari Weiss doesn’t want you to see has leaked.
It's that time of week again. The Diary of a Local Beer Man in this week before Christmas.
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Diary of a Local Beer Man - St. John's Wort
Monday, December 15 Is there honour among thieves? Is there glamour in beer writing? Stephen Beaumont once gave me some good advice: Don’t. I’m on the day shift in the booth and mindful that it’s 2025...
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December 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
It's that time of week again. The Diary of a Local Beer Man in this week before Christmas.
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51st state my foot.
December 20, 2025 at 6:04 PM
51st state my foot.
A man who really wants to be Santa.
God bless Mrs. Foley's baby boy.
God bless Mrs. Foley's baby boy.
Mick Foley has parted ways from the WWE because of their close ties with Trump.
December 16, 2025 at 10:15 PM
A man who really wants to be Santa.
God bless Mrs. Foley's baby boy.
God bless Mrs. Foley's baby boy.
I just watched some clips and I'm starting to believe in this @joehendry.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I just watched some clips and I'm starting to believe in this @joehendry.bsky.social
All solipsism all the time.
December 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
All solipsism all the time.
This has usually been going out on Sunday night, but it was too cold in the booth to type last night.
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Diary of a Local Beer Man - St. John's Wort
Monday, December 8th The level of shame that comes with turning up late to work is something I try to avoid and since the Sunday booth shift started 15 minutes late due to TTC shenanigans, I’m early. ...
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December 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
This has usually been going out on Sunday night, but it was too cold in the booth to type last night.
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You know, as soon as you realize that the only way Santa could travel around the world and determine naughty from nice is if he had space faring technology and some sort of seamless yet massively intrusive digital panopticon, it makes you dislike Musk and Bezos even more.
The Anti-Santa
The Anti-Santa
December 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
You know, as soon as you realize that the only way Santa could travel around the world and determine naughty from nice is if he had space faring technology and some sort of seamless yet massively intrusive digital panopticon, it makes you dislike Musk and Bezos even more.
The Anti-Santa
The Anti-Santa
Here Comes Santa Claus by Elvis Presley is basically just Fatboy Slim's The Rockafeller Skank with a seasonal Funk Soul Brother.
December 9, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Here Comes Santa Claus by Elvis Presley is basically just Fatboy Slim's The Rockafeller Skank with a seasonal Funk Soul Brother.
Do you ever have that thing where you sneeze really hard and for about thirty seconds you can smell the inside of your own head?
Isn't that grody?
Isn't that grody?
December 8, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Do you ever have that thing where you sneeze really hard and for about thirty seconds you can smell the inside of your own head?
Isn't that grody?
Isn't that grody?
The ttc, which had no service between Kennedy and woodbine for track maintenance this weekend, has no service between broadview and woodbine because of a medical emergency at greenwood.
And since there is a power out situation at Bay, I now live underground at Castle Frank.
Wake me for meals.
And since there is a power out situation at Bay, I now live underground at Castle Frank.
Wake me for meals.
December 8, 2025 at 2:52 AM
The ttc, which had no service between Kennedy and woodbine for track maintenance this weekend, has no service between broadview and woodbine because of a medical emergency at greenwood.
And since there is a power out situation at Bay, I now live underground at Castle Frank.
Wake me for meals.
And since there is a power out situation at Bay, I now live underground at Castle Frank.
Wake me for meals.
There seems to be a certain amount of positive reception for this kind of thing. I suspect because it lets me gossip a bit without the gossip being the point.
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Diary of a Local Beer Man - St. John's Wort
Monday, December 1st One of the more pernicious things about having a number of different jobs is that you’re always chasing invoices in order to pay the rent. Having had continuing education classes ...
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December 7, 2025 at 11:38 PM
There seems to be a certain amount of positive reception for this kind of thing. I suspect because it lets me gossip a bit without the gossip being the point.
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I think a good name for a Christmas album by a 1950's skiffle duo would be, "Sleep In Everly Peace."
December 1, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I think a good name for a Christmas album by a 1950's skiffle duo would be, "Sleep In Everly Peace."
Since a few people seem to think this is something, here's this week's edition of Diary Of A Local Beer Man.
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Diary of a Local Beer Man - St. John's Wort
Monday, November 24th I’m entertaining myself by doing a Yorkshire accent in the booth when I realize I could be using the time more effectively. Five hours of paid time on an island is a gift. I ...
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November 30, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Since a few people seem to think this is something, here's this week's edition of Diary Of A Local Beer Man.
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Consistency is all I seek. Give us this day our daily week.
November 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Consistency is all I seek. Give us this day our daily week.
Jsj banter
Bartender: what brings you here
Couple: we're just celebrating our 28th anniversary and thought we'd have one more cocktail
Jsj: that's amazing. Your relationship doesn't look a day over 21.
Bartender: what brings you here
Couple: we're just celebrating our 28th anniversary and thought we'd have one more cocktail
Jsj: that's amazing. Your relationship doesn't look a day over 21.
November 29, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Jsj banter
Bartender: what brings you here
Couple: we're just celebrating our 28th anniversary and thought we'd have one more cocktail
Jsj: that's amazing. Your relationship doesn't look a day over 21.
Bartender: what brings you here
Couple: we're just celebrating our 28th anniversary and thought we'd have one more cocktail
Jsj: that's amazing. Your relationship doesn't look a day over 21.
How did I take so long to get to Mose Allison? Shameful.
November 28, 2025 at 4:11 AM
How did I take so long to get to Mose Allison? Shameful.
It's a song about Alice.
As today is Thanksgiving here in the US it is constitutionally mandated that you listen to Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice's Restaurant Massacree” at least once.
Sorry. I don’t make the rules. 🤷♀️
Sorry. I don’t make the rules. 🤷♀️
November 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
It's a song about Alice.
I'm getting some reps in at the moment. If you're going to write, you need to write.
This time, I'm talking about Bickford Brewing.
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This time, I'm talking about Bickford Brewing.
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In Which I Visit Bickford Brewing - St. John's Wort
Walking down Manning as the November light fades reveals that the Annex likes its period authentic gloom. Sodium lights didn’t come in until the 1960’s, and it’s called the Annex because Toronto absor...
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November 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I'm getting some reps in at the moment. If you're going to write, you need to write.
This time, I'm talking about Bickford Brewing.
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This time, I'm talking about Bickford Brewing.
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Today I learned the @wsetglobal.bsky.social head office is less close to the Bermondsey Beer Mile than I thought.
And is a block from the Royal Oak.
I wonder if they need any ad hoc Canadian admin staff. I could go for a salt beef sandwich and a pint of Harvey's.
And is a block from the Royal Oak.
I wonder if they need any ad hoc Canadian admin staff. I could go for a salt beef sandwich and a pint of Harvey's.
November 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Today I learned the @wsetglobal.bsky.social head office is less close to the Bermondsey Beer Mile than I thought.
And is a block from the Royal Oak.
I wonder if they need any ad hoc Canadian admin staff. I could go for a salt beef sandwich and a pint of Harvey's.
And is a block from the Royal Oak.
I wonder if they need any ad hoc Canadian admin staff. I could go for a salt beef sandwich and a pint of Harvey's.
*extremely Neeson*
I don't know who you are, but i do know that Christmas Eve has a very particular set of skills.
If you return Bing Crosby, that'll be an end of it.
But Christmas Eve WILL find you, where the love light gleams. And Christmas Eve will kill you, and not just in your dreams.
I don't know who you are, but i do know that Christmas Eve has a very particular set of skills.
If you return Bing Crosby, that'll be an end of it.
But Christmas Eve WILL find you, where the love light gleams. And Christmas Eve will kill you, and not just in your dreams.
November 24, 2025 at 11:54 PM
*extremely Neeson*
I don't know who you are, but i do know that Christmas Eve has a very particular set of skills.
If you return Bing Crosby, that'll be an end of it.
But Christmas Eve WILL find you, where the love light gleams. And Christmas Eve will kill you, and not just in your dreams.
I don't know who you are, but i do know that Christmas Eve has a very particular set of skills.
If you return Bing Crosby, that'll be an end of it.
But Christmas Eve WILL find you, where the love light gleams. And Christmas Eve will kill you, and not just in your dreams.
Hey @ttcalerts.bsky.social do you think you could maybe have the streetcar drivers on king announce why it is slow as molasses and we are all stuck in traffic?
Or should we be held hostage in 30 foot increments of progress for a half hour without even knowing why?
Or should we be held hostage in 30 foot increments of progress for a half hour without even knowing why?
November 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Hey @ttcalerts.bsky.social do you think you could maybe have the streetcar drivers on king announce why it is slow as molasses and we are all stuck in traffic?
Or should we be held hostage in 30 foot increments of progress for a half hour without even knowing why?
Or should we be held hostage in 30 foot increments of progress for a half hour without even knowing why?
@ttcalerts.bsky.social train 147 has had a gentleman defecate in a tent while in transit.
It is like the horse barn at the royal winter fair in terms of pervasiveness and breadth of aroma.
Probably give that a scrub, yeah?
And get him to stop eating cereal while amidshits.
It is like the horse barn at the royal winter fair in terms of pervasiveness and breadth of aroma.
Probably give that a scrub, yeah?
And get him to stop eating cereal while amidshits.
November 21, 2025 at 3:56 AM
@ttcalerts.bsky.social train 147 has had a gentleman defecate in a tent while in transit.
It is like the horse barn at the royal winter fair in terms of pervasiveness and breadth of aroma.
Probably give that a scrub, yeah?
And get him to stop eating cereal while amidshits.
It is like the horse barn at the royal winter fair in terms of pervasiveness and breadth of aroma.
Probably give that a scrub, yeah?
And get him to stop eating cereal while amidshits.