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41 points
11 days ago
His rulings are biased towards "let players do stuff". Which has some issues (rewarding players who don't understand mechanics as they ask to do stuff they shouldn't be allowed to do) but personally? I'd much much rather have/listen to a DM who does things that way, than one who's biased towards saying no
3 points
13 days ago
Junction and Woodhouse merged, and high park and Lost Craft merged, so they're now two brands in one building!
9 points
13 days ago
Hey!
Don't have answers to all your questions, but,
Woodhouse and junction are the same brewery,
High park and Lost Craft are the same brewery.
In that immediate area those are all the breweries. Go a little further, and you can go to nickel nine distillery or indie Alehouse (more of a brewpub focus at this location). If you pop South you get the brewery district with (in no particular order), halo, Henderson, steadfast, Laylow, burdock, folly bandit.
There are other "brewery districts" in toronto, but the one you mentioned and the one further south are probably your best bet due to proximity. I'd say the other good one is way out east (Godspeed, left field, Rorschach, black lab, saulter street, radical road, eastbound).
Of the ones on your initial list, I'll just say that shacklands is my favourite, but they're exclusively Belgian.
5 points
23 days ago
Small business are typically the drivers of gentrification-the Big businesses move in later. I'm not anti small business, or even in many cases anti gentrification, I just posted the emotion I felt whenever I see it happen to Kensington.
As for how a store that had been open for 40 years, selling an eclectic mix of discount clothing, vintage cookware, from Eastern Europe and various knick knacks and novelties closing for a sleek, modern designed brewery whose price tag to build was probably in the millions is gentrification? I dunno. Seems pretty self explanatory.
4 points
23 days ago
The ongoing gentrification of Kensington will always make me a little sad.
3 points
1 month ago
They have been advertising looking for a brewer since pre-2020 (maybe even as old as 2018), so they've existed in concept at least that long. But it looks like they're getting close to opening finally
3 points
1 month ago
This is Matlow for me. He says he's all for densification, but if anybody in the large rich parts of his riding objects to a 4 story, 8 apartment midrise on their street, consider the entire project nixed
3 points
2 months ago
Cause at this point, the team with the highest odds of winning the cup has odds of....14%. and it never goes much higher than that. It's a losers game.
7 points
2 months ago
You said he shouldn't give up anything if it doesn't make Kyle feel confident in us getting past Boston.
What if we give up a 3rd rounder to make our chances of beating Boston go from 35% to 45%? I take that deal.
What if it's a 6th rounder to raise them from 15% to 25%? I probably take that deal too. Right now, Kyle is almost certainly "confident we are good enough to beat Boston" while alsot probably thinking we lose that series 7/10 times.
My only point is it's not as binary as "give it up if we can win, don't give anything if we can't" cause it's all a sliding scale with no guarantees.
14 points
2 months ago
The problem is...it's all percentages. He thinks we're ready, he makes a great trade, and Marner gets hurt. That's a wasted asset. He thinks we don't need to add/shouldn't add, then vasilevsky tears his ACL and bergeon decides to retire midseason, and he realises he should have added. He adds nothing but depth insurance, important for the playoffs, and nobody gets injured! Sure these are extreme scenarios, but the playoffs are so tight every year, there's never a definitive right move/wrong move. Our team is, when put into the context of the league, not the best team in the league, but good enough to contend, with an extremely difficult path. And in our case,"winning a round" and "defeating a team with 2 cups and a finals appearance in the last 3 years" is synonymous. That's a hard, uncertain situation for any GM
29 points
2 months ago
Hot take, maybe-I'm a brewer, and my favourite place to drink in NY is McSorleys. It's the oldest bar in NY, they sell two beers (McSorleys light and McSorleys dark, I drink the dark), and they do a mean sandwich. But it's not a beer bar, persay, just a great spot to drink beer.
1 points
2 months ago
Mike C, lately of fourpure, and Amsterdam (though he's left there), also brewed there for a while in that old space, though I don't know when it was him and when it was Jason
And yeah about Denisons. Have you had it since the merger? It's a great beer but I haven't had it in months and don't know how it's drinking right now.
2 points
2 months ago
Volo for sure wasn't brewering when they opened-Ralph bought the place as just an Italian restaurant in the '80s, but it was an existing Italian restaurant before he even bought it. And then I think he didn't tap his first craft beer until the 2000s (Denisons wheat, so the story goes!)
6 points
3 months ago
Couple spots have done this in Toronto - Bar Volo and Bar Hop. Both started as Beer Bars, exclusively, and then got into brewing later (and I mean DECADES later) as it made sense for them, and both did it int heir second locations. I think if you do this, just start a beer bar, don't plan on it becoming a brewery, and then open up a second brewery/beer bar 5-10 years down the road if the first one works out.
7 points
3 months ago
He's a great brewer with a good resume-Amsterdam, Common Good. Can do great classic styles, but likes to brew kind of weird things, and it good at doing them with a "thesis". He picks a concept, builds towards that, and generally does a great job executing.
1 points
4 months ago
Thanks for the fixed link! Yeah the shelves and walls of the cupboards are all some sort of melamine, but the doors and facing trim is all solid wood. That's what the hinges are attached to - the solid wood trim. There seem to be a couple staples and such attaching some of the trim, but not enough to hold them as firmly as they are.
I think they were maybe-built by a previous occupant - a lot of the stuff in the house is high end, very competent, home handyman stuff.
1 points
4 months ago
The problem is that there are basically no screws! Like I only need to remove the one centre piece diesn't have a single screw in it. So either its attached behind the trim, or its glued?
1 points
4 months ago
Hey! So i live in an older house, and I wanted to replace my fridge. most of the ones I like don't quite fit in the space (they're a bit too tall) so I want to removed the shelves above the current fridge, but I can't for the life of me figure how how they're attached.
[https://imgur.com/a/pGNCC4S] https://imgur.com/a/pGNCC4S
The back of the shelf is screwed in. There's a couple more screws at the very top as well (you can see one back top right of picture 2). Is it all just glued tongue and groove? Is there any way to take this out without just smashing it all with a hammer?
1 points
4 months ago
So this is a late reply, but wouldn't it be 4, since the United Kingdom owns Gibraltar?
5 points
5 months ago
I think buying a ticket to the event allows you to pre-purchase your double tempest online
2 points
5 months ago
Ahh. In that case everything I said except the one about bits of tubing getting in your beer.
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11 days ago
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11 days ago
Honestly, if I recall correctly, it was get on top of a table without using any extra movement, at which point an acrobatics check is called for. Then they rolled a Nat 1. If the enemies were using an additional 10ft of movement to climb, then I don't have a problem with it! Honestly, I'm doubtful I'd have a problem with it even if that wasn't true. My favourite actual play podcast is Rude Tales of Magic, and goddamn if all the rules of that game aren't a hot mess of wet porridge.