Lots Of Club Soda And A Pity Barbeque

Published June 5, 2010 at 7:18 p.m.

I hate not getting to get the BBQ going even if I am sick. And no, in true Canadian style, it wasn't really a BBQ even if I smoked the rib steaks for the last bit of the grilling. As our dinner guests took the hint, it was more of a pity 'que. Just a man, briquettes and meat. At least it wasn't a turkey wienie on a hibachi or whatever else my countrymen call a BBQ. I had to. Watching a mid-80s weekend happening just right out there, beyond the picture window can drive a man mad. Even if you have the voice of Barry White. OK, a sniffly Barry White.

It's no fun when the taste for beer disappears as it has this Monday replaced by an urge for club soda and Sinutabs. I did get to try that sample of Vrienden wit by Beau's while on a break from gardening in the first half of the weekend. It was lovely, substantial. None of the too frequent "lemonade in disguise" for this wit. Big body from the unmalted wheat as well as complex, fresh waves of herbs and citrus. I had a very good selection from Charlevoix as well - the tripel, double and ESB. Old Canada has been showing itself proud with these beers. So it hasn't been an entire wasteland of used Kleenex and over the counter cold remedies. It has, however, left me with a certain sympathy for Jay's question posed to us all: "What is beer?"

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