I am a man who loves a good beer (obviously). But I am also someone who adores a well-made butter tart. Do they go together? Definitely. I would match a butter tart with a rich Scotch Ale, like Traquair House Ale, or Alley Kat’s Kiltlifter (which is available in my basement, at Sherbrooke Liquor but nowhere else), but a crisp, bitter pilsner might work as well to contrast.

Why am I telling you this? Well, to provide some value-added to my promotion of a new Blog Aggregator focused exclusively on Canadian food blogs called Beer and Butter Tarts. An Aggregator is a site that collects posts from subscribed blogs to create a kind of one-stop shopping for all your blogging needs. Kind of the Wal-Mart of the internet (only more worker-friendly and not as predatory – okay, maybe it is a bad analogy).

The creators of the site want to develop a food culture in Canada and have set up the site to help promote that. And as they are wise and intelligent people, they recognize that beer is a deserving food group of its own, and therefore needs to be included in a food-related website. So onbeer.org has signed up to feed my posts onto Beer and Butter Tarts, and I encourage you to visit it from time to time to satisfy your food and beer urgings or even if you are just bored.