Year: 2011 | Page 2

Beer on the Dark Side

My latest Planet S column is out (you can read it here) and in honour of the ever-shortening daylight hours, I decided to focus on dark beer. But I didn’t want to do the usual winter-y sit by the fire… Continue Reading →

2011/12/05

All the Wheat and Nothing but the Wheat

By now most of you will know about single hop beer, when a brewer makes up a series of beer using a single different hop variety each time. It is designed to accent the effects of that one hop, educating… Continue Reading →

2011/12/02

Faux Craft, Faux Albertan?

So Minhas Brewing, whom I recently took to task for their claim to be craft, seems to have earned the ire of a prominent political columnist. In the Canadian edition of the Huffington Post and in MacLean’s , David Menzies… Continue Reading →

2011/11/30

OMG-gang

I think I was one of many beer fans who cheered when we discovered that Brewery Ommegang has arrived in Alberta. I have had a couple of bottles of their elixir over the years, thanks to friends traveling in the… Continue Reading →

2011/11/28

Calgary and its Historic Beer

Earlier this week, Molson-Coors Canada announced that it is re-launching Calgary Beer in Calgary for the first time in years. This announcement may be of fleeting interest to anyone not from Calgary (and even to those in Calgary), but I… Continue Reading →

2011/11/25

When Does Beer Stop Being Beer?

My latest Beer 101 column, which finishes off a three-part series on big beer, looks that the Andre the Giant of beer – the 20% plus extreme beer. After some quick accounting of how exactly you can make a beer… Continue Reading →

2011/11/23

The Mainstreaming of Pumpkin Ale

My teenage daughter has talked us into watching a new sitcom, New Girl. We have seen a few episodes and I am still on the fence about it (but this isn’t a TV review site so I will refrain from… Continue Reading →

2011/11/21

Some New Beer Surprises

I thought I had caught up with the beer releases this month. Each of the prairie breweries had rolled out, or announced, their fall/winter seasonals. But then Alley Kat and Half Pints go along and surprise us with a couple… Continue Reading →

2011/11/19

Canada’s Regional Beer Personality

During my hacker-imposed lock-out I started a new series on my CBC column. I am doing a four-part discussion of the different beer personalities in Canada’s regions. A year or so ago I first raised my thesis that each region… Continue Reading →

2011/11/18

Tasting Canada’s Beer of the Year

A few weeks ago TAPS Magazine announced through its Canadian Beer Awards that Driftwood Brewing’s Fat Tug IPA won Canadian Beer of the Year. Victoria’s Driftwood, despite only being around since 2008, has quickly developed a reputati0n for uncompromising quality… Continue Reading →

2011/11/16