A few weeks ago, I posted about the release of Alexander Keith’s Single Hop ales. As you can read here, I pontificated about what it might mean for the evolution of beer and expressed mixed feelings about it. At the… Continue Reading →
It is a rare opportunity when I get to sample a beer before it is officially released, but that was the case this past week with Alley Kat’s latest release in their Big Bottle Series, Full Moon Belgian Pale Ale… Continue Reading →
I have been to the corner of Portage and Main, reputedly Canada’s windiest intersection. The first time it was late November and the snow swirled so intensely I felt I was being smacked in the face with hundreds of tiny… Continue Reading →
It is not often when one accidentally stumbles across a beer that is regarded as one of the best of its breed. The other day I had a meeting at the Underground and, as usual, quickly perused their daily rotational… Continue Reading →
I remember a few years back having a conversation with a well-known professional craft brewer and being surprised when he said that he really respected the brewers at the big corporate breweries. He argued that it is very hard to… Continue Reading →
It may not feel or look like spring around the prairies quite yet. The blanket of snow and iffy temperatures have completely stymied my plans to do a March brew session, for example. However, beer people less weather dependent than… Continue Reading →
The scientists have finally figured out what any self-respecting beer drinker has known for eons – that beer is a civilized and civilizing drink. On the weekend an article ran in the Edmonton Journal and elsewhere (here is the story)… Continue Reading →
Clearly Tap Takeovers are the new thing in Alberta these days. A couple of years ago, such a thing wasn’t heard of – a single brewery temporarily seizing a portion of an establishment’s tap lines (well except for the corporate… Continue Reading →
Don’t ask me why, but on St. Patrick’s Day on Sunday rather than quaff a Guinness or even a Yukon Red (which is very much an Irish Red Ale), I opened a bottle of Scottish Ale. Maybe it is the… Continue Reading →
Just before Xmas, I got an opportunity to head to St. John’s for a few days. I didn’t mention it at the time because I decided it would make a nice set of columns. And it did, as you can… Continue Reading →