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Yesterday the Alberta Court of Appeal issued its long awaited decision (at least by guys like me) on the appeal of Steam Whistle’s and Great Western Brewing’s lawsuit over the former beer mark-up policies. In short, the justices uphold the… Continue Reading →
I woke up this morning to the annual Edmonton Journal Readers’ Choice Awards choking up the space in my Monday paper. (Yes, I still subscribe to the hard copy edition – call me old because, well, I’m old.) Normally I… Continue Reading →
I recently in the same night got to try two celebrity beer. (Well one is definitely a celebrity, the other just among us Alberta beer geeks). It was an interesting contrast. Everyone knows Wayne Gretzky. Best hockey player that ever… Continue Reading →
In the explosion that has been the Alberta beer scene in the last four years, Edmonton has been a bit of a library nook, i.e., rather quiet. While Calgary exploded with dozens of new breweries, Edmonton picked up one or… Continue Reading →
News popped into the public yesterday that Two Sergeants Brewing has closed its doors permanently. They had previously announced in mid-September a temporary closure to “restructure”. This marks the second Alberta brewery closure in the past few weeks, following on… Continue Reading →
Last week I offered some thoughts about what breweries could learn from those that came before and failed. I offered up 8 lessons to learn (there may be others, this was just a start). You can read that post here…. Continue Reading →
The prairie provinces now have over 150 operating breweries and have been growing at a mindblowing pace in the past five years. The industry is remarkably different from when I first took on being an industry observer a decade or… Continue Reading →
I stumbled across a fascinating collaboration the other day. Apparently (I must have missed the memo), Banded Peak Brewing and Blind Enthusiasm Brewing recently got together to do a collaboration. Now collaborations are all well and good. At worst it… Continue Reading →
So on Saturday I spent a couple hours at a ballpark and there wasn’t a baseball game going on. Instead I went to the Mashing (Edmonton), which bravely sets itself outside on the grounds of John Ducey Park (not its… Continue Reading →
When I first saw the bottle on the shelf a few weeks back I laughed. I, out loud, laughed. The bottle was Annex Ale Project Deuce Malt Liquor. Yes you read that right – Malt Liquor. It has been literally… Continue Reading →
