My most recent Vue Weekly review (which you can read here) is a study in complex simplicity. Yes, I am aware that is an oxymoron, but bear with me. The article is a review of Bernard Dark Lager, a relatively… Continue Reading →
Lots of dark, rich beer connect their branding to the colour black. Fair enough. It is accurate, evocative and simple as a drawing card. The only thing is that lots of different things can be going on inside the bottle… Continue Reading →
Clearly prairie brewers like their buffalo, as two of the region’s craft breweries are releasing beer named after the majestic, almo-made-extinct-by-humans beasts. Plus I have a bit of other beer news for you. First to the Bisons. This week, the… Continue Reading →
On a recent family trip to Monteral, I brought back a few bottles of interesting things, as I am wont to do. Over the weekend I opened up an Eisbock made by L’Alchimiste in Joliette, Quebec. I don’t know much… Continue Reading →
In my Beer 101 column in December (which you can find here) I started a series on serving beer. Last month it was the heated subject of temperature. This month – pouring etiquette. The column itself (which you can read… Continue Reading →
I believe it is a sign of emotional maturity of someone can make fun of their own quirks and tendencies. It helps us all maintain a sense of perspective. I am a beer geek. I admit that. I am well… Continue Reading →
For some time now I have been only dabbling around the edges of the influx of Europe’s boundary pushing breweries. The grandaddy is, of course, Mikkeller but we have seen a handful of others over the past year or so,… Continue Reading →
Alley Kat’s latest beer in its Big Bottle Series hit store shelves last week. New Moon Cascadian Dark Ale is a Black IPA/Cascadian Dark Ale/Black IPA/pick your name of this new style. Generally speaking I am a big fan of… Continue Reading →
My most recent Vue Weekly column, which is now more than a few days ago (I got distracted by tap list number crunching), I take my first look at Tool Shed Brewing. Initially I wanted to wait until they had… Continue Reading →
On my CBC column later this afternoon (Friday, January 10, 2014) – CBC Radio One (740 AM, 93.9 FM) at 4:45 – I will be looking at Edmonton’s rapidly expanding market for craft beer bars. These are larger pubs that… Continue Reading →