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 →
A few things have snuck past me (well, not snuck past me so much as I chose not to write a post about them yet) in the past month, so I thought I should put together a quick news update… Continue Reading →
I went to the final of the Brier last night down at the concrete circle I stubbornly still call Northlands Coliseum. While the game was not that great (although Stoughton’s spin-a-rama to concede the game was highly entertaining), I did… Continue Reading →
I rarely splurge to get the latest rare, fancy beer. It is not that I don’t appreciate them, nor am I too cheap to cough up the dough. I just find I prefer to pick up a six-pack or a… Continue Reading →
In yesterday’s Globe and Mail, there was a puff piece extolling the latest in the corporate brewers’ manoeuvrings (read the article here). Labatt (AB-Inbev), makers of the Alexander Keith’s line of faux-craft beer, this spring is launching two new Keith’s… Continue Reading →
After many months of delays, Hog’s Head Brewing finally got their flagship Hop Slayer IPA on the streets a few weeks back, and this past week I finally got my first chance to try it. As a reminder, Hop Slayer… Continue Reading →