In the past few weeks, there have been, not one, but THREE significant brewery announcements on the prairies. The first, right after the new year, was Swift Current’s Black Bridge Brewing announcing it was closing its brewhouse and taproom and… Continue Reading →
The winners of the 2025 Alberta Beer Awards were announced last night. This 8th edition of the competition brought an interesting mixture of familiar names and surprises. Here is my take on this year’s results. The big winners this year… Continue Reading →
I am admittedly a bit late to the table with this post – it has been a very busy month or so for me, but in the past couple of weeks the Alberta government quietly walked back to key policy… Continue Reading →
The first couple months of 2025 have been action packed in the Alberta beer world. In addition to being blindsided by sudden changes to mark-up policy and coping with the many lunatic (and increasingly imperialistic) tariff actions of President Donald… Continue Reading →
The 2025/26 Alberta Provincial Government was tabled last Thursday. Most of the talk revolved around the proposed income tax cut, the size of the deficit and what responses might come as a result of Trump tariffs. The government (and the… Continue Reading →
Last year in my annual-ish statistical analysis of craft beer in Canada, I declared the party was over (read it here, and you can find 2022 and 2020 as well, as well as my Quebec 2023 update). The period of… Continue Reading →
Most of you will have heard the news last week that Edmonton’s Blind Enthusiasm is closing its highly regarded restaurant Biera and Market brewery, at the end of December (you can read their statement here). Many expressed surprise at the… Continue Reading →
The 2024 Alberta Beer Awards, the seventh edition, are now officially in the books with the release of the winners at a gala event last night. My biggest observation this year was how many breweries took home a medal. Of… Continue Reading →
There have been some fascinating developments in the craft beer industry in Alberta in the first eight months of 2024. In many ways it has been quieter than i initially expected, but what changes there have been have been both… Continue Reading →
The 2024 Canadian Brewing Award winners were announced this past weekend (find the full results here). I am here to offer up my usual analysis of what I think it all means. You can find posts on previous years’ results… Continue Reading →
