So, I think I admitted earlier I spent much of last week in Calgary. While I was there for non-beer reasons, I found some time to do a bit of beer-related work. As a result there will be a few… Continue Reading →
My goodness the last few days have been busy. A large number of new beer news has come across my desk, some official, some through back channels. Either way, as expected early March has been marked by new beer releases… Continue Reading →
An alert reader drew my attention to this Metro story from a couple of weeks back. It is mostly a fluff piece, but there is one very interesting, almost throw-away line in it: “Since the provincial policies changed in December,… Continue Reading →
The big prairie news this week is the announced closure tomorrow (February 28) of Brew Brothers Brewery. The longtime Calgary operation opened its doors in 1994, making it the oldest of Alberta’s craft brewers. It had fallen on difficult times… Continue Reading →
Buried in the mountains of paper of the federal budget the other day were two small announcements that will positively affect craft beer fans. First, the government announced that it would remove restrictions on inter-provincial transportation of beer and liquor…. Continue Reading →
Brewing equipments dominates the prairie beer news this week, plus one new beer and a beer I neglected to mention a couple of weeks ago. I know news of fermenters and brewhouses is hardly scintillating stuff, but it is a… 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 →
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 →
Quicker than I expected, there is enough news to justify the first round-up for 2014. I had been thinking January would be pretty quiet on the beer front, but, lo and behold, the breweries keep doing new things. Damn them!… Continue Reading →
Yet another in my series of late reviews, although in this case I am confident the beer is still available in stores. I got the Big Rock Lumberjack Pack in November, but with Xmas and other general busy-ness I couldn’t… Continue Reading →