Mainstay craft brewers in each of Alberta’s cities are releasing their new seasonals within days of one another, and both are Belgian-inspired. Belgian-style beer are rare in Alberta, as the province’s brewers seem to dabble in the complex style infrequently…. Continue Reading →
As most of you are aware, Sherbrooke Liquor and Paddock Wood Brewing have partnered to create the Beer God Series. Twelve beer honouring the beer-related gods of yore. One to be released each quarter – so three years of good… Continue Reading →
So Minhas Brewing, whom I recently took to task for their claim to be craft, seems to have earned the ire of a prominent political columnist. In the Canadian edition of the Huffington Post and in MacLean’s , David Menzies… Continue Reading →
Earlier this week, Molson-Coors Canada announced that it is re-launching Calgary Beer in Calgary for the first time in years. This announcement may be of fleeting interest to anyone not from Calgary (and even to those in Calgary), but I… Continue Reading →
I thought I had caught up with the beer releases this month. Each of the prairie breweries had rolled out, or announced, their fall/winter seasonals. But then Alley Kat and Half Pints go along and surprise us with a couple… Continue Reading →
This review may be controversial. Many beer aficionados have given up on Big Rock. I can understand why. Their flagship beer don’t seem as solid as they used to be. Most of their special releases in recent years have been… Continue Reading →
This morning regular CBC Radio listeners would have heard my not-so-dulcet tones on the early side of noon for a change. A reporter for Edmonton AM noticed my post a couple weeks back analyzing why many local independent pubs were… Continue Reading →
So in my absence there were a few new beer developments on the prairies. So, as I re-start things around here, let’s do a quick run-down on beer news. Alley Kat Brewing had three, count ’em, three new releases last… Continue Reading →
This past weekend at the Rocky Mountain Wine and Food Festival in Edmonton, Alberta’s newest brewery tapped its first keg of beer. Ribstone Creek Brewery has unlikely origins: its four founders are rural Albertans from the area around Edgerton, near… Continue Reading →
The other day I needed to take my car into the shop for servicing. I had an hour or so to kill, so I wandered into a nearby pub for a pint to bide my time. I won’t name the… Continue Reading →