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Most followers of craft beer know about nano-breweries, the ultra-small one-person operations producing homebrew-size batches. How many of you knew that for the past two years there have been, not one, but two nano-breweries quietly operating in the Edmonton area?… Continue Reading →
The latest Unity Brew is out! And due to COVID-19 it is quite different this year. No, I don’t mean the choice of style or anything like that. Because of COVID there are actually FIVE Unity Brews now roaming our… Continue Reading →
In August we had a fabulous uptake on my online course with the University of Alberta Faculty of Extension, selling out both sections of the course (I estimate about 140 people attended in total). We enjoyed the experience so much… Continue Reading →
Edmonton’s newest brewery, Trial and Ale Brewing, is something you likely haven’t seen before. You have seen elements of what they do, but never put together quite in this particular form. Not in this part of the world, anyway. What… Continue Reading →
The results of the 2020 Canadian Brewing Awards came out this past weekend, and the big surprise of the night was the number of medals scooped up by Alberta breweries. Alberta-based breweries won 38 medals, including 17 golds, and Calgary’s… Continue Reading →
The 2020 World Beer Awards were announced today and, in a bit of a surprise, Alberta’s Brauerei Fahr won Best Bavarian-Style Hefeweisse for its flagship Fahr Hefe. It is less shocking for those of us who have tried the Fahr… Continue Reading →
I am not really doing beer reviews on the site any more. But I loved the concept of Grain Bin Brewing’s Summer Chores mixed pack so much I am driven to write about it. Four beer named after dreaded yard… Continue Reading →
Parallel to the judging of the 2020 Alberta Beer Awards back in February, which seems like forever ago, Raft Beer Labs ran some analytical tests on a portion of the competition entries. While I was holidaying a couple weeks back,… Continue Reading →
A few weeks ago we were on our way to a socially-distanced visit in a friend’s backyard and my spouse needed some wine. So I dropped into a strip mall mom-and-pop liquor store on the way to pick up whatever… Continue Reading →
Starting up a small, local craft brewery is hard enough. Licensing and permit bureaucracies to navigate. Tons of technical issues to tackle. And then there is the money. It requires tonnes of work with a big question that hangs over… Continue Reading →
