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I woke up this morning to the annual Edmonton Journal Readers’ Choice Awards choking up the space in my Monday paper. (Yes, I still subscribe to the hard copy edition – call me old because, well, I’m old.) Normally I… Continue Reading →
I recently in the same night got to try two celebrity beer. (Well one is definitely a celebrity, the other just among us Alberta beer geeks). It was an interesting contrast. Everyone knows Wayne Gretzky. Best hockey player that ever… Continue Reading →
In the explosion that has been the Alberta beer scene in the last four years, Edmonton has been a bit of a library nook, i.e., rather quiet. While Calgary exploded with dozens of new breweries, Edmonton picked up one or… Continue Reading →
News popped into the public yesterday that Two Sergeants Brewing has closed its doors permanently. They had previously announced in mid-September a temporary closure to “restructure”. This marks the second Alberta brewery closure in the past few weeks, following on… Continue Reading →
I stumbled across a fascinating collaboration the other day. Apparently (I must have missed the memo), Banded Peak Brewing and Blind Enthusiasm Brewing recently got together to do a collaboration. Now collaborations are all well and good. At worst it… Continue Reading →
So on Saturday I spent a couple hours at a ballpark and there wasn’t a baseball game going on. Instead I went to the Mashing (Edmonton), which bravely sets itself outside on the grounds of John Ducey Park (not its… Continue Reading →
When I first saw the bottle on the shelf a few weeks back I laughed. I, out loud, laughed. The bottle was Annex Ale Project Deuce Malt Liquor. Yes you read that right – Malt Liquor. It has been literally… Continue Reading →
Sometimes beer experiences start in the most unexpected of ways. Take a couple weekends ago for example. Somehow my family talked me into going to the Shady Acres Bluegrass Music Festival outside Nanton. You see, I hate bluegrass, being more… Continue Reading →
A couple weeks back on the cusp of the August long weekend, I focussed my CBC beer column on some options for long weekend beer drinking. My goal was not to present the standard summer fare, such as fruit beer,… Continue Reading →
Regular followers of this website will know that I was and am again the CBC Edmonton RadioActive beer columnist. Following my hiatus I picked my columns back up in early June. Why am I telling you almost two months later?… Continue Reading →
