SCENE: Beerguy’s basement home office, a room with overfilled bookcases, scattered papers and commemorative beer glasses, bottles and other beer-related paraphernalia. Beerguy sits at his desk deleting Don Tse Tweet-puns and plotting revenge against JVR. A can of the 2023… Continue Reading →
Like many I heard the buzz around Superflux’s arrival in Alberta. I know they had many demands of local retailers. They picked who got the beer. The store had to keep the beer in cold storage at all times. They… Continue Reading →
Sometimes my cellar hoarding works out well. I am quick to put new beer into my personal cellar to age them out for a while. But I really struggle to find appropriate moments when I can justify pulling them out… Continue Reading →
I know I am more than a little late to the Cronk party. It is long gone from the shelves But I thought I would weigh in on Cold Garden Brewery’s internationally famous Cronk beer, anyway. Over the holidays I… 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Last week I reported my rather undesirable experience of trying an old bottle of Tactical Nuclear Penguin (read here if you haven’t) . The experience, plus some of the comments to the post, inspired me to pull out my bottle… Continue Reading →
Sometimes you can only look at yourself in the mirror and say “you are an idiot”. In this particular story, I am not sure who was the bigger idiot, 2019 Jason or 2010 Jason. What am I talking about? I… Continue Reading →
