After some unintended delays, the latest in Yukon Brewing‘s playful A.D.D. Series will be on Alberta store shelves in the (Saint) Nick of time for Xmas. The second release in the series is a Spiced Winter Ale, so it will… Continue Reading →
I am the kind of guy who doesn’t get into the Xmas spirit until a little closer to the day. Around the 19th or 20th of December I will start get that the holiday spirit kickin’. Before that the store… Continue Reading →
My latest Planet S column is out (you can read it here) and in honour of the ever-shortening daylight hours, I decided to focus on dark beer. But I didn’t want to do the usual winter-y sit by the fire… Continue Reading →
My teenage daughter has talked us into watching a new sitcom, New Girl. We have seen a few episodes and I am still on the fence about it (but this isn’t a TV review site so I will refrain from… Continue Reading →
It has been a hell of a week. Last Wednesday, hours after posting about the launch of Ribstone Creek Brewing, onbeer.org was hacked. Some evil-doer broke into my server account and re-directed my site to some Spanish travel site. It… Continue Reading →
A few weeks ago, as I mentioned here,I took aim in my CBC column at what I call pseudo-craft breweries. After doing the piece, I realized that I needed to keep talking about this trend, because no one else was…. Continue Reading →
I somehow missed it last week – I guess my invitation got lost in the mail – but the Molson brothers hit Edmonton and Calgary for luncheon events celebrating the Molson family’s 225 years in brewing (thanks to Canadian Beer… Continue Reading →
My CBC column last Friday happened to land on the eve of this year’s Oktoberfest in Munich. It seemed an appropriate time to pull out my books and offer a bit of a history lesson. No, not the history of… Continue Reading →
You are all well aware at this point that I spent much of the spring in Halifax. I tried to post some of the highlights while there, and even did a CBC column live from the Hart and Thistle pub… Continue Reading →
Okay. The big boys have just reached a new low. Mind you it is not in Canada yet – emphasis on the yet. But, still. Come on. Really? My disbelief is due to the recent announcement by Molson-Coors UK that… Continue Reading →