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Alberta’s Taprooms and Brewpubs Can Open Thursday. Will They?

News came last week that brewery taprooms and brewpubs (along with other licensees except nighclubs) will be included in the first phase of the Alberta government COVID-19 re-opening strategy, with restrictions. This news came as a bit of a surprise… Continue Reading →

Cheers From Afar: A Socially Distant Beer Conversation

A couple weeks ago I sat down (virtually) with Dalen Landis of Grain Bin Brewing in Grande Prairie. During the COVID crisis, he has been doing a series of informal conversations with various local personalities (including the Mayor!), people with… Continue Reading →

AGLC Frees Up Contract Brewing

Late last week the AGLC released a Bulletin (which you can read here) making some amendments to their Liquor Manufacturer Policy. The big news is a relaxing of rules around contract brewing. The timing of the changes is a bit… Continue Reading →

A Conversation with Alley Kat’s New Owners

There have been lots of questions and talk around the recent sale of Edmonton’s Alley Kat to a pair of St. Albert entrepreneurs. You can read the story of the sale here, and my analysis of what it might mean… Continue Reading →

Inside the Monolith

With the forthcoming release of Blind Enthusiasm’s second Monolith beer on March 8, I thought it would be a good time to gaze inside this fascinating operation. I did my last CBC column introducing the Monolith to northern Albertans (which… Continue Reading →

Peak Enthusiasm

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 →

What’s Happening In Alberta’s Beer Industry?

As I have been slowly working my way back into the beer world (and real life), I have been asked two questions countless times. “Why do you think Alberta beer is exploding?” And, “Are we going to max out?” The… Continue Reading →

Take an Alberta Beer Trip This Weekend

My last Vue Weekly column offered up a theoretical beer trip down Highway 2 (which you can read here). In an afternoon you could hit a half a dozen or so breweries without really venturing off Alberta’s busiest highway –… Continue Reading →

It’s Alberta Beer Week!

Today marks the launch of Alberta Beer Week 2017. For the next 9 days (yes, I know that is more than a week, relax) breweries and beer-oriented pubs and stores will be offering a range of events, discounts and profiles… Continue Reading →

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