I like talking about the effects of different ingredients on the flavour and aroma of beer. Most people are so used to pale lagers that introducing them to some kind of unusual or different ingredient can be quite the eye… Continue Reading →
In my latest Beer 101 (which you can read here), I give away some of my trade secrets. Okay, they aren’t secrets, per se, but they still do qualify as tips into how I do my job. I am not… Continue Reading →
So, this is a day late and a few dollars short, but this morning CBC posted my most recent column online. In honour of Super Bowl weekend, I humbly offered an alternative to the oceans of Bud and Bud Light… Continue Reading →
A few months back here at onbeer.org, during some discussion around what defines craft (found here and here), there was some debate about whether the use of adjuncts is an important aspect of differentiating brewers. Some felt that adjuncts –… Continue Reading →
So after a disturbingly warm season to date, Alberta was smacked with full frontal winter last week. Some complain, but I see it as just part of the price of living in the ungodly north. Bundle up and you are… Continue Reading →
Often the quietest person in the room is the most confident and self-assured. I think it may be that way with beer as well. During the last couple of months I devoted my Sherbrooke Liquor Beer 101 columns to an… Continue Reading →
By now most of you will know about single hop beer, when a brewer makes up a series of beer using a single different hop variety each time. It is designed to accent the effects of that one hop, educating… Continue Reading →
My latest Beer 101 column, which finishes off a three-part series on big beer, looks that the Andre the Giant of beer – the 20% plus extreme beer. After some quick accounting of how exactly you can make a beer… Continue Reading →
Last month in Beer 101 I started a series on big beer. I wanted to take a closer look at the weighty end of the beer world because I believe these beer are misunderstood. Most of us know they are… Continue Reading →
By now, most of you will have heard of (and sampled) Alley Kat’s little fall surprise – Fresh Hop Full Moon. This is, of course, Full Moon Pale Ale made with fresh hops, rather than the usual dried pellets (they… Continue Reading →