Recently I have had a couple of odd interactions with customers at one of my beer tasting events. I would be chatting about a beer and the person (so far always male, but not making any generalizations) would ask “how… Continue Reading →
News drifted out this weekend that among the winners of the 2016 World Beer Cup, associated with the Brewers’ Association Craft Beer Conference, was Red Deer’s Troubled Monk. The upstart brewery scooped up a Silver medal in the American-Style Brown… Continue Reading →
On Friday afternoon a New Brunswick Provincial Court judge ruled that rules prohibiting the transportation of beer (well, alcohol in general) are unconstitutional (read a news article about it here). I might not talk about this except that – potentially… Continue Reading →
Last night I got my first view of the new beer history documentary series Aleberta at a screening at Yellowhead Brewery. As of this morning, the three-part series is available online and it will soon begin showing on Telus Optik… Continue Reading →
Time for some prairie beer news. I find these days things move so fast that my semi-regular posts to offer a round-up aren’t really keeping up – however here is yet another just to get things back up-to-date. The biggest… Continue Reading →
On Monday night Saskatchewan voters handily re-elected Brad Wall’s Saskatchewan Party with a majority government. Part of Mr. Wall’s platform addressed the issue of liquor retail privatization. Specifically their platform promised this: “Convert 40 government-owned liquor stores to private stores… Continue Reading →
A little over a year ago I ran a few statistics to compare Canada and the U.S. and the Canadian provinces in terms of their craft brewing scenes. You can read that analysis here. The numbers at the time were… Continue Reading →
March 15 is a dire day if your name is Caesar. However, if you are a craft beer lover then it is a day with another edition of the prairie news round up. Today we have an interesting mixture of… Continue Reading →
Over the past couple months I have noticed a fascinating trend on Alberta liquor store shelves. There has been a rather large increase in the number of B.C.-based breweries arriving in the province. I have counted about a dozen new… Continue Reading →
You might be forgiven for getting a bit confused if someone offers you a beer made theoretically. How can a beer be theoretical? But then, that confusion might be because you hadn’t yet heard of Theoretically Brewing, Lethbridge’s newest (and… Continue Reading →