My most recent Planet S column focused in on one of the dirty little secrets of craft brewing. Namely, not all craft beer is good. Some is mediocre and, if we entirely honest with ourselves, some of it is just… Continue Reading →
So, I think I admitted earlier I spent much of last week in Calgary. While I was there for non-beer reasons, I found some time to do a bit of beer-related work. As a result there will be a few… Continue Reading →
An alert reader drew my attention to this Metro story from a couple of weeks back. It is mostly a fluff piece, but there is one very interesting, almost throw-away line in it: “Since the provincial policies changed in December,… Continue Reading →
The big prairie news this week is the announced closure tomorrow (February 28) of Brew Brothers Brewery. The longtime Calgary operation opened its doors in 1994, making it the oldest of Alberta’s craft brewers. It had fallen on difficult times… Continue Reading →
So after the unprecedented decision to allow bars to open at 4:30 am to facilitate early morning hockey watching, apparently a couple of Alberta ministers took to the Twitterverse to opine that later closing times and liquor in grocery stores… Continue Reading →
Buried in the mountains of paper of the federal budget the other day were two small announcements that will positively affect craft beer fans. First, the government announced that it would remove restrictions on inter-provincial transportation of beer and liquor…. Continue Reading →
The past few days have been ones filled with much debate in other parts of Canada around the pros and cons of selling liquor in grocery or convenience stores. In B.C., the government recently accepted all of the recommendations of… Continue Reading →
In my Beer 101 column in December (which you can find here) I started a series on serving beer. Last month it was the heated subject of temperature. This month – pouring etiquette. The column itself (which you can read… Continue Reading →
For some time now I have been only dabbling around the edges of the influx of Europe’s boundary pushing breweries. The grandaddy is, of course, Mikkeller but we have seen a handful of others over the past year or so,… Continue Reading →
On my CBC column later this afternoon (Friday, January 10, 2014) – CBC Radio One (740 AM, 93.9 FM) at 4:45 – I will be looking at Edmonton’s rapidly expanding market for craft beer bars. These are larger pubs that… Continue Reading →