The current issue of Vue Weekly is running my review of Bruton Bianca (sorry, no link yet – you will have to go analog and pick up a paper copy). As I have mentioned earlier, it is a nice interpretation… Continue Reading →
This will come as no surprise to any of you, but it is a real pet peeve of mine to see ads that over-hype a beer, or, worse, come up with complete pretend concepts just to sell beer (microcarbonation, anyone?)…. Continue Reading →
For the past couple of months, my CBC columns have not been posted on their website. This is due mostly to RadioActive being a bit shorthanded. It is a bit of a shame, as the rest of my beer personality… Continue Reading →
In addition to ensuring I have a few special holiday beer (like a barley wine or a nice tripel) for sipping at pristine moments, in the lead up to Xmas I also try to pick up some general drinking beer… Continue Reading →
As we (or at least those of us who doggedly stick to analog date keepers) poise to toss our old calendar in the recycling bin and replace it with a new collection of 12 wildlife scenes / political posters /… Continue Reading →
So Minhas Brewing, whom I recently took to task for their claim to be craft, seems to have earned the ire of a prominent political columnist. In the Canadian edition of the Huffington Post and in MacLean’s , David Menzies… Continue Reading →
Earlier this week, Molson-Coors Canada announced that it is re-launching Calgary Beer in Calgary for the first time in years. This announcement may be of fleeting interest to anyone not from Calgary (and even to those in Calgary), but I… 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 →
During my hacker-imposed lock-out I started a new series on my CBC column. I am doing a four-part discussion of the different beer personalities in Canada’s regions. A year or so ago I first raised my thesis that each region… Continue Reading →
This morning regular CBC Radio listeners would have heard my not-so-dulcet tones on the early side of noon for a change. A reporter for Edmonton AM noticed my post a couple weeks back analyzing why many local independent pubs were… Continue Reading →