The latest in Sherbrooke’s and Paddock Wood’s Beer Gods Series quietly came out a few weeks back. Ninkasi, named after the Sumerian Goddess of Beer, is the fourth in the series. This has been a fun and educational approach to… Continue Reading →
One of the more anticipated and boundary-pushing beer that has hit the prairie market in recent weeks is Half Pints’ Le Temps Noir. An Imperial Stout aged in bourbon barrels, it is intended to be intense and intimidating. Even the… Continue Reading →
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the release of Big Rock’s Erratic Stone-Fired Ale. I promised at the time to post my impressions once I tried it. Well, I finally opened the bottle a few days back. It… Continue Reading →
For my latest Vue Weekly column (which is now last week’s but you can still read it here), I tippled a bottle of a beer that I have had only once before, and that was two decades ago during a… Continue Reading →
A few weeks ago, I posted about the release of Alexander Keith’s Single Hop ales. As you can read here, I pontificated about what it might mean for the evolution of beer and expressed mixed feelings about it. At the… Continue Reading →
It is a rare opportunity when I get to sample a beer before it is officially released, but that was the case this past week with Alley Kat’s latest release in their Big Bottle Series, Full Moon Belgian Pale Ale… Continue Reading →
I have been to the corner of Portage and Main, reputedly Canada’s windiest intersection. The first time it was late November and the snow swirled so intensely I felt I was being smacked in the face with hundreds of tiny… Continue Reading →
It is not often when one accidentally stumbles across a beer that is regarded as one of the best of its breed. The other day I had a meeting at the Underground and, as usual, quickly perused their daily rotational… Continue Reading →
Don’t ask me why, but on St. Patrick’s Day on Sunday rather than quaff a Guinness or even a Yukon Red (which is very much an Irish Red Ale), I opened a bottle of Scottish Ale. Maybe it is the… Continue Reading →
I rarely splurge to get the latest rare, fancy beer. It is not that I don’t appreciate them, nor am I too cheap to cough up the dough. I just find I prefer to pick up a six-pack or a… Continue Reading →