Yearly Archives: 2011



Competition tends to bring out the worst in people and for all that brewers exist in a sort of brotherhood (siblinghood, so as not to exclude the brewsters) most of the time, there is a significant amount of smacktalk that surrounds events where there’s going to be a significant amount […]

Toronto Beer Week 2011 – Day One – Drinking Sumac, ...






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When I went to middle school, we used to have week long trips to a property that the school owned out near Georgetown, Ontario. They would attempt to teach us important things about biodiversity and the life cycle and nature photography while we squirmed in our seats, happy for once […]

So You Want To Be A Brewer: St.John’s Wort/Cheshire Valley ...





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You can learn a lot from awards given out at large beer festivals. You’re not going to learn who the best in the world is. You’re not going to learn who the best brewer is or even what the best light lager is. There’s no true objectivity for the simple […]

Neustadt Springs Brewery & The U.S. Open Beer Championship