Infrequently, I write about things other than beer. This is one of those times. About six weeks ago, I suffered a fracture of the greater tuberosity of the humerus. That’s the sort of knurl of the bone in your upper arm that attaches your bicep and rotator cuff. I had […]
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Sometimes I get sent a bottle of beer that I don’t know exactly what to do with. In this case, it’s Bush Pilot Brewing Company’s Stormy Monday. I’m a little conflicted about this beer because I’ve seen most of its stages of development. Before it was brewed, I got to […]
They Send Me Beer: Bush Pilot Brewing Company Stormy Monday
7 When I was in Calgary last month, there was one place I visited that didn’t really fit into the overarching narrative of the beer halls that are springing up there, and this is because it doesn’t really do North American craft beers in the same way that the other beer […]
WURST Calgary
If you’ll recall, I wrote a column early in January about the Hop Mason beer that Keith’s are brewing for pubs in the Prime chain across Canada. The conclusion that I came to was that it was objectively good and that the specs for the beer put it squarely in […]
Keith’s Hop Series
2 There are advantages to writing a book with a guy. For instance, it’s a good bet that you’re going to get the first samples of his brewery’s new beer. I’m talking of course about Mark Murphy, co-author of How To Make Your Own Brewskis: The Go To Guide For Craft […]
Left Field Brewery
One of the things that has defined the Discount Beer experience for me is the increasingly obvious point that there is a large segment of the market that isn’t drinking beer for flavour. You would think that given 60 products of varying quality that all cost the same amount of […]
Discount Beer February – What Did We Learn?
Discount Beer February will finish up this week, and I’m very much looking forward to that. I am running out of descriptors for the flavours that you get in mass produced lager beer. If you’ll recall from the beginning of the month, there was a post where I talked about […]
DBF – President’s Choice Genuine Lager
12 I don’t pretend to understand the Alberta beer scene completely. After all, I was only there for about five days, and there’s only so much information you can process. Fortunately, brewers like to talk. While the column this week is about the unique beer hall scene that Alberta has developed […]
Craft Brewing in Alberta – An Outsider’s Perspective
I know. It’s March. I chose a short month. Deal with it. PABST BLUE RIBBON What can you say about Pabst Blue Ribbon that Dennis Hopper hasn’t screamed in the middle of an ether binge? Well, there’s the big important thing, which is that PBR more or less defines the […]
Discount Beer February – Sleeman Products
4 One of the best things about Molson, from the perspective of DISCOUNT BEER FEBRUARY, is that I have contacts over there. Once I explained what I was trying to do with a survey of the Discount beer section of The Beer Store, and that I really only needed two bottles […]