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Periodically over here at St. John’s Wort, PR people give me suggestions for things to do. For the sake of time, I’ll leave out the obscene suggestions. That whittles the number down to about three, which are: 1)      Hey! Go to this event! 2)      Hey! Drink this thing! 3)      Hey! […]

Beer And Food Tuesday: Kronenbourg 1664

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An increasingly large number of people want me to plug things related to the Toronto Festival of Beer. Normally, I don’t really do cheap plugs, but the email inbox is groaning under the weight of folks looking for me to talk about the TORONTO FESTIVAL OF BEER and how it […]

The Toronto Festival of Beer 2012: Cheap Plugs Edition

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One of the things that I’m lucky enough to be able to ponder occasionally is beer and food pairing. It’s the kind of thing that I’ve been massively appreciative of in the past, because for the most part, when I experience it, someone else is doing it for me. I’ve […]

Announcing Beer and Food Tuesdays at St. John’s Wort

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St.John’s Wort is pleased to provide you with some auditory stimuli to enhance your reading experience. Ribs are one of those foods that somehow manage to promote competition. I don’t know whether it’s the primeval sensation of stripping the meat from the bone with your teeth, with your fingers covered […]

Toronto Ribfest

I have a mildly complicated relationship with Molson. This is probably because reality isn’t white hats and black hats. Craft beer isn’t Alan Ladd and Macro isn’t Jack Palance. Molson has a lot of strong points. They employ a number of immensely talented people, some of whom I like personally. […]

Molson’s New Packaging Line

As Ontario Craft Beer Week continues on its merry, slightly lumbering way, I find that the events that I’m most interested in are the ones that deal with pairing food and beer. I suspect that this has to do with the fact that we don’t get enough of this in […]

OCB Week Beer and Food: Fanny Chadwick’s

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It’s the week after Father’s Day and that means that it’s time once again for Ontario Craft Beer Week. OCB Week is now in its third year and the number of events that are available has jumped pretty considerably from last year. It’s a jump that seems conceptually tied to […]

Ontario Craft Beer Week 2012

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There are some particularly good examples in the history of crisis management. Take Tylenol, who in 1982 suffered a major setback in Chicago. Some bottles of Extra Strength Tylenol had been tampered with and contained potassium cyanide. Because the bottles came from different factories, it was pretty clear that it […]

How Not To Manage A Crisis: Labatt Blue

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One of the best things about traveling to San Diego last month was that I got the chance to try Pliny The Elder from Russian River on tap. I can tell you that I didn’t get it. I had had it in bottles before; a couple of times in fact. […]

Pliny The Elder and Citizen Kane

I like Stephen King. I do. I keep reading his books even though they frequently take on weird turns. He has his strengths. His dialogue seems a little hokey until you realize that he tries to mirror actual human dialogue and most of what we say on a daily basis […]

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