DAY 2 Brew Dog Dinner @ beerbistro I get the feeling that there’s going to be a lot written about the Brew Dog Dinner, and that there are going to be a lot of pictures of identical plates and glasses and explanations of what was eaten and drunk. In point […]
Yearly Archives: 2010
DAY ZERO Like I mentioned earlier, I came home from the Canadian Brewing Awards with a large number of relatively interesting beers. I’ve noticed that some people have the ability to keep rare and interesting beers in their cellar for long periods of time. I marvel sometimes when people mention […]
Toronto Beer Week – Sunday & Monday
The judging for the Canadian Brewing Awards was held on September 11th and 12th, and I somehow managed to smuggle myself into the proceedings. I think I managed this mostly by being relatively large and stolid and being willing to carry heavy boxes around during the setup on the 10th. […]
Canadian Brewing Awards – Behind the Scenes
One of the best things about the events listing for Toronto Beer Week is the fact that there are a lot of events that are taking place that otherwise wouldn’t. Just the fact that there is likely to be an influx of interest in the subject tends to mean that […]
Toronto Beer Week – Beer Culture Events
Today I’m going to try and point you in the right direction when it comes to food pairing events. There are an ever increasing number of them being announced for Toronto Beer Week and they run the gamut from the relatively simple to the extremely complex, but there are only […]
Toronto Beer Week – Food Pairing Events Preview
As a teenager, I collected LPs. It was after the advent of the CD so people would look at me askance, because they claimed that digital quality was so much better. In truth, I was never much interested in the quality of the sound that was coming out of the […]
Toronto Beer Week – A Rough Guide
You know who people love? Rudy Reuttiger. Maybe you know the story. This kid who stands maybe 5’6” and weighs a buck and a half dreams of playing for Notre Dame. He plays for a different school initally but manages to transfer over to Notre Dame after several failed attempts. […]
The Ontario Beer Revolution – Media Narrative
There are, of course, two things that people claim that they don’t want to see being made: law and sausage. One contains a lot of grease , pork and leftover trimmings and the other is delicious sausage. That being said, no one ever claimed that events planning shouldn’t be open […]
Toronto Beer Week
I feel like yesterday’s update on beer distribution was, perhaps, overly inflammatory. It did, however, contain an interesting concept: What would the LCBO be like if it were run by foul tempered ogres instead of well adjusted citizens? That’s why today’s update takes the form of a fairy tale: the […]
The Ontario Beer Revolution – Distribution (addendum)
While it’s very important to take into consideration the wishes of the consumer when discussing Ontario Craft Beer, one of the things that you have to factor into the consumer experience are the various methods of distribution for independent Ontario Breweries. I know that there are an ever increasing number […]