“Despotic the new regime was undoubtedly from the start.” This is a sentence that I have carried with me since grade 10, and it illustrates a point that I had quite forgotten until I got into brewing school. Textbooks are frequently poorly written. In the case of my grade 10 […]
Monthly Archives: September 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, ...
As regular readers will be aware, I have somehow managed to get into the Niagara College Brewmaster and Brewery Operations Management program. It’s my intention to write about the experience whenever the mood takes me. I doubt that I will be talking frequently about the content of the courses, as […]
Time Spent in Reconnaissance
(Disclaimer: This is essentially twice as long as most of my blog posts. Go make a sandwich or something and then come back and read it.) Do you know, as I was walking along Renforth drive over the 427 on my way to the Molson plant this week, I was […]