“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 […]
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, ...
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 […]
In Which I Tour The Molson Plant or How Blue ...
I’m going to do something a little odd here and use the blog briefly as a platform for a public service announcement. I got into the Niagara College Brewmaster program this year, and that’ll be starting up on the 7th of September. Apparently there are going to be 36 students […]
Calling all Brewing Students
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 ...
I won’t lie to you. I was apprehensive about the Queer Beer Festival. This is mostly due to the fact that when I started researching it a couple of months ago, it struck me as something of a cash grab. Thursday at the TFOB had been VIP night, and had […]
Toronto Festival of Beer/Queer Beer Festival
This week, I received an email from Labatt. They’re launching three new beers. Usually, they’ll put one beer out at a time and get some marketing behind it as an individual property. In this case, they’ve launched a platoon. There’s Blue Dry, a 6.1% version of Blue with a dry […]
Detente OR How I learned to stop worrying and love ...
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
You may have noticed that the old bloggity blog has lain fallow these two weeks. There’s a good reason for that. June was busier than a one legged man in an ass kicking contest, and my plan of trying to cover events every day during Ontario Craft Beer Week was […]