Eventually, if you write for a paper, you get to the point where you’re a z-class celebrity. You’d have a long way to go to reach the dizzying heights of an Abe Vigoda or Don Knotts, but people invite you to do things. I was invited to be the special […]
Yearly Archives: 2011
Let me tug on your coat about something. A lot of the time, the craft beer movement is defined not so much by the drinkers as it is by the brewers and the people who write about beer. You’ve got a lot of different beer bloggers and columnists and legitimate […]
Ontario Craft Beer Week – Day Three
This year, I’m trying to get to as many Ontario Craft Beer Week events as is humanly possible, so you’ll probably see me out and about knocking around the GTA in some capacity or other. Maybe I’ll be complaining violently about having been to so many events. Maybe I’ll be […]
Ontario Craft Beer Week 2011 – Day Two
Do you know how far the perception of beer has come in the last ten years? A very long way indeed, and a lot of that is down to craft brewers getting involved with locations outside of the places that you’d traditionally find them. As I look at the lineup […]
Ontario Craft Beer Week 2011 – Day One
Now, you may not credit it, but I like being proved wrong. In most capacities and professions, this is not necessarily a thing that people hanker for, but as a beer writer, it’s an infrequent surprise. You may remember that at the end of the last year, I wrote about […]
Spearhead Brewing OR Breweries that now actually exist (and good ...
Yesterday, I went to the launch of The Beer Store’s new venture: The Beer Boutique. One of the criticisms that I keep hearing about The Beer Store is that it is something of a monolithic entity. As one of two corporate entities that is allowed to sell beer in Ontario […]
The Beer Boutique
Beer journalism is not for the faint of heart. Sometimes, it can be a grueling, punishing vocation. I’ve just now pulled in from Montreal on the train, and although the Mondial de la Biere is by no means over, I’m pleased to be well away from it. As beer festivals […]
Mondial 2011 – Il y a des oiseaux dans la ...
(The other day, St.John’s Wort acquired a new employee. Vanessa Scott has graciously volunteered to be my guest blogtographer and executive plus-one. As is sometimes the case with new employees, she’s a bit of a keener and took a rather larger number of pictures than I would have. We went […]
Molson Canadian 67 Sublime – The Return of the ...
It will come as a surprise to few frequent readers that one of my best friends passed away last October. I feel that if I am handing out thank-you’s, one of them should be to my friend Tim Mitchell. He inspired the following piece which I submitted to the Oxford […]
St.John’s Wort – Year One – Brothers in Arms
When I started blogging last year at this time, I didn’t really know exactly how everything was going to shake out. Mostly I started writing about beer because I didn’t get into the first class at Niagara College and I thought to myself that it was eventually going to be […]