Monthly Archives: June 2012

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

June 28, 2012 in Uncategorized tagged Molson / Rob Ford / Video Embedding is hard and Windows Live Movie Maker is a bag of jerks / widemouth by admin

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

June 21, 2012 in Beer and Food / Ontario Craft Beer Week tagged Beer and Food / Fanny Chadwick's / Flying Monkey's Stereo Vision / OCB Week 2012 by admin

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

June 18, 2012 in Ontario Craft Beer Week / The Ontario Beer Revolution tagged Ontario Craft Beer Week 2012 by admin

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

June 7, 2012 in Non Beer Writing tagged Josh Rubin / Labatt Blue / Montreal Gazette / Toronto Star by admin

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

June 4, 2012 in Reviews tagged Charles Foster Kane / Pliny The Elder / The Simpsons / Vinnie Cilurzo / Wouldn't Get A Bit Upset If He Was Really Broke by admin

St. John's Wort

Beery Musings And Amusing Beers