Yearly Archives: 2012

An increasingly large number of people want me to plug things related to the Toronto Festival of Beer. Normally, I don’t really do cheap plugs, but the email inbox is groaning under the weight of folks looking for me to talk about the TORONTO FESTIVAL OF BEER and how it […]

The Toronto Festival of Beer 2012: Cheap Plugs Edition

July 25, 2012 in Shameless Plugs tagged Gentle Satire / Steam Whistle Elephant Hat / Ted Reader: Grillmaster Extraordinaire / Toronto Festival of Beer by admin

One of the things that I’m lucky enough to be able to ponder occasionally is beer and food pairing. It’s the kind of thing that I’ve been massively appreciative of in the past, because for the most part, when I experience it, someone else is doing it for me. I’ve […]

Announcing Beer and Food Tuesdays at St. John’s Wort

July 23, 2012 in Beer and Food tagged Beer and Food pairing / beerbistro cookbook / Brewmaster's Table by admin

St.John’s Wort is pleased to provide you with some auditory stimuli to enhance your reading experience. Ribs are one of those foods that somehow manage to promote competition. I don’t know whether it’s the primeval sensation of stripping the meat from the bone with your teeth, with your fingers covered […]

Toronto Ribfest

July 1, 2012 in Beer and Food tagged beer / Centennial Park / Etobicoke Rotary / Ribs / Toronto Ribfest / UFos Big Rigs and BBQ by admin

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

I like Stephen King. I do. I keep reading his books even though they frequently take on weird turns. He has his strengths. His dialogue seems a little hokey until you realize that he tries to mirror actual human dialogue and most of what we say on a daily basis […]

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Past ...

May 28, 2012 in Non Beer Writing tagged 11/22/63 / Non Beer Writing / Stephen King by admin

People have already written about Bellwoods Brewery. I sort of suspected that would happen out of the gate. It seems like everyone in beer in Toronto has been there. I knew it was going to be a big deal when my next door neighbour, Dave, mentioned in passing that he […]

Bellwoods Brewery

May 12, 2012 in Reviews / The Ontario Beer Revolution tagged Bellwoods Brewery / Luke Pestl / Mike Clark / Ossington by admin

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