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Yearly Archives: 2013

I want to point something out to you, and it will seem obvious in retrospect: Toronto’s Amsterdam Brewery is running a tap takeover at Bar Volo on February 2nd. It sold out completely in about 4 hours. The first rating on Boneshaker IPA on Ratebeer.com is May 2010. That was […]

Amsterdam Tap Takeover @ Bar Volo

January 23, 2013 in Bar Volo / The Ontario Beer Revolution tagged amsterdam brewery / Bar Volo / Barrel Aging in Ontario / Iain McOustra / Iain McOustra's Giant Noggin by admin

I’m always happy to receive beer from Grand River Brewing. I got to know Bob Hannenberg a little bit during a stopover in Philadelphia on the way to the craft brewing conference in San Diego last year. I like Bob, and generally speaking, I like much of the beer that […]

They Send Me Beer: Grand River Brewing

January 11, 2013 in LCBO Releases / Reviews / Shameless Plugs tagged Grand River / Jubilation Winter Warmer / Russian Gun / The Galt Munitions Misadventure of 1856 by admin

I’m always interested when something I’m not expecting happens. For instance, I didn’t expect the brewers at Black Oak to start up their own label. They’ve been a bit cagey about it as the thing has developed and I don’t think that anyone knew quite what to expect. It was […]

They Send Me Beer: Radical Road Brewing Canny Man

January 6, 2013 in Reviews / Shameless Plugs / The Ontario Beer Revolution tagged black oak / Canny Man / Jon Hodd / Radical Road Brewing / Simon DaCosta / Young Hearts Be Free Tonight by admin

Alright. Let’s say that you got up at O Dark Thirty on December 12th and you went out and stood in the line at the LCBO with a bunch of other poor bewildered sods who hadn’t ingested enough coffee to qualify as anything other than “shambling horde.” You stood in […]

Beer and Food: Belgium and Lancashire, Together At Last

January 3, 2013 in Beer and Food tagged Eccles Cakes / Heston Blumenthal / Stilton / Westvleteren XII by admin