Yearly Archives: 2019

The Go Train is familiar, but I’m usually pushing on to the end of the line, either Burlington to transfer to Niagara College or Aldershot for Hamilton. The stations between Exhibition and that distant west end of the line dot the landscape between unfamiliar supermarkets and big box stores; the […]

In Which I Visit Stonehooker

November 17, 2019 in Uncategorized by admin

Last week, I blogged so angry I made the Toronto Star. In 2019. When blogs aren’t a thing. I’m not really that guy. I just act out when I’m frustrated by incompetence. This is going to be a little more reflective of normalcy. Did you know I took finite math […]

Fun with Numbers: Diversity is Important

October 8, 2019 in Uncategorized by admin

Hi there. You may notice that I am blogging more than once this week. You may also notice that I don’t get paid to do that. This may explain some of the tone that is about to emerge. I apologize in advance for any cussing. You know I hate cussing. […]

Some Advice for Ontario Craft Brewers On The Recent Kerfuffle.

October 1, 2019 in Uncategorized by admin

It’s always hard to know when it is acceptable to review a new brewery. There are a number of schools of thought here. For the Ontario Craft Beer Guide, we included everyone who was open whether we had tried their beers or not, denoting untried products with the designation “NR”. […]

Avling Kitchen and Brewery

September 30, 2019 in Uncategorized by admin

I don’t quite remember who said it to me (maybe Dave Sun Lee on twitter): “why would you go across town for beer at this point?” A decade ago that question was ridiculous; people would cross the country. With nearly 60 breweries in the city of Toronto, you probably have […]

Longslice Brewery and The Aviary

September 22, 2019 in Uncategorized by admin

It’s not really St.John, you know. No one really had that as a last name. It wasn’t a medieval occupation like Smith, or Baker, or Fletcher, or Cooper. An eccentric master at school would always ask if it was Sinjin, since I went to Upper Canada and it must have […]

On Picking Hops in Kingston

September 10, 2019 in Uncategorized by admin

It was somewhere around hour five of in class time on Tuesday when I tripped over an idea. I was explaining American Lager. There’s an exercise where we try a number of them side by side in order to display the amount of difference between them. “These products were designed […]

Lactose Babylon – Modernity and Post Modernity in Beer

May 9, 2019 in Uncategorized by admin

This winter took an oddly futurist bent. While I was developing classes and material, Nora Young’s Spark got in touch from the CBC to ask about AI in beer. I went away and diligently researched what people were doing around the world. There are some good ideas out there, but […]

The Future Soon – TasteGuru.AI

April 18, 2019 in Uncategorized tagged tasteguru by admin

I’m not quite sure how I ended up on the radar of George Brown College. I know Troy Burtch from Great Lakes had been teaching their continuing education beer appreciation course, and he probably recommended me, given that Jesse Vallins had a scheduling conflict. It was timely. I had finished […]

So You Want To Be A Teacher – George Brown’s ...

April 4, 2019 in Uncategorized by admin

I have a website writing assignment that I should be focusing on, but I have frequently found that it is a good idea to clear ideas out of my head before starting something like that. I want to talk to you about the current status of the beer market in […]

Fun With Numbers: 2019 Ontario Market Edition

March 27, 2019 in Uncategorized by admin

St. John's Wort

Beery Musings And Amusing Beers