Monthly Archives: September 2019

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

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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

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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

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