Yearly Archives: 2022

For part three in this series, I want to talk about inflation and its larger role in society as it pertains to the beer industry and some of the factors that we’ve already discussed. I’m not an economist. I’m just comparatively good at parsing data and paying a lot of […]

How is the beer industry in Ontario doing? Part 3

December 20, 2022 in Uncategorized by admin

Having established in a previous post what the shape of Ontario’s society looks like, it’s time to build on that framework in order to allow us to understand the shape of the province’s beer industry over time. For this, I’m pulling on Beer Canada statistical data that I’ve accumulated through […]

How is the beer industry doing in Ontario? Part 2

December 14, 2022 in Uncategorized by admin

It’s something of a rarity that I find myself with downtime, but at the moment I don’t have anything on the calendar until about after Boxing Day. This means that I get to indulge myself in some clean up work around the various things that I do related to the […]

How is the beer industry doing in Ontario? Part 1

December 13, 2022 in Uncategorized by admin

I was minding my own business, lugging boxes of beer around in Leaside, when I feel a tap on my shoulder and I turn around. I’m staring at a sternum, just about nipple high. Now, Jack Burton would tell you that the back of your favourite head was about to […]

Review: Driftwood Brewery Sartori Harvest IPA

November 22, 2022 in Uncategorized by admin

I was talking to Kalev Nisbet and Dave Watts the other month at Shacklands, probably over a pint of Special Belgian Ale when the subject of De Ranke came up. Neither of them had ever had De Ranke XX Bitter or De Ranke XXX Bitter, for that matter. For a […]

Shacklands X St. John’s Wort Golden Mouth Fresh Hopped Belgian ...

November 18, 2022 in Uncategorized by admin

Black Oak Brewing Motueka Rice Lager, Currently available at the brewery, $3.45/473ml I was talking to Adam Broz from Czechvar at Godspeed the other week, and he said that the thing he liked about the beer he made was that it was everyday beer. You could drink it all the […]

Black Oak Motueka Rice Lager

October 30, 2022 in Uncategorized by admin

Sometimes, even in a pandemic, things work out. You may remember, way back in 2019, Fullers was purchased by Asahi. I had been to London in 2018 and had been told by Tim Holt and Pete Brown and just about everyone that Fullers’ was “more of a pub company now.” […]

Spearhead x St. John’s Wort Dragon Slayer ESB

October 25, 2022 in Uncategorized by admin

It’s not often that I find myself in the position of thinking that something someone else wrote requires rejoinder. However, as I took a break from doomscrolling last week, I happened across a piece by Jeff Alworth. I’ve read Jeff off and on for a decade, and in my experience, […]

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