Yearly Archives: 2022

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I’ve been watching Something In The Water with interest over the course of the pandemic. Launching a contract brand seemed like an odd move during a time when you couldn’t approach the LCBO’s individual locations about sales and online sales for contract brewers were prohibited. Launching a Blackberry Vanilla Sour […]

Preview: Something In The Water Brewing Co

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Sawdust City Kraslice Czech Dark Lager. Part of a Lager Series 4 Pack from the Sawdust City Online Shop. $14.60/4x473ml in different Czech inspired flavours.   One of the things I like about Sawdust City is Sam Corbeil’s endless willingness to experiment. The business does a nice volume trade through […]

Review: Sawdust City Kraslice Czech Dark Lager

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Silversmith Black Lager. Available at LCBO $3.65/473ml and at the brewery in Niagara-on-the-Lake.  I probably have to shift some beers that are on the cusp of not being seasonal. This includes your Stouts, Porters, Tmavys, and Schwarzbiers. You’d be surprised how the last two categories have taken on a life […]

Review: Silversmith Black Lager

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Spearhead Sam Roberts Band Ale. Available from the Spearhead Online Shop in 473ml cans with discount for volume purchase. It’s somewhat odd to think that this is beer that was first available in 2014 at a festival that no longer exists, offered by a brewing company that has since changed […]

Review: Spearhead Sam Roberts Band Ale

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Omnipollo Lorpan IPA. Available for $5.25/473ml through the LCBO or Craft Brand Co’s Online Bodega Since the last time I used the blog in any significant way, the formatting has changed significantly, so it’s nice to have a Hazy IPA that for once retains its texture as I’m figuring out […]

Review: Omnipollo Lorpan IPA

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Rebellion Brewing Hoppy Pollinator Available only in the depths of the fimbulwinter when huginn and muninn screech in the sky and Fenrir casts about for loose scraps of moon. No amount of Danegeld can acquire it at other times in the year, and not even Grendel’s Mother bothered to stock […]

Review: Rebellion Brewing Hoppy Pollinator

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Part of the Waterloo Signature Series. 19.95/ 6x473ml cans at LCBO. Available at Grocery, Beer Stores, and from Waterloo Brewing Despite its pedigree as the first small brewery in the province with an opening date of 1984, suicidally close to the Labatt owned Kuntz brewery in K-W, Brick Brewing was, […]

Review: Waterloo Tropical Juicy Hazy IPA

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Over the course of a long winter, I wrote about the brewery strike in Toronto in 1904 because people I know within the industry had become interested in organizing labour in Ontario’s small breweries. Although I didn’t write about it in Lost Breweries of Toronto, which was designed to be […]

1904 Brewery Strike – What Can We Learn?

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