Yearly Archives: 2024

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It’s a really interesting time for the brewing industry in Ontario, and it’s one of those moments that prompts some re-evaluation. Josh Rubin called me the other day from the Toronto Star to ask how long I thought The Beer Store would remain in business, pointing out that there are […]

Ontario Beer: The Fifth Wave

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Revelations come in odd places.  I had gotten off the St. Clair replacement bus the other month and was walking across Maple Claire park from the Gunns Road streetcar loop. It’s the shortest and least aromatic path to the event space where I pick up the odd shift.  Getting to […]

Floral: From the Ground Up

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It’s an interesting morning from a task variation standpoint. I’m just about to start teaching this semester’s Beer 1 Online Class (spots still remain) at George Brown College in Toronto. The online class usually has some concessions to distance included. If you have all the students in the same classroom […]

Fun with Numbers – On the LCBO Strike

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Over the course of the winter, when I was writing about teaching sensory detail for beer, I wrote:  My hope is that by the end of the six week course they’ll learn to slow down a little and appreciate things more, maybe develop more experience, maybe learn to direct that […]

Nothing But Flowers

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