St. John's Wort

Beery Musings And Amusing Beers

Yearly Archives: 2025

Sometimes, when I make a Collaboration beer there’s a hidden double meaning. For example, Amsterdam Revelator, Shacklands Golden Mouth, and Granite Fisher King are all secretly St. John beers. John the Revelator, John Chrysostom, John Fisher. They fit the tradition they’re in as well. Bock, Golden Ale, English ESB. I […]

Collab Beer: Rorschach Fancy Lads Peanut Butter Boy

March 4, 2025 in Uncategorized by admin

As we established in Rule 1, beer is a luxury good that contains small amounts of recreational poison which people really enjoy. For that reason, it hits people’s desire button. The difficulty is that since the audience for beer does not have uniform desires (since desire is somewhat ephemeral) and […]

Rule #2: Beer Does Not Respect Expertise

February 2, 2025 in Uncategorized by admin

(Ed. Note: I’ve been writing about beer for 15 years now, and I feel as though it’s time to see if we can’t condense this knowledge down into useful information that might help explain how we got to this point. We’ve been through a boom, we’re going through some pretty […]

Rule #1: Beer Is Almost Never About Beer

January 9, 2025 in Uncategorized by admin

2024 has been an interesting year for Ontario’s beer market. We’ve had closures, although not quite as many as you might imagine. We’ve had mergers and acquisitions, some of which make no sense. We’ve had the odd brewery open in the province of Ontario, which is not as ludicrous as […]

Ontario Beer: The International Problem

January 2, 2025 in Uncategorized by admin