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The Background Lake of Bays has had a fairly eventful five years. When you consider that they launched in 2010 and are now selling their beer in the United States, they must be doing pretty well. They have somehow managed to get five core products into the LCBO and a […]

Review: Lake of Bays Cheli’s Pale Ale

June 23, 2015 in Uncategorized by admin

On Sunday, I got out to the Jester on Yonge for a sampling event for the Bobcaygeon Brewery. It’s been at Yonge and St. Clair for about as long as I can remember, but currently they’re going through something of a resurgence. The owners have had the place for 15 […]

OCB Week: The Jester On Yonge and Thoughts on Opening ...

June 17, 2015 in Uncategorized by admin

The second floor of Tequila Bookworm on Queen Street West is a good location for a tap takeover. For one thing, in order to be able to attend such an event, you have to know about its existence. You’d be forgiven for bypassing it completely on the way into the […]

Review: The Collingwood Brewery

June 12, 2015 in Uncategorized by admin

This is how big the craft beer movement has grown internationally: The 800th anniversary of the issuance of the Magna Carta, which takes place later this month, is being commemorated by a beer. It’s hard to imagine a brewery more suited to produce it than the Windsor & Eton Brewery. […]

The Magna Carta and Beer

June 9, 2015 in Shameless Plugs by admin

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(Editor’s Note: In the last week, I’ve evaluated Trafalgar in a positive manner based on their recent triumphs, succeeded in getting Sleeman investigated by the AGCO, Blown up Triple Bogey on Twitter for astroturfing ratings and done more research into Ginger than the breweries using it as in an ingredient. […]

A Word For Ontario Breweries

June 5, 2015 in Uncategorized by admin

Ginger beer seems to be having a moment in Ontario. Well, not “Ginger beer” so much as beer with ginger as an ingredient. If you’re from here you’ll find that odd. If you’re from South London you’ll find it ginger beer. Ginger is a pervasive flavour. It’s the kind of […]

Reviews: Ontario Ginger Beers

June 4, 2015 in Reviews by admin

Sleeman Lift launched this week. I’m not going to review it. I don’t care what it tastes like. Many of the lifestyle bloggers that you’ll see promoting it in the coming weeks don’t care what it tastes like either. They probably attended the launch because the invitation came with the […]

Not Exactly A Review: Sleeman Lift

May 29, 2015 in Uncategorized by admin

I don’t have a sense for how long people have been following the blog, but if you started reading back in 2010, you’ll know that I had pretty strong opinions about Trafalgar. At that point, we were living in a 40 brewery Ontario and Trafalgar was down amongst the bottom […]

Revisit: Trafalgar Ales & Meads

May 27, 2015 in Reviews by admin

I don’t brew collaboratively as much as I used to. I’ve been blogging about beer for five years this week and originally I was only doing it to get into brewing school. The focus on brewing was a great deal heavier at that point because I was trying to build […]

So You Want To Be A Brewer: Innocente & Collaboration ...

May 26, 2015 in Uncategorized by admin

(Editor’s Note: The Kensington Brewing Company is the only company from which I have ever accepted money as a beer writer. They bought a banner ad when they launched their crowdfunding initiative. I don’t think the banner ad did much good and I felt bad enough about that to leave […]

Review: KBC Hops & The Grain Merchant

May 23, 2015 in Uncategorized by admin