Hello, Minister. I’m writing to you today to express my hopes for the alcohol industry reform that is currently tabled for discussion within the province. I’m an odd duck in regards to this situation in that I’m periodically referred to as an expert and have made a minor career out […]
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(ed. note: I always thought it would be fun to cut a heel promo.) I want to tell you something really important about your brewery. It’s going to sound patronizing, and it’s going to sound obvious, and it’s going to sound as though I am being condescending. Possibly, I […]
Breweries: Let’s Talk About Your Website
Recently, there was a pretty well written piece about taxes that showed up in the wake of the Ontario Craft Brewers’ charm offensive to get the public onside and prevent brewery closures within the province. It’s over here at baytoday.ca and written by Stu Campaigne interviewing New Ontario Brewing’s Mike […]
Some Thoughts about Ontario Beer Excise and the MFA
2 How do you write about Craft Beer at this point? It seems like idiocy to waste the better part of an afternoon on it when you can feel the immiseration of society happening in real time and you could be making money instead. Being a sensory expert is difficult in […]
In Which I Buy Time With Placeholder Text
1 It’s hard to believe that it has been more than five years since Godspeed opened, but time has been dilatory of late. Weeks can pass in a blip, while a sun dappled afternoon might seem to stretch on indefinitely. The tendency is to make the good parts last, and that’s […]
An Everyday Beer
1 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
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
1 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
2 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
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 […]