Much has been made recently of the decision to shift some of the production of Alexander Keith’s India Pale Ale to Ontario and Quebec. The problem with the coverage of the issue is that it fails to take into account the corporatization that has existed around the Keith’s brand since […]
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(Astute readers will have noticed that this blog has taken a heavy turn towards actually brewing beer recently. I promise you that I will return shortly to making fun of the other facets of the brewing industry and beer drinking generally. There will also be some input from a couple […]
So You Want To Be a Brewer – Great Lakes/St. ...
In the run up to the brew day at Amsterdam, I was pretty nervous. You never know exactly how something like your first all-grain brew day is going to go. There are a lot of considerations: Is my recipe any good? What goes on at an event like this? Does […]
Amsterdam Brew Day
One of the nicest things about being a beer blogger, aside from the fact that there is periodically more free beer than you can shake quite a large bundle of sticks at, is that if you profess that you’re interested in learning to be a brewer, people take you at […]
So You Want To Be a Brewer – Learn 2 ...
Tuesday, I was invited along to a beer tasting at Burger Bar in Kensington Market. Now, for me, this wasn’t just any beer tasting. Thomas Riley Marshall, former Vice-President of the United States, once opined that what the country needed was a good five-cent cigar. I have always felt that […]
Cheshire Valley and Burger Bar
It’s the end of October, and while for your average pub-goer it’s an excuse to scrape together a last minute costume (“I’m a psychopath. We look just like everybody else.”) for beer nerds it can mean only one thing: Bar Volo’s Cask Days. This is going to be sixth annual […]
Cask Days 2010 – IT BEGINS!
It’s October, and you know what that means: Somewhere, someone is kissing hands and shaking babies. Across North America, people are on the campaign trail trying to get elected. As if I needed proof of this, I have messages on my cell phone from potential mayoral candidates who think nothing […]
Beer – For Liberalism
Astute readers will have noticed that I have been absent from my blog for a couple of weeks. For the first week, we had Alex Nixon writing about Portland, Oregon in his inimitable fashion. We’ll be seeing more from him later this fall, as my near quintessential semi-legitimacy seems to […]
Beer – For Mourning.
I went to Deschutes a couple of times in my journey. It was after my second dinner there that I realized I might be the wrong person for this assignment, as I had spent around $40 on beer the entire trip and $120 at Powell’s Books. Deschutes is a jewel […]
Portland, Oregon – Deschutes
The Hair of the Dog (HotD) Tasting Room is a new venue for this brewery, although how new I am unsure. It is new enough that they haven’t updated the address on their website. Not so new that I wasn’t able to find out that they’d moved. It’s off the […]