The first booth we visited was the Harpoon Brewery out of Boston, started in 1986. I had talked with their representative Chirsan via email, and he was more than happy to explain the beers on offer. There were two of their core products, Harpoon IPA and their UFO unfiltered Hefeweizen […]
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Bloggers, I have noticed, tend to be fickle, capricious creatures with short attention spans, and I’m no different. After nearly 8 solid weeks of blogging about Canadian beer, I felt like a change of pace from the Ontario beer scene, and who can blame me? The arguments about difficulties producing […]
Buffalo Brewfest 2010 – Part 1
I should preface my thoughts on the Toronto Festival of Beer by saying that I’ve never actually managed to get to the Toronto Festival of Beer before, despite living in the city for the majority of my adult life. In fact, prior to this year the only beer festival that […]
The Toronto Festival Of Beer
One of the best things about being a beer drinker in Toronto this year is the fact that the number of events keeps increasing. There was Ontario Craft Beer Week, the Hart House Craft Beer Festival and starting on Thursday of this week, we’re going to have the Toronto Festival […]
So You Want To Be A Brewer – The Toronto ...
On Thursday, I was lucky enough to be able to attend the Craft Beer Festival at Hart House at the University of Toronto. I don’t get down to Hart House very much. In fact, I think the last time I was there was to see a production of Guys and […]
The Hart House Craft Beer Festival
This morning, when I logged into Bar Towel, I read a very distressing piece of news which had been linked from the Globe and Mail. A tragedy has occurred at the Okanagan Springs Brewery in Vernon, BC. Apparently, a gas buildup in a fermenting vat resulted in an explosion, causing […]
The Wreck of the Okanagan Springs Brewery
Regular readers will have noticed by now that I tend not to review individual beers for my blog. There are a number of reasons for this, some of which are down to mechanics and some of which are down to personal taste. In mechanical terms, I find that I don’t […]
On Palate and Limitations
This weekend at Bar Volo, they’re having a series of tastings and events based around the launch of a number of Products from MicroBrasserie Charlevoix. This is the second such launch from Bar Volo, who are also the brains behind HMH Negotiants, which is dedicated to importing quality beers from […]
Charlevoix @ Bar Volo
One of the main problems in brewing extreme beers is that it goes completely over the head of your primary market. The two examples that I touched on last time are Brew Dog’s Tactical Nuclear Penguin and the Hart & Thistle breweries Hop Mess Monster. Tactical Nuclear Penguin weighs in […]
Tactical Nuclear Penguin and the Hop Mess Monster
One of the best things about craft brewing is that it tends to reward innovation. New developments are typically welcomed by the consumer and indeed talked about online ad nausea. This is as it should be. While there was certainly a period in Ontario during the last twenty years where […]