One of the events that I was most curious about in the lead up to Ontario Craft Beer Week was the Taste of All Ontario at the Granite Brewery in Toronto. There are a number of reasons for the curiosity, not the least of which is that the Granite Brewery […]
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If you’re a beer lover, you probably already know that this is Ontario Craft Beer Week. Across Ontario, there are a large number of events scheduled, and everyone is getting on board. There are tastings and pub crawls and food pairing events that you can choose to attend, and the […]
Ontario Craft Beer Week – An Introduction
In gearing up for Ontario Craft Beer Week, it made sense to me to take a look at the latest promotion offered by the Ontario Craft Brewers: OCB Discovery Pack #5, or as the packaging refers to it OCB Discovery Pack Summer 2010. The discovery pack is priced at $9.95 […]
OCB Discovery Pack Summer 2010
Family vacations, by and large, are the type of situation where you don’t get a lot of input into the schedule if you’re a teenager. You’re at the mercy of other people’s idea of a good time; this is probably due to the fact that a teenager’s idea of a […]
Adventure, Excitement and Weird Old Broads
Here’s an interesting conceit that occurred to me the other day while I was writing about tasting and opinion: In craft brewing, the brewmaster brings a lifetime of personal experience and taste bias to designing a beer. While there’s a certain amount of cloning of the recipes from other breweries […]
Beer Vs. Wine and the Cult of Personality
One of my beer drinking friends worries too much. Not about things like the number of calories in a beer or gradually developing dementia and cirrhosis or even that all important question: “How did my tab get that high?” No, this is a person that worries about the validity of […]
On Beer Tasting and Opinion
It has to be said that I’m spoiled as it relates to beer. For the last couple of years, my local pub has been Bar Volo, just north of Wellesley on Yonge street. The owner, Ralph Morana, has been able to import a huge number of really interesting, high quality […]
On Beer ratings.
There are a lot of lessons that they teach you in high school which are proven to be unlikely ever to have any application to your life. I am not entirely sure that I will ever have any use for Fermat’s theorem or the ability to calculate gravitational acceleration, but […]
Mondial – Friday (Awards Day)
One of the best things about Mondial is the fact that you tend to see everything related to the beer industry in Montreal at its absolute best. The brewers are happy because they’ve usually just spent a couple of weeks producing special products in order to impress and delight. The […]
Mondial de la Biere – Interlude
If you’re like me, you’re not particularly good at travel. There’s the alternation between procrastinating by watching an entire season of Arrested Development and packing; The panicked last minute attempt to find approximately as many clean socks as you’re likely to need (followed by the impulse to forget the entire […]