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Omnipollo Lorpan IPA. Available for $5.25/473ml through the LCBO or Craft Brand Co’s Online Bodega Since the last time I used the blog in any significant way, the formatting has changed significantly, so it’s nice to have a Hazy IPA that for once retains its texture as I’m figuring out […]

Review: Omnipollo Lorpan IPA

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Rebellion Brewing Hoppy Pollinator Available only in the depths of the fimbulwinter when huginn and muninn screech in the sky and Fenrir casts about for loose scraps of moon. No amount of Danegeld can acquire it at other times in the year, and not even Grendel’s Mother bothered to stock […]

Review: Rebellion Brewing Hoppy Pollinator

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Part of the Waterloo Signature Series. 19.95/ 6x473ml cans at LCBO. Available at Grocery, Beer Stores, and from Waterloo Brewing Despite its pedigree as the first small brewery in the province with an opening date of 1984, suicidally close to the Labatt owned Kuntz brewery in K-W, Brick Brewing was, […]

Review: Waterloo Tropical Juicy Hazy IPA

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Over the course of a long winter, I wrote about the brewery strike in Toronto in 1904 because people I know within the industry had become interested in organizing labour in Ontario’s small breweries. Although I didn’t write about it in Lost Breweries of Toronto, which was designed to be […]

1904 Brewery Strike – What Can We Learn?

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Ed. Note: Sometimes paid work gets in the way of skylarking like this. Apologies to anyone who was waiting for a conclusion. We’ll get there eventually. When last we stepped in the Wayback Machine, the labour situation in Toronto’s breweries had come to a head, although in the early days […]

The 1904 Brewery Strike – Part Three

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Having written the history of Toronto’s breweries, I’m frequently struck by how little things change over time. Watching the development of the Craft Brewery Workers Alliance of Canada over the last couple of months has caused bells to ring in the back of my mind.  Brewing is a generational business. […]

The 1904 Brewery Strike – Part One

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Hop Water is better than Non-Alcoholic Beer for a simple reason: Non-Alc Beer is less than the sum of its parts.  As we established last week, Non-Alc beer can just about hit the high points of a style without being sweetened in order to add texture, complexity, and nuance. Whether […]

… And All Beautiful Yellow Flowers

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