I don’t like beer cocktails. Let me tell you why. The beer cocktail supposes that beer is not a finished beverage and should be used as an ingredient towards a separate end. Personally, I think of beer as being a finished product. It’s been designed by someone and is therefore […]
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1 The Rosedale Diner is sort of a neighbourhood date night place. That’s how I remember it, anyway, having taken a date there about a decade ago. It’s funny that I remember the Duck Confit more than the conversation, but perhaps not all that surprising. I had read Kitchen Confidential and […]
The Rosedale Diner
He gets it wrong, but maybe I’ve explained what I’m looking for badly. “Culture comes from the top down,” says John Keeling standing behind a row of bleachers during intermission. “Say I get a bonus annually and the director of the company comes to me and says that next year, […]
Some Thoughts on Fuller’s
1 It’s late in the evening and I’m sitting on the platform at Loughborough Junction waiting for the last train to Blackfriars casting an eye down below to the high street, and even on a hot Monday night in August when Brixton has packed up, there are young revelers outside neon […]
England 2018 – An Outsider’s Perspective
1 (Ed. Note: Once in a great long while I will feature a guest writer. This doesn’t happen much anymore as I’m not really hurting for content. That said, earlier in the summer, my Mom texted me a picture of the hop coir she had bought for next season’s crop of […]
Guest Blog: My Mom’s Hop Yard
6 Dad texts to see how the trip is going at some point as I’m walking from my Airbnb in Saint Josse Ten Noode toward the Grand Place. My answer, looking back, is less than encouraging: “Brussels smells like pee.” “Well, people have been peeing on it for a thousand years.” […]
Brussels: An Outsider’s Perspective
2 “One apricot, Please.” “One kilo?” says the vendor, sizing up a sizeable tourist. “One apricot. Please.” He rumbles a couple from the top of a punnet and finds a ripe apricot, understanding that it is going to be eaten immediately. I feel I need to be doing something while stumbling […]
An Ideal Saturday in Mechelen
2 Thumbing out of airplane mode somewhere between wheels down and passport control, I was surprised to learn that Barley Days, a perennially underperforming brewery from Picton, Ontario had decided to take up the Buck-A-Beer challenge. The main surprise would be the constraint that it seemed unlikely to be a profitable […]
A Busman’s Holiday
I don’t know if you realize this, but the entirety of progress made in the Ontario market in terms of Craft Beer sales was under a Liberal government. The Ontario Small Brewers Association was founded in 2003 and for the entire time that it has existed, including its eventual rebrand […]
Some Thoughts About The New Regime and Ontario’s Beer Market
In writing and researching about beer and food, I’ve elected to start from the ground up. Despite having made that decision, there are always other avenues of approach. Early last week I was at a beer dinner at The Chef’s House at George Brown College featuring four breweries from East […]