Beer and Food

BEER AND FOOD: GREAT LAKES LAKE EFFECT IPA

November 16, 2013 in Beer and Food / Uncategorized tagged Beer and Food pairing / Great Lakes Lake Effect IPA / Lamb and Root Vegetable Stew with Dill / T-Bu by admin

When I said that the best of the current crop of Craft Beer Cookbooks was the Canadian one, I should point out that it’s not out of bias. I mean, for one thing, I’m Canadian and it’s always nice when we win something. I also know the author, David Ort, […]

Additional Craft Beer Cookbooks and Delicious Nuts For Your Mouth

October 26, 2013 in Beer and Food / Reviews tagged Cookbooks / Craft Beer / David Ort / Jacqueluyn Dodd / John Holl / Smoky Maple Beer Nuts by admin

As a beer writer, I only get invited to events at restaurants infrequently. When I get an email suggesting that I should go to a dinner hosted by Thailand’s ambassador to Canada, it’s something of a rarity. This is an important governmental figure from another country. It would be downright […]

Beer and Food: Linda Modern Thai

September 17, 2013 in Beer and Food / Reviews by admin

The nice thing about planning an event like the Feast Of St.John for Toronto Beer Week is that I’ve managed to create a certain amount of context for myself over three years or so that I’ve been writing about beer. I’ve collaborated on beers with a number of breweries, frequently […]

So You Want To Be A Brewer: Lazarus Breakfast Stout

September 7, 2013 in Beer and Food / Shameless Plugs / The Ontario Beer Revolution tagged Feast of St. John / Great Lakes / Lazarus Breakfast Stout / Mike Lackey by admin

One of the really nice things about having a column with a big circulation is that people send you things to review. Sometimes, it’s not even beer. At one point about a month ago, three books cropped up. One of those was Pete Brown’s Shakespeare’s Local, referred to here by […]

In Which I Review Two Books About Beer

August 2, 2013 in Accounting for Taste / Beer and Food / Reviews tagged A Year In Food And Beer / Books About Beer / Craft Beer Revolution by admin

When I started writing about beer, it was because I was trying to establish some credentials in order to get into brewing school. I did manage, subsequently, to get into brewing school, but then there was a book deal. I found that commuting 5 hours a day to Niagara College […]

So You Want To Be A Brewer: St. John Marzen

July 21, 2013 in Beer and Food / Ongoing Projects / Toronto Beer Week tagged brewing / St. John Marzen / The Beer Academy / The Feast Of St.John by admin

It’s no secret that one of the things I look forward to every year during Ontario Craft Beer Week is the comparatively larger number of people thinking seriously about beer and food. Beer dinners, for instance, abound. The version of beer and food pairing that I think is probably most […]

Flights and Bites @ Fanny Chadwick’s – 2013

June 20, 2013 in Beer and Food / Ontario Craft Beer Week tagged Beer and Food / Fanny Chadwick's / Flights and Bites / Ontario Craft Beer Week by admin

One of the things that frustrates me when I’m reading a bottle of beer is when there are food pairing suggestions that don’t tell you anything. “Try this with spicy foods,” the label proudly exclaims, as though that conveys any useful information. Usually, when the bottle says something like that […]

Beer and Food Basics: Hops and the Marshall Stack

June 2, 2013 in Accounting for Taste / Beer and Food tagged beer / Cascade / food pairing / Fuggles / hops / Saaz / Turn off your smoke machine and marshall stack / Twisting In The Wind by admin

One of the things that frustrates me when I read about beer and food pairing is that the subject tends to get filed down into digestible sound bites. I suppose that makes sense given that a lot of communication on the subject takes place on twitter and in short articles. […]