St. John's Wort

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The Background: Listen: Sam Corbeil has come unstuck in time. He’s living backwards. At some point in the next few months he’ll have a brewery in a refurbished Canadian Tire in Gravenhurst. In April, he hired staff in the form of Aaron Spinney. At about the same time, he got […]

I ACTUALLY BOUGHT BEER: SAWDUST CITY LONG DARK VOYAGE TO ...

November 14, 2013 in LCBO Releases / Reviews tagged Kurt Vonnegut / Long Dark Voyage to Uranus / Sam Corbeil / Sawdust City by admin

I’m always happy to receive beer from Grand River Brewing. I got to know Bob Hannenberg a little bit during a stopover in Philadelphia on the way to the craft brewing conference in San Diego last year. I like Bob, and generally speaking, I like much of the beer that […]

They Send Me Beer: Grand River Brewing

January 11, 2013 in LCBO Releases / Reviews / Shameless Plugs tagged Grand River / Jubilation Winter Warmer / Russian Gun / The Galt Munitions Misadventure of 1856 by admin

I was walking through the LCBO at Summerhill last night on the way back from Niagara College looking for something to drink. Not review, but drink. Sometimes you just want a beer with dinner. If I wanted to review something, I would have picked up a bottle of Trafalgar’s new […]

In Which I Attempt To Be Polite To Bureaucrats

November 8, 2011 in LCBO Releases tagged Craft Beer / LCBO / Ontario / Selection / Specialty Releases / The Ontario Beer Revolution by admin

We complain a lot about beer in Ontario. We complain that the LCBO’s monopoly means that we can’t get anything interesting. We complain that The Beer Store is run by huge multinational companies primarily interested in maintaining their control. I am now literally complaining about the fact that we complain, […]

Icelandic Beer Day and Olvisholt Brugghus

February 28, 2011 in LCBO Releases tagged beer / LCBO Spring Release / Olvisholt Brugghus / Ontario / Skjalfti by admin