I won’t lie to you. I was apprehensive about the Queer Beer Festival. This is mostly due to the fact that when I started researching it a couple of months ago, it struck me as something of a cash grab. Thursday at the TFOB had been VIP night, and had […]
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Now, you may not credit it, but I like being proved wrong. In most capacities and professions, this is not necessarily a thing that people hanker for, but as a beer writer, it’s an infrequent surprise. You may remember that at the end of the last year, I wrote about […]
Spearhead Brewing OR Breweries that now actually exist (and good ...
(The other day, St.John’s Wort acquired a new employee. Vanessa Scott has graciously volunteered to be my guest blogtographer and executive plus-one. As is sometimes the case with new employees, she’s a bit of a keener and took a rather larger number of pictures than I would have. We went […]
Molson Canadian 67 Sublime – The Return of the ...
It’s definitely a sign that we have a healthy brewing situation in Ontario that it eventually becomes difficult to report on all the things that I go to. I always feel a little bad about that because what that means is that someone has worked really hard to make something […]
Things I Neglected To Mention
The thing about writing a blog is that you have to keep churning out content, and this essentially means that you’re always on the lookout for something to write about. All beer bloggers are doing this all the time in order to stay relevant. By the same hugely generalized token, […]
The Wreck of The Okanagan Springs Beer Review
Hands down, the most interesting development of the last couple of weeks is that beer now gets delivered to my doorstep. Not a huge amount of beer. It’s not like I won a contest or anything. Usually single bottles in bubble wrap. The beer fairy brings other things as well: […]
Beer Fairy Thursday: Keith’s Tartan Ale, Innis and Gunn Rum ...
Sometimes, I’ll just flat out over think things. Like, with the Barley’s Angels launch, I ended up over thinking a lot of the questions that I was going to ask in order to put together an article. Initially, my thought process involved questions like “Is the appropriation of the idea […]
Barley’s Angels: The Drinking Habits of the North American Human ...
If you’re new to being a nationally syndicated beer writer, like myself, it’s easy to dramatize things unnecessarily inside your head. Deadlines tend to loom larger in your mind than they have any right to, possibly due to the ominousness of the term. The Sun column is 600 words, after […]
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There’s been quite a bit of enthusiasm recently for a new program that has been airing on the Discovery Channel in the states. Brew Masters is hosted by Sam Calagione, who is the man behind Dogfish Head in Delaware. It begins broadcasting on the 17th on Discovery Canada and will […]
Brew Masters – Sam Runs The Voodoo Down
Typically, one of the best things about Christmas in Kingston is that I get to revisit, if briefly, an old haunt. The Kingston Brewing Company is the oldest brewpub in Ontario and Canada’s oldest wine producing pub. Back when I lived in Kingston for a short period of time after […]