It was somewhere around hour five of in class time on Tuesday when I tripped over an idea. I was explaining American Lager. There’s an exercise where we try a number of them side by side in order to display the amount of difference between them. “These products were designed […]
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This winter took an oddly futurist bent. While I was developing classes and material, Nora Young’s Spark got in touch from the CBC to ask about AI in beer. I went away and diligently researched what people were doing around the world. There are some good ideas out there, but […]
The Future Soon – TasteGuru.AI
2 I’m not quite sure how I ended up on the radar of George Brown College. I know Troy Burtch from Great Lakes had been teaching their continuing education beer appreciation course, and he probably recommended me, given that Jesse Vallins had a scheduling conflict. It was timely. I had finished […]
So You Want To Be A Teacher – George Brown’s ...
I have a website writing assignment that I should be focusing on, but I have frequently found that it is a good idea to clear ideas out of my head before starting something like that. I want to talk to you about the current status of the beer market in […]
Fun With Numbers: 2019 Ontario Market Edition
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 […]
Some Thoughts on Marijuana Infused Beer
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.” […]