I’m going to do something a little odd here and use the blog briefly as a platform for a public service announcement. I got into the Niagara College Brewmaster program this year, and that’ll be starting up on the 7th of September. Apparently there are going to be 36 students […]
When I went to middle school, we used to have week long trips to a property that the school owned out near Georgetown, Ontario. They would attempt to teach us important things about biodiversity and the life cycle and nature photography while we squirmed in our seats, happy for once […]
So You Want To Be A Brewer: St.John’s Wort/Cheshire Valley ...
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 […]
Toronto Festival of Beer/Queer Beer Festival
This week, I received an email from Labatt. They’re launching three new beers. Usually, they’ll put one beer out at a time and get some marketing behind it as an individual property. In this case, they’ve launched a platoon. There’s Blue Dry, a 6.1% version of Blue with a dry […]
Detente OR How I learned to stop worrying and love ...
You can learn a lot from awards given out at large beer festivals. You’re not going to learn who the best in the world is. You’re not going to learn who the best brewer is or even what the best light lager is. There’s no true objectivity for the simple […]
Neustadt Springs Brewery & The U.S. Open Beer Championship
You may have noticed that the old bloggity blog has lain fallow these two weeks. There’s a good reason for that. June was busier than a one legged man in an ass kicking contest, and my plan of trying to cover events every day during Ontario Craft Beer Week was […]
Filling in the Blanks for Ontario Craft Beer Week 2011
Eventually, if you write for a paper, you get to the point where you’re a z-class celebrity. You’d have a long way to go to reach the dizzying heights of an Abe Vigoda or Don Knotts, but people invite you to do things. I was invited to be the special […]
Ontario Craft Beer Week 2011 – Day 5
Let me tug on your coat about something. A lot of the time, the craft beer movement is defined not so much by the drinkers as it is by the brewers and the people who write about beer. You’ve got a lot of different beer bloggers and columnists and legitimate […]
Ontario Craft Beer Week – Day Three
This year, I’m trying to get to as many Ontario Craft Beer Week events as is humanly possible, so you’ll probably see me out and about knocking around the GTA in some capacity or other. Maybe I’ll be complaining violently about having been to so many events. Maybe I’ll be […]
Ontario Craft Beer Week 2011 – Day Two
Do you know how far the perception of beer has come in the last ten years? A very long way indeed, and a lot of that is down to craft brewers getting involved with locations outside of the places that you’d traditionally find them. As I look at the lineup […]