Tuesday, I was invited along to a beer tasting at Burger Bar in Kensington Market. Now, for me, this wasn’t just any beer tasting. Thomas Riley Marshall, former Vice-President of the United States, once opined that what the country needed was a good five-cent cigar. I have always felt that […]
It’s the end of October, and while for your average pub-goer it’s an excuse to scrape together a last minute costume (“I’m a psychopath. We look just like everybody else.”) for beer nerds it can mean only one thing: Bar Volo’s Cask Days. This is going to be sixth annual […]
Cask Days 2010 – IT BEGINS!
It’s October, and you know what that means: Somewhere, someone is kissing hands and shaking babies. Across North America, people are on the campaign trail trying to get elected. As if I needed proof of this, I have messages on my cell phone from potential mayoral candidates who think nothing […]
Beer – For Liberalism
Astute readers will have noticed that I have been absent from my blog for a couple of weeks. For the first week, we had Alex Nixon writing about Portland, Oregon in his inimitable fashion. We’ll be seeing more from him later this fall, as my near quintessential semi-legitimacy seems to […]
Beer – For Mourning.
I went to Deschutes a couple of times in my journey. It was after my second dinner there that I realized I might be the wrong person for this assignment, as I had spent around $40 on beer the entire trip and $120 at Powell’s Books. Deschutes is a jewel […]
Portland, Oregon – Deschutes
The Hair of the Dog (HotD) Tasting Room is a new venue for this brewery, although how new I am unsure. It is new enough that they haven’t updated the address on their website. Not so new that I wasn’t able to find out that they’d moved. It’s off the […]
Portland, Oregon – Hair Of The Dog
Portland is renowned for their beer, and Rogue Brewery is probably the most famousof the Oregon Microbrews. Its beers can be found across the continent. Many people consider themselves to be part of the “Rogue Nation.” Founded in 1988, their creed states that: “Rogue is a small revolution, which expresses […]
Portland, Oregon – The Rogue Brewpub
Hi, Everybody! One of the benefits of running a blog about beer is that periodically friends and acquaintances suggest that they would also like to drink beer and then write about it. In this particular case, a roommate of mine from university has chronicled his recent trip to Portland, Oregon. […]
The Rocky Road to Portland – Part One
In the UK, there are entire websites devoted to the concept of the Pub Crawl, but in Canada it’s something of a lost art. I say “lost art” but the truth of the matter is that it may be a phenomenon that never properly developed. How could it? The layout […]
The Walk To The Ballpark
Well, now. The results for the 2010 Canadian Brewing Awards have been announced and that means one thing: I can talk about the results without the threat of hired goons coming around to dangle me off a seventh story balcony. I tabulated the scores and have therefore known the results […]