Here’s an interesting conceit that occurred to me the other day while I was writing about tasting and opinion: In craft brewing, the brewmaster brings a lifetime of personal experience and taste bias to designing a beer. While there’s a certain amount of cloning of the recipes from other breweries […]
One of my beer drinking friends worries too much. Not about things like the number of calories in a beer or gradually developing dementia and cirrhosis or even that all important question: “How did my tab get that high?” No, this is a person that worries about the validity of […]
On Beer Tasting and Opinion
It has to be said that I’m spoiled as it relates to beer. For the last couple of years, my local pub has been Bar Volo, just north of Wellesley on Yonge street. The owner, Ralph Morana, has been able to import a huge number of really interesting, high quality […]
On Beer ratings.
There are a lot of lessons that they teach you in high school which are proven to be unlikely ever to have any application to your life. I am not entirely sure that I will ever have any use for Fermat’s theorem or the ability to calculate gravitational acceleration, but […]
Mondial – Friday (Awards Day)
One of the best things about Mondial is the fact that you tend to see everything related to the beer industry in Montreal at its absolute best. The brewers are happy because they’ve usually just spent a couple of weeks producing special products in order to impress and delight. The […]
Mondial de la Biere – Interlude
If you’re like me, you’re not particularly good at travel. There’s the alternation between procrastinating by watching an entire season of Arrested Development and packing; The panicked last minute attempt to find approximately as many clean socks as you’re likely to need (followed by the impulse to forget the entire […]
Mondial de la Biere – Wednesday (Saison Day)
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Mondial de la Biere – Tuesday
When you tell people that you’re going to Montreal for a beer festival there are a number of different reactions that you can expect. Politely feigned interest is fairly common and is recognizable by the “oh I’m so jealous” response, since the respondent assumes that this is what is required […]