Since it is December, we are in that phase of the year when people talk idly about abolishing The Beer Store. You’ve got Martin Regg Cohn over at The Star doing a reprise of last year’s column. It’s a good party piece, but it’s unlikely to accomplish anything. Even Anindya […]
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1 For part three in this series, I want to talk about inflation and its larger role in society as it pertains to the beer industry and some of the factors that we’ve already discussed. I’m not an economist. I’m just comparatively good at parsing data and paying a lot of […]
How is the beer industry in Ontario doing? Part 3
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 ...
One of the interesting things that happened in Ontario’s beer scene this year is that the market is becoming increasingly contentious. The increased interest in beer is making it so that the status quo is becoming somewhat untenable. There are 155 craft breweries open or in planning as of this […]
The OCSA vs. The Beer Store
20 The other day, I was invited to a lunch launching a couple of Goose Island’s beers in Canada. Specifically, Matilda and Sofie. The Goose Island property is a contentious one, and to attempt to relate the details of the lunch without at least acknowledging some basic facts about the brand […]
Beer and Food: Goose Island and Nota Bene
One of the things that I find irksome about living at Yonge and Davisville (aside from the inevitable late night taxi fares, which are one of the apparent hazards of being a beer writer) is the fact that otherwise intelligent people who live south of Bloor seem to think of […]
Can Beer Bars Survive North Of Bloor?
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 […]
Beer Vs. Wine and the Cult of Personality
Let me tell you about how things change in Ontario. In 1837, the rebels in Upper Canada met at breweries. They met at John Farr’s brewery and they met at John Doel’s brewery. John Doel was a Methodist. He wanted exactly the same thing that the rebels wanted: responsible government, […]
How You Win in Ontario
4 As we reach the end of the semester, I’m on the hook for marking papers. (Ed. Note: If you’d like to enroll someone in a beer class for Christmas, just follow the link) One of these papers is going to require a little extra effort. One student announced fairly early […]
In Which I Drink No Gluten
2 It’s been heartening over the last couple of weeks to see adjustments to the way that the beer industry functions go into effect. It just goes to show that reform has always been possible, although the alacrity with which some moves have been made will require a little thinking time […]