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So You Want To Be A Brewer: St. John Marzen

July 21, 2013 in Beer and Food / Ongoing Projects / Toronto Beer Week tagged brewing / St. John Marzen / The Beer Academy / The Feast Of St.John by admin

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

June 12, 2010 in Accounting for Taste tagged beer / brewing / Ontario / palate / wine by admin

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

June 9, 2010 in Accounting for Taste tagged Bar Volo / beer / brewing / IPA Challenge / Trafalgar Korruptor by admin

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

June 4, 2010 in Mondial 2010 tagged beer / brewing / brouhaha / mondial de la biere / montreal by admin

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)

June 2, 2010 in Mondial 2010 tagged beer / brewing / dieu du ciel / mondial de la biere / montreal by admin

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 […]

Mondial de la Biere

May 31, 2010 in Mondial 2010 tagged beer / brewing / festival / montreal / travel by admin

St. John's Wort

Beery Musings And Amusing Beers