I was walking through the LCBO at Summerhill last night on the way back from Niagara College looking for something to drink. Not review, but drink. Sometimes you just want a beer with dinner. If I wanted to review something, I would have picked up a bottle of Trafalgar’s new […]
The Ontario Beer Revolution
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!
You know who people love? Rudy Reuttiger. Maybe you know the story. This kid who stands maybe 5’6” and weighs a buck and a half dreams of playing for Notre Dame. He plays for a different school initally but manages to transfer over to Notre Dame after several failed attempts. […]
The Ontario Beer Revolution – Media Narrative
I feel like yesterday’s update on beer distribution was, perhaps, overly inflammatory. It did, however, contain an interesting concept: What would the LCBO be like if it were run by foul tempered ogres instead of well adjusted citizens? That’s why today’s update takes the form of a fairy tale: the […]
The Ontario Beer Revolution – Distribution (addendum)
While it’s very important to take into consideration the wishes of the consumer when discussing Ontario Craft Beer, one of the things that you have to factor into the consumer experience are the various methods of distribution for independent Ontario Breweries. I know that there are an ever increasing number […]
The Ontario Beer Revolution – Distribution
A lot of Steve Beauchesne’s original blog post on The Ontario Beer Revolution has to do with the idea that all it would take to make an Ontario Beervana possible is a shift in consumer spending and a recognition of the fact that purchasing from local, independent brewers is beneficial […]
The Ontario Beer Revolution – Part Two – The Consumer
There has been much made lately of a talk that was given at the Toronto Festival of Beer by Steve Beauchesne from Beau’s All Natural Brewing Company. It was titled “What If Ontario Had A Beer Revolution” and you can find the full text of it over at Steve’s Blog. […]