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This past weekend at the Rocky Mountain Wine and Food Festival in Edmonton, Alberta’s newest brewery tapped its first keg of beer. Ribstone Creek Brewery has unlikely origins: its four founders are rural Albertans from the area around Edgerton, near Wainwright, with no background in beer. The four include a farmer, a lawyer, a municipal [...] Few places on the Prairies will offer this kind of tap selection The other day I needed to take my car into the shop for servicing. I had an hour or so to kill, so I wandered into a nearby pub for a pint to bide my time. I won’t name the establishment, but [...] Wine enthusiasts know that cellaring is a skill. Every wine has its own aging curve, improving at times, worsening at others and eventually falling apart (which might not be for decades, but still, it happens). Well, I believe this is true for beer cellaring as well. Which leads me to my occasional, ongoing project of [...] Just one of the pseudo-craft culprits A few weeks ago, as I mentioned here,I took aim in my CBC column at what I call pseudo-craft breweries. After doing the piece, I realized that I needed to keep talking about this trend, because no one else was. So, I decided to write up similar pieces [...] In some breaking news, Onbeer.org has learned that Alberta will be one of the rare recipients of a one-time only shipment of Westvleteren Trappist beer. The beer produced at the Abbey of Saint Sixtus of Westvleteren is the rarest of the seven Trappist monasteries and has become among the highest valued beer on the planet [...] Another Edmonton restaurant has jumped on board the beer dinner train. Over the past few months Continental Treat Fine Bistro has been re-working its beer list, offering a longer, more balanced range of bottled beer and they are also the first location to carry Koenigshoeven Tripel on tap. They have made enough progress to announce [...] Last month in Beer 101 I started a series on big beer. I wanted to take a closer look at the weighty end of the beer world because I believe these beer are misunderstood. Most of us know they are beer not to be trifled with, but I think we don’t spend enough time considering [...] By now, most of you will have heard of (and sampled) Alley Kat’s little fall surprise – Fresh Hop Full Moon. This is, of course, Full Moon Pale Ale made with fresh hops, rather than the usual dried pellets (they use pellets at Alley Kat). Hops are notoriously unstable flowers and so are normally dried [...] Sometime in the next couple of weeks, bottles of a new Yukon seasonal series will be hitting store shelves in Alberta. the new line is a three-times a year run of one-off brews. The plan is to make them original and creative. They are calling it their Brewers’ A.D.D. Series (as in Attention Deficit Disorder). [...] The now shuttered historic Edmonton Molson Plant I somehow missed it last week – I guess my invitation got lost in the mail – but the Molson brothers hit Edmonton and Calgary for luncheon events celebrating the Molson family’s 225 years in brewing (thanks to Canadian Beer News for highlighting the story). Apparently Andrew [...] |
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