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… Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →
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…. Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →