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Winters are supposed to be the slow season for beer. Sales are down due to the weather. It is a chance for craft brewers to catch their breath, do some maintenance and clear out the backlog of paper work. Apparently not this winter on the prairies. It seems like every week breweries in the three [...] The Metropolis Pavilions You will all be forgiven – even you Edmontonians – for not knowing about the Edmonton Metropolis Winter Festival. This new six-week long event was designed to draw people downtown during the cold winter months. Its big draw is supposed to be the pavilions designed by renowned Edmonton architects (including one [...] So in my absence there were a few new beer developments on the prairies. So, as I re-start things around here, let’s do a quick run-down on beer news. Alley Kat Brewing had three, count ‘em, three new releases last week. First out was the 2011 version of their perennial winter favourite, Old Deuteronomy. Second [...] 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 [...] I can’t really keep up with all the beer happenings on the prairies these days. That must be a very, very good thing. But I will try as best I can to relay what news I hear. Here is some of the latest: September 17: Autumn Harvest Tasting. Little Guy Liquor in Sherwood Park – [...] As I flip my calendar over to September and that evening nip in the air reminds me summer is over (although the days are still quite lovely), I find myself contemplating the coming season’s beer happenings. Having been out of town for much of the spring and summer, I am looking forward to being anchored [...] This isn't the beer tent, but it does give you a sense of scale What good is having a blog if you can’t write excessively about things of marginal or no interest to the bulk of the population? Or a beer column in a city weekly paper for that matter? Isn’t “lifestyle journalism” supposed [...] It's been a year since the pulling of the first cask pint… Such a bittersweet week for yours truly. Here I am in Halifax, where it has been raining for 9 straight days, and on Thursday (May 19) a whack of lucky Edmontonians will be gathering at the Sugar Bowl for the ONE YEAR [...] A small slice of the huge CBC crowd. (Photo by Jason E. Kaplan and Courtesy of Brewers' Association) So I thought I should offer a few more observations from my trip to San Fran for the American Craft Brewers Conference. You might think I spent most of my time drinking beer, but you would [...] Craft Brewing Pioneers Ken Grossman (Sierra Nevada, left) and Fritz Maytag (Anchor) engage in a keynote conversation So you may not know that I am currently in San Francisco attending the American Craft Brewing Conference. I am. Really. How I got here I will save for another day – as I owe thanks to [...] |
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