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Photo Credit: Planet S Magazine My column in the current issue of Planet S Magazine revisits a longstanding beef of mine – date codes. I have never understood why breweries feel the need to mask the production/best before date in a jumble of letters and numbers. Telling the consumer how old their beer is [...] As we (or at least those of us who doggedly stick to analog date keepers) poise to toss our old calendar in the recycling bin and replace it with a new collection of 12 wildlife scenes / political posters / car photos / half-naked women to adorn our wall, it is the natural time for [...] One of my favourite dark beer My latest Planet S column is out (you can read it here) and in honour of the ever-shortening daylight hours, I decided to focus on dark beer. But I didn’t want to do the usual winter-y sit by the fire beer. I wanted to open up pale beer [...] I love Belgian beer. Not just the big Trappist stuff, but Wits, Belgian Pale Ales and Belgian Blondes. And, of course, the lambics and Flanders sours. I had appreciated a good Belgian for years. Then I took my BJCP exam and my attraction grew. But the love affair really took off during a 3-week trip [...] 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 [...] You are all well aware at this point that I spent much of the spring in Halifax. I tried to post some of the highlights while there, and even did a CBC column live from the Hart and Thistle pub on the harbourfront. It will come as no surprise, then, that I have also turned [...] My latest column in Planet S is out this week. and in it a take a step or two back. I decided to write up a quick column on the difference between lager and ale and how it affects the flavour of beer. I also try to dispel some myths, such as ales are hoppier [...] In the current issue of Planet S, I write a short piece on “guilty pleasures” – in this case about those beer that you secretly don’t mind so much in certain circumstances. The kind of beer you wouldn’t admit to your fellow beer geek friends that you have ever let slide past your lips. I [...] Over the past couple of months a lot of people have been asking me about Molson M, now that it is available in western Canada. Of course, I tried it last June during a trip to Quebec (and posted about it here). They are intrigued and unsure about the “microcarbonation” boast and want to know [...] Just back from San Fran last night. Need a day or two to process my thoughts about the American Craft Brewers Conference. In the meantime, you can occupy yourselves by reading my latest Planet S missive – a second piece (for them) on stouts. Regular readers of this website are likely getting bored by my [...] |
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