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Earlier this week, Molson-Coors Canada announced that it is re-launching Calgary Beer in Calgary for the first time in years. This announcement may be of fleeting interest to anyone not from Calgary (and even to those in Calgary), but I think it has some significance. But before I discuss its significance, I need to explain [...] 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 [...] This is actually Gabriel Sedlmayr Sr. I failed to find a digital image of Sedlmayr the younger. My CBC column last Friday happened to land on the eve of this year’s Oktoberfest in Munich. It seemed an appropriate time to pull out my books and offer a bit of a history lesson. No, not [...] The Woman Who Kept Orwell Supplied in Beer The good thing about having your own website is that no one can curtail you when you feel like going on a flight of fancy. This is one of those posts. Almost none of you would know that I am a huge George Orwell aficionado. Don’t [...] I recently drank the oldest beer in the world. No, it is not some dusty bottle of Uncle Ben’s or Red Cap found buried in my father-in-law’s basement. I am talking about Dogfish Head’s Chateau Jiahu, which is a recreation of a 9,000 year old recipe found in Henan Province, China. To be accurate, the [...] I have been on a bit of a Stout kick lately. I have been sampling new stouts, tweaking my homebrew recipe for the spring brewing season start-up (I brew outside), and generally renewing my love affair with the blackest of beer. That has naturally led to some spill-over into my beer columns. My last CBC [...] Your Onbeer correspondent and Yukon Dave (centre) held rapt by a Charles Finkel story I mentioned in a post a couple weeks back a beer dinner I attended with Charles Finkel of Pike Brewing. In that post (which you can read here) I focused mostly on the dinner and pairings, however I promised something [...] The Good Old Days When People Protested for Good Beer The City of Edmonton has good ideas sometimes. The new LRT extension plans? Fantastic! Funding an amazing range of festivals and summer events to make summer enjoyable? Great! Spending hundreds of millions on a new hockey arena? Well, okay, I ain’t touching that one [...] What kind of man would intentionally attempt to re-create a harrowing 4-month sea journey around the Cape of Good Hope (Africa) from England to India, just to prove a historical point? A crazy man? Well, he may be that. But he is also British beer and travel writer Pete Brown, and in his new book, [...] |
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