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Beer Academy Is for Real

During my trip to T.O. a couple weeks back, I made a point of visiting Beer Academy, the brewpub/restaurant/beer tasting room opened last year by Six Pints Specialty Beer Company, the Molson spin-off that houses Granville Island and Creemore Springs. … Continue Reading →

2013/06/20

The Sullying of History

My latest Planet S column takes a look at so-called “regional brands”, their history and how that rich tradition has been usurped by the big corporate brewers for marketing purposes. You can read the column here. Because it is written… Continue Reading →

2013/06/03

Taste Testing Keith’s Single Hop Ales

A few weeks ago, I posted about the release of Alexander Keith’s Single Hop ales. As you can read here, I pontificated about what it might mean for the evolution of beer and expressed mixed feelings about it. At the… Continue Reading →

2013/04/10

Fake Blondes and Beer Falsies

I take a breather from the intensity of my beer system series (final part to come next week) to offer up my latest Vue Weekly column, out yesterday. It has been a couple of months since I last posted a… Continue Reading →

2012/06/22

This is Edmonton’s Beer?

In my most recent post (found here), I reviewed a new pub in town, called the Public House. You can read that missive to see my opinions of the place. However, it was the first location in town where I… Continue Reading →

2012/03/14

How Old is Your Beer?

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… Continue Reading →

2012/02/10

Beware the Pseudo-Craft

On my CBC column last Friday, I did something a bit out of the ordinary for me. It is something I have been contemplating for a while, and have done in little bits and snippets while discussing other topics. I… Continue Reading →

2011/09/08

Admitting it is the First Step…

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… Continue Reading →

2011/07/25

The Alberta Disadvantage: The Struggles of Alberta Micros

Over the summer, Alberta Venture, a monthly business magazine in the province, asked me to write a feature article on the state of craft brewing in Alberta with a particular focus on why Alberta’s microbrewing scene is so much smaller… Continue Reading →

2010/12/13

Coming Over to the Dark Side

I don’t know about you, but I have noticed a new trend among the pseudo-craft beer brands lately. A couple of years ago, they were all about the White – Rickard’s White, Keith’s White. They were trying to emulate the… Continue Reading →

2010/12/06