The smell of hops were in the air on Wednesday night over at the Granite Brewery, and not because Ron Keefe was brewing up anything special. No, it had to do with Bob Latimer, an Ontario hop buyer/importer who hosted a hop information session with his…
It’s that time again! The American Homebrewers Association (AHA) Teach a Friend to Homebrew Day is an international event to introduce people to the homebrewing hobby and establish relationships with local homebrew supply shops. Each year in November,…
The Culinary School Guide published a list of their favorite beer and wine blogs. They appear in no particular order — at least I hope — because Beer Activist clocks in at number seventy.
But it is actually clear that they are not in rank …
Once again, another excellent Oktoberfest! This year the event was held in combination with the monthly downtown Friday Fest, on Oct 4th and 5th. This made for a fantastic turnout. The new club banner was unveiled and it did a great job pulling the c…
Back at Backstreet for lunch today. Octoberfest and TenFidy with pizza and beer buddies.
This is Cali Belgi frm Stone. Belgian IPA tastes like Bazooka bubblegum.
Mirella Amato, published beer writer/speaker and founder of the Beerology website, has recently teamed up with TAPS Media, who runs TAPS: Canada’s Beer Magazine, to produce monthly audio podcasts featuring interviews with brewers, brewery executives, …
Who would’ve thought SevenPack would be genuinely interested in writing a real review from AB? By that I mean, not just going through the motions and ultimately putting forth mediocre effort for a mediocre brew. These same sentiments aren…
Ah yes, on to part three of that mysterious Belgian Box!
I asked my girlfriend to choose one of the remaining four bottles. Of course, she picked the white bottle that stood out like a sore thumb. This bottle contained none other than Gulden Draak -…
“…and hallucinogenic mushrooms.”That’s a headline in The Mercury News of San Jose today. When I go hunting Goggle, once in every while, for beer news to comment upon there are always masses of these sad stories about beer and violence to get through…