Posts Tagged: Alberta
How Law Can Define Craft Brewing By Hectolitres
Posted by on Sunday, March 3, 2013 in - 2 comments
An interesting post today by Jordan about the best part of a week spent exploring good beer in the western Canadian province of Alberta. I was particularly interested in his description of the minimum requirements set out in law by the government which I am going to repeat here in a bit more … read more »
Alberta: St.P. Baltic Porter, Alley Kat Brewing, Edmonton
Posted by on Saturday, February 16, 2013 in - leave a comment
The good people of Alley Kat Brewing forwarded me this sample a few days ago. The brewery was named as Canada's best for 2012 by Mr. B a few weeks ago and I can't disagree from what samples I am fortunate enough to receive. See, under our system in Canada, it is easier to get a can of …
Alberta: Loaded Goat, Alley Kat Brewing, Edmonton
Posted by on Friday, November 11, 2011 in - leave a comment
There are not many things fun about getting pneumonia but gifties left at the door are among them. This was delivered last week as a gifting on from someone who brought it from Alberta. It was a special release from last spring but at 7.3% it should still be a fairly safe bet. • Caramel coloured …
New Code Word For Good Beer Fans: Elitists
Posted by on Sunday, April 3, 2011 in - 8 comments
You will have to excuse me as I choke on my 300-year-old bourbon barrel aged beer. See, while we fans of good beer have seen nerd, geek, weirdo, snob and (my favorite) dipso, this slur was new for me: • These days, a brew doesn't impress the beer snobs unless it's aged in 300-year-old bourbon …
Alberta Adds Tax To Stop Kids Drinking Utopias
Posted by on Sunday, December 19, 2010 in - 3 comments
That seems to be the logic - that super strong beer is the new highway to hell. The Government of Alberta is adding a surcharge to stop kids and other sorts of vulnerable Albertans from drinking a class of beer they, frankly, never intended to drink... or, more likely, were even aware existed …
Alberta Faces The New Politics Of Cold Beer
Posted by on Wednesday, July 8, 2009 in - leave a comment
Here is a weird one for you. After new got out that Alberta, Canada's home to free enterprise and low taxation, has the inordinately high booze costs the provincial government has decided to take the bold step of reducing the tax on alcohol... that, you know, they introduced themselves a few … read more »
Beer Prices Go Throught The Albertan Roof
Posted by on Thursday, May 21, 2009 in - 4 comments
Here is an odd phenomenon: beer prices have taken off in Alberta over the last year, one of the provinces in Canada which has fairly well entrenched privatized retail beer sales: • The price of Alberta beer is now higher than in any province, a complete reversal from April 2008, when this …
Alberta: Fireside Mild, Alley Kat Brewing, Edmonton
Posted by on Monday, March 9, 2009 in - leave a comment
A Canadian mild. Who knew this was possible? Twenty-one sessions ago, I hunted for mild in Canada and came up empty. Well, not entirely empty as I had some beer along the way but intellectually I was a void. But here is Alley Kat's seasonal brew for these weeks of late winter 2009 and instead of …
Beer Shop + Beer Club + Local Brewery = Good Idea
Posted by on Saturday, February 28, 2009 in - 1 comment
What a great concept! This article that popped up on Google news this evening shows how an imaginative beer shopkeeper can connect fans of great beer with the local brewers who make it. Here is how the deal works at the Sherbrooke Liquor Store in Edmonton Alberta: • ...Customers can sign up for …
Barley Wine: Olde Deuteronomy 2003, Alley Kat, Alberta
Posted by on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 in - 2 comments
Election night here in Canada. So far most of the fun has been watching people get around the blackout law that bars transmission of election results until polls close across the whole country by posting from the UK or posting as rumours. The law is pre-Internet. It's actually pretty much pre-TV …
