Posts Tagged: Brewery Info
Good Beer + Keggers + University = Great Move
Posted by on Thursday, February 9, 2012 in - 9 comments
Usually when you read about university students with a kegs and kegs of beer you are not reading a story about the exercise of great responsibility: • The University of British Columbia’s student union, the Alma Mater Society, believes it can profit off that fact when it opens a brewery on … read more »
Is This The Gold Standard Of Brewery Tours?
Posted by on Sunday, October 23, 2011 in - 1 comment
I have been on a lot of brewery tours. In Halifax in the early 1980s it was a euphemism for college kids being locked into a room at the brewery and given all the beer they could down in a Friday afternoon hour. More recently, it's the chance to hear craft brewers explain their processes. At one …
New York: Prototype PA, Community Beer Works, Buffalo
Posted by on Saturday, July 9, 2011 in - 3 comments
Minimalism. That's what this evening's photograph is conveying. Note the texture of the cinder block. The play of pine wood and beer bottle brown. • Anyway, Ethan Cox of Buffalo's next brewery Community Beer Works, they of the logo I want as a jeans jacket patch, was passing through about ten …
Hooray - I Love Being Told I Am Stupid - So Should You
Posted by on Sunday, July 25, 2010 in - 6 comments
Update: To be fair, when I heard about their tattoo promotion I immediately thought "damn, you have to be at the pub on opening night...." • Am I supposed to cheer along with the giving of the finger to 99.998% of customers for the sake of marketing? Or is this supposed to be Dada beer? Who …
The Origins Of Ontario's Good Beer Tradition
Posted by on Saturday, June 19, 2010 in - 20 comments
Beer. It only gets to you in so many ways. You make beer and provide it to your community. You make beer and ship it to another community. You ship beer in and provide it to your community. There are not too many other options for the beer trade whether you are talking about 1810 or 2010. Today we …
Your X-tremely Prudent Micro Brewer Of The Day
Posted by on Thursday, October 22, 2009 in - 3 comments
I wish I was handy. I can do many things. I do laundry well, for example. But there is no money in doing laundry. And no beer. I am unlike the guy behind Aviator Brewing located in North Carolina USA. He is handy: • He launched his craft brewery in November. A detailed plan, a thrifty mind and …
How Good Beer Gets Main Stream Media's Attention?
Posted by on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 in - 2 comments
In Canada, apparently, invite Norm from Cheers to pop by. • Well done, Steve.
Session #32 Announced... And Then Amended
Posted by on Saturday, September 12, 2009 in - 1 comment
There has been a lot of buzz the last few days over the next topic for the next monthly version of The Session to be hosted at Girl Likes Beer: • I would like you to pick your favorite beer made east form your hometown but east enough that it is already in a different country. It can be from the …
Canada's Biggest Independent Brewery Likes Your Money
Posted by on Thursday, January 15, 2009 in - 7 comments
Update: Joel Levesque of Moosehead has left a wonderful response to this post. Please have a look. He makes good points which I do not necessarily agree with entirely but his input is certainly indicative of an interested and engaged brewery. • I find this article in the Times Transcript from …
Quebec: One Nation Founded Upon... A Beer Brand?
Posted by on Monday, December 29, 2008 in - 3 comments
I am not against Quebec separatism. Heck, I am not against separatism anywhere as long as the people actually want to separate. I have tartan clothes, you know. Just saying these things can happen. But this news today in the National Post (but noted by Rick Lyke weeks ago) seems to hint strongly …
