Posts Tagged: Canada
Do Empty Beer Cans Hurt More Than Toilet Paper?
Posted by on Saturday, March 10, 2012 in - 2 comments
While this really should be a story for A Good Toilet Paper Blog or maybe a Becks Booster Blog, it is interesting to note the reference to beer in this story: • I would like to point out that there was no beer involved in this matter. The can is clearly empty. As this story shows, the can …
My New Favorite Beer Fib, Lie Or Utter Falsehood
Posted by on Tuesday, February 7, 2012 in - 9 comments
Editorial Update: I got an email from the person in question in this post and upon reflection it is a bit harsh of me to use "stunnedest". I still think there is far too little written about calories and beer and the reference to "tea" was not helpful so I am leaving the post up but, yes and as …
My Most Interesting Discovered Drinky Thing Of 2011
Posted by on Saturday, December 31, 2011 in - 2 comments
This has been a year that I have thought about history a bit more than others. Canadian history for the most part. We make great mistakes in considering our own time on this land. We dismiss the First Nations. We pretend that Canada began when the current constitution was signed in 1867. But … read more »
Was This The Earliest Brewing In English Canada?
Posted by on Thursday, November 3, 2011 in - 24 comments
Sneath, Pashley and Rubin all mention the 1600s brewers of New France - Hebert (1617), Ambroise (1646) and Talon (1670). But I just came across this reference in a footnote in the Minutes of the Hudson's Bay Company, 1671-1674, published by Toronto's Champlain Society in 1942, describing payments …
Bottled Guinness In Two Of Its Foreign Forms
Posted by on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 in - 30 comments
Is there any scarier concept than seeing "brewed in Canada" on a label? First, it means that it's being not consumed in Canada and, second, it means it is brewed by someone with no provincial pride. I see dead people. • Sound harsh? Well, 25 or 30 years ago, I would buy a six of Canadian made …
Canada: Get A Bit Here, Another Bit There And A Bit More...
Posted by on Thursday, August 11, 2011 in - 1 comment
About 600 km farther westward later now. I have driven from an area of Canada first settled in the 1640s by Baroque explorers to one that came under the Victorian British plow around two hundred years later. When I was at the museum that sits on the spot where the French founded Montreal, standing …
Beer Cocktails: The Classic Red Eye Or "Two And Juice"
Posted by on Saturday, July 16, 2011 in - 10 comments
A long time ago when the Earth was green... there was a pub in Halifax called the Midtown Tavern and it had a gentle soul of a waiter named Jerry. It could have been Gerry but I am not sure. It was not Gary. The Midtown is gone after a long going but, I understand, lives on in another shared space …
Canucks In Afghanistan Get US Brew For UK Wedding
Posted by on Tuesday, July 12, 2011 in - 3 comments
When I were a lad, the idea of shipping Bud to Canadian forces in the field would be somewhere between an insult and an joke that didn't make all that much sense. So much for the prejudices of my youth. Apparently, the Canadian troops in Afghanistan needed flats of the iconic American light lager …
Polling Canada's Beer Consumers Via Twitter
Posted by on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 in - 2 comments
I am enjoying watching the results of a Twitter-based information gathering effort under the hash tag #BeerEh. What seems to be going on is a wide-raging study into the Great White North's beer consumer mindset and it is playing out in a number of ways. For example, what might be originally … read more »
There Is No Good Beer Blogging During Game Seven
Posted by on Wednesday, June 15, 2011 in - 1 comment
I shouldn't be posting. It's game seven in the Stanley Cup. This means nothing to Knut. Nothing to The Beer Nut. But driving back from the kid's after supper softball game the empty streets were eerie. These guys in fifth century B.C. France? Probably Habs fans. Habs are the last Canadian team to …
