Posts Tagged: Ontario
Book Review: In Mixed Company, Julia Roberts
Posted by on Monday, September 6, 2010 in - 1 comment
Anyone interested in beer in Canada - or even colonial North America - really ought to have this book on the shelf. 2009's In Mixed Company: Taverns and Public Life in Upper Canada is a series of essays on topics related to the structure, regulation and use of taverns in what later became Ontario …
Beau's Thursday Night Tasting In the Backyard
Posted by on Thursday, August 12, 2010 in - 5 comments
A fun way to spend the evening. Beau's had their quarterly business meetings in town and they all came over for a few hours of opening bottles - including the father, son and a sizable host. We nine started well with two saisons and biere de garde: Hennepin, Jack D'or and 3 Monts. Batch 10 from …
Shopping At Broue Ha Ha In Gatineau Quebec
Posted by on Thursday, July 22, 2010 in - 3 comments
I regretted the drive only when the alarm went off this morning. Adding 425 km and five hours driving to the gap between supper and sleep was not maybe the most intelligent thing to do mid-week but I sure was pleased with what I found. Broue Ha Ha is the newest addition to the private beer shop …
Joe Asks Us To Consider What Makes For Success
Posted by on Wednesday, July 14, 2010 in - leave a comment
Update: Troy makes a very good point in reminding me to link to "Free Our Beer", Cass Enright's blog that delves into the backwardness of Ontario's system in far more detail than I would ever have the patience to present. • Joe makes a very good point in his latest post "Twelve-Ounce Measures of …
Stuck In My Own Town's Mid-1800s Beery History
Posted by on Sunday, June 27, 2010 in - 1 comment
I had intended to get into the 1900s but have gotten stuck in the newspapers out of my town from the nineteenth century. From its first days at the western edge of the British Empire, as this pretty poor image of an early 1800s map shows, Kingston had a Brewery Street. Its still there even if …
Ontario: Dark Ale, Muskoka Cottage Brewery, Bracebridge
Posted by on Friday, June 25, 2010 in - leave a comment
Just learned that my camera died. Also just learned what a crappy camera I bought my kid last birthday. No focus. No warm tones. The corner of the cold room looks like the corner of a cold room. Sad. • Today for Ontario craft beer week, I went out to the LCBO and bought a few cans of beers that … read more »
Who Made Ontario's First Lager And Where?
Posted by on Wednesday, June 23, 2010 in - 2 comments
In the 1868-69 edition of Sutherland's City of Hamilton and County of Wentworth Directory there is listed a little listing that says "Eckhardt, August, brewer, Hamilton Lager Beer Brewery..." This corresponds with Sneath's first listing for a lager brewery in 1868 which states: • Edward Eckhardt …
Ontario: Stock Ale, Mill Street Brewery, Toronto
Posted by on Tuesday, June 22, 2010 in - leave a comment
Where was I? The 1830s and 40s? About there. Local breweries popping up as settlers move west, filling up southern Ontario right up to the Lake Huron coast. Familar names start popping up. In 1835, James Morton is operating out of the old Molson brewery on the Kingston waterfront. John Sleeman …
Why Did Ontario Beer Have To Make Its Own Way?
Posted by on Sunday, June 20, 2010 in - leave a comment
Why did Ontario have to make its own path to beerdom? Well, a war and a river for one thing. As we discussed yesterday, the land that is now Ontario was settled in 1783-84 by Loyalist refugees from New York state after the American Revolution. For the first five years, Kingston is a military town …
The Origins Of Ontario's Good Beer Tradition
Posted by on Saturday, June 19, 2010 in - 2 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 …
