An economic impact study released yesterday by the Texas Craft Brewers Guild shows that Texas craft brewers furnish over 51% of brewery jobs in the state despite the fact that only 0.7% of the beer consumed in Texas is made by its craft brewers. The study also shows that the growth of the Texas craft […]

Brewer: Hoyne Brewing Co., Victoria B.C. Style: Pale Ale Available: British Columbia Liquor Stores Alcohol: 5.2% Price/Volume: $5.00/650 ml bottle Oh hey, its another beer from one of Victoria’s 20,000 craft brewers (or something like that). Yes it goes down easy, relatively mild. And comes with some nice artwork as is typical of the Victoria crafts as well. Insightful, […]

You know how Asia has all those burgeoning ecnonomies…well it seems that with the slowly declining sales of major brewers in North America, we are seeing a reversal of the eastern brewers buying out the west (e.g. Sapporo’s 2006 acquisition of Sleeman), as the western brands look to move east for sales. On Friday Dutch brewer Heineken offered $4.06 billion […]

This is about as necessary as anything at Ikea. And its probably as good for the price too. Hey, I’d take a beer with my hotdog, and who doesn’t need a drink after managing the field of cart pushing maniacs. Unfortunately, its a UK thing only and, at least for now, it looks like the stuff isn’t […]

Ottawa – While the taps of the town are dominated by nearby Beau’s All Natural Brewing, Kichesippi Beer Co. popped up in 2010 to take the claim as Ottawa’s Craft Brewery proper. And they like it that way. I recently dropped in at the brewery, located in a downtown industrial area of the city. I […]

This past Wednesday I was lucky enough attend the grand opening and first tasting event at the Beer Academy at 75 Victoria Street in downtown Toronto. As I’ve described before, the Beer Academy is the creation of Molson Coors owned Six Pints Specialty Brewing Co. And, when you walk into the retail shop, there is […]

Ok, day 2 and 3 could have been better. While many have been tasting the Beau’s pan-Ontario beer, or sampling various other one-off specials across the town, I’ve been otherwise occupied. But, I still managed to keep with the mandate (to try new beers go on a weeklong bender?) and fit in a new-to-me beers. […]

The week is off to a good start. Twitter tells me lots of successful events were held around the province. For me, outdoor day drinking was the best option, so I headed out to the beauty Evergreen Brickworks for the Brewers Backyard – Amsterdam Brewery event. I arrived to find lots of good food was […]

Well, OCB Week is almost upon us. This Sunday, Fathers Day, we get our third annual week to official celebrate what I do on a bi-daily basis: the great beer of this province. (although, if you`ve checked the event listings, you`ll notice some events are already happening) What to do during the week? Well, blogTO had […]

                      (Yes, I drank it with a Prairie Girl cupcake…what?) Brewer: Mill Street Brewery, Toronto. Other Details: See below. I’ve been sitting on this one for a while, but since it just took a gold medal in at the Canadian Brewing Awards in Montreal, figured […]