Yet Another Beer Blog
A few days ago, someone asked me if I thought the rise in home brewing popularity was because of the current Craft Beer boom, or vise versa. Wow, what a loaded question – I believe that the two are intrinsically and inextricably linked, and yet two totally different conversations… I...
Here in B.C. there has been a lot of media fervor lately about dishonest serving sizes, short pours, mandatory marked glassware, serving vessel volume versus volume of liquid served, and rightly so. The public has been swindled, (whether intentionally or unintentionally is still up for debate) when it comes to...
Owning and operating both True North Brew Supply and Conner’s Wine Cellar keeps me pretty busy; to the tune of 6 days a week… at least. Throw in a monthly home brewer’s club meeting or two, a wine club meeting, at least one or two evenings brewing, the occasional hop...
In his book Craft Beer Revolution, Thirsty Writer Joe Wiebe refers to The Noble Pig Brewhouse in Kamloops as “easily one of the best brewpubs in B.C., maybe even THE best” and with those words, I knew that a stop at “The Pig” would be mandatory on my next B.C. beer...
For the last couple of years, I have made a habit of at least “attempting” to preserve a culture of any rare or interesting yeasts I have come across. At first, just to see if I could… but soon after that, to try to re-create (clone) the beers I cultures...
Working six days a week certainly has it’s disadvantages, not the least of which is that the one day a week that I get to check out breweries, nanos, and taphouses is the one day they’re usually closed – not that this really matters, because the one day that I...
Tonight I brew my first beer of 2014, and like every beer I brewed last year, its a beer that “I’ve been meaning to try for a long time”. I am generally long on ideas and short on time (what with all those pesky brewery tours), so it’s nice when...
Ah, Solvang. I had a few options for day-3 of my Brewery tour, but I knew I wasn’t going to leave Central California without a trip to Solvang, so Solvang Brewing Company was a pretty easy choice. One might wonder how a 10bbl brewery could thrive in a town...
It’s day two in central California, and we’re spending it in Santa Barbara. There are actually quite a few great breweries here; Island Brewing Company, The Brew House, Union Ale, Telegraph, and Figueroa Mountain Brewing Company to name a few – but the parameters set by this particular trip necessitated...
I was taking a few days off between Christmas and New Years, and Central California seemed to be a good (and relatively close, aeronautically speaking) place to recharge the ol’ solar cells and checkout some breweries that I might not otherwise be able to get to on the typical weekender....
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