ONTARIO's CRAFT BEER GUIDE
By Jordan Duff On March 30th of this year, Spearhead Brewing Company celebrated it’s one year anniversary at its Kingston brewery. The celebration included, among other festive activities, a performance by Sam Roberts, friend of the brewery and face […]
Anyone who follows craft beer in Ontario, even casually, knows that the industry is thriving. That means new beer-making businesses are opening every month and they need to compete to capture beer drinkers’ attention. A brewery’s logo is the MVP […]
Last summer, when I sat down to talk to Renee Navarro about her work promoting diversity in Ontario’s craft beer industry, I remember being struck by how irrefutable several of her points were. As we’re fully into June, one, in […]
These days Jason Fisher is usually up at 3:30 a.m. He opens his laptop, pulls up an Excel Spreadsheet and punches in some numbers. “OK,” he tells himself, “We can be alive for the next four days, so let’s use […]
By Jordan Duff In 2019, ordering beer online direct from the brewery and having it delivered to your doorstep seems commonplace. It wasn’t always that way. The future is now, but we’ll have to cast back eight years to understand […]
By Jordan Duff Beer. Diversity. and Dominion City Brewing Co. announced last week that they will be offering a scholarship through Niagara College Teaching Brewery program to foster a more inclusive culture within brewing. It’s an amazing initiative. Ren Navarro, […]
Hamilton’s Clifford Brewing took home the top trophy at the 2019 version of the Canadian Brewing Awards. Clifford’s perennial favourite porter took home a gold medal in its category. East Hamilton lager and the barrel-aged version of the porter took […]
The Ontario government released its first full budget yesterday. There’s a lot in there worth looking at, including major cuts to education funding. We should pay attention to the whole package, but importantly for our purposes, it included the biggest […]
Personally, I’ve long thought it would be a good idea to allow for a freer system of beer retailing in Ontario. There are a few upsides to the current system — especially if you’re a curious consumer in places like […]
Since first-year university, about 20 of my girlfriends have gathered for our annual Girls Christmas Party. This regular affair has been going strong for 18 years. We’re not girls anymore, we’re 40-something moms, but other than that, little has changed. […]