ONTARIO's CRAFT BEER GUIDE
The experience of visiting a new brewery is bound up in expectant questions. What will the beers be like? Will I have to give them a break because they’re still “working things out”? Will the space be a hectic mess […]
When we launched the Growler in spring 2018, we definitely set out with the intention of covering all of Ontario. We live in an absolutely huge province, with fairly distinct regions, especially when it comes to craft beer. That meant […]
To me, winter feels like the most difficult season to stick to veg-first eating habits. The call of meaty bolognese and chicken stews rings through my head when the snow starts flying. This recipe from Eastbound Brewery’s chef Tara Lee, […]
By Rebecca Whyman Recently, gruits—that ancient, hopless beer style flavoured with herbs that seems to be all the rage right now—got me thinking about the elusive line that divides fads, trends, and gimmicks from creative innovations and emerging styles. How […]
The Society of Beer Drinking Ladies is marking their 5th birthday next month with their 5th Lady Beer Fest (formerly known as the Birthday Bevy). That means that North America’s largest women beer organization will bring together 10 breweries, one […]
Do you remember the time before every beer style was a something-IPA? I do, but just barely. ESB is one of the styles that have swamped by the need to make every beer unsubtly hoppy. (Or a kettle sour, but […]
I bought my very first beer in Montreal. My friends, Mickey and Senwung, and I were there to kick McGill’s tires. It doesn’t matter what the beer was (er, a sixer of Molson Canadian) because the point was that we […]
“If I had a dollar for every guy who asked me ‘do you really drink beer?’ we’d be on my private island right now,“ Renee Navarro says as we sit down on my local patio at Clinton’s to talk about […]
There are a few big weekends in the Ontario craft beer calendar. May 2-4, Canada Day and the rest of summer’s long-weekend gang come to mind, but none is really as important as the one after Thanksgiving when Cask Days […]
A few days before Christmas I found myself at the annual Indie Alehouse Stout Night. It’s hazardous and flawed to think a particular beer style belongs exclusively to a certain season — that goes especially for stout where many low-ABV […]