Sometimes it’s hard to focus on beer in Ontario, especially when it’s the day before the American election and the free floating anxiety about the potential outcome makes you want to tab over to the news to see how the […]
News and Notes: September 20, 2024
The change of the season is upon us, but you wouldn’t know it from looking at the weather. The forecast for this final day of summer, at least here in Midtown Toronto, is mainly sunny and 24 degrees and it […]
Brewer vs Brewer: The estate-grown hops edition
At the beginning of the Modern Era of Craft Beer in Ontario, the province’s breweries had a lot of catching up to do with their counterparts in the United States. Until 2012 there was no reliably available IPA on shelves […]
News and Notes: June 28, 2024
Look! Over yonder! There’s a beaver and a loon swimming arm in arm while patriotic music swells! Behind them a moose carefully waves a flag while standing in a canoe, never letting it crease the rippling waters. Nearby, a Polar […]
News and Notes: May 3, 2024
You know, the simple fact of the matter is that sometimes nothing happens for a couple of weeks. That isn’t to say that there aren’t events and releases. It’s certainly not to say that there aren’t pieces being moved around […]
The stubbornness of local
How a small group of Ontario brewers are redefining the support local movement Milos Kral, one of Ontario’s biggest craft beer boosters and owner of Milos’ Craft Beer Emporium, was making his weekly rounds in Toronto to pick up the […]
Beer to the Ground: The most anticipated new breweries in Ontario, Fall/Winter 2020 edition
No fewer than 19 breweries have opened in Ontario since the spring. Spanning from Sarnia to Sudbury, from farmhouse breweries to juice-bomb hype machines, rev your engine or click your mouse to taste the province’s newest brews. Big Rig Kitchen […]