Obscurity brewing series#

Tomorrow will mark the first instalment in our craft brew tasting series: Railway City Brewing's Blonde Ale, which is available at select LCBO stores.

Welcome to the edge of The Beer Frontier. Our motto is as clear as a carb-reduced lager: 'We're (aspiring) beer geeks, not beer snobs.' We drink the paler stuff from the big guys, and heck, we even like some of it, but we're always looking for a new adventure. And we're going to talk to the brewmasters themselves, in frequent Q&As, and later on during brewery tours.ДЄnd we're going to do it all with a distinctly Canadian flavour. We're going to examine retailing, and some of the red tape facing smaller brewers, because those are important realities that shape the marketplace, and affect what you can and cannot find at your local liquor or beer stores.

We're going to look at trends: nanobrewing, brewery tourism, food pairings, organic hops, but also beer basics with our Suds 101 series.

It's also becoming an important part of the local food movement, it's how many Canadians make a living, and when you start scratching at the surface of the amazing craft beer available in places like New England, Pennsylvania, Washington and Portland - well, it quickly becomes obvious that one of the things that ties us culturally to our closest neighbour is our mutual obsession with brewing excellent tasting beer, across many styles and types. Because The Appetizer is based in Ontario, we'll be looking closely at the craft beer available here, but we'll also be aiming to examine the burgeoning companies in Quebec and B.C., as well as flavours that might migrate to us (or more likely us to them) from other parts of the country, or even the U.S.Д«ut we're also going to delve deeper into the stuff itself - turns out, it's far more than a mere symbol of our hockey triumphs, toughness, blue-collar pride or distinctness from the U.S. The big guys will continue to duke it out, but we're going to explore harder to find, less advertised, not-so-likely-to-pull-on-your-national-heartstrings kinda of brews.

Obscurity brewing series#

The Beer Frontier, our newest regular series on The Appetizer, will explore those questions, one craft beer at a time. not to mention the relish with which he did so, could have given the casual Canadian beer geek reason to wonder: 'What was he drinking? And where can I get some?' what's not clear is what's actually in the glass these days.Д¬anadians may have defined the taste of their home and native brews 15, even 10 years ago as simply being 'stronger than American beer,' which is universally known in punchlines as close to water,' but the mere colour of the beer Montgomery guzzled. But while our willingness to hold aloft a pint for nearly any celebratory reason is laudable, and in the case of Montgomery's romp, even defining as an image. In any case, if it wasn't already clear to much of the world what our national beverage is, it probably is now. And there was also gold medal skeleton Olympian Jon Montgomery, with the unscripted moment many saw as our crowning celebration, as he grabbed a pitcher of something amber and frothy while taking his now famous triumphant walk through Whistler Village. It was the source of some consternation for the Canadian women's hockey team, but that had more to do with where they chose to imbibe, and frankly, people seemed more upset about the stogies anyway. President Barack Obama, it was the salve at his now infamous 'Beer Summit' last summer, or the cost of a lost bet with Prime Minister Stephen Harper on the men's gold medal hockey game at Vancouver 2010. If you haven't had a Guinness yet, we only have one question: What are you waiting for - lunch, or something?Д«eer has been something of a hot news topic in the past few months, although more as an accessory than anything else - For U.S. Share this Story: The Beer Frontier: All aboard!ДЇirst off, Happy St.

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