NAB + Magic Hat + Pyramid + Portland Brewing = ?
North American Breweries (NAB) made the news this week when they announced the purchase of Independent Brewers United, the parent company of Vermont’s Magic Hat Brewing, Washington state’s Pyramid...
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Springbank Shows Off!
It’s ten in the morning and I’m sipping single malts. Oh readers, the sacrifices I make for you! The reason for my early imbibing is the arrival of five new whiskies to Ontario from the Springbank...
View ArticleStanding Up for Cork
Everybody knows what’s going on in the wine world these days so far as bottle closures are concerned. Corks are being replaced by screw tops and fake corks. And for the most part, winos seem to be...
View ArticleTasted! – King Brewery Vienna Lager
Vienna lagers are, to my experience, rare and difficult beasts. The rarity is attributable, I’m certain, at least in part to their difficult to define nature, although it could also be argued that they...
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Let’s Hear It For Collaboration!
I don’t normally write about beers I have yet to sample, but surely this new project out of Nova Scotia deserves some attention. Combining the mini-trend of collaboration brewing – much seen south of...
View ArticleHow Does This Make Sense?
While visiting yesterday with Peter Hunt, head distiller at Victoria Spirits, I found out a little about the economics of being a small scale distiller in Canada. Peter told me that the company makes...
View ArticleMy Picks For Toronto Beer Week
The first ever Toronto Beer Week gets started unofficially on Sunday, September 19, with a great Beer Brunch hosted by yours truly at beerbistro, and officially with the tapping of a cask by speaker of...
View ArticleToronto Beer Week and Double Dead Elephants
Toronto Beer Week may be killing me, but I’m going happily! We’re at the half-way point now and I’ve hosted or been part of four events in four days, with a private tasting scheduled today at the...
View ArticleCentral City and Lohin Honoured
On the way to the Canadian Brewing Awards last night, I was explaining to a fellow bus passenger how Gary Lohin of the Central City Brewing Company is one of the finest brewers in British Columbia, if...
View ArticleAnd So It Ends…
…not with a bang or a sigh, but a final post. This post. The people at thatstheSPIRIT.com have decided to move in a different direction with the site, and so this will be the last post for Beaumont...
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