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Review: Driftwood Brewery Sartori Harvest IPA
I was minding my own business, lugging boxes of beer around in Leaside, when I feel a tap on my shoulder and I turn around. I’m staring at a sternum, just about nipple high. Now, Jack Burton would...
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How is the beer industry doing in Ontario? Part 1
It’s something of a rarity that I find myself with downtime, but at the moment I don’t have anything on the calendar until about after Boxing Day. This means that I get to indulge myself in some clean...
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How is the beer industry doing in Ontario? Part 2
Having established in a previous post what the shape of Ontario’s society looks like, it’s time to build on that framework in order to allow us to understand the shape of the province’s beer industry...
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How is the beer industry in Ontario doing? Part 3
For part three in this series, I want to talk about inflation and its larger role in society as it pertains to the beer industry and some of the factors that we’ve already discussed. I’m not an...
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An Everyday Beer
It’s hard to believe that it has been more than five years since Godspeed opened, but time has been dilatory of late. Weeks can pass in a blip, while a sun dappled afternoon might seem to stretch on...
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In Which I Buy Time With Placeholder Text
How do you write about Craft Beer at this point? It seems like idiocy to waste the better part of an afternoon on it when you can feel the immiseration of society happening in real time and you could...
View ArticleSome Thoughts about Ontario Beer Excise and the MFA
Recently, there was a pretty well written piece about taxes that showed up in the wake of the Ontario Craft Brewers’ charm offensive to get the public onside and prevent brewery closures within the...
View ArticleBreweries: Let’s Talk About Your Website
(ed. note: I always thought it would be fun to cut a heel promo.) I want to tell you something really important about your brewery. It’s going to sound patronizing, and it’s going to sound obvious,...
View ArticleAn Open Letter To The Minister of Finance
Hello, Minister. I’m writing to you today to express my hopes for the alcohol industry reform that is currently tabled for discussion within the province. I’m an odd duck in regards to this situation...
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So You Want To Be A Teacher – Redux
Matt Pearson said to me, “take off your glasses.” It’s a weird request, coming from a guy I barely know, but since we’re in public, I do it. “Close your eyes and turn around in a circle three times.”...
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So You Want To Be A Teacher – Rebuild
A quick question for you. Which country uses coolships in the production of an iconic beer? The answer is Belgium. Also Germany, Czechia, England, America, Canada, and very likely others. I’m...
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So You Want To Be A Teacher – Recall
When I got hired to teach in 2017, I was a subject matter expert. I didn’t have any teaching experience to speak of, except for having been an instructor at a music camp in high school. I also had a...
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So You Want To Be a Teacher – Reminisce
It’s hard to say exactly why the wheels came off the lecture. It was probably a combination of things. There was news out of the UK last week that Marston’s was going to stop using its Burton Union...
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So You Want To Be A Teacher – Redevelop
In the run up to week five, the first of this year’s completely redeveloped lectures for the Beer Appreciation class at George Brown, I had some problems to contend with. As stated earlier, the sheer...
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So You Want To Be A Teacher – Regression
I got out over my skis a little. Part of my plan for the year, just at home, is to read more. I’m aiming for a couple of books a month and so far I’m a little above that. I had been reading Slavoj...
View ArticleFun With Numbers: Federal Alcohol Excise in 2024-2025
It comes as a small, pleasant surprise that I get to talk about excise taxes for the alcohol industry in a vaguely positive way for once, given the announcement today that a couple of changes are...
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