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Collective Arts & The Alliance: Unity Makes Strength

From the Mini-Release

In a craft beer scene where there are dozens of really excellent beers being made by a variety of breweries, both bricks and mortar and contract, it is difficult to do something to stand out. It is also daunting to think about doing something to help out others, when you are probably committing most of […]

New Year’s Eve at Amsterdam

My view for New Year's

Maybe it’s much too early in the game But I thought I’d ask you just the same What are you doing New Year’s Eve? So, got any plans for NYE? I do, I’ll be at a cottage, drinking beer and heating a sauna for the traditional midnight snow-roll. But if I were in the city, […]

The Rhino Fall Beer & Cider Festival 2013

Rhino

From the biggest cask beer festival in North America last week, we now hit two wonderful small/local fests.  The first is tomorrow, Sunday October 27th, and is hosted at The Rhino with Canadian Beer News (and I’m guessing the newly minted Canadian Cider News).  Personally, I’m super stoked. A) I’ve been to the CBN/Rhino fests […]

Cask Days 2013 Pictorial Survival Guide

Hats

It’s Cask Days eve! I hope you have hung your steins by the window with care, in hopes that St. Ralph, soon will be there.  Seriously though, if you like beer and are in the GTA, chances are you’re going to Cask Days, either Saturday or Sunday.  Or maybe both.  last year I wrote a […]

Mill St Oktoberfest

Oktoberfest revellers

How are you?  I know, Oktoberfest season is a marathon.  This is the part where the pros push through, and the weekend warriors fall back.  Lets kick that wall down!  Mill St has a shiny new Beer Hall, and a great line-up of events for Oktoberfest next week.  The perfect way to round out Oktoberfest […]

Brewer’s Plate 2013

So, sorry for the delay, but last week was actually pretty crazy.  Lots of evenings out, and sleepy mornings.  At any rate, last Wednesday was Brewer’s Plate, one of my favourite beer events of the year (as noted in my “Why The Brewer’s Plate Matters” post).  This year, it was held in the CBC’s Barbara […]

Why The Brewer’s Plate Matters

I like what I call the Rule of 3.  I first learned about it through a style of gardening/farming called Permaculture (actually, Permaculture is much much deeper than just gardening and farming, but that’s how I met it).  It’s a way of sustainable growing and there are a set of rules to it.  One of […]

Community Clean-up a Gala Event

The crowd on the red carpet. She's wearing TnA, by the way.

The Red Carpet is buzzing. Flashbulbs popping, interviewers shouting questions, fans waving signs and asking for autographs; it feels like early September at TIFF.  Except this is late November, and the people walking into the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema aren’t Hollywood Starlets and Studs, but ordinary people from the community.  It’s the Fall Clean-up in […]

Harbord vs Annex Clean-up Live Blog

It’s 9:30, I’ve just walked up the red carpet at the Bloor St Hot Docs Cinema. While later we’ll be swarmed in screaming fans and paparazzi, right now the crowd is more reserved. People from neighbouring communities, preparing to go head-to-head in a morning of clean-up, with local pride on the line. I’m hearing jesting […]

Oktoberfest at Beau’s All Natural Brewing, Vankleek Hill

Oktoberfest participants

In writing 101 or whatever school-related cliche you prefer, you learn to hook your reader in the first sentence, by introducing your topic and piquing their curiosity.  I’m not going to do that (obviously, at this point).  I could put together something about “the best Oktoberfest outside Munich” etc, but I think, instead, I’ll let […]