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Beer Canada Brings Back Bob & Doug to Fan Faux Flames of Beer Tax Ire
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Beer Canada has once again employed Bob and Doug McKenzie, Canada’s most famous fictional hosers, to tell Canadians about all the bad things the federal government is doing to their beer. A new set of radio and web-only ads have... Continue Reading →
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Counting Quebec: An Addendum to 2023 State of the Industry
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As I mentioned in my recent post about the state of craft beer in Canada, the number of Quebec breweries in the database of Canadian breweries I keep has always been the shakiest. This is mostly because of my limitations... Continue Reading →
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The Party’s Over: The State of Canadian Craft Beer, 2023
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Craft beer in Canada has been on a pretty good ride in the last decade or so. Across most of the country we have seen big increases in the number of breweries and the size of market share they earn.... Continue Reading →
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Where in Alberta Do You Find the Most Breweries?
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The other day I randomly got curious about where in Alberta has the most breweries. The cities? Small towns? And where are their the biggest holes? So I jumped on the google machine and pulled out my calculator and starting... Continue Reading →
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It Was Raining Medals at the 2023 Canada Beer Cup
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It was raining medals as the results of the 2023 Canada Beer Cup were released last week. The second edition of this new competition, sponsored by the Canadian Craft Brewers Association, offered an interesting peak into the state of Canada’s... Continue Reading →
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Enjoy Edmonton Beer? Come to My Latest Beer Pairing at Underground
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COVID killed my event calendar. I had gotten into a groove around monthly tastings at Sugar Bowl, regular beer dinners at Underground and the occasional pop-up event somewhere else. Most of that has been blown away. However, I have re-started... Continue Reading →
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Familiar Names, New Faces Among Alberta Beer Award Winners
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Last night the winners of the 2023 Alberta Beer Awards were announced. The list of winners includes breweries who have become very accustomed to the medal podium and some impressive accomplishments by some newbies to the Alberta beer scene. The... Continue Reading →
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A Tale of Two Beer Guys: A Pint-Sized Play about Unity Brew 2023
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SCENE: Beerguy’s basement home office, a room with overfilled bookcases, scattered papers and commemorative beer glasses, bottles and other beer-related paraphernalia. Beerguy sits at his desk deleting Don Tse Tweet-puns and plotting revenge against JVR. A can of the 2023... Continue Readin...
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A Summer of Brewing Tragedies and The Return of Onbeer.org
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Onbeer has been a rather quiet place in the past year or two. I hope to change that this fall, with a return to semi-regular posts. Starting with this post. Over the past couple years my day job and other... Continue Reading →
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Talking Dog Makes Some Noise in Spruce Grove
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It is hard to open a brewery. Imagine opening one during a pandemic. There have been a few brave souls in Alberta who have done just that in the past year or so. One of them is Spruce Grove’s first... Continue Reading →
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From Stubbies to Tall Boys: Why Economics Drives the Evolution of Packaging
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I am going to say something unpopular here. I don’t like beer in cans. It’s not that I think the beer in the cans tastes bad – I know cans don’t alter the flavour. I just don’t like cans. Never... Continue Reading →
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Stay Tuned for a Return to Regularly Scheduled Programming
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It has been a bit quiet around onbeer.org lately. And for that I apologize. I blame my day job. Really. I am aware it has been about two months since I posted original content. During that time work has been... Continue Reading →
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Is Superflux Really So Super?
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Like many I heard the buzz around Superflux’s arrival in Alberta. I know they had many demands of local retailers. They picked who got the beer. The store had to keep the beer in cold storage at all times. They... Continue Reading →
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Aged Orval: Tasting the Sublime
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Sometimes my cellar hoarding works out well. I am quick to put new beer into my personal cellar to age them out for a while. But I really struggle to find appropriate moments when I can justify pulling them out... Continue Reading →
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Take Your Stupid Lentils and Put Them … In Your Beer
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What on earth would inspire someone to put lentils in beer? Who would do such a crazy thing? It turns out Regina’s Rebellion Brewing, that’s who. When I first heard about their lentil beer I was instantly curious. Lentils seems... Continue Reading →
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