I drove up the QE2 to Edmonton last weekend to visit some friends, and made sure to make a few stops on the so-called Alberta Ale Trail to visit a few of the...
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Dinosaur Beer
I had out-of-town guests last week, so made the rounds of the usual tourist destinations. One of our stops was the Royal Tyrell Museum in Drumheller, so...
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Albeerta Advantage
Faithful readers may recall tales of me crying tears into my beer last year, with the announcement of the closure of Fort McMurray’s Wood Buffalo Brewing last...
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Up Your Alley
Change is afoot in the Alberta beer scene. Faithful readers may recall that Calgary-based Wild Rose Brewery was acquired by megabrewer Sleeman Brewing last...
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Big Leagues For Banded Peak
Faithful readers may recall that Calgary-based Wild Rose Brewery was acquired by megabrewer Sleeman Brewing last summer, and that I had made a prediction that...
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Kom-Brew-Cha
Regular readers may recall me waxing poetic about Happy Belly Kombucha, a Chestermere-owned business that was one of the first entrants into the Kombucha...
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Chinese New Year
Kung Hei Fat Choi to you all! For non-Chinese speakers in the audience, a loose translation is “Congratulations and be prosperous”. January 25 marked the...
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Brazilian Wine
When we think about wines from South America, Malbec from Argentina and Carménère from Chile are the ones that immediately come to mind, but there is a wine...
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Whisky and Bagpipes
Like many Canadians, I can claim some small portion of Scottish ancestry. While I may not boast Groundskeeper Willie levels of Scottish-ness, I do regularly...
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Rural Alberta Advantage
I had a slow week between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, so I decided to catch up on a few brewery visits as part of my ongoing quest to visit every craft...
