With just a week to go before Christmas, Six Pints Specialty Beer Company (owned by Molson) will be shutting down Beer Academy. While many companies would usually opt to retrain the employees they have, Six Pints has opted to fire basically all of them and hire completely new staff (this according to Ben Johnson over at… Read More
Church Key Brewing is based out of Campbellford, Ontario. Their name comes from being built within an old church. Very cool to brew in the kind of place beer was probably invented in. Their ‘Holy Smoke’ is a beer after my own heart. I’m a scotch lover, so when I saw that this was a… Read More
The 12 Beers of Christmas by the Gladstone hotel was an event I had looked forward to all year. It’s one of the very few beer events where you don’t have to buy tickets. Basically, you pay $10 to enter and then sample all the beer you want. Last year when we went I was… Read More
For some odd reason Double Trouble Brewing does not list their vanilla stout on their website. Is it because they are ashamed of this beer and hope that if they don’t list it on their site it will go away forever? Did they come to the conclusion that having some french dude’s head on the… Read More
That title is a tad awkward. It’s hard to use our standard title (bar name, a spotlight) when there is punctuation in the name of the bar itself. C’est What? is a bar located on Front st downtown. Across the street from The Works. Don’t be fooled by it’s small sign or the fact that… Read More