Sawdust City’s Sam Corbeil, an Interview Good morning! I got a chance to interview Sam Corbeil of Sawdust City. It’s no secret that Sawdust City is one of our favourite brewers. You can find our review of their Lone Pine IPA and their Red Rocket Stout here! Why did you start your brewery? When I left my old career to go… Read More
Molson will be Closing Beer Academy, Firing Most of the Employees and Putting in a Creemore Brewpub 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
Holy Smoke by Church Key Brewing, a Review 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
12 Beers of Christmas (2014), an Experience 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
French Press Vanilla Stout by Double Trouble Brewing, a Review 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