Beer Guide

Halifax Explosion Tripel as told by Steve Trickett I finished brewing a Belgian tripel and transferred it into a carboy. I attached a blow-off tube to the bung and ran the hose into a jug of sanitized solution to catch any runoff, then called it a night. Next morning, the yeast cake had bubbled up […]

Sea Level Brewing’s owner, Randy Lawrence, is known for his motto: “Don’t be loco, drink local.” The Port Williams brewer, one of the first microbrewers in the Maritimes, has been championing the possibility of an all-Nova Scotia beer for many years. But it took travelling close to 6,000 kilometres to Washington State for Lawrence to […]

Tom Dobbyne just bought himself a green bowler hat. Now he’s on the hunt for a green suit to match. Actually, any old suit will do. He says he can “go to Value Village, and just spray paint a suit green.” After all, if you are going to start St. Patrick’s Day with breakfast and […]

Before Kendra Hoskin was diagnosed with celiac disease in 2009, she says she was a “huge beer drinker.” After the diagnosis, because most beers are brewed with wheat, barley or other gluten-based grains, she switched to cider. But the rise of wheat allergies has brewers making some changes, too. The NSLC now sells three different […]

If you follow current affairs at all, you know that March Madness is all about the NCAA tournament and the iconic brackets of teams competing. Even though I don’t follow basketball, I get it. But my ears perked up recently when I met a friend of a friend who was throwing her own March Madness […]

Hairspray Back in my short-lived childhood ballerina career, I once ran out of hairspray before a recital. In a flash of genius, my mother remembered a trick from the old days. She cracked a beer and began touching up my topknot. It worked, but I stunk like a brewery. Slug killer If your garden is […]

Drinking beer doesn’t have to lead to a night of burps and farts. Allison Saunders tells us how to be a dainty, respectable drinker. It seems the tastiest things tend to piss off your stomach and sadly this doesn’t exclude beer, especially in mass quantities. For most, seasoned suds drinkers or otherwise, a night of […]

Beer prices are going up, but there’s a made-at-home solution. Amber Young reports. Reports suggest it won’t be long before beer drinkers should start to worry about increasing barley costs. Due to dismal crops and gas prices, the price of grain is on the rise, which leaves beer drinkers torn between buying their favourites and […]