I tried over 50 new beers in 2022. From Les Grands Bois here in Quebec all the way to Ucluelet Brewing across the country, my friends and I embarked on our own sort of brewery tour. The most...
Sugar is sweet and sticky.聽聽That鈥檚 a fact.聽聽In fact, during the reign of Edward the Confessor in the early eleventh century, "ale tasters" were employed to check on the work of brewers.聽聽They would...
Have you ever heard the saying "beer before liquor never been sicker"? Or 鈥渓iquor before beer, you鈥檙e in the clear鈥�? What about 鈥済rape or grain but never the twain鈥�? Well, it turns out that there...
In 1957 the U.S. government conducted a study aptly named 鈥淭he Effect of Nuclear Explosions on Commercially Packaged Beverages鈥�. The researchers placed cans and bottles of beer and other drinks in...
In the Middle Ages much of beer brewing was carried out by monks. Water is a source of many disease causing organisms which cannot survive in alcohol. Trial and error demonstrated that beer...
Forty eight years ago there was an epidemic of heart failure in Quebec City. The clue was that the thirty men affected were all beer drinkers. In a round about way, the culprit was the introduction...
It just wouldn鈥檛 be the same without the foam, would it? Beer I鈥檓 talking about. You don鈥檛 want the glass to be full of it, but you certainly want enough to tickle your lips when you go bottoms up....
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