The State of the English Pub Today, By an Interested Observer
How many pubs does a country need? Some would say we need none at all, but they’re not the sort to...
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Hopes for 2024 from the team at Good Food Revolution
In these early days of the new year, I thought it may be a good idea to reach out to our pool of...
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A Matter of Taste: A Cautionary Tale
To paraphrase the Aretha Franklin song (actually written by Otis Redding), “What you...
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Why I Like Pubs
Some years ago I found myself in a pub, itself not a rare event, talking to a man I scarcely knew,...
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Ralph Morana: The Volodymyr Zelensky Of Local Beer
Ralph Morana had a life before most of us knew him. He was married, had two sons, and owned...
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I Have Measured Out My Life With Beer Glasses
I came honestly to drinking. I observed it from infancy. I served drinks to grownups at my...
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Pox Nobiscum: The Pubs Of Christmas
Obviously not everybody does Christmas. People who aren’t Christian, people who are...
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Never Pass a Bar That Has Your Name on It
In his fine book, McCarthy’s Bar, the late English travel writer Pete McCarthy posits his Eighth Rule of Travel: Never Pass a Bar That Has Your Name on It. Fair enough, but this happy circumstance is going to crop up more often if one of your names is Pete and the other is McCarthy. I’ve found myself more than once in bars called Pete’s or McCarthy’s. Some names just turn up on pubs more often than others.
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Bar Volo’s Cask Days: Probably The Best Cask Festival In Canada
Say what you like about Mozart and Miles Davis, there are few human endeavours that bring more pleasure than a good beer festival. The very idea of a beer festival would have been unthinkable in these parts thirty-odd years ago. Large groups of people standing about sampling local beers and debating the relative merits of, say, O’Keefe Old Vienna and Carling Red Cap is a concept that owes more to Monty Python than reality.
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Where Does Our Beer Come From?
The pioneer of importing “foreign” beers from other provinces is Ralph Morana, owner of Bar Volo on Yonge Street, evangelist for good beer, and constant thorn in the side of the LCBO and the licensing authorities.
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Brew Of The Week: Creemore Springs Kellerbier
In the third of his cabin-fever-fuelled excursions onto the internet this week, Jamie Drummond explains why he’ll leave the beer reviewing to the experts as he enjoys his Creemore Springs Kellerbier and doesn’t think about things TOO seriously.
Read MoreMega News from Mega Brewer: Take That, Bud Light Lime
By Nicholas Pashley A hush fell over the room as the Molson Coors spokeswoman stepped to the podium. We had been summoned to headquarters for some unspecified announcement. Since the launch of Bud Light Lime in 2008, the...
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