The Bar Towel

About the Alberta "wasteland" comments (coming from someone who lived in Calgary for 17 years). Yes, the liquor stores are pretty poor out there. However, a market one-fifth the size supports the same number of brewpubs (five, two of which are in suburban locations). Toronto may be far fro...

Here is the only thing I could find on the brewpub in Port Credit, set the Wayback Machine for eye circa 1994

Everything near my office (far far northwest Mississauga) is of the generic-pub-in-a-stripmall variety.

Kind of depressing when you think about it!

It is possible to have a suburban neighbourhood brewpub, just look at Calgary for an example (the non-downtown Brewster's).

Merry Christmas everyone!

I myself will be out in Calgary, visiting family, and of course checking out the beer scene there.

Ah yes, Beer TV. Caught my first glance at this back in September. The 10 minutes that I saw didn't have any heavy Interbrew promotion -- in fact, I didn't see anything remotely beer-related at all -- but they did seem to take every opportunity to point the camera at scantily-clad women in cottage c...