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Shacklands Farmhouse Saison (Shackland is a Junction brand or rebranding or something. Anyone know what the deal is there?) That'd be me. It's essentially a contract brew situation where I do my own brewing and yeast management (most contract breweries take a hands off approach), Junction provides ...

The ad seems aimed at the 85 or 90% of Ontario beer drinkers who don't drink craft beer.*

If it coaxes some of them into trying hoppy beers? I'm good with that.

Jason

* Lots of assumptions in that statement, but I'm letting it ride for the sake of argument

This guy has some good and well-considered thoughts on hoppy beers... https://twitter.com/davidmarzek :wink: He singled me out as a purveyor of bitter hop juice. And so on and so forth. Weird thing, that, since I once had a respected member of the beer community tell me I don't understand how to us...

My favourite reviewer in the city? Paul Dickey. I take it as a very high compliment when he asks for seconds of one of my beers. It generally means the beer has no obvious off flavours and just tastes ... good. He's also brutally honest if the beer is flawed. And points out the flaw. And then makes ...

http://io9.com/wine-tasting-is-bullshit-heres-why-496098276 It's hard to say what this says about beer tasting. I would certainly argue that beer flavours are more distinct owing to the number and nature of ingredients. That said, I think the nature of the human palate makes many of the more verbos...

I've heard through the grapevine (like, 3rd hand) that the actual numbers might be worse -- a very large growth in returns to distributors isn't being tracked. I.e., the amount of pale lager actually purchased by consumers is showing an even larger drop. Maybe even a 10% year over year decrease. And...

El Pinguino wrote:

midlife crisis wrote:Liberty Village Brewing announces the release of, can you imagine, an actual beer:

http://www.bartowel.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=8922

Why did you post this here, this is not a Jason Parkdale related brewery is it?

I believes it's an example of someone else selling beer.

Jason

Weebay wrote:Yes, but do you have an anti-troll plan in place? This seems to be very important part of any new brewery being developed; perhaps you could set up some fake events to get rid of them.

Do hops work to ward off trolls?

Jason

Maybe dude's going for a much higher concept than I am. Between November or so and now, I've bought a couple fermenters (inside Junction Craft), brewed a few batches of beer, sold some kegs to local bars, filled a bunch of growlers and glasses at Junction, and had a logo designed (just signed off on...

That's the thing we're all wondering... Only two possibilities that I can think of: 1. He is somehow making money through these fake businesses. On line advertising? 2. He is more off-centered than Dogfish Head. To me, it has the sniff of a school project for a business or marketing class. Perhaps ...

Thanks for the list!

I'm flying in Monday morning, back on Saturday via Porter. If anyone's interested in hoisting a pint or two, give me a shout on Twitter @JasonTremblay or shacklands /at\ gmail /dot\ com .

Jason

"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."
- Yogi Berra

That's very interesting about the origins of Champagne- never heard that. Is the article you are referring to online anywhere? I think he uses it as a pretty standard quip in interviews and talks -- here's one example: http://www.ticketsarasota.com/2011-11-02/section/dining/a-beer-dinner-cooked-by-...

Has anyone else read Calagione's Brewing Up a Business ? He goes into some detail about how DFH used heavy stock for its bottle labels to make the bottles seem more wine-y. That's right, when DFH aimed its sights north of Bud, one of their targets was wine drinkers who scoffed at cans and cheap-look...

Personally I doubt it. I saw somebody brewing at Amsterdam the other night at like 10PM, and I think Steamwhistle has something like three brewing shifts (someone correct me if I am wrong), but I don't think the smaller guys like Black Oak are quite to the 24 hour brewing schedules just yet. If the...