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beer beats bites craft brews good music tasty treats and other random musings beer beats bites craft brews good music tasty treats and other random musings skip to content home about contact older posts moving day posted on february 13 2011 leave a comment i m about to start moving this blog from wordpress com hosting to a self hosted wordpress install this will allow me to do more with it some things that will be noticeable to readers others more back end in nature and will eventually allow for more integration with my other sites like canadian beer news this is the second time i ve moved the damn thing the first was a move from blogger to wordpress back in 2007 and hopefully it ll be the last it should only take a day or two to get all of the dns transferring and domain redirecting and exporting and importing taken care of but while the move is happening there will likely be periods of time where beerbeatsbites com leads to an under construction page or some other indicator that things aren t quite ready there might be some bouncing emails as well for those trying to get in touch with me that way wish me luck update well things went much more smoothly than i expected and while the new site still needs some tweaking it s up and running if you are seeing this post it means that the domain server changes haven t yet propagated to your isp but that should happen soon leave a comment posted in administrative canadian beer news for january 24th to february 6th 2011 posted on february 6 2011 leave a comment here s a round up of my posts for the last two weeks over at canadian beer news feb 4th labatt quietly rolls out rolling rock in ontario feb 4th labatt to distribute and brew keith s in the usa feb 4th camra bc launches fraser valley branch feb 3rd welly one off series continues with a limited edition stout feb 3rd alley kat planning new big bottle series feb 3rd pacific western to launch natureland organic black stout feb 1st canadian food blog awards 2010 winners announced jan 28th ratebeer best 2011 includes some cancon jan 25th propeller continues one hit wonder series with double ipa jan 25th camra vancouver awards 2011 announced jan 25th kichesippi buys scotch irish brands jan 24th dead frog chocolate mint brown ale now available leave a comment posted in beer news a week of whisky red stag by jim beam posted on january 24 2011 2 comments right so my weekend off from writing means that what was supposed to be a week of whisky posts is now extended into a second week let s just pretend shall we i ll start this one by stating right up front that i don t hold much truck with flavoured versions of traditionally unflavoured spirits i make an exception for booze that s house infused at fancy bars since they re generally working with natural ingredients and doing interesting things with the end result but store bought hooch that s spiked with artificial flavouring call me crazy but when i drink gin or rum or bourbon i usually want to taste gin or rum or bourbon so when a bottle of red stag by jim beam lcbo 198200 26 95 750 ml arrived last week and i saw black cherry flavoured bourbon whiskey emblazoned on the label i ll admit that i was predisposed to dislike it even before i opened it seeing sugar and artificial flavour s on the ingredients list didn t do much to alleviate my concern yes the bottle in the photo above says infused with natural flavors it s from the u s website so either they re using a different formula south of the border or the rules about what s natural are looser down there but as always i did my best to tamp down my prejudgment so i could approach and review this new to canada product as fairly as possible see what i do for you people i really hope you appreciate it continue reading 2 comments posted in tastings whisky canadian beer news for january 17th 23rd 2011 posted on january 23 2011 leave a comment here s a round up of my posts for the last week over at canadian beer news jan 20th barley days releases working man s stout jan 20th cannery brewing expands with new fermenters jan 20th driftwood singularity russian imperial stout now available jan 19th ancestry ca explores the history of canada s brewing dynasties leave a comment posted in beer news a week of whisky master of malt drinks by the dram posted on january 20 2011 3 comments as i noted a couple of posts back i m far from being an expert on whisky and a lot of that has to do with the limited exposure i ve had to it sure i ve been lucky enough in the past couple of years to attend a fair number of media tastings and the samples that arrive at my door from time to time are appreciated as well but even with all of that i know that i ve barely scratched the surface of what s out there in the wide world of whisky and whiskey and bourbon etc and quite frankly the main thing holding me back from becoming a serious whisky nerd is the cost i d love to have a cabinet stocked with all my favourite spirits from scotland and ireland and the southern us and beyond but until i win the lottery or find some other path to wealth it just ain t gonna happen the folks at master of malt a whisky and spirits mail order service the uk know that there are a lot of people like me out there and while they can t go so far as to start sending us free bottles of anything we want because as nice as that would be it s really not much of a business model they ve done the next best thing with an initiative called drinks by the dram in which they re offering a selection of items from their inventory of 3000 whiskies and spirits in 30 ml samples that start at 1 95 per cute l il bottle continue reading 3 comments posted in tastings whisky a week of whisky the macallan posted on january 19 2011 2 comments while i do get around to writing about whisky eventually in this post there s a bit of meandering along the way if you only care about the booze feel free to skip to the last few paragraphs but if you do that you ll be missing a good rant also sorry for the crap photos i forgot my camera and was using my two years old but already ancient iphone and yes i know that i ve already missed a posting day in this supposed week of whisky no need to rub it in writing for taps magazine tasteto this blog and a few other places has put me in an odd position of being somewhere between a blogger and real media in the eyes of many pr firms and others who are looking to pitch stories and believe me when i say that there can be a big difference between the way that some pr folks approach and treat bloggers versus more traditional or established media outlets in the case of blogs pitches are often filled with loads of mumbo jumbo about tastemakers and social media outreach and influencers and such they can also try to build a false air of mystery around whatever product is being promoted saying only that we should save the date for the launch of an exciting new high end spirit at a trendy downtown location or similar nonsense pitches aimed at more traditional media however tend to be straightforward and to the point the pr companies know that people who write for a living generally don t have the time or the patience to deal with extraneous fluff and bullshit so they simply say what s going to be offered where and when easy peasy a couple of months back i was able to make a good comparison of these two approaches when i received invitations to a tasting event for the macallan whisky from two different sources continue reading 2 comments posted in tastings whisky a week of whisky gibson s finest posted on january 17 2011 2 comments i m not sure if it s a reaction to my articles on glenfiddich and jack daniel s posted to tasteto last fall or just a general increase in the number of tasting events being held and promo samples being sent out but whatever the reason i ve seen a serious spike in pitches to do stories on whisky recently so much of a spike that i have quite a backlog of notes and samples to get through and write up while it might be a bit optimistic of me given my usual track record with these sort of things i m going to attempt to do a series of daily posts this week covering the various whiskies i ve sipped and savoured in the past couple of months i ll note right up front that even though i love the stuff i m far from being a whisky expert but one of the reasons i want to do this series and future articles on the topic is to help myself learn more about wide variety of whiskies and other related spirits that are out there first up is the series is gibson s finest a canadian whisky that i d never tried before a tasting a couple of months back the history of gibson s is long and complicated and rather than trying to recap it here i ll just mention that the brand is currently owned by william grant sons also owner of glenfiddich balvenie and many other whisky and spirit brands and direct those who would like to know more to this post on the excellent website canadian whisky that gives the whole story continue reading 2 comments posted in tastings whisky canadian beer news for january 10th 16th 2011 posted on january 16 2011 leave a comment here s a round up of my posts for the last week over at canadian beer news jan 16th mill street and royal york partner for royal stinger honey ale jan 15th beau s bog father coming next week jan 13th garrison brewing starts shipping out west jan 13th granville island scottish ale on the way jan 13th phillips brings back the hammer in two versions jan 12th the malt exchange links brewers and farmers jan 12th muskoka scales back pilsner light plans new brands jan 11th tree hop head double ipa returns with wider distribution jan 11th lighthouse deckhand belgian saison coming next week jan 11th vancouver island double decker ipa coming soon jan 10th russell brewmaster series continues with blood alley bitter jan 10th cariboo cream ale launching this week leave a comment posted in beer news canadian beer news for january 3rd 9th 2011 posted on january 9 2011 1 comment it took a couple more days past my previous post but i finally managed to lick that cold and actually had a couple of beers this weekend i ve also been together enough to organize some notes from the past couple of months that i d intended for posts that never came to fruition so new material should finally be scrolling by here imminently in the meantime i thought i d start a new weekly column to recap the most recent posts on canadian beer news the beer brewing news blog that i publish on a much more frequent basis than this one mainly because it consists primarily of rehashed press releases and new beer announcements for those who already read cbn i apologize for the redundancy for those who don t hopefully you ll find this to be of interest jan 9th wild rose imperial ipa back for another year jan 8th molson coors threatens lawsuit over pacific western mingler pack jan 7th beer vat convoy hits the road jan 7th propeller releases growler only zwicklebier jan 5th cheshire valley robust porter now available jan 3rd king brewery sold to beer barons 1 comment posted in beer news crappy new year posted on january 5 2011 2 comments so my big plans to fire things up over the holidays and start getting more frequent content up on this ol blog got kind of scuttled mostly due to a head cold from hell that s still lingering after more than a week once it clears i ve got an interesting assortment of liquids here that i ll be consuming and critiquing and i ll also dig through my notes from some older tastings and events to see if they re post worthy even despite the lack of timeliness for now however my snot filled nose and i are off to bed 2 comments posted in administrative older posts search search for archives archives select month february 2011 january 2011 december 2010 october 2010 september 2010 august 2010 july 2010 june 2010 may 2010 april 2010 february 2010 january 2010 december 2009 november 2009 october 2009 august 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