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History of Imperial Stouts During the 18th century, porter emerged as the most dominant beer style in England, with its stronger version “stout porter,” rising in popularity toward the end of the century. The term stout was initially used in England to describe a high-alcohol, bolder-flavored version of any beer style, but over time it...
What Inspired the Home Brewing Movement? For years, I viewed the brew-your-own movement as a passing cultural fad of the 80s, akin to the escape room craze of the 2010s. It turns out that home brewing actually arose out of a specific place and time, where the homogenization of the beer market and the rising...
Cup of Coffee – A Collaboration Left Field Brew Day Several months ago, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Left Field brewer Alex and sales rep Barry to discuss a Left Field and C’est What collaboration brew. After weighing a number of options, we decided that a dark, malty brew would be a...
We are reprinting Leah’s beer store trilogy together in one beer school article this month. From Ontario Prohibition to the Rise of the “Big Three” Prohibition in Canada The Canada Temperance Act of 1878 granted local governments the option to ban the sale of alcohol. Temperance advocates found the catalyst they needed in the First...
Dortmunder Export Lager The city of Dortmund is located in the North Rhine-Westphalia region of Germany. Its rich brewing history dates back to at least 1266, with the first written mention of local brewers producing a gruit ale. Prior to the mid 1800s, beers were generally dark, murky, top-fermented ales, which often contained wheat. The...
A Sweet Secret Deal – 2000 Framework Agreement (The third and final instalment of the history of The Beer Store – to date) In 2014, Martin Regg Cohn, a political columnist for the Toronto Star, revealed the secret sweetheart deal reached between privately-owned The Beer Store (TBS) and the crown-operated LCBO. The once-clandestine deal signed...
Rise of the “Big Three” (Part two of the history of The Beer Store) Brewers Retail’s three largest shareholders (Canadian Brewers Ltd, Labatt, and Molson), were not only able to gain a stronghold on the Ontario’s beer industry, but came to dominate the national market as well. There were several key factors at play that...
From Ontario Prohibition to the Rise of the “Big Three” Prohibition in Canada The Canada Temperance Act of 1878 granted local governments the option to ban the sale of alcohol. Temperance advocates found the catalyst they needed in the First World War, with prohibition discourse centered around Canadians fulling their patriotic duty through alcoholic abstinence....
Pick Your Poison? 1900 English Beer Poisoning In 1900, a mysterious epidemic swept across the Midlands and North West England with over 6,000 people falling ill, killing at least 70. Originally misdiagnosed as alcoholic neuropathy, the actual source of epidemic was discovered several months later – arsenic tainted beer. Alcoholic Neuropathy? Manchester was hit particularly...
Sumerian Beer The history of beer begins around 10,000 BCE during the Neolithic era and the rise of agriculture. During this period, societies began shifting away from hunting and gathering to establishing roots in agricultural development, cultivating crops like barley and wheat. Some scholars posit that the discovery of the intoxicating effects of beer may...
