Not draught focused, but a little something I worked on with the good folks from Molson Coors. Great info here if I may say so myself!
Not draught focused, but a little something I worked on with the good folks from Molson Coors. Great info here if I may say so myself!
One of the challenges with tasting beer is coming up with the terms to describe what it is that you are tasting. I have found the Flavour Bubble to be helpful. The orange terms come from the yeast. The green typically from hops. The brown typically from the cereal or grains in the beer and the purple are [...]
I am noticing more and more that staff and managers are shutting of the blower fan (evaporator fan) when they are in the walk-in beer fridge. I understand that when you are doing inventory that you can be in there for a while and it gets cold. So wear a toque. Here is what happens: The fan [...]
“When people feel sick from drinking bad draught, they think it’s from the food they ate.” And then they tell five friends, who tell five friends, who…
The average beer bottle (12 oz) in Canada gets refilled 17 times in it’s lifetime. A 58L keg will provide the equivalent of 171 bottles of beer. If a 58L keg lasts 20 years and gets refilled about 6 times per year, it will provide the equivalent of 20,520 bottles of beer. That’s 1,207 times [...]
For the past several years, there have been a few of us (Stephen Beaumont, Mirella Amato, myself, Roger Mittag, among others) trying to move beer education forward in Canada. While we may be competitors in an indirect way, we all have our own niches that we focus on and as JFK once said, “A rising [...]
http://www.youtube.com/betterbeerdotcom#p/a/u/0/lUj_yGcoilI Invest the 3 and a half minutes, you will thank us.
In the past couple of months, I have been approached a few times about the size of a keg and what is an acceptable yield. It seems that our friends at Canada Revenue Agency have been calculating a different keg yield than most bar owners have costed their pricing/pour sizes at. This video aired on Global on Monday which should spark more discussion. [...]
They use Scavenerger Crowns. Crowns are a fancy word for caps. Beer bottle caps. Look at the inside of a macro-brewed beer bottle cap; it has has small bumps under the liner. These are pockets of oxygen. Simplistically speaking - oxygen (an enemy to beer) is sucked in to the cap liner to help your beer stay fresher-tasting longer. Most micro-brewers do not use them as they are [...]
Sell Tallboys. Am I the only one who has done the math here? I don’t get it. Using the current Beer Store licencee pricing, your cost on a Tallboy of Molson Canadian is $1.96 (46.94/24). Let’s say you sell it for $3.99 pre tax (4.50 tax in) which seems to the be going rate for [...]
