Wandering Into the Known and Unknown
I decided to take myself for a drive to somewhere I had never been before. I ended up in the Donjek River Valley & Kluane National Park.
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Camping Etiquette
Winter has released his icy grip on the Yukon, and that brings my favorite season: camping season. In early May I along with several friends
Zombie Apocalypse? The Yukon is the Place to Be
Have you been kept awake at night by the threat of a zombie apocalypse? If you have a spouse like mine, then you no doubt
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When Less is More
I was tricked by this book, The Paradox of Choice. I was sure this book was a great marketing book. I was drawn in by
When Did the Chinese Start Making Beer?
In perusing past entries on the Brookston Beer Bulletin blog site, www.brookstonbeerbulletin.com (a terrific forum for learning about all things beer-related), we came across a
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The Beer Police are Heroes
A new initiative in the UK’s Somerset County this summer will ensure that beer drinkers are not getting hosed at their favourite watering holes. Trading
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Playing Politics With Beer
News out of Birmingham, Alabama this month has a local consumer lobby group calling for a boycott of all Anheuser-Busch products in the Birmingham/Jefferson County
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Smart Phones Require Smart People
Sure, it’s a smart phone. I don’t think the name is wrong, so much as how the name is understood. If you are smart, you
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Mayo Campground Has the One Thing Kids Look For
MAYO 5 Mile Lake in Mayo doesn’t have a campground playground. Not right in the campground, mind you, but there is one down the short
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Tatchun Lake is for Us Paddlers
Tatchun Lake Campground has 20 campsites and none of them are a pull through site; there is a boat launch and a cook shelter. That’s
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Federal Campground is Nice, Too
HAINES JUNCTION There are numerous campgrounds in and around Haines Junction. Your YTG Campground permit will let you camp at most of them … but
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Fill the Parks
There are two things that really frustrate me — and they are related. First, the couches in my house have permanent dents from the backsides
Looking for a Kinder, Gentler Beer Drinker
With binge drinking and bar violence on the rise, the Province of Alberta has made some policy changes that it is hoping will curb public
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A Cure for Those Camping Time Blues
Whether it’s the weather or the yard work, some commitment on the weekend or the fact that you have family coming to visit in a
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You Just Can’t Put Canada in a Bottle
If you are going to play on patriotism, perhaps it is best to stay at home. Recently, brewing giant Molson Coors Brewing Company announced that
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700,000,000,000 Bottles Of Beer On The Wall (would take 220,000 years to sing)
We feel the need to make a few comments on the $700 billion subsidy that has been the big financial news in the US last
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This Beer Really is For You
One of the things that a business in your community can do that companies Outside cannot is treat you like you — as an individual
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When Religion is in the Mix
There are few more dangerous waters for the Buzz to float down than mixing beer and religion. And yet, being the brave souls that we
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Beer Bottles Make Beautiful Music
The year was 1798 and the place was Helgoland. Helgoland is located in the North Sea, 70 kilometres off of the coast of Germany. This
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Lots of Empty Barrels to Wear
In case you have been living in a vacuum over the past few weeks, apparently these are hard times. Funny how things seemed to turn
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European Brewers Embrace Santa Claus
Everyone in North America knows who Saint Nicholas is, right? Obviously, he is the guy dressed in the red and white suit who gives away
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The Real Santa Claus Does Not Run
40 Santas donned the red and white and ran [pub crawled?] the entire two blocks of Main Street in Manayunk. Or.
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Doing What Breweries Do Best
As we get nearer to our upcoming and excellent adventure, distilling, we get more and more questions about the process. So we thought we would
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Guatemala’s greatest asset is its people
Guatemala has so many great elements to it, but the highlight of our trip (if you’ve read my other stories you may notice a common
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Unless you’re Santa, I’d say it’s one of those …
Everybody knows beer causes beer bellies, right? Why else would they call it a beer belly? Not so fast: a recent study, by German and
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You Say Goodbye, I say Hello
This Christmas I had the great fortune of visiting Guatemala. I really enjoyed answering the question, “Why did you decide to come to Guatemala?” which
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‘Moving the Coat Rack’
We heard a story a while back about an artist who had a sculpture exhibit going on at a gallery. Near the entry door to
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What Beer May or May Not Do – for You
During World War II, the brewing-trade industry known as the United Brewers Industrial Foundation worked with the U.S. government to create a series of ads
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The Vatican’s Bookstore Can’t be Wrong
Think about your life and the stories you might tell of it. Think of the grand adventures, great accomplishments, and life lessons. I know how
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Belgian Street-Meat Heaven
Mitraillette: it’s the world’s most perfect food. Without a description of its component parts you may mistake this culinary art form for a simple hot-dog
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Out and Away: The Camping is the Food!
No recipes here. Too little space, too many ideas and I don’t think I have ever cooked the same thing twice
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Confession of a Mustache Cheater
This is the first time in my life my upper lip has been covered by anything that could be defined as a moustache. You see,
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I Love the Smell of Camping in the Morning
The first camping trip of the year is unique in many ways. For one thing, there’s the anticipation of finding out which critical thing you
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Mosquiticide
Everything in nature has a purpose. The purpose of the Noble Mosquito [Culiseta longiareolata] is to keep our campsites from becoming overcrowded. What I see
Quest for Fire
That is your favourite time at the fire? What makes the campfire the best place in world for you? Perhaps I am being a bit
Out and Away: The First Camping Trip
What did you learn on your first camping trip this year? The first camp of the season is unique. It’s one of the only trips
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Finding the Cure
Nature Deficit Disorder. Really? An official term for spending too much time not camping! The Yukon has your cure. Prescription strength!
Mambo Tanzania: Pt. 3
I made it! I climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro! I’m sure I cost a few of the resort staff some betting money by doing it. When I
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Mambo Tanzania: Pt. 2
Mambo! Poa! Last week I explained Mambo. Poa is the proper response. Described to me as: Mambo = What’s Up? Poa = It’s cool. At
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Mambo Tanzania: Pt. 1
Editor’s Note: What’s Up Yukon co-publisher Mark Beese recently embarked on the adventure of a lifetime—an assault on Tanzania’s fabled Mount Kilimanjaro. This is the
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One Online Collaborative Document, Many Voices
“How can you have a collaborative work environment, where the team gets more accomplished because the whole is greater than the sum of it’s parts,
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This Bud is For the Highest Bidder
The great, gobbling beer merger beast is, here in the summer of 2008, most definitely alive and very well. Some of the mergers that we
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Creature Comforts
Family camping is like the third evolution of camping (after being taken out to Algonquin Park with my parents) … at least it is for
Beer Can Be Eaten
For the most part, this column is used to keep folks abreast of contemporary beer issues and educate Yukoners in craft brewing culture. Often times,
Demand Your Officeless Office-
I see the office building being replaced by the virtual office and I see this happening over this generation. – Mark Beese, 2008
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