The only personality test that works
There are people out there who think they know everything they need to know about me just because: I’m a Scorpio. I’m a white male
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Beer Buzz
Tis the season to raise tally: Tourists give Yukoners a bad name
Now that the days are longer than the nights again (although sometime in January at –54 we thought that this might never happen this year)
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Beer and the noble pursuit of nation-building
What does it take to make a country? Paul Martin might say gay marriage or, maybe, a fresh scandal every six or eight months. But
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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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Global Warming Affects Beer Production … OK, Now It’s Serious
Just the other day while I watching the store here at the Yukon Brewing Company, I had a customer look outside our windows while I
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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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Beer From a Wide-Open Space
Marketing beer is fun. When you have a product that so many people enjoy and you are told to “Go sell this!” you can have
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Beer By Committee (this will end badly)
How would you like to start a business with 50,000 of your closest friends, pals, friends of friends, acquaintances and complete strangers? What if it
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Bigger is Not Always Better
Students at McGill University in Montréal will notice a big change come fall semester this year, and frosh looking to swill back Export, Canadian and
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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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Brewmasters Get Hugs Once a Year
On July 18, while Yukoners were probably enjoying Dustball and the Dawson City Music Festival, there was one other thing to celebrate: International Brewers Day.
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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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Experts Are Not the Only Ones With an Opinion
We are often browsing around for new beer styles that we can make. With our growler system, we are able to try new beers without
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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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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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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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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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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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A Good Idea is a Good Idea, In Good Times and Bad
A Good Idea is a Good Idea, In Good Times and Bad Here we are, the first Buzz of 2009, and it seems like the
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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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Beer and Beautiful Music … Together
What goes together even better than peanut butter and chocolate, Laurel and Hardy, or ice cream and dill pickles? We think it is beer and
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Law-Abiding Beer
The Liquor Corporation in New Brunswick has created a wee bit of a stir lately (pun intended). It seems it is losing a lot of
Raising A Cheer with Our Beer!
Congratulations to the Yukon government, in general, and to the Yukon Liquor Corporation, specifically, for passing regulations that put the new Liquor Act in play.
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Talk About Those ‘Craft-y’ Beer Drinkers
The renaissance of craft brewing in Canada all started with a single beer. We are not talking about the first bottle rolled out the door
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Hops Across the Pond
Back in March, we sent one of our brewers on a jaunt to jolly old England. Alan went there to participate in a beerfest put
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Can, Is Where Your Heart Is
The camping season here in the Yukon is well underway and, so far, under lots of warm weather and blue sky. When we head out
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Writing What’s Right About Beer
A month or so ago, the San Francisco Weekly published an article called The 10 Coolest Specialty Food and Drink Magazines. In that list are
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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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‘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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Words Aren’t What They Used To Be
Do you find that words somehow start cropping up all over the place? Words that you never really ever heard before … at least not in
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