General

All will be quiet on the Atlantic Canada Beer Blog front for the next week or so as I take some time off for a family vacation.  If you’re looking for new posts, tweets or replies from me via email, holding your breathe waiting during this time would be hazardous to your health.

As a teaser, as we like to call it in the business, here are some posts that I am currently working on that I hope to have posted in the near future:

I’m going to drift from the Atlantic Canada theme a bit for a few posts.  I recently had the chance to go to Montreal and will have some posts related to my trip:

  • Insiders’ overview of the Montreal craft beer scene – I’ll be posting about the 5 best spots in the city for beer enthusiasts, overview of festivals in the city and local beer clubs among other things based on an interview with a couple of well connected Montreal beer scene insiders.
  • A profile of McAuslan Brewery (brewer of St. Ambroise beer) – Had the chance to go on a brewery tour hosted by someone with strong Halifax connections.
  •  A profile of BENELUX brewpub

There will possibly be a couple of new guest bloggers providing some posts based on their extensive travel & enjoyment of craft beer experiences throughout North America.  We’re currently in negotiations, as much as I’d love to have their contributions, I don’t know that I’m really willing to give up my last two Garrison Spruce as payment for their services as per their request.

Here’s an overview of the Atlantic content I’m working on:

  • Some back and forth over email in order to do profiles for a few breweries of various sizes in AT Canada.
  • Some back and forth over email in order to do a Q & A of with a local home brewing club.
  • Are new regional beer awards coming to Atlantic Canada?

Will be back online March 12th.

The 2012 Canadian Brewing Awards will take place this June 8th and 9th in Montreal as part of the 19th Annual Mondiale de la Bière.  This marks the first time that the event will take place outside of Toronto.  TAPS Media is committed to move the event to a new location each year and can officially consider this post the start of lobbying to bring it to Atlantic Canada in 2013!

This year will also see the expansion of the Awards Ceremony to include an additional daylong conference featuring speakers, seminars and networking events.  Speakers will include brewing pioneers, beer educators and more.

Atlantic Canadian Breweries have traditionally been very successful at this event.  Fredericton’s Picaroons is the 2011 Brewery of the year with Moncton’s Pump House Brewery having won the Award in 2005.  Garrison Brewing Company has also enjoyed success winning the Beer of the Year for their Imperial I.P.A. in both 2007 and 2008.

This is an event that is sure to be worth a trip to la Belle Province for any Beer Enthusiast.