Where to drink if you’re in New York and it isn’t Craft Beer Week

Or, What Josh Schaffner taught me about getting drunk in the Big Apple
This is part two of a previous post in which I interview Josh Schaffner about NY Craft Beer Week, the beerfest he created. Below are reviewed a collection of bars that Schaffner included in his beer crawls, but luckily for us, they are [...]

AHU: A man for all Saisons… and IPAs, and Bocks

McGill Grad starts his own big city beerfest
At your average beer festival, a ticket gets you a plastic mug and some tokens allowing you to join a few hundred like-minded individuals in two-ounce samples from more breweries than you can count – all under a tent in some park. Nothing about the experience jibes with [...]

AHU: The 100-mile diet, liquid edition

As the first days of school and the last days of summer are upon us, one phase of drinking slowly morphs into another. Languidly beating the heat on a terrasse with a bottle of beer in hand turns into complaining about profs and exams over pints at Biftek. The reality of student drinking is that [...]

AHU: Old world beer in New France

Originally published in The McGill Daily on April 7, 2008.
If, somehow, beer culture was a religion – and the zealous, prophetical, and dogmatic sides of the industry do exist – Belgium would be the holy land. Of the places on the globe where beer is given its due respect, nowhere is it revered as much [...]

AHU: Because the beer won’t brew itself

Originally published in The McGill Daily on January 31, 2008. Keep reading for a homebrew recipe and instructions on how to make your own Brown Ale.

Forty-five years after the repeal of Prohibition in America – that 13-year federal black hole of fun and good spirits – the vestiges of this legislation forbade the brewing of [...]