Canada

Beer In Art #104: Alida’s Still Life With Beer

November 28, 2010

This week’s work of art is by Canadian artist Alida and is a still life she did of several beer bottles while on a trip to a family cabin over a long weekend in September of this year. As she tells it. “I had good intentions of painting outdoors, but in my opinion it was [...]

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Beer In Ads #216: Molson Beach Drawing

October 14, 2010

Thursday’s ad is for the Canadian beer Molson and is from 1985. It depicts an idyllic beach scene and features a bottle of Molson beer drawn into the sand between two beach blankets. The woman from the blue towel has walked over to the man on the yellow towel, saying. “Well, now that you’ve drawn [...]

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Next Session To Clear Up Wheat Beers

October 4, 2010

Our 45th Session will be hosted by Bruce Tichnor, who runs the Canadian BeerTaster.ca. He’s taking us back to our roots, to spend a cloudy afternoon with wheat beers, or has he describes it: We wanted to get back closer to the roots of the Session and pick a topic which was simple and yet [...]

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Beer In Art #96: Charlene Audrey’s Four Beer Nations

October 3, 2010

Today’s art is by Charlene Audrey, a freelance illustrator born in Syracuse, new York, but raised in Quebec, Canada. She’s done high-end wallpaper and decorative arts but more lately does painting. She created these four paintings which are sold as posters on most of the popular poster websites. Each one depicts the beer of a [...]

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Canadian Brewing Awards 2010

September 25, 2010

Last night, Friday September 24, the 8th annual Canadian Brewing Awards were presented at the Cool Brewery in Etobicoke, Ontario. At the CBA Gala and Medal Presentation, 93 medals were awarded in 31 style categories. This year, there were 390 entries from 76 Canadian breweries, “making the 2010 edition the largest brewing competition ever held [...]

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Beer In Ads #200: Vote For Mr. Pilsener

September 22, 2010

Wednesday’s ad is from 1960 for Labatt’s of Canada, which must have been election year there, too. I love Labatt’s little old German brewer persona. I’d vote for that guy. And what a great tagline: “Vote For Mr. Pilsener, The Friend of the People, and leader of the Labatt’s Pilsener Party.” Hilarious. “3 Cheers” indeed.

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Beer In Art #94: Rufus’ Northern Breweries, Sudbury

September 19, 2010

Today’s featured artwork is by a Canadian artist known only as Rufus. She works in mixed media and the piece is entitled Northern Breweries, Sudbury, a brewery in Ontario. Northern Breweries was founded in 1907, but closed around five years ago. The work was created in 2008, and is Mixed Media on canvas, 8 x [...]

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Ontario Declares Santa Claus Only For Kids

May 28, 2010

According to the Canadian National Post (sent in by an alert reader — thanks Brian S.), the LCBO — the Liquor Control Board of Ontario — has banned the Christmas beer Samichlaus, from Schloss Eggenberg. Here’s the reason, if you can even call it that. The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario has decided the [...]

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Beer In Ads #92: Snappa Cappa Red Cap

April 21, 2010

Wednesday’s ad keeps the week’s accidental theme of strange glances going. It’s a 1958 ad for Carling’s Red Cap beer, “the true Canadian ale” — at least according to the ad. The primary sidewards glance in this ad is looking up at someone looking to have their not-yet-empty glass filled. That’s odd enough, but notice [...]

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I Am A Canadian Craft Brewer

April 21, 2010

In an effort to promote Vancouver Beer Week, which is set to take place May 10-16 throughout the Vancouver, Canada area, the organizers have created a wonderful video, I Am A Canadian Craft Brewer. I am a Canadian Craft Brewer from VancouverCBW on Vimeo.

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Beer In Ads #89: Labatt 50′s Spirit

April 16, 2010

Friday’s ad is for a Canadian beer from Labatt’s. Labatt’s 50 Ale debuted in 1950 “to commemorate 50 years of partnership” and until 1979 was their best-selling beer. According to Labatt’s website: John and Hugh Labatt, grandsons of founder John K. Labatt, launched Labatt 50 in 1950 to commemorate 50 years of partnership. The first [...]

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Canadian Iceholes

February 11, 2010

If you’re a regular viewer of Comedy Central’s Colbert Report, then you’re probably already aware of his mock feud with Canada over ice time for the U.S. speed skating team, which the show sponsored after the team lost its long-time previous supporter due to the economy. The Colbert Nation stepped up and donated thousands of [...]

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Beer In Ads #21: Molson’s Crown & Anchor

January 13, 2010

Wednesday’s ad is from Canada, and was published in 1955. After opening their Toronto brewery the same year, Molson debuted their first lager beer, Crown and Anchor. This ad, featuring dancing sailors, was one of the first ads for the new beer. I wonder what “sparkling light” is? If you can’t read the text, either [...]

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Session #33: Don’t Think Of A Pink Elephant

November 6, 2009

I’ll Have a Beer, a.k.a. Andrew Couch, our host for the 33rd monthly Session, begins his explanation of this month’s topic — framing beer — with a compelling story: My sister once told me a story she had heard about a sculpture exhibit: on the winter day it opened, the artist placed a coat rack [...]

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Beer Without Borders?

January 10, 2008

There was an interesting little piece in Canada’s McGill Daily today, about their alcohol laws. I knew about them to some degree and was at least aware that beer from one province couldn’t necessarily be sold in another without a high tariff. Essentially it’s the same as if you couldn’t sell beer from Oregon in [...]

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Planting a Beer Garden

May 1, 2007

There was an amusing little spoof on the Canadian humor site The Toque called “Plant Your Own Beer Garden.” They suggest simply planting the bottles in the ground, but caution against “over-planting. Too many beers in one garden will result in a watery, low-alcohol “lite” beer.”

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