Craft Beer

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11 hours ago, Mike said:

Winnipeg’s biggest problem in the brewing process is its water. It’s too hard and nobody invests the time, effort or capital into a solution, because that takes away from a brewery’s primary function - profit.

Wait so you're telling me breweries in winnipeg don't do water adjustments? 

That's also a bullshit argument too. Calgary has hard water as well. I don't know what winnipeg is like but I know Calgary is comparable to Munich and I think the Germans managed to brew ok... 

Hard water does lend itself better to malt forward beers where as soft water does make the hop character shine through more but even a ton of people who home brew adjust their water to the style they're making.

[Noeller]

Everyone gets basically all their hops from the same place... The Yakima "Hop Cartel"... It's essentially the best place in the world to get hops, so everyone pays them a ridiculous amount of money on a big contract. Lots have tried to grow their own hops, and I know some in AB are trying local hops, but it's pretty much all **** compared to Yakima.

[Atomic]

12 hours ago, Mike said:

There’s a reason TCB has to pay vendors for front row shelf space, there’s a reason Stone Angel shut down, there’s a reason Half Pints (gonna miss them, sad they went downhill) is up for sale. These places haven’t changed, never adapted and got lazy. I don’t need to be a cicerone to see that. Sookrams, Kilter and (sometimes) LBJ are the big three in Manitoba and it’s going to stay that way for a long time with reason.

Pretty sure TCB has overtaken all of them or will overtake them in short order. Helps to be owned by the Princess Auto family.

[Club Beer]

Craft beer sucks.