With unseasonably warm autumn temperatures casting a balmy breeze over green suburbs, it’s as though nature herself decided to give us a few extra weeks of summer. And with this perpetual summer – extra baseball games, shorts season projected to…
Step aside craft breweries, moon beer is coming
BY: BROOKLYN PINHEIRO Have you ever wondered how yeast would act in outer space? No me neither, but lucky for us some science students have or else we wouldn’t have the possibility of brewing beer on the moon. A group…
Beer yoga is a thing now and it’s the only meditation you’ll ever need
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Photos via BIERYOGA/FACEBOOK What better way to relax and reminisce on the hard week that has passed than with a cold beer in hand. Maybe your first beer of the night is after you’ve indulged your mind and…
The Medieval city of Bruges has built the world’s first beer pipeline to protect its heritage
BY: MIROSLAV TOMOSKI When the tour guide at the chocolate factory was asked, “What kind of beer pairs well with dark chocolate?” I half-expected him to laugh. To the tour group’s surprise, he answered without skipping a beat and went…
Breweries are now being used as multi-purpose yoga studios
By: Jocelyn Schwalm A yoga teacher from Ottawa is changing the face of the traditional yoga studio. Ashley Kolklj has put together yoga workshops that consist of practicing yoga in different breweries around Ontario, and finishing the class with an ice cold pint. The founder, Kolklj, states that…
How one beer company is working to create sustainable art out of air pollution
BY: RHIANN MOORE Tiger Beer and Graviky Labs definitely know something about how to make the best out of a bad situation. Asia has had a major issue with air pollution in recent years. In an attempt to ease the strain these…
Craft brewery wants to pay you $12,000 to travel, drink beer and tweet about it
BY: JESSICA BEUKER A new internship position opened up and is currently accepting applications. But this isn’t your typical internship. Instead of fetching coffee or kissing the boss’s ass, you’ll get paid to travel the world, drink beer, and chronicle…
The “Indiana Jones of alcohol” is resurrecting long-lost beers with the help of this brewery
BY TREVOR HEWITT Humans love getting drunk – in fact, we’ve been doing it for around 12,000 years. Now Patrick McGovern, one of the foremost authorities on early beer and the ancient art of getting wasted, is taking our infatuation…
The WCRF determines the exact number of drinks a day that causes cancer.
BY: JESSICA BEUKER The World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) has pinpointed the exact level of drinking that is associated with liver cancer. According to The Guardian, the WCRF said this has been the biggest review so far of the evidence…
Collective Arts Craft Beer Will Get You Drunk On Art
BY: TED BARNABY Creativity and alcohol are a lot like peanut butter and jam. Matt is the owner and founder of Collective Arts Brewing, a craft brewery on a bold mission to bring creativity back into the conversation. Instead of…
How three fired guys started a craft beer revolution (Steam Whistle Brewing)
BY: TYLER FYFE In 1988, Greg Taylor was a bike courier pedalling nervously towards the house owned by his girlfriend’s boss, clad in a cheap-checkered-necktie. He had been invited as her “plus one” to The Upper Canada Brewing Company’s employee…
These engineering graduates created a bong that lets you get drunk and high at the same time (video)
By: PILGRIM A long, graffiti-bombed school bus turned up out of the dust and opened its doors. “Coming along?” In the passenger seat, sat a tall and slender Caucasian in his mid-twenties with a handlebar moustache that reached down to…