Roundtable Barrel Aging Advice Courtesy of Brew Your Own

Barrel aging beer has become increasingly popular amongst home brewers and craft breweries across North America. Here's an interesting 2008 article from Brew Your Own magazine which examines barrel aging programs from several breweries:

http://byo.com/videos/item/1274-professional-barrel-aging

Last Best Brewpub Opening Soon In Calgary

I often talk about how exciting it is to be a beer fan in Alberta at the moment. There seems to be new breweries and beer focused bars opening up all the time all over our province. Just off the top of my head, I know of several new breweries opening soon in Edson, Red Deer, and Edmonton. A little further south, a brand new brewpub is opening up in Calgary called Last Best. It's owned by the Bear Hill chain of brewpubs, which consists of Jasper Brewing, Banff Ave Brewing, and Wood Buffalo Brewing in Fort Mac.

Last Best is not only the newest, and possibly largest, brewpub in the heart of downtown Calgary but it is also a distillery. It's not open yet, but will be soon (as in within the month).... Here's some links to keep up:

http://www.lastbestbrewing.com/

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Last-Best-Brewing-Distilling/579794618783583?sk=timeline&ref=page_internal

https://twitter.com/lastbestbrew

Beer Curious: Edmonton Beer Tour

So, I've been talking about how great it would be for Edmonton or Calgary to have an organized beer tour for a while. Well, here it is. The Edmonton Heritage Council has organized a historic Edmonton beer tour. As far as I know, at the moment it is a one time event happening on April 18th. The $85 five hour tour takes you to Edmonton's past and present beer haunts and comes with samples, food, souvenirs and the opportunity to sample a beer that was specially made for the tour by Alley Kat.

Here's the website for more information and tickets:

http://citymuseumedmonton.ca/events/brew-curious-yegs-brewing-history/