Dave Robson
7 Tips For Surviving Beer Festivals
It’s beer festival season, formally known as “summer”. Humanity’s greatest accomplishment? Possibly. Here’s how to make sure you make it through. Ascertain! You need to get through thirty breweries in four hours! Just dive in and start sampling beers, right? Wrong, friend-o. The fact that beer festivals offer so much … Read More
Tasting Notes: Session Saison
Fair warning: these first few paragraphs are going to be a little weird. It can’t be helped. Created under the aegis of the Griffin Gastropub and the Session Toronto Craft Beer Festival, designed by seven Toronto craft beer bars (The Only Café, C’est What?, BarHop, BarVolo, The Auld Spot, WVRST, … Read More
Bookshelf: How to Drink Snake Blood in Vietnam
True story: I once drank a shot of snake blood mixed with bootleg arrack. This occurred about halfway through a night of drinking in Jakarta (alas, not Vietnam) within sight of the Monas. The old Chinese man who prepared the shot, which included theatrically chopping off a snake’s head and … Read More
Bookshelf: Johnny Cash – The Life
I have over a thousand Johnny Cash songs in my collection, even all his albums from the eighties, about which less said is better. It’s all carefully curated too; I’ve uploaded all of it to iTunes, categorized it, rated it, and listened to it in order—every single studio album, live … Read More
