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Dog Days at Cold Garden
This might be the perfect spring trifecta in Calgary. Pints on a sunny, funky brewpub patio. A hot dog festival. The finish of a marathon road race, with all its thirsty competitors. Oh, and a fourth: a welcome “mat” for real dogs to lounge on, inside and outside the brewery. Mix it all together and you’ve got a (barley) mashup called Dog Days Festival, a two-week (May 23-June 6) celebration of…
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Calgary's Latest Brew Pub, in Marda Loop
Vaycay a new brew pub in Marda Loop With soaring food costs and stiff competition, you might not expect a new entry in Calgary’s crowded craft beer market. Yet Vaycay Brew Pub has just opened another such establishment, in busy Marda Loop; its three-year-old brewery is in nearby Currie Barracks. A flight of beers Owner Andrew Gass has a few competitive aces up his sleeve. One, obviously, is a…
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Fabulous Local, National Beer
A very happy hour at National Westhills For more than a decade, the National Westhills has been my go-to neighbourhood pub—even if it is located in a large southwest Calgary mall. It’s a bright, large but comfortable space for meeting friends and family, with an energetic staff contributing to the good-times vibe. While lacking the intimacy of a brewpub, this beer “market” allows you to order…
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Calgary's Best Brewpub Pizzas and Beers
Last Best pizza and beer There are many classic culinary pairings: bacon and eggs, burgers and fries, mac and cheese, peanut butter and jam. To this mix we can add beer and pizza, a longtime partnership that’s only getting stronger in Calgary as more craft breweries add gourmet pizzas to their pub food menus. So much so that you can go for the beer but stay for the pie. Here’s a half dozen…
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Calgary's Best Taproom Beer and Burgers
You can’t beat Citizen Brewing’s happy-hour burger and beer Pretty much any Calgary taproom worth its salt has at least one burger on its food menu. Here are four of the best pairings. This one’s a slam dunk. Annex Ales (4323 1 Street SE) is arguably the most adventurous craft brewery in Calgary. The attached Lil’ Empire serves some of the city’s finest burgers. Try a small-batch, seasonal brew…
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Best Calgary Eats and Drinks
Fresh-baked pitas are just the start of the excellent shawarmas at Beirut Street Food A new year, a new project. Inspired by this resolution: Schedule more spontaneous acts into my day. The project is to discover and celebrate the best eats and drinks in Calgary. The best burgers, the best croissants, the best coffee roasteries, the best brewpubs, the best Lebanese poutine. It’s a long…
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Fire Bloom Calgary Lager
It’s not fire water. It’s Fire Bloom beer It’s not often that me drinking beer is good for the world. Most of the time, I’m not even sure if I’m drinking to forget or forgetting to drink. It’s an infinitesimally small step, but every time I sip a Fire Bloom lager from Calgary’s Best of Kin brewery, a portion of the sale goes to help regenerate wildfire-ravaged landscapes like the recent…
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Baby holding Calgary Beer, 1940s, Alberta.
