origins

Beer Fact or Fiction #995: Canada’s First Nations people were also our first brewmasters.

Historians will generally go back to the early 1600’s when mapping out the origins of modern beer in Canada. However, long before the Jesuits were brewing up batches of frothy ales, our indigenous people were crafting their own spruce beers. A source of vitamin C, spruce beer was used by Jacques Cartier in 1536 to…

Beer Fact or Fiction #996: Beer makes you more attractive.

Okay. Maybe if you consume it and look in a mirror, but it doesn’t make you physically sexier to another person. However, through beer goggles, another person will find you more attractive and there is scientific proof to back that up. Do the math In a study commissioned by Bausch and Lomb Purevision, University of…

Beer Fact or Fiction #997: Beer was first named after a Roman goddess.

The Romans and Greeks of ancient days called beer “cerevisia” which is derived from Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture, and “vis” which is latin for strength. This probably explains how indestructible one gets after a few barley sandwiches.