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or i guess tempests in mash tuns will a visit by stephen harper to a brewery in east van (a historically ndp riding) mean that all the harper-haters will stop buying that brewery's beer? frankly, not many beer geeks i know drink that beer anyway... without having done ANY reading on the matter, i weigh in with a whopping big who cares? regardless of the dismantling harper has done to our lovely country, it is still a free one he can hold meetings wherever he'd like and breweries can rent out their space to whoever asks and i can drink what i want and so can you

my notes from yesterday's beer column on cbc radio one's on the coast with stephen quinn: 2015 marks the 80 th anniversary of the beer can.    Beer cans have survived market ups and downs, and waxing and waning popularity for 80 years now.   Now they are experiencing a boom along with craft beer. Although macro breweries, which use a lot of cans, are experiencing a decline in market share more craft brewers are embracing the can as an economical and advantageous way of packaging beer for the public. While it is always preferable to drink fresh beer, that is not always possible.   Bottling has been around for much longer than canning and is often thought of as the best way to package beer.   There’s a sort of snobbery around bottles – that somehow they are a classier way to package beverages.   From a craft beer stand point you shouldn’t be drinking the beer out of a can or a bottle, you should be pouring it into a clean glass so that you can full...