It’s the inspiration for Velcro, an Asian super ingredient, and it grows abundantly in Winnipeg. Burdock is this month’s featured Fantastic Foraged Fare. You might recognize the flowers of Burdock more when they turn brown and dry and harden. Better known as burrs, these annoying hitch hikers were the inspiration for a transformational technology. While […]
Smoke billows, flames lick through the understory, and what was moments earlier familiar and safe is vaporized, changed, blackened. The recent, if brief, blaze in Assiniboine Forest on Thursday, April 26 brought the spectre of forest fires dangerously close to home. It’s natural to react with fear. We’ve been taught that forest fires are agents […]
There’s a world of wine out there beyond the basic (ahem) take grapes add yeast formula. That’s the world of fortified wine. What is a fortified wine? You’ve no doubt heard of them primarily in the names port and sherry. What’s this fortified business? Fortified wines are wines that have had a distilled spirit (usually […]
Set for launch on St. Patrick’s Day, Half Pints Brewing‘s latest creation is called Black Galaxy. Brewmaster Dave Rudge describes it as a Cascadian Dark Ale/American Black Ale or (less appropriately) Black IPA. It’s a similar style to their Black Scrapper, which had people lining up out the door and remains among BeerAdvocate.com‘s Top 50 […]
