The concept of launching an Ontario Craft Beer Week is a reasonable proposition. Breweries were able to prepare for the event and put together relatively small gatherings at venues throughout Toronto. The Victory, for instance, had craft beers on tap all this week. Being that they had also had craft […]
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Great Lakes Brewery hosts a monthly event called Project X on the second Thursday of each month. At its inception a year ago, the idea was that they would show off one cask conditioned ale and a number of their beers on tap. The $10 membership would get you a […]
Ontario Craft Beer Week – Project XXXX
Last night, night four of Ontario Craft Beer Week, was the inaugural edition of Cass and Troy’s pub crawl, which looks to be a continuing feature of Ontario Craft Beer Week. The pub crawl serves a number of purposes mostly because of the affiliations of its hosts. Troy Burtch is […]
Ontario Craft Beer Week – Cass and Troy’s Excellent Adventure
One of my goals in covering Ontario Craft Beer Week was to try and get out to a number of different kinds of events. I knew that I wanted to cover an event that had food pairings involved, and it was hard to narrow down the field. Mirella Amato is […]
Ontario Craft Beer Week – Harbord House
One of the things that tends to define Ontario craft beer is the history of the province. While Toronto may currently have one of the most diverse populations in the world, it’s worth reminding ourselves that for a long time we were wall to wall redcoats. You don’t need to […]
Ontario Craft Beer Week – Belgontario @ Bar Volo
One of the events that I was most curious about in the lead up to Ontario Craft Beer Week was the Taste of All Ontario at the Granite Brewery in Toronto. There are a number of reasons for the curiosity, not the least of which is that the Granite Brewery […]
Ontario Craft Beer Week – The Granite
If you’re a beer lover, you probably already know that this is Ontario Craft Beer Week. Across Ontario, there are a large number of events scheduled, and everyone is getting on board. There are tastings and pub crawls and food pairing events that you can choose to attend, and the […]
Ontario Craft Beer Week – An Introduction
In gearing up for Ontario Craft Beer Week, it made sense to me to take a look at the latest promotion offered by the Ontario Craft Brewers: OCB Discovery Pack #5, or as the packaging refers to it OCB Discovery Pack Summer 2010. The discovery pack is priced at $9.95 […]
OCB Discovery Pack Summer 2010
Family vacations, by and large, are the type of situation where you don’t get a lot of input into the schedule if you’re a teenager. You’re at the mercy of other people’s idea of a good time; this is probably due to the fact that a teenager’s idea of a […]
Adventure, Excitement and Weird Old Broads
Here’s an interesting conceit that occurred to me the other day while I was writing about tasting and opinion: In craft brewing, the brewmaster brings a lifetime of personal experience and taste bias to designing a beer. While there’s a certain amount of cloning of the recipes from other breweries […]