Ontario Craft Beer Week

A little under a month ago I was sitting in Chaucer’s in London, Ontario with a group of beer writers and Matt Brown. Matt is the mayor of London and I’m afraid I made a bad impression by referring to him as “your worshipfulness.” It was the third stop on […]

And in Every Town

September 11, 2015 in Ontario Craft Beer Week by admin

It’s no secret that one of the things I look forward to every year during Ontario Craft Beer Week is the comparatively larger number of people thinking seriously about beer and food. Beer dinners, for instance, abound. The version of beer and food pairing that I think is probably most […]

Flights and Bites @ Fanny Chadwick’s – 2013

June 20, 2013 in Beer and Food / Ontario Craft Beer Week tagged Beer and Food / Fanny Chadwick's / Flights and Bites / Ontario Craft Beer Week by admin

As Ontario Craft Beer Week continues on its merry, slightly lumbering way, I find that the events that I’m most interested in are the ones that deal with pairing food and beer. I suspect that this has to do with the fact that we don’t get enough of this in […]

OCB Week Beer and Food: Fanny Chadwick’s

June 21, 2012 in Beer and Food / Ontario Craft Beer Week tagged Beer and Food / Fanny Chadwick's / Flying Monkey's Stereo Vision / OCB Week 2012 by admin

It’s the week after Father’s Day and that means that it’s time once again for Ontario Craft Beer Week. OCB Week is now in its third year and the number of events that are available has jumped pretty considerably from last year. It’s a jump that seems conceptually tied to […]

Ontario Craft Beer Week 2012

June 18, 2012 in Ontario Craft Beer Week / The Ontario Beer Revolution tagged Ontario Craft Beer Week 2012 by admin

You may have noticed that the old bloggity blog has lain fallow these two weeks. There’s a good reason for that. June was busier than a one legged man in an ass kicking contest, and my plan of trying to cover events every day during Ontario Craft Beer Week was […]

Filling in the Blanks for Ontario Craft Beer Week 2011

July 12, 2011 in Ontario Craft Beer Week tagged Bar Volo / innovation / Ontario Craft Beer Week / Ralph Morana / Session 99 / The Spice Girls by admin

Eventually, if you write for a paper, you get to the point where you’re a z-class celebrity. You’d have a long way to go to reach the dizzying heights of an Abe Vigoda or Don Knotts, but people invite you to do things. I was invited to be the special […]

Ontario Craft Beer Week 2011 – Day 5

June 24, 2011 in Ontario Craft Beer Week tagged Beermen vs. Food / BQM / Competitive Eating / Ontario Craft Beer Week 2011 by admin

Let me tug on your coat about something. A lot of the time, the craft beer movement is defined not so much by the drinkers as it is by the brewers and the people who write about beer. You’ve got a lot of different beer bloggers and columnists and legitimate […]

Ontario Craft Beer Week – Day Three

June 23, 2011 in Ontario Craft Beer Week tagged Fun / Luke Cage / Ontario Craft Beer Week / Robohop / Toronto Beer Lovers by admin

This year, I’m trying to get to as many Ontario Craft Beer Week events as is humanly possible, so you’ll probably see me out and about knocking around the GTA in some capacity or other. Maybe I’ll be complaining violently about having been to so many events. Maybe I’ll be […]

Ontario Craft Beer Week 2011 – Day Two

June 21, 2011 in Ontario Craft Beer Week tagged Beer Cocktails / Biergotter / Christine Sismondo / David Bieman / Eric Ecclestone:Local Badass / Great Lakes Faith No More Saison / Harbord House Beer Dinner / Mirella Amato / Ontario Craft Beer Week by admin

Do you know how far the perception of beer has come in the last ten years? A very long way indeed, and a lot of that is down to craft brewers getting involved with locations outside of the places that you’d traditionally find them. As I look at the lineup […]

Ontario Craft Beer Week 2011 – Day One

June 19, 2011 in Ontario Craft Beer Week tagged Abject Squalor / C sharp minor / Gustav Mahler / Ontario Craft Beer Week / Toronto Symphony Orchestra by admin

Now that the booths have been packed up at the Sunnyside Pavilion and the events of the week have come to an end, it’s a good opportunity to take a look back and see exactly what Ontario Craft Beer Week accomplished. For me, there were high spots and low spots […]

Ontario Craft Beer Week – An Epilogue OR “Look Back ...

June 28, 2010 in Ontario Craft Beer Week tagged Bar Towel / festival / Ontario Craft Beer Week / TAPS / Toronto Beer Week by admin

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