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Amsterdam Tap Takeover @ Bar Volo

January 23, 2013 in Bar Volo / The Ontario Beer Revolution tagged amsterdam brewery / Bar Volo / Barrel Aging in Ontario / Iain McOustra / Iain McOustra's Giant Noggin by admin

At some point in the middle of the last month, probably during a week when there were midterm exams, I was surprised by an email about the Ontario IPA Challenge. I knew it was coming up, but usually Volo sort of organizes their events independently and it seemed a little […]

So You Want To Be A Brewer: The Inevitability of ...

April 1, 2012 in Bar Volo / Niagara College / Shameless Plugs tagged Austin Roach / Bar Volo / Niagara College / Ontario IPA Challenge / St. Roach IPA / St.John's Wort Llama Milld by admin

One of the problems with writing a national column has to do with the fact that it becomes pretty difficult to justify reporting on events that are purely local. Sometimes, I’ll see upcoming events that I want to plug, but it’s just not feasible due either to timeline constraints or […]

Beer 4 Boobs

March 17, 2012 in Bar Volo / Shameless Plugs tagged Bar Volo / Beer4boobs / Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation / craft beer and charity / female brewers / toronto by admin

Before I started writing about beer, I worked a job at a publishing company. It was not a particularly fulfilling job, but one of the perks that it had was location. It was located right down the street from Bar Volo. I suppose that at this point, I’ve probably been […]

So You Want To Be A Brewer: House Ales/St.John’s Wort ...

February 28, 2012 in Bar Volo / Shameless Plugs tagged Bar Volo / Gin and Juice / House Ales / Jason Tremblay / Ralph Morana by admin

In Ralph Morana’s ever expanding quest to take over the beer world, Cask Days 2011 has to be seen as a massive success. That being said, it wasn’t without gambles. Any time you move a beer festival to an outdoor location, you face a number of variables that are beyond […]

Cask Days @ Hart House

November 2, 2011 in Bar Volo tagged Bar Volo / Cask Beer Toronto / Cask Days / George Eagleson: Urban Cowboy / Giuliano Morana / Ralph Morana / Sam Corbeil / Tomas Morana 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

It’s the end of October, and while for your average pub-goer it’s an excuse to scrape together a last minute costume (“I’m a psychopath. We look just like everybody else.”) for beer nerds it can mean only one thing: Bar Volo’s Cask Days. This is going to be sixth annual […]

Cask Days 2010 – IT BEGINS!

October 29, 2010 in Bar Volo tagged Bar Volo / cask days 2010 / Ontario / The Ontario Beer Revolution / Trafalgar Korruptor / Trafalgar Ultimatum by admin

One of the best things about the events listing for Toronto Beer Week is the fact that there are a lot of events that are taking place that otherwise wouldn’t. Just the fact that there is likely to be an influx of interest in the subject tends to mean that […]

Toronto Beer Week – Beer Culture Events

September 14, 2010 in Toronto Beer Week tagged Bar Volo / beer / Beerology / black oak / Gimmicks / Josh Rubin / Michael Hancock / Mirella Amato / Toronto Beer Week by admin

One of the best things about craft brewing is that it tends to reward innovation. New developments are typically welcomed by the consumer and indeed talked about online ad nausea. This is as it should be. While there was certainly a period in Ontario during the last twenty years where […]

The Ontario IPA Challenge

July 12, 2010 in Accounting for Taste tagged Bar Volo / India Pale Ale / IPA Challenge / Ontario / Scottish Zoloft by admin

Bar Volo has acquired quite a reputation for itself. Between the annual Cask Days festival, the rotating tap selection and continued importation of rare and interesting bottles, it has managed to rank 61st in Beer Traveler Magazine’s 150 Perfect Places to Have A Beer. I can tell you right now […]

Bar Volo – Your Friendly Neighborhood Nanobrewery

June 29, 2010 in Bar Volo tagged Bar Volo / beer / Biergotter / Eric Ecclestone: Local Badass / nanobrewing / Russ Burdick by admin

St. John's Wort

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