Ontario Craft Beer Week

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

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

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

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 […]

Ontario Craft Beer Week – Session: A Craft Beer Festival

June 27, 2010 in Ontario Craft Beer Week / Uncategorized tagged beer / black oak / festival / griffin gastropub / Ontario Craft Beer Week by admin

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

June 25, 2010 in Ontario Craft Beer Week tagged beer / flying monkeys / Great Lakes / Ontario Craft Beer Week / project x / roller derby by admin

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

June 24, 2010 in Ontario Craft Beer Week tagged alpha hipsters / Bar Towel / beer / bourgeois scum / Cass Enright / Ontario Craft Beer Week / ribaldry / TAPS / Troy Burtch by admin

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

June 23, 2010 in Ontario Craft Beer Week tagged beer / food pairing / Great Lakes / Harbord House / Ontario Craft Beer Week by admin

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