McAuslan Beer Dinner at Fuzion
On Wednesday, February 28th, Fuzion Resto-Lounge (580 Church St.) will be presenting a special tasting menu featuring pairings with a variety of McAuslan beers. The menu for the evening is available as a PDF file. The evening will start at 6:30 with a cocktail reception, followed by dinner at 7:30. Tickets [...]
Brooklyn Brewery Dinner at beerbistro
On Tuesday, February 27th, beerbistro and Fine Beers Agency will be presenting a special dinner marking the recent arrival of the beers of Brooklyn Brewery in Ontario. In attendance will be brewmaster of Brooklyn Brewery and author of The Brewmaster's Table, Garrett Oliver, and Brooklyn Brewery general manager, Eric Ottaway. Tickets [...]
IPA Challenge & Valentine’s Dinner at Volo
The following announcement was posted to the Volo website earlier this week: Ontario brewers have been busy since our last IPA challenge. Two new IPAs have been introduced since then and we now have a respectable local representation of the west-coast style. Who says Ontario isnt ready for hoppy ales. The [...]
Winter Warmers Tasting at C’est What
On Wednesday, February 21st at 7 PM, The Bar Towel and C'est What will be co-presenting a Winter Warmers beer tasting. Eight to ten local seasonal brews will be served in a blind tasting format, and afterwards a draw from among those that have submitted their scores will be held to [...]
Beer News Round-Up
Here's a quick round-up of local beer news & press mentions from the last couple of weeks: Undoubtedly the biggest news recently was last week's announcement that Labatt has make a friendly takeover bid for Lakeport that looks likely to be accepted. This has been covered all over the place (including [...]
Eggenberg Coming to Ontario
Hot on the heels of the announcement that they were bringing Thomas Hardy's Ale and other O'Hanlon's beers to Ontario, word has come that import agents Roland + Russell have added Austrian brewery Schloss Eggenberg to their portfolio. As with O'Hanlon's, Eggenberg is known as a brewery that revived a classic [...]
Paper Brewery Memorabilia Show & Sale
The Golden Horseshoe Breweriana Collectors are presenting a show and sale of paper brewery memorabilia (coasters, labels, letterhead, invoices, etc.) from 1:00 to 4:00 PM on Saturday February 24, 2007 at The Granite Brewery & Restaurant (245 Eglinton Ave. E.). For more information, contact Larry at (416) 465-3386. Discuss this topic [...]
Thomas Hardy’s Ale Now In Ontario
In today's edition of his What's Brewing column, Josh Rubin reports that the world-renowned Thomas Hardy's Ale is now available in Ontario. Roland and Russell, a company that previously specialized in importing wines and spirits from Eastern Europe, have recently become agents for O'Hanlon's, the brewery that has produced Thomas Hardy's [...]
Roger Mittag’s Beer School
Beer expert & consultant Roger Mittag will soon be launching The Beer School, a series of four 3-hour courses on various aspects of beer and beer culture. Presented at various breweries throughout Ontario beginning in February, the themes of the courses will include The Art of Brewing, The Beer Market, The [...]
Sleeman Brews Bard’s Beer
In honour of the Shakespeare: Made in Canada festival which will be running in Guelph from January to May of this year, Sleeman Breweries have brewed a limited edition ale called The Bard's Beer. Launched this past week at The Shakespeare Arms, the beer will be available on tap at various [...]
Brooklyn Beers at LCBO & beerbistro
As mentioned here a month or so ago, Toronto's Fine Beers Agency have recently added Brooklyn Brewery to their portfolio of premium imports. After a slight delay, the brewery's flagship beer, Brooklyn Lager, will be delivered to the LCBO next week and should arrive in stores later in January. In addition, [...]
Holiday Beers and More in Metro & The Star
The holidays are just about over for most of us, so before they're gone for another year, here's a round-up of the coverage that Metro and The Star have given to holiday (& other) beers in the last couple of weeks. In Metro, Aonghus Kealy (pictured) has done: a feature on [...]
Trafalgar Gift Packs & Mead Sale
This info from Trafalgar Ales & Meads was sent to us just a couple of days before Christmas and got lost in the holiday rush. Our apologies to Trafalgar and our readers for not getting it posted in time for the big day... HOLIDAY GIFT PACKSWe've put together some nice gift [...]
Scotch-Irish Santa Claws Christmas Cake Porter
Christmas may be over for another year, but there are still some great local holiday beers available on tap at various spots around town. Joining the selection this week is Santa Claws Christmas Cake Porter, a one-off cask ale created by Perry Mason at Scotch-Irish Brewing. Described as tasting like "a [...]
New Beers at C’est What
C'est What (67 Front St. E., Toronto) are celebrating the holiday season with some new beers on their tap list. Available now are Heritage Blackcurrant Rye, Granite Best Bitter, Great Lakes Winter Ale, MacLean's Scotch Ale (cask), Wellington Iron Duke (cask), Black Oak Nutcracker Porter and Trafalgar Celtic Ale. They've also [...]
New Year’s Eve Events
If you're looking for a craft beer friendly way to spend your New Year's Eve this year, here are the details on how a few of Toronto's top beer destinations will be ringing in 2007: beerbistro 18 King St. E. - (416) 861-9872 Four Course Dinner (two seatings) with live jazz [...]
Cameron’s Web Site Relaunch
Cameron's Brewing of Oakville have recently relaunched their website, and it's now jam-packed with information about their beers and brewery, as well as news & event listings, and a shop to pick up t-shirts, glasses and other Cameron's paraphernalia. You can also keep in touch via their new newsletter, or be [...]
Bar & Pub News Bites
Here are a few assorted bar & pub news items that have come our way recently: A couple of hours west of Toronto in the small town of Elora, The Shepherd's Pub has recently been taken over by new publicans Jad Crawford and Grant Farrell who are devoting their tap line-up [...]
Great Lakes Winter Ale Now Available
Great Lakes Brewery have officially released their newest seasonal beer, Great Lakes Winter Ale. Here is the announcement originally posted here back in November: In light of the great response to our Devil's Pale Ale, we've brewed a brand new beer that will be ready just in time for the holidays. [...]
Petr Janik on Ontario Pilsners
We were remiss in mentioning that in his What's Brewing column last week, The Star's Josh Rubin presented a feature on Petr Janik, brewmaster at the legendary Plzensky Prazdroj brewery, better known in these parts as Pilsner Urquell. In addition to talking about the brewing process for the world's original pilsner, [...]