Heritage/Scotch Irish Line-Up For TFOB
The line-up of beers that Ottawa's Heritage/Scotch Irish will be serving at the upcoming Toronto Festival of Beer (Aug 11-13 at Fort York) has been announced. From the Heritage side of the brewery, they'll be offering the Premium Lager, Dark Lager & Passion Brew, while the Scotch Irish line-up will include [...]
Renovations at C’est What
Renovations are currently underway in the west room at C'est What, and they are expected to run until at least the end of August. As a result, the tap selection is roughly halved, as only the lines in the east room are operational, and only one cask ale is available (currently [...]
Great Lakes Mystery Beer Coming Soon
The folks at Great Lakes Brewery have something up their sleeves: Just wanted to let you know about something new and exciting that's happening here at Great Lakes. Although we can't divulge all the details yet, we have a new beer aging at the brewery, ready to be unveiled at the [...]
St. Louis Premium Kriek Finally Arrives
Astute beer drinkers will undoubtedly have noticed that St. Louis Premium Kriek was announced as being part of the LCBO summer beer release, but has yet to appear on store shelves nearly a month after the promotion officially kicked off. Paul Flint from import agency Rubaiyat has an explanation: The order [...]
OCB Tour in Sunday Sun
The Travel section of this past weekend's Sunday Sun included a feature article on a tour of four Ontario Craft Brewers members. Receiving visits for the piece were Mill Street, Old Credit, Wellington and Brick.
Blogging With Beaumont
Toronto-based beer writer Stephen Beaumont has recently expanded his online presence and joined the world of beer blogging (although it could be said that his well known World Of Beer website - which has been online for almost a decade - was a blog of sorts before the term was in [...]
LCBO Fall Release
The following beers will be included in the LCBO's Fall seasonal release, due to hit stores in mid-September: De Koninck Amber Ale O'Hara's Celtic Stout Erdinger Dunkel Weissbier Rogue Dead Guy Ale St. Peter's Strong Ale Fuller's Vintage Ale 2006 Belhaven Wee Heavy Burton Porter Samuel Smith's Nut Brown Ale Belhaven [...]
Beer Bulletins
A few local beer articles - and one not-so-local one that may still be of interest to Ontario beer drinkers - have appeared in print and online in the last little while: In his weekly Toronto Star beer column, Jon Filson offers up a of mini-profile of Stratford Brewing. The article [...]
New Arrivals at Volo
Now available at Volo are several hard-to-find (in Ontario, at least) beers from Unibroue, including Don De Dieu, Eau Benite, Terrible and Quelque Chose. Also in is a single case of the fantastic Black Toque India Dark Ale from Victoria's Phillips Brewing.
Niagara’s Best Lager
While there has been no official announcement from the brewery, it appears that Niagara's Best Beer in St. Catherine's is now brewing a Lager to compliment their Blonde Ale. The Beer Store lists it as being available at 18 locations in the Niagara region, and provides the following commercial description: Niagara's [...]
The King Street Crawl – July 13th
On Thursday, July 13th, Toronto's Festival of Beer presents The King Street Crawl, a beer-sampling event taking place at various bars and restaurants along the King Street West strip. From 6 PM to 10 PM, visit Crush, Brassaii, 8 Below, Touch, 2 Cats, Bar Wellington, Club 606, The Wheat Sheaf and [...]
Steam Whistle Begs For Bottles
The fine folks at Steam Whistle Brewing have sent out the following plea to their mailing list: Due to some amazing weather and extraordinary beer sales, we are running short on empty glass bottles this month. We know that there are lots of empties kicking around. In order to keep the [...]
Book Review: “Craft Brewers Of Ontario” by Bill Perrie
Craft Brewers Of Ontario By Bill Perrie WMI Books, 128 pp. $19.95 Reviewed by Greg Clow In the past decade or so, there have been numerous proclamations that the days of reference books are numbered, and sometimes it’s hard not to believe it to be true. After all, in an age [...]
Local Summer Beers Return
Local breweries Black Oak and Mill Street have their summer beers ready for release. After taking last year off, Black Oak is bringing back their Summer Saison. It will be available in a limited bottling of 60 cases for sale only at the Black Oak retail store, and on tap at [...]
St. Lawrence Market Craft Beer Show Cancelled
Perry Mason of Scotch Irish Brewing has mentioned in a thread on the Bar Towel forum that the St. Lawrence Market Craft Beer Show scheduled for July 15th & 16th has been cancelled. The organisers hope to reschedule the event for September.
LCBO Summerhill Ontario Craft Beer Festival – July 28-30
While it's mentioned in the full LCBO events listing posted previously, we thought that this event deserved the extra attention of its own post. This is the largest craft beer event ever presented by the LCBO, and hopefully it will be the first of many full-scale Ontario Craft Brewers events to [...]
LCBO Beer Events for July & August
Here’s a list of beer tastings & events taking place at LCBO locations throughout the province in July & August. These events provide a good opportunity to discover some beers you haven’t tried yet, or rediscover some old favourites. Admission is free unless otherwise noted, although there may be a nominal [...]
Panil Barriquée at Volo
The world-renowned Italian beer Panil Barriquée is now available at Volo. This is the first time this fantastic sour ale has been available in Toronto, and as with other beers that Volo has brought in on private order in the past, it's unlikely to be appearing anywhere else in town any [...]
Scotch Irish Ginger’s Ale
Scotch Irish Brewing will soon be releasing a summer beer called Ginger's Ale. According to brewmaster Perry Mason, it's a low-gravity, 30 IBU ale brewed with a homemade ginger extract. It should be available sometime in July on draught and a limited edition bottling.
UW Grad House Goes (Almost) Micro-Only
According to a recent post on the University of Waterloo student info blog uwstudent.org, the Grad House bar is dropping all Molson & Labatt products in favour of Ontario craft brews: The pub run by the Graduate Student Association will continue to serve Guinness Stout made by Guinness and Co. from [...]