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MattB · Joined: 12 Sep 2005 Posts: 71 Location: Queen West

Unfortunately, I missed the cask festival last Sunday. Damn.

Dropped in to the Victory today (Monday evening), and the bartender mentioned that, given the success of the first one, they are "80% sure" that there will be another cask fest on the next Markham St. pedestrian Sunday, August 10th -- with an expanded line up.

Won't be missing this one, for sure.

tuqueboy · Joined: 14 Sep 2006 Posts: 487 Location: Toronto

GregClow · Joined: 10 Aug 2001 Posts: 2685 Location: Parkdale

velovampire · Joined: 28 Feb 2008 Posts: 391 Location: Parkdale

Great news! Loved the inaugural event, and look forward to more! I really liked how the ticketing was set up, too. Definitely prefer that aspect of the Victory fest to the Volo one - much easier to get in (for now, at least.....wait until the word spreads....)

JerCraigs · Joined: 25 May 2003 Posts: 1706 Location: North York

GregClow · Joined: 10 Aug 2001 Posts: 2685 Location: Parkdale

Beermat · Joined: 27 Jan 2004 Posts: 75 Location: Toronto

I was there pretty much all day, and it seemed quite steady all that time. It never really got unwieldy at any time, varying between kind of busy and pretty darn busy but never zoo-esque. The casks emptied one by one, the Hop Bomb and the Hop Head the first to go (though I can't remember in which order). Apart from the usual suspects, there seemed to be quite a few newcomers -- some Victory regs and some people who just roamed in from the street fair. It was a terrific event -- hats off to the Victory folk. More than one cask festival in a year; our little town's growing up.

Bobsy · Joined: 26 Sep 2007 Posts: 1450 Location: Toronto

Excellent! Maybe this time around I can miss the exhibition on ceramics and actually enjoy a beer in the sun like you lucky fellas did! Lets make them 100% about doing this!

Jon Walker · Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 1:58 pm Post subject:

Since it's tied to a closed street event Victory should look into extending their patio into the street (like bars & restaurants do on College fot taste of Little Italy). Watching the Volo event grow over the years as word spread I can only imagine the next Victory event will be more crowded...especially if they also offer one off or new beers like Volo does.

Regardless it was a great event that felt like a little secret we all shared on a beautiful summer afternoon.
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Publican · Joined: 18 Jul 2001 Posts: 353 Location: Mississauga

That's great news! I missed the first one because I was out of town that weekend. That will be two beer festivals in a week for me as I will be going to Coles 4th annual IPA festival. I was at Coles yesterday and wanted to talk to the owner Mike to find out the details of this fest, I didn't see him so I'll have to try to get a hold of him by phone.