The Bar Towel

C'est What has started using branded glassware for their draught beer and therefore has 33 dozen used Nonic 20 ounce pint glasses available for sale. They generally retail for about $30 per dozen, but since they are now "vintage" we are asking for $10 per dozen or $300 for the entire lot. ...

I mentioned this last year, after I made this deputation to the government but it seems topical again: Liquor Laws The changes that are truly needed The Ontario government recently announced some changes to the regulations that will make life a little easier for outdoor festival promoters, resort ma...

For home-brewers, my goal here is to drum up enough interest for 1812 style entries in the annual Toronto Beer Week homebrew contest (and help with the logistics of running the competition as well). The winner will be brewed by a commercial craft brewer or failing that by C'est What as our fall seas...

Thanks for your research Derek. Very helpful.

C'est What is challenging local professional brewers to make early 19th century style beer for our Summer Beer Festival during Ontario Craft Beer Week http://www.cestwhat.com/beer.asp#bicentennial . I am soliciting help from the local home brewing community to run a similar challenge for amateurs, p...

If you think you have what it takes to be Toronto's Biggest Beer Geek please submit your bona fides by way of a picture and/or up to 200 words to George. It could be a story showing your beer sincerity, a poem, a song, a talent, or a bucket list of barley-based accomplishments: Whatever will impres...

Tuesday June 21 CASKS: Al's Cask Ale, Durham XXX, Great Lakes Lackey's Caskey, Duggan's #9 IPA, Granite Hopping Mad, Cameron's Hop Burn, MacLean's IPA, Muskoka Mad Tom IPA DRAUGHT: Amsterdam Stout, Durham Hop Addict, King Pilsner, St. Ambroise Apricot Wheat, Steam Whistle Pilsner, Kensington August...

The Festival results are now posted at http://www.cestwhat.com/tasteresult/springfest2010.asp. To answer the question about Big Dog Porter Extra: The extra is wine. Sorry to confuse you all but we used a tap clip that we made up for the brew last year. Our local brewers may be gifted at beer but not...

It is amazing how our perceptions change with time. At the turn of the century most beer geeks would have thought that they had died and gone to beer heaven if they walked into an event with forty-six different beers from thirty-three breweries including eleven cask brews. Have we arrived in an era,...

Some changes have been made. Here is the latest list of brews here only for the Festival: Amsterdam Big Wheel Amber and Spring Bock, Barley Days Summer Light Ale, Big Rock Pale Ale, Black Oak Oak-Aged Chocolate Cherry Stout (cask), Brick Waterloo Wheat, Church-Key Stout, Durham Hop Addict (cask), F&...

Gas is used in two very different ways in draught beer. In conventional, modern, draught systems gas is used to pressurize the keg and force the beer out of the tap. Three gases are commonly used: compressed air, carbon dioxide, and a nitrogen-carbon dioxide blend. While inexpensive, air is the wors...

Granite - Hopping Mad - Intriguing! A new beer or a variation of an existing one? Neustadt - Elderbrah (cask) - Intriguing! A new beer or a variation of an existing one? Nickelbrook - Oak-aged Kriek, Sahti Juniper Beer - Is this the Uniek Kriek? Was that oak aged? Unibroue - Chambly Noire, Don De D...

Alas, Hopfenstark underestimated the bureaucracy that is the LCBO. But there are still plenty of interesting brews: Amsterdam - Oktoberfest, Pommegranate Wheat Big Rock - Black Amber Black Oak - Wasabi Brown Ale (cask) C'est What / Durham - Caraway Rye Beer, Chocolate Ale, Coffee Porter, Sierra's Ex...

Serving food at the Hoedown will be Jamie Kennedy Wine Bar, Cherry Hill Farms, Crepe It Up, Hot House Cafe, and Kozlicks Mustard.

Magnotta will be bringing their Wunder Weiss and True North IPA.

In keeping with the local theme we have limited ourselves to GTA brewers. Confirmed beers to date are: Amsterdam Natural Blonde, KLB Raspberry Wheat; Black Oak Pale Ale and Nut Brown Ale; C'est What Sierra's Excellent (Summer) Ale, Homegrown Hemp Ale, and Caraway Rye; Denison's Weissbier; Durham Hop...