The Bar Towel

From the CABA Facebook page: Greetings, CABA members. Don't forget that the Great Canadian Homebrew Conference (GCHC) is taking place this coming Saturday, July 21 from 11am-5pm (doors at 10:30AM) at the Rhino Bar & Grill (1249 Queen St. West). Be sure to register at www.homebrewers.ca for this ...

If I was someone just starting out in homebrewing, would I be in over my head if I went, or do you think I will I pick up some valuable tips? You certainly won't be in over your head. You'll meet homebrewers of various abilities and interests and get to taste some good beer. I think anyone just sta...

From a CABA email I received last month: "It will include beer and a Mexican theme lunch. There will be a time and place set aside to share homebrews." In the past there have been door prizes and the sponsoring breweries usually bring samples. If the samples aren't enough for you, you can ...

Yep. The talks from the brewers are always interesting and hopefully some of my entries do well in the competition.

Cass wrote:It's being brewed at another brewery (can't remember which)

Black Oak I believe.

andrewrg wrote:Bottles were in the 6-9 range, and I think growlers were 12-15+deposit. I may be off on the growlers though, memory is fuzzy.

I think the growlers went from $13 for the Common to $20 for the Witchshark, plus $6 deposit for the bottle.

matt7215 wrote:14kg......how is it packaged?

Plastic pail. If my memory serves me correctly it is 2.5 gallons (might be off on that).

Yeah, the honey I've been bringing in on the SOB forum is not any particular varietal, primarily a mix of wild and field flowers. However it is an excellent honey for mead at a very reasonable price ($81 for 14 kg). There is one more delivery coming before the summer on June 12 if you are interested...

JeffPorter wrote:Thanks - clearly I don't know how to use Google...

No, I don't think it is your googling skills. It is oddly quite difficult to find the link to the website via Google. I think I finally found it via "session 99 toronto 2012" and even then it was 7 or 8 links down the page.

Here you go http://sessiontoronto.ca/

You're welcome.

By the way, Toronto Brewing and Durham Homebrew Club did do a Mango IPA on the Great Lakes pilot system that was available on the Friday night if the IPA challenge. Think it was called Mangoverboard or something like that.

jeremy

JerCraigs wrote:Same question for Toronto Brewing X Durham Home brew Club Sick Day IPA? I think that might have been done at Great Lakes?

Pretty sure it was done at Volo.

I suppose it depends on what you mean by decent. They have the typical English pub beers. From the ones I recall that I'd drink are London Pride, Steam Whistle and Creemore. Sadly, most pubs in the immediate vicinity (block or 2) seem to offer similar or worse selection.

phirleh wrote:I know Amsterdam did get in some barrels, I even remember spotting one there that had "Boneshaker" written on it in November at the Learn To Brew event with the SOB's.

They still do, there were both Boneshaker and Tempest barrels when we were there for the grain buy a couple weeks back.

Just leave the blow off tube on throughout the entire primary fermentation, you don't need to change it.