The Bar Towel

I think Kilkenny was 'brewed down' starting about 4 or 5 years ago, maybe more recently than that. I read the book, 'A man walks into a pub..' and it was mentioned in there. I remember drinking that stuff and Caffreys and it was one of the few times I had a seriously bad hangover. I never touched th...

I guess I can't get my head around why anyone would want to drink a 'smooth-flow' type beer, I personally find them bland and not a fair representation of what an ale should be, and I've had a fair few of them unfortunately. Fair enough if you are venturing into ales from lagers, it's a stepping sto...

Why would you want a Kilkenny-Style Nitro beer? Are you looking for a seriously bad head the next day? Kilkenny, and most other Nitro-Keg smooth-flow crap, have a real weird and nasty after-taste and are just plain wrong. Kilkenny was eventually brewed down and altered to prevent the awful headaches...

The results: http://www.barvolo.com/situation%20secrets%20revealed.htm The "mystery beer" according to Ralph will remain a mystery beer. If number three was made with vanilla beans, why did it taste like chocolate? :S Probably due to chocolate malts being present (?) or Ken and his Elves ...

DragonOfBlood wrote:Four of us are going. Myself, my girlfriend, a friend, and her boyfriend.

If you want to sit down, I would get there as early as possible, or maybe more towards the end of the day when every one has drunk themselves silly and wandered off to bed!

I think it's first come first seated, especially if it's as popular as October's festival. I'd be very surprised if seats can be 'reseved'. I may be wrong, but........! How many of you are going, by the way?

Hamilton Brian wrote:That's funny. I can't help but think I might run into an Alan Shearer lookalike at the pub...

More of a Mickey Quinn lookalike .

No offence Jwalter

And as for Big Rock's Grasshopper Wheat - quality aside, it can't really be compared to a German or Belgian wheat beer as it is a filtered, American-style wheat. Amsterdam and Upper Canada have brewed similar versions locally. I was new to the country and didn't realise it was meant to be a filtere...

So does this mean that their 'wheat' beer won't taste like K*ith's anymore? This is the only beer I've ever had from Big Rock and I was very very disappointed. I actually asked the barmaid if she had served me a lager instead of the requested wheat beer, as it was that bland and clear. That was the ...

Is this going to be available at Volo anytime soon? Or any of the other good watering holes in Downtown Toronto. Gotta get me a taste

Steve Spong wrote:Incidentally, they also had the Delirium Tremens on tap, which was also fantastic.

So much for the Beer Bistro having a month long exclusivity on this beer then How much is a glass of the DT's here then?

Has anyone looked under the tables at Volo?

I produce two "session beers", one aptly named Session Ale (Dry Hop Border Bitter on cask) and Dogsbody. Both are under 4% abv but still manage to maintain a great deal of flavour. Session Ale is back in production, now using Marris Otter malt as a base and Challenger hops for bittering. ...

Is 'session ale' not a British concept, ie. made to drink in quantity? The 'Session Ales" were forced on the Brewers by the Wonderful British Government during the 2 World Wars we had. The higher the alcohol content the more tax was to be paid; also the barley, malt, hops was rationed, so Brew...

I await the flaming :D http://www.siegfriedandroy.com/images/day/day3b.jpg Was this what you meant? Are you calling me a poof? :oops: Hey, I'm all for having session beers readily available over here but it's the North Americans who are 'scared' of low alcohol beers not us Brits! We invented the da...