The Bar Towel

Additions to the list of "just-here-for-the-festival" are: Mill Street Wit, Great Lakes Chocolate Orange Peel, Trafalgar Dark Wheat, Big Rock Grasshopper Wheat, Trafalgar Smoked Rye, and Nickelbrook Organic White Beer. The Grand River Pils will not be making an appearance (brewery accident...

C'est What's next beer festival takes place on Friday May 23 from 5:00 to 10:00. There will be the usual and unusual, thirty-five to forty examples of the best Canada has to offer in sample sizes at a loonie each. Confirmed so far are: Amsterdam- Pomegranate Wheat Barley Days- Summer Breeze Light Al...

The London Porter was served from a can. The median scores ranged from 33 to 38, so none of the beers served were really dis-liked, but it is interesting to see what happens when the tongue reports to the brain unaided by preconceptions...

The Hop Addict is about 85 IBU. If you have questions about the ingredients or IBUs on any draught at C'est What ask to see the "Beer Bible", it has the info you need.

I will be posting the full results from the tasting at some point this weekend. The top three finishers are (median scores out of 50): 1. C'est What Coffee Porter - 38 2. Durham Blak Katt - 36 3. Church-Key Chocolate Porter - 35.5 Guinness finished in 12th with a score of 34, Fuller's London Porter ...

The latest addition to the tasting is the Nickel Brook Maple Porter.

We're up to fourteen brews with the late additions of Amsterdam Two-fisted Stout and Durham Blak Katt Stout.

It looks like we'll be able to sample C’est What Coffee Porter, Mill Street Coffee Porter, C’est What Chocolate Ale, Church-Key Chocolate Porter, Black Oak Double Chocolate Double Cherry Stout (special edition cask), Neustadt Big Dog Extra-Aged Porter (special edition cask), Heritage Black Irish Por...

At C'est What we like to think that we have a timeless quality, are an island of calm, an oasis in our fast-paced world. As relaxed as we like to be, our menu is always full of new and interesting things. Since the last e-news we have seen Amsterdam Oktoberfest and Grand River Galt Knife Lager come ...

County Durham swept the top three with Durham Hop Head, C'est What Caraway Rye, and Durham Hop Addict finishing ahead of the pack, all with median scores of 37. The Hop Head was inadvertently tasted "blind" as it's tap label was switched with the Scotch Irish (Helen) Kellertrubes Lager for...

From start to finish they were switched.

To tell them apart (without making any judgments about flavour) , the Kellertrubes was the cloudier of the two.

I am embarrassed to say that I did not notice that the tap labels got mixed up and the Kellertrubes and Hop Head were reversed. So, in effect, we had an impromptu blind tasting of the two. We will label the results correctly when we release them. So if you hear any of your buddies crowing about the ...

Latest additions to the Festival: Neustadt Shonet Pale Ale, Granite Ringberry Ale, Black Oak Maple Nut Brown (cask), Nickelbrook Barley Wine, Nickelbrook Maple Porter, Nickelbrook Organic Belgian White, King Un-filtered Dark Lager, McAuslan Raspberry Ale, and Scotch Irish Zwickelbier (cask).

Our annual event to kick off "Pub" season will feature fifty brews from Upper and Lower Canada's leading Craft brewers. From Pale Ales to Peppermint Porters there will be something new for all palates and preferences. New on tap for the festival that are confirmed so far: Church-Key Flande...