The Bar Towel

With a dozen brews new to our establishment on tap that evening we reached the "century" for featuring over one hundred different draught beers in the last year. As it turns out, we had representation from twenty-three different brewers at the Festival in the form of three dozen beers. In ...

The Church-Key Rye is quite separate from the C'est What Rye (I assume that's what you meant by the Durham).

The Heritage Organic Best Bitter would at least be different in the "Organic" part, as far as recipe goes, perhaps Perry can weigh in on this...

It's spring, when everyones fancy turns to... beer. We are happy to reciprocate these feelings with another installment of our semi-annual homage to fermented barley on Friday May 25 from 5 to 10 p.m. Over the past year we have served eighty-nine different fine Canadian brews on our thirty-five taps...

The Black Oak Double Chocolate Cherry Bomb finished way out in front with a median score of 43, Amsterdam Tilted Kilt and Great Lakes Winter Ale tied for second with scores of 40. The rest of the group finished in this order: F&M MacLean's Scotch Ale, Mill St. Barley Wine 2004, Niagara Falls Eis...

midlife crisis wrote:George: is it really 3.4% alc/vol? The reason I ask (apart from the full flavour) is that the cards at the bar listed it as 4.1, and they seemed to be up-to-date ones.

Alas, change is hard. The MBA is indeed 3.4% and the table cards are in error.

While I'm at it, I have a few other questions that (hopefully) other will be interested in. Heck, I'm going either way, but: - Doors are at 5:00, but when does the actual tasting start? That is, what time can we realistically aim for? - If we arrive late, will we be served the full tasting menu or ...

I am happy to announce that our MBA is actually mild again. That is, mild in alcohol (3.4%) not flavour. I invite you all to give the new recipe a try and let me know what you think.

New to our draught beer list are: Heritage Blackcurrant Rye, Granite Best Bitter, Great Lakes Winter Ale, McLean's Scotch Ale (cask), Wellington Iron Duke (cask), Black Oak Nutcracker Porter, Trafalgar Celtic Ale. We are also featuring a special seasonal version of our own Hazelnut Coffee Porter (we...

Sorry for the delay in response, have been travelling. With the greatest respect for your establishment, ethos and service George, must respond. 1/ Single batch brewing - that would eliminate blended lambics - often stand alone batches too powerful on their own - necessitates blending of old and yo...

[quote="liammckenna"]How about developing a meaningful quality standard for consumers? Hopefully something with a little more guts than 'small batches, unpasteurized, artificial additive and preservative free.' Someone needs to really articulate what's different on a scale that means somet...

the entire draught line-up is listed on the table cards (as per many suggestions from our beer loving customers). That's great! Under the bottles, I see a picture of the Iron Duke Porter... is it still available? Sorry to get you all excited, I posted the wrong Wellington label. By the way, the Gra...

Thanks George, That's the spirit! One humble request: more cask! I notice the Great Lakes 666 is still up. I keep hearing conflicting stories; it's either ending it's season soon or going into full production/bottling. What have you heard? More cask?! Well, short of scientific studies showing a lin...

I forgot to mention in my last posting that the entire draught line-up is listed on the table cards (as per many suggestions from our beer loving customers). Twenty-one of the twenty-eight Canadian breweries that we now feature have a product on tap.

I have posted our latest draught beer list at http://www.cestwhat.com/otherbeer.asp and bottled beer list at http://www.cestwhat.com/bottledbeer.asp We have taken the last step in our quest for "true local flavour" and have gone to an exclusively Canadian beer list - all adhering to our Cr...

JerCraigs wrote:Any chance we will see the Hazelnut porter again???

With the positive response to it, we are planning to run a batch of the Hazelnut Coffee Porter for the Christmas season.

Sorry about the "." at the end of the web site link.