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Our first beer will be available this Friday, April 1st from 4 - 8pm

Beer Name: Act One
Style: APA
ABV: 5.6%

Hoppy pale ale brewed with Columbus and Azacca hops

We will also be open from 12 - 5 pm on Saturday

We are starting with growler fills and will have 1.89L growlers available for purchase

It's been a long time coming but it's finally here, I cant wait to see all of you who can make it out this weekend!
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Awesome....got a wedding on Saturday, but I'll try and make it before. What's the address?

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sofakingdrunk wrote:Awesome....got a wedding on Saturday, but I'll try and make it before. What's the address?
1600 Industrial Rd, unit B5
Cambridge, ON

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I'm in Cambridge on Friday so this couldn't have worked out better!
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Will you fill growlers from other companies or growlers with no branding on them? If so, any restriction on size/style of growler?

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Post by northyorksammy »

Mazel Tov, Matt! will send growler with someone who lives closer
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more info on our website:

http://barncatales.com/

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Charchuk wrote:Will you fill growlers from other companies or growlers with no branding on them? If so, any restriction on size/style of growler?
We will fill any clean brown glass 1.89l growler. (please bring your own cap)

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awesome, I'll swing by friday after work

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Post by matt7215 »

Thanks to everyone that came out this weekend! It was awesome to see some old friends and great to meet more people from this community.

We are going to back at it next weekend with a new beer on tap. Details will be posted on our website soon and I'll update this thread shortly after.

cheers

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matt7215 wrote:
Charchuk wrote:Will you fill growlers from other companies or growlers with no branding on them? If so, any restriction on size/style of growler?
We will fill any clean brown glass 1.89l growler. (please bring your own cap)
Why only 1.89L?
I like half growlers. Any chance you'd open up to this?

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FEUO wrote:
matt7215 wrote:
Charchuk wrote:Will you fill growlers from other companies or growlers with no branding on them? If so, any restriction on size/style of growler?
We will fill any clean brown glass 1.89l growler. (please bring your own cap)
Why only 1.89L?
I like half growlers. Any chance you'd open up to this?
we will now fill half growlers as well and we actually just placed an order for some half growlers of our own so half growlers will be an option for all beers that we are pouring

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matt7215 wrote: we will now fill half growlers as well and we actually just placed an order for some half growlers of our own so half growlers will be an option for all beers that we are pouring
Sweet! Thanks!

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Pacific Jade single hop pale ale this weekend

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Kish84 wrote:Bold statement, but as long as there are no issues with scaling up, this will potentially be the best brewery in Ontario.
Revisiting an old post. No issues with scaling up, and well on their way...

Full disclosure, I'm friends with the guys. It's been fun reading comments/ratings, though I'm not sure how a 2-3 day old beer could taste past due. I mean I guess if you're getting a bottle filled from a growler who knows how much later, there would be some degradation.

For the record, there's a dude getting growlers, filling his own bottles, and handing them out to friends in Toronto. Is this a common thing that I'm just hearing about, or is it as fucked as I think it is?

Maybe it's just me, but if I were into this whole ticking/rating thing, I'd strive to taste the best example of a beer...At least when you're at a bar and base an opinion off of a sample, it's still fresh...
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