Victory Summer Cask Ale Festival - Sun Jul 12

GregClow · Post by **GregClow** » Sat May 23, 2009 2:58 pm

Victory Summer Cask Ale Festival
Sunday July 12th 2009
12:00 noon
The Victory Café, 581 Markham Street, Toronto

This year’s Victory Café Summer Cask Ale festival will be held on Sunday July 12th
starting at noon until supplies last. Continuing the theme of the Victory’s previous cask
festivals, this event is a celebration of local traditional cask conditioned ales and aims to
introduce new people to these wonderful beers. The Victory Café welcomes anyone who
is interested in sampling good quality local cask ale.

There will be sixteen cask ales on offer, all from local brewers. Two casks each of the
most popular ales will be available to better ensure that everyone has a chance to enjoy
them. The full list of beers will be announced at a later date.

Beer samples will be offered by the half-pint measure, purchased with a beer ticket
available at the festival. A selection of tasty food will also be available with the purchase
of a food ticket.

Tickets can be purchased at the festival entrance:
$12 – admission, souvenir glass, two half-pint beer tickets, plus one food ticket
$8 – admission, souvenir glass, and two half-pint beer tickets
$4 – additional food ticket
$3 – additional beer ticket

Torontoblue · Post by **Torontoblue** » Sat May 23, 2009 10:26 pm

Do we have to wear orange to attend this day, and are Catholics welcome?

tupalev · Post by **tupalev** » Sat May 23, 2009 10:47 pm

Do we have to wear orange to attend this day, and are Catholics welcome?

Thankfully Toronto is not what is used to be like on July 12th!

velovampire · Post by **velovampire** » Sat May 23, 2009 11:00 pm

I'll be there.

Jon Walker · Post by **Jon Walker** » Sat May 23, 2009 11:04 pm

I will be there...sadly this is likely to be one of my last events in the city so...bittersweet.

Duct Tape · Post by **Duct Tape** » Sun May 24, 2009 10:01 am

Assuming i survive a friends bachelor party the night before, i will be there.

And even if i don't survive the Bachelor Party i may bring out my masochistic side and be there anyways!!

tuqueboy · Post by **tuqueboy** » Sun May 24, 2009 5:05 pm

Torontoblue wrote:Do we have to wear orange to attend this day, and are Catholics welcome?

wonder if maz's feller picked the date...

Bobsy · Post by **Bobsy** » Sun May 24, 2009 5:42 pm

Jon Walker wrote:I will be there...sadly this is likely to be one of my last events in the city so...bittersweet.

Are you moving to sunnier climes, Jon?

Jon Walker · Post by **Jon Walker** » Sun May 24, 2009 7:53 pm

We are moving to Vancouver for a year starting in late August. If all goes well the move will become permanent and if it doesn't we'll return fall of 2010. Our house here is up for rent so once all the details are in place we will be off. Time for a change, new challenges etc...Sad to go but exciting as well.

Torontoblue · Post by **Torontoblue** » Sun May 24, 2009 8:26 pm

tuqueboy wrote:
Torontoblue wrote:Do we have to wear orange to attend this day, and are Catholics welcome?
wonder if maz's feller picked the date...

That's an absolute given, the bloody Proddy Dog

austin · Post by **austin** » Sat May 30, 2009 9:45 pm

Don't miss this one. The Victory's cask events are good ones and great for us beer geeks......the perfect complement to Ralph's Cask Days.

Publican · Post by **Publican** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 8:52 am

I'll be there. I missed last summer's cask fest because I was out of town. I made the Winter version and had a great time. Nice to be able to have half pint samples

GregClow · Post by **GregClow** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 12:36 pm

The Victory have provided us with the list of beers that will be available next Sunday:

Black Oak Summer Saison (Marmalade Edition)
C'est What? Caraway Rye (County Durham Brewing Company)
Compass Albion Ale (Better Bitters Brewing Company)
Cheshire Valley IPA
Cheshire Valley English Mild
Durham Hop Head
Durham Hop Addict
Durham Witbier
Grand River C'est Wheat
Granite Summer Ale
Granite Hopping Mad
Great Lakes Orange Peel Ale
King Pilsner (unfiltered)
MacLean's Farmhouse Ale
Michael Duggan No.9 IPA
Mill St. IPA (dry hopped)
Neustadt Black Velvet
Cameron's Brewing Company TBD
F&M Brewery TBD

They may also one more cask from Better Bitters which would make it 20 in all.

Pub Style · Post by **Pub Style** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 11:48 am

The last two that were still TBD have been finalized:

Cameron's Brewing Company High Hop Silver
F&M Brewery Stonehammer Strawberry Light

TJ · Post by TJ » Tue Jul 07, 2009 9:30 pm

Pub Style wrote:Cameron's Brewing Company High Hop Silver

That sounds promising. Anyone know anything about it?

Looks like a great line up though. I'm all over the Mike Dugan #9. There's no way the marmalade edition of Black Oak's Saison won't be completely amazing. The MacLean's Farmhouse Ale and Neustadt Black Velvet are on my list; I'm a fan of both breweries. And after that...oh honestly, at he very least I hope I get a chance to taste them all. I have a feeling Monday isn't going to be a particularly productive day at work.