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Double Chocolate Cherry Stout Now Available

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Asst. Grain Shoveller
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Double Chocolate Cherry Stout Now Available

Post by Asst. Grain Shoveller »

Hi Everybody
We've bottled up our Double Chocolate Cherry Stout and its now available at the retail store only.

Kegs will be going out to select pubs this week & next.
Just in time for Valentines Day

Our retail store (& brewery) is now located at:
75 Horner Ave, Unit #1
Toronto, ON M8Z 4X5

Major intersection is: QEW & Islington
West on Evans & South on Horner

If you want to leave a voice mail message: 416-252-2739 (ALA-BREW) (I was hoping for ALE BREW, but ALA-BREW sounds magical, kind of like ALA-PEANUT-BUTTER-SANDWICH, from the count)

Retail Store Winter hours are:
Tues-Fri noon-4 pm
Saturday 10-4pm

We have some Pale in stock and hope to bottle the Nut Brown this Thurs or Friday.

I can do quick tours to show the "work in progress". Please note there is still a great deal of work to do.
We are planning on having a grand opening some Saturday in April

Look forward to seeing you in Etobicoke.

Cheers
Ken

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Post by Pub Style »

Nice! Looking forward to picking some up for the weekend.

jethro796
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Post by jethro796 »

I picked up a bunch of flats this week. This is definitely one of my favs. I prefer the version with cherry, although the "plain" dbl choclate on cask at the victory festival was brilliant as well.

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Post by esprit »

How do you go south on Horner when it's an east-west street...I'm on my Blackbeery...it's very late at night...strange characters everywhere trying to lure me into driveways...I am afraid...very afraid. Everyone has something in their trenchcoat and I do believe that some of them are body parts....OH MY GOD...is that a chopped up rabbit or are you just happy to see me? Please oh please someone save me..............................................

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Post by skaghevn »

esprit wrote:How do you go south on Horner when it's an east-west street....
Horner is only E-W west of Kipling.

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Post by esprit »

I've always approached Horner from Brown's Line..does it do a jog somewhere? I am old Ukie and we had a hall at Brown's Line and Horner where my old polka band played many a night...but that's another life...

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esprit wrote:I've always approached Horner from Brown's Line..does it do a jog somewhere?
Just east of Kipling, where it takes a turn and starts northward to Evans.

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Post by lagerale »

This is great news. I hope the tranfer is going well!

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Post by Garthicus »

Are you TTC accessible? I work at Lakeshore next to Mr. Christies and you don't seem to be far :-)

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Post by skaghevn »

I think the Islington 110A might work for ya:

http://www3.ttc.ca/Routes/110/Map.jsp

Edited to clarify which Islington 110 to take.
Last edited by skaghevn on Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:15 pm, edited 1 time in total.

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Post by jaymack »

Excellent! Always up for this delicious brew!




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Post by Garthicus »

skaghevn wrote:I think the Islington 110A might work for ya:

http://www3.ttc.ca/Routes/110/Map.jsp

Edited to clarify which Islington 110 to take.

Much appreciated :-)

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Post by toweringpine »

I picked up a sixer at the brewery this afternoon. It was neat to see the progress made at the facilities already but clearly there is a lot of work yet to be done. The beer is quite tasty! I think I tried it last summer but it was on a day when I'd tasted a few more than I probably should have. Drinking a few too many is OK ( sometimes ) but after a whole bunch of new brews it gets hard to remember the details of each of them. I have enjoyed it a lot tonight. My wife thought it tasted 'a bit like cola'. I wasn't quite sure what to make of that but she really likes cola so I can only assume it is a good thing. The carbonation in it seems a little more like soda than most beer, maybe that was part of her experience.

They were brewing the pale ale and boy did the place smell fantastic!!

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Post by JesseM »

I had this one on tap last year and it was pretty delicious. I was very impressed. It's too bad we don't get much of Black Oak's stuff in the KW region. A few sixers of the pale ale show up around summer-time and that's about it :( .

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