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Beer show in Hamilton(?)
- joey_capps
- Bar Fly
- Posts: 592
- Joined: Sat Nov 17, 2001 7:00 pm
- Location: Waterdown
The Show is called:
Good Beer Festival Hamilton
It runs Friday April 5 - Saturday April 6 at the Hamilton Convention Centre.
Guy runs a great show at the St. Lawrance Market and we are expecting Hamilton to be a good time too.
The website for the event should be at http://www.y108.ca/goodbeerfestival some time soon.
Jason Ellsmere
Cameron's Brewing Company
Good Beer Festival Hamilton
It runs Friday April 5 - Saturday April 6 at the Hamilton Convention Centre.
Guy runs a great show at the St. Lawrance Market and we are expecting Hamilton to be a good time too.
The website for the event should be at http://www.y108.ca/goodbeerfestival some time soon.
Jason Ellsmere
Cameron's Brewing Company
I scoured the net a bit and here's what I found:
April 5, 2002 - April 6, 2002
Good Beer Festival Hamilton
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The Good Beer Festival will feature craft and specialty beer from Ontario and around the world. There will be over 100 brands of beer to sample along with live entertainment, food from some of the best pubs and restaurants in Hamilton and educational seminars. Sample tickets $0.50 each.
Cost: Free
Contact Number: 519-579-3017 or 416-304-0144
Location: Hamilton Convention Centre
Hours: Fri. 4pm-11pm, Sat. 12pm-11pm
April 5, 2002 - April 6, 2002
Good Beer Festival Hamilton
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Good Beer Festival will feature craft and specialty beer from Ontario and around the world. There will be over 100 brands of beer to sample along with live entertainment, food from some of the best pubs and restaurants in Hamilton and educational seminars. Sample tickets $0.50 each.
Cost: Free
Contact Number: 519-579-3017 or 416-304-0144
Location: Hamilton Convention Centre
Hours: Fri. 4pm-11pm, Sat. 12pm-11pm
I called the 416 number listed in my previous post for clarification and left a message.
Shane called me back and confirmed that the price for the event is $10 in advance, $12 at the door. The tickets are $0.50 each, however most samples will require two tickets and premium samples will cost you three tickets.
Sorry about the confusion... Shane will ensure the website at:
http://city.hamilton.on.ca/
makes the necessary corrections.
Shane called me back and confirmed that the price for the event is $10 in advance, $12 at the door. The tickets are $0.50 each, however most samples will require two tickets and premium samples will cost you three tickets.
Sorry about the confusion... Shane will ensure the website at:
http://city.hamilton.on.ca/
makes the necessary corrections.
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Hello everyone, Guy Exley here. I am one of the organizers of the Y108 Good Beer Festival Hamilton, April 5-6. We currently have 17 breweries attending and 6 restaurants. We will probably end up with about 20 breweries and 10 restaurants. We also have live entertainment going all day and educational seminars with people like Ian Bowering, Oliver Dawson and Nicholas Pashley.
The website is now up and running at http://www.y108.ca/goodbeerfestival.html. The cost is $10 in advance and $12 at the door. The Hamilton Spectator will be publishing a full show guide in the Thursday April 4 edition and there will be a $2 off the door coupon in the guide.
See you there. If you have any questions or need more information you can email me at guyexley@rogers.com
Cheers.
The website is now up and running at http://www.y108.ca/goodbeerfestival.html. The cost is $10 in advance and $12 at the door. The Hamilton Spectator will be publishing a full show guide in the Thursday April 4 edition and there will be a $2 off the door coupon in the guide.
See you there. If you have any questions or need more information you can email me at guyexley@rogers.com
Cheers.
- Jon Walker
- Seasoned Drinker
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- Joined: Fri Jul 27, 2001 8:00 pm
- Location: Wherever you go there you are
Jon, just go to http://www.y108.ca there is a link
on that site that lead to the beer festival site
Cheers
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on that site that lead to the beer festival site
Cheers
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Guy's link above does not work because of the period at the end of html. Just remove the period after clicking on his link or just click here:
http://www.y108.ca/goodbeerfestival.html
http://www.y108.ca/goodbeerfestival.html
- joey_capps
- Bar Fly
- Posts: 592
- Joined: Sat Nov 17, 2001 7:00 pm
- Location: Waterdown
I went to the show last night and, all in all, it was quite disappointing. It was very small with only about 15 breweries/distributors represented. There were some decent breweries--Creemore, Cameron's, Niagara Falls, and so on--but they just brought their standard fair, nothing unusual or unique. There was also a lot of crap. Oland brought their two quality products, Stella Artois and Keith's IPA (read ironically). Ricards was highly visible. And, let's not forget the Cool Beer girls.
Church Key seemed to be the only brewery to appreciate what a beer show should be. They had an interesting Chocolate Porter. It was flavoured with Cocoa and a little too chocolately for my taste--I prefer chocolate overtones to outright flavour--but a least they provided something different. I think they are a brewery with a lot of potential.
Cheers, Joe.
Church Key seemed to be the only brewery to appreciate what a beer show should be. They had an interesting Chocolate Porter. It was flavoured with Cocoa and a little too chocolately for my taste--I prefer chocolate overtones to outright flavour--but a least they provided something different. I think they are a brewery with a lot of potential.
Cheers, Joe.
- joey_capps
- Bar Fly
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Hello and Welcome, Tracey:
The book was Nicholas Pashley's Notes on a Beermat. It is widely available. Unfortunately you'll not be able to get Mr. Pashley to sign a copy quite as easily. You'll have to search him out in one of his haunts in Toronto, which could be considered staulking. Anyway, having bought and read the book already, I had him sign a beermat for me.
Cheers, Joe.
The book was Nicholas Pashley's Notes on a Beermat. It is widely available. Unfortunately you'll not be able to get Mr. Pashley to sign a copy quite as easily. You'll have to search him out in one of his haunts in Toronto, which could be considered staulking. Anyway, having bought and read the book already, I had him sign a beermat for me.
Cheers, Joe.