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Volo - August 6 2005

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Volo - August 6 2005

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New Cask: Granite Summer Ale
New Tap: Church Key Rosemary & Ginger

There were a couple of other new taps but I don't remember them. It was a good time that night. :wink: After starting with the wonderful Denison's Weisse I followed that up with the Granite Summer Ale. I've had both versions of the Summer Ale now and found my preference to be the cask version. It was nice and smooth. :)

The girlfriend tried the CK R&G to start. I gave it a try. After the initial smack in the face, it surprisingly (to me) works* though not all the way for me to order a glass for myself but I will take some tastes again tonight. We're going again for the cheap taps and more good food.

* What an odd brew. I don't really care normally for rosemary or ginger. A little goes a long way in my books. I found though after the second taste I would give it another three tries over a 30 minute span.
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On Friday Ralph mentioned that he would have a cask of Hop Bomb starting today. Someone may want to confirm if they visit this week.

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Oh, good. I keep going to Volo and forgetting to do this.

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New Cask: Hopbomb

New Taps:
St. Andre Vienna Lager
Church Key Rosemary & Ginger
Scotch Irish Dog's Body

New Bottles:
Laguntos Hairy Eyeball Ale
Laguntos IPA Maximus
Great Divide Hercules DRI IPA
Great Divide Yeti Imperial Stout
Southern Tier IPA

Coming Soon:
Victory's Hop Devil IPA
Wild Rose Brewery Pale Ale

There were a couple more coming soons but SOMEBODY was being impatient. Any misspellings are due to the hand writing on the chalk board.

(I have to inquire when Toronto is going to eliminate smoking on patios. Ugh. Smokers to the left of us, smokers to the right, here we are stunk in the middle of them.)
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lister wrote: I have to inquire when Toronto is going to eliminate smoking on patios.
Sadly, there are no plans to do so, either in the current municipal legislation, or in the planned province-wide legislation.

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