Ontario Craft Beer Week - June 20-26

matt7215 · Post by **matt7215** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 11:35 pm

just got back from GR 3rd anniversary, beers availible:

Grand River Plowman’s Anniversary Ale (tap, cask and bottles)
Grand River Raspberry Pils (tap, cask and bottles)
Grand River Oak Aged Ploegers Vlaams Rood (tap)
Grand River Kölsch (tap)
Grand River Curmudgeon IPA (tap)
Grand River Plowmans Ale (tap)

really great night!

awesome food from the Golden Kiwi as well

saints_gambit · Post by **saints_gambit** » Wed Jun 23, 2010 1:08 am

In the interest of shameless self promotion, I guess I should point out that I'm covering a number of events for Ontario Craft Beer Week on my blog. The link's in my sig.

The Harbord House dinner was over the top impressive. If they do another one in the near future, you should plan on going.

Pub Style · Post by **Pub Style** » Wed Jun 23, 2010 4:35 pm

Pub Style wrote:Join Cass & Troy on a walking beer tour through the streets of Toronto

Toronto, ON – Join Cass Enright and Troy Burtch on Wednesday June 23rd for their first annual Toronto Pub Crawl during Ontario’s first ever craft beer week hosted by the Ontario Craft Brewers (OCB).

Enright, who founded Ontario’s premier online beer resource, The Bar Towel and the Golden Tap Awards, and Burtch, creator/writer of the popular Great Canadian Pubs & Beer Blog, will lead you on a walking tour of five terrific beer establishments along Toronto’s Annex and Kensington neighbourhoods.

Each stop will feature a Cheers! led by both men who will also address the crowd with a story or two about their experience working and dealing in the Ontario craft beer industry. There will also be numerous prizes handed out along the way including: subscriptions to TAPS Beer Magazine, beer books, bottle openers, t-shirts, OCB glassware, gift certificates and more.

The Pub Crawl will also act as the launch of voting for the 2010 Golden Tap Awards, one of the leading awards recognizing the best in beer in Ontario. Beer lovers from across the province will be able to vote for their favourite beers, breweries, bars and brewpubs until August.

List of Pubs that will be visited:

Victory Café – 6:30
581 Markham Street
Toronto, ON M6G2L7

Caplansky’s Deli – 7:30
356 College Street
Toronto, ON M5T 1S6

Ronnie’s Local 069 – 8:15
69 Nassau Street
Toronto, ON

The Embassy – 9:00
223 Augusta Avenue
Toronto, ON

Cloak and Dagger – 10:15
394 College Street
Toronto, ON

Admission is free and bracelets will be disseminated to everyone who joins the crawl, which will help distinguish you from the rest of the crowd.

Should you wish to participate in the crawl, please RSVP as soon as possible by sending an email to either Cass (cass@bartowel.com) or Troy (troy@tapsmedia.ca).

Rain or shine!! Bring your umbrella and earthquake gear....

Soods · Post by **Soods** » Wed Jun 23, 2010 5:31 pm

matt7215 wrote:just got back from GR 3rd anniversary, beers availible:

Grand River Plowman’s Anniversary Ale (tap, cask and bottles)
Grand River Raspberry Pils (tap, cask and bottles)
Grand River Oak Aged Ploegers Vlaams Rood (tap)
Grand River Kölsch (tap)
Grand River Curmudgeon IPA (tap)
Grand River Plowmans Ale (tap)

really great night!

awesome food from the Golden Kiwi as well

You mean they didn't have the HeadStrong Pale Ale?

carguy · Post by **carguy** » Wed Jun 23, 2010 5:41 pm

Soods wrote:
matt7215 wrote:just got back from GR 3rd anniversary, beers availible:

Grand River Plowman’s Anniversary Ale (tap, cask and bottles)
Grand River Raspberry Pils (tap, cask and bottles)
Grand River Oak Aged Ploegers Vlaams Rood (tap)
Grand River Kölsch (tap)
Grand River Curmudgeon IPA (tap)
Grand River Plowmans Ale (tap)

really great night!

awesome food from the Golden Kiwi as well
You mean they didn't have the HeadStrong Pale Ale?

Yep, it was there too, but considering the other options avaliable, it didn't get much attention.

barVolo · Post by **barVolo** » Thu Jun 24, 2010 7:35 pm

Tomorrow, Friday June 25th we will be tapping the following beers on cask;

Black Oak Marmalade Saison
Granite Hopping Mad IPA
Duggan's #99 Double IPA
Great Lakes "Does this muu-muu make me look Hefe?" Imperial Hefeweizen
Beau's Festivale Alt Beer

Kel Varnsen · Post by **Kel Varnsen** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:34 pm

No that it is over I am curious what everyone thought of OCB week? What were the events like in Toronto. The two events I went to were the Father's day at Beau's and one night I went to the Arrow and Loon for Beau's on Cask. Father's day was fun but I was surprised when I went to the Arrow and Loon, unless you knew that the cask of Beau's was a special thing you wouldn't know what was going on at all. I mean there didn't seem to be any signs for OCB week or anything promoting it as a special event. Then again, if I didn't visit this site, I probably wouldn't have known about OCB week to begin with.

carguy · Post by **carguy** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:15 pm

I went to the Grand River 3rd Anniversary, and then to the BarVolo BelgOntario on Thursday. Grand River made a point of telling us it was OCB week, and gave everyong an OCB branded glass. At BarVolo, there was no hint of OCB week. I have to admit that I didn't see anything in the mainstream media, and were it not for Bartowel, I would likely have missed it.

SteelbackGuy · Post by **SteelbackGuy** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 1:17 am

What's OCB?

northyorksammy · Post by **northyorksammy** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 8:31 am

i got a little OCB glass at Great Lakes...cute but too small for beer, but fine for a little wine with a meal

northyorksammy · Post by **northyorksammy** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 8:36 am

[quote="SteelbackGuy"]What's OCB?[/quote]

Ongoing Common Brews

matt7215 · Post by **matt7215** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 9:48 am

SteelbackGuy wrote:What's OCB?

offering continual blandness

SteelbackGuy · Post by **SteelbackGuy** » Thu Jul 01, 2010 12:30 am

Well played, the both of you. Both answers couldn't be more true.