Great Lakes Project X - 2nd Thurs of each month

Lackey · Post by **Lackey** » Sat May 14, 2011 4:38 pm

Not flavored Horseshoe. A pilot brewed American wheat ale.

JerCraigs · Post by **JerCraigs** » Sat May 14, 2011 8:10 pm

Lackey wrote:Not flavored Horseshoe. A pilot brewed American wheat ale.

Ahh! I didn't think it had the hop profile of the GH. Thanks Mike.

saints_gambit · Post by **saints_gambit** » Sat May 28, 2011 12:59 pm

I'm sincerely hoping that Vanilla Ice was a collaboration. I will stop and listen for your answer on this.

Lackey · Post by **Lackey** » Mon May 30, 2011 7:41 am

saints_gambit wrote:I'm sincerely hoping that Vanilla Ice was a collaboration. I will stop and listen for your answer on this.

Haha. Nope. Why the hope?

JerCraigs · Post by **JerCraigs** » Mon May 30, 2011 3:20 pm

Lackey wrote:
saints_gambit wrote:I'm sincerely hoping that Vanilla Ice was a collaboration. I will stop and listen for your answer on this.
Haha. Nope. Why the hope?

Cause Jordan is cooking MC's like a pound of bacon.

GregClow · Post by **GregClow** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 11:35 pm

Today's newsletter from Great Lakes mentioned that there will be no Project X night in June, mainly due to there being so much going on during OCB Week later in the month.

AlanB · Post by **AlanB** » Fri Jul 08, 2011 9:56 pm

GLB's July newsletter mentions that they will be BBQing on the front lawn for July's Project X. (Thurs July 14, 6:30-8:30 pm). No indication of what will be on tap yet.

GregClow · Post by **GregClow** » Tue Aug 09, 2011 4:58 pm

Info on this week's Project X from latest Great Lakes newsletter...

This month's Project X will be held on Thursday August 11th. We'll be chillin south beach style as we oficially launch Miami Weisse and our good friends at Cafe du Lac on Lakeshore will be helping us maintain the Miami theme by providing southern style food. Oh yeah, there may be a bunch of left over casks from Caskapalooza the we'll need help draining as well...

Sil · Post by **Sil** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 9:07 am

For those who haven't tried Cafe du Lac, they are one of the better bistros in the neighborhood. I know they're doing some marinated chicken thighs and a black bean/corn salad. Definitely worth going this month.

(we'll be there, as usual, with bells on)

GregClow · Post by **GregClow** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 10:44 pm

From the latest GL newsletter:

Project X

There will be no Project X in the month of September.

Instead we invite you to join us for our 2nd annual Harvest Fest.

Great Lakes 2nd Annual Harvest Fest

We are excited to be gearing up for our 2nd annual Harvest Fest! This year will be tastier and more festive than ever and we'll be rolling out some exclusive one-off casks as well as tasty seasonal fare, live music and entertainment! Please join us on September 24th at the brewery between 12-4.

GregClow · Post by **GregClow** » Sat Oct 01, 2011 4:16 pm

From the latest GL newsletter:

Project X

This month's Project X is on October 13 and will be held at the brewery. We are pleased to have Dr. Generosity providing the food this time and we've got a few tricks up our sleeves for this one so don't miss out!

AlanB · Post by **AlanB** » Wed Nov 02, 2011 8:13 am

GLB has moved their Project X cask night (2nd Thursday of each month) to the Rhino for "Movember". From their Facebook page:

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Thursday, November 10 · 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Rhino Bar & Grill Inc
1249 Queen St W
Toronto, Ontario

Join us for Project X Movember @ The Rhino! We'll have a bunch of one-off cask & draft beers as well as some tasty eats to pair from their kitchen. Admission is $15 with $5 going to Movember."

icemachine · Post by **icemachine** » Wed Nov 02, 2011 8:49 am

I'll be there with whatever bit of a Mo I've grown

G.M. Gillman · Post by **G.M. Gillman** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 10:04 pm

Excellent event, my first of the series or at Rhino. The GL porter, an impressive 7% ABV, was the best beer IMO. Clean rich traditional taste. I'd put out that one as a permanent amongst all I tried and it proves IMO that really good porter does not need coffee, chocolate or fruit additions.

The cask beer was an IPA or pale ale (forgive me for not remembering) made with fresh-tasting APA hopping. However, as is my wont, I blended it with the porter about 1:5 as I wanted to emulate an 1800's English porter which by that time often included a bit of U.S. hop. It worked extremely well.

The Jack Daniels barrel-aged beer was well-done but you have to like the keynote vanilla taste the barrel imparts and it's not my favourite. Never got to the black wit style, and missed a couple of others unfortunately since I stuck to the porter. (If you find something you really like at such events, experience tells me it's better to stick with it rather than try too many things).

Good to see Sammy, Doug, Ralph and meet some new people. Plus, I ran into Cass on the way over there!

JerCraigs · Post by **JerCraigs** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 11:03 pm

G.M. Gillman wrote: The cask beer was an IPA or pale ale (forgive me for not remembering) made with fresh-tasting APA hopping. However, as is my wont, I blended it with the porter about 1:5 as I wanted to emulate an 1800's English porter which by that time often included a bit of U.S. hop. It worked extremely well.

The cask was brewed as a group brew by the GL Movember participants according to the server. It was a pale ale made with some wild ontario hops according to Adrian. I enjoyed it and found the hop character to be very interesting. I enjoyed the other beers as well, but the IPA was very very good.

The Bar Towel

Great Lakes Project X - 2nd Thurs of each month

Project X: July

Project X moves to Rhino for Movember