The Bar Towel

The following is a "satellite event" associated with the Festival of Beer put on by The Beer Store. No warranties as to how good/bad it will be! I'm out of town anyways...

No word on what beers will be available. Hmmm, makes a lot of sense for a beer event!

The King Street Crawl

Thursday July13th
King St West district
Free event!
6:00pm to 10:00pm

Complimentary beer tastings at participating bars and
restaurants in the King St West district!

Join us for a beer and you could WIN! A “KING-SIZED” Trip for Two to London England to see INXS live in concert with ZOOM Airlines!

Mix 99.9, ZOOM Airlines, Livelinks, NOW Magazine, Toronto’s Festival of Beer and The Beer Store want to send you to London England to see INXS! Collect just 5 stamps from 5 bars/restaurants offering complimentary tastings in the King Street West district on July 13th and bring your completed ballot to the exclusive Livelinks “After Party” at the Banknote Bar & Supergrill. You’ll have a chance to win a “KING-SIZED” trip for Two to see INXS on October 12th, including roundtrip airfare and 3 nights accommodation! The King Street Crawl is a summer beer-sampling event at select King St locations from Bathurst to Spadina, courtesy of participating brewers. And you are invited! Sip and socialize with your friends as you sample a different golden beverage at each stop on the crawl. There is no set order, but be sure to get your free “passport” stamped for a chance to win a “KING-SIZED” trip for Two! Mix 99.9’s Media Idol Maura Grierson will be cutting in “live-to-air” during the crawl, and hosting the exclusive Live links “After Party” starting at 10pm at the Banknote! Passports available at participating locations. This open event is 19+ and we ask you to please enjoy responsibly. See you on the crawl! Click Here for a PDF map ( 150k).

I'm curious. Whats on tap at these establishments?

Under normal circumstances Crush and 2 Cats doesn't have anything on tap. (Unless that has changed in the recent past.) Crush is a wine bar that has several bottles available of the best being Creemore. 2 Cats is a small lounge that serves mainly cocktails and I presume bottles of beer.

The Banknote has the usual macro suspects with Kilkenny, Stella, etc being considered premium.

So unless the OCB is heavily involved and brings in their stuff, I doubt I'm going to bother with this. Anyone go last year?

I can't see how a "Beer" event on King West whose map doesn't include the Portland Ale House (or whatever it is as i can never remember) in Amsterdam's old space can possibly be a worthwhile night out for anyone who has already had a reasonable exposure to good beer.

Could someone post a review of the Portland Ale House...I don't recall much activity on these forums about that establishment. I was a big fan of Rotterdams and their 300+ beers way back when.

Here ya go:
http://www.bartowel.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=2043

According to a story in the current issue of Movie Entertainment magazine, which I picked up at a Rogers store, the Portland Ber House is supposed to be up to 50 taps by this month and 100 at the end of the year. Last I heard this spot was for sale, so if this is true it's quite the development.

BeerMonger wrote:Could someone post a review of the Portland Ale House...I don't recall much activity on these forums about that establishment. I was a big fan of Rotterdams and their 300+ beers way back when.

I keep meaning to stop in after work and see, its not that far from my office and is generally on my way home, just never seems to happen, may have to change that in the near future.

If i do i'll post a full report.

Could someone post a review of the Portland Ale House...I don't recall much activity on these forums about that establishment. I was a big fan of Rotterdams and their 300+ beers way back when.

I was at The Portland ale house on Wednesday and I think it would be unfair to currently rate this establishment, they are (hopefully) in the middle of a renovation. The patio is nice, Fair tap selection - Mill St., Amsterdam, Wellington(trailhead) others I can't recall. but don't go in to the restaurant, no air conditioning, 1 washroom with no handle just a slide bolt and the kitchen is kinda in the open at the back of the building(inside). The food was great, ate on the patio, no deep fryer so the fries are oven baked. Now that I think about it there was no one doing any work on the restaurant so maybe it is for sale as is and they are just trying to keep out of bankrupcy until they can find a buyer.