The Toronto Beer Experience - Thu Oct 21st

GregClow · Post by **GregClow** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 11:46 pm

The Toronto Beer Experience
October 21, 2010 - 6:00pm to 11:00pm
Berkeley Church - 315 Queen St East Toronto

One night only at the Berkeley Church, the Toronto Wine & Spirit Festival presents to you the Toronto Beer Experience! Featuring rare and unique selections from your favorite local breweries, this event is mandatory for any beer lover in Toronto! Come and celebrate local, rare, delicious and unique beer in a friendly and charming location.

Featuring delicious tastes from:
Muskoka Lakes Brewery
Cameron's Brewing Co.
Church Key Brewing Co.
Flying Monkeys Craft Brewery
Beau's All Natural Brewing
Victoria Spirits
Great Lakes Brewery
Mill Street Brewery
Black Oak Brewing Co.
and more to come!

All vendors will be bringing one off or unique products, tastes you'll never find in the LCBO or Beer Store!

There will also be delicious food selections available from the culinary team at Berkeley Church. Don't miss it!

http://www.wineandspiritfestival.ca/
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=151473914885503

GregClow · Post by **GregClow** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 3:49 pm

There's a GroupOn today to get 2-for-1 passes to this event:

http://www.groupon.com/deals/toronto-beer-experience

shintriad · Post by **shintriad** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 4:16 pm

Pretty intense. Anyone have any idea what kind of one-offs are going to be available at this shindig?

northyorksammy · Post by **northyorksammy** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 8:29 pm

•All beers are either unique to the festival or brand-new flavours

i do not know what that means or promises, but I have not heard great things about the management in this place , and they are venturing into new ground here

GregClow · Post by **GregClow** » Thu Oct 14, 2010 12:05 am

northyorksammy wrote:•All beers are either unique to the festival or brand-new flavours

i do not know what that means or promises,

It's pretty clear to me, Sammy - all the breweries will be bringing new or one-off beers to the festival.

northyorksammy wrote:but I have not heard great things about the management in this place , and they are venturing into new ground here

Hardly - there have been plenty of beer, wine and spirit events at the Berkeley Church. The first Brewers Plate was there a few years ago, and the folks behind this event - who are also behind the Wine & Spirits Festival at the Distillery - have done a several events there in the past.

Not to mention that the management of the venue really have very little to do with the event. It's being organized and presented by an outside company who are simply using the space.

SteelbackGuy · Post by **SteelbackGuy** » Thu Oct 14, 2010 12:55 am

northyorksammy wrote:•All beers are either unique to the festival or brand-new flavours

i do not know what that means or promises,

That seems pretty clear, no?

northyorksammy · Post by **northyorksammy** » Thu Oct 14, 2010 9:02 pm

"It's pretty clear to me, Sammy - all the breweries will be bringing new or one-off beers to the festival. "--

can you guarantee that? Why would they do it if not marketing more strongly to the beer geeks? The average person out there is not as particular to new beers, just new beers they have not tried. would they have more new beers to offer than say at a Volo event?

GregClow · Post by **GregClow** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 10:10 am

northyorksammy wrote:"It's pretty clear to me, Sammy - all the breweries will be bringing new or one-off beers to the festival. "--

can you guarantee that??

Of course I can't, I'm not the organizer of the event! I'm just passing on the information that's been provided.

For those who only care about getting new ratings, it's already been confirmed that there will be at least one beer completely exclusive to the event - a dunkel being brewed by Great Lakes in collaboration with Scott Rondeau, the event organizer. And there are several other breweries involved that are well known for doing unique one-off beers, so the odds are good they'll have something different.

Otherwise - maybe all of the brewers will bring brand new beers, maybe they won't. But they're all good breweries, so there will be great beer available either way.

northyorksammy · Post by **northyorksammy** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 10:24 am

"For those who only care about getting new ratings"

perhaps the tone can become something like: 'for most Bar Towellers, whom are interested in trying something new'

( just trying to help)

GregClow · Post by **GregClow** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 10:47 am

northyorksammy wrote:"For those who only care about getting new ratings"

perhaps the tone can become something like: 'for most Bar Towellers, whom are interested in trying something new'

Fair enough. I'm just not getting why you're criticizing/doubting this event before it even happens just based on the venue.

FWIW, the organizer was one of the original founders of Toronto Festival of Beer, when it had more of a craft/micro focus, and he has remained interested in craft beer ever since. The event may not be aimed purely at beer geeks - if it was, it would be held somewhere a hell of a lot smaller - but the intention appears to be to appeal to them along with the larger group of people who may not be hardcore, but are still interested in trying new things.

Gedge · Post by **Gedge** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 1:08 pm

The lineup of brewers looks very solid. Wish I hadn't missed out on the groupon deal.

Garthicus · Post by **Garthicus** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 2:54 pm

So Sammy are you going or just trolling?

wilco · Post by **wilco** » Mon Oct 18, 2010 9:21 am

The Facebook page for the Toronto Wine & Spirit Festival has details on what some of the breweries are bringing:

Great Lakes Gardog Dunkelweisen and Sweet Pete's Peach Wheat
Mill Street Rauchbier
Cameron's Ginger Ale
Flying Monkeys Smashbomb and Cookies & Cream Ale
Beau's Night Marzen

So the answer is that there will be a mix of one-offs and previously available (but not very common) beers. They also posted on Friday to say that it will likely sell-out, so any fence sitters might want to buy their tickets. I'm now officially looking forward to this.

northyorksammy · Post by **northyorksammy** » Mon Oct 18, 2010 2:53 pm

[quote="Garthicus"]So Sammy are you going or just trolling?[/quote]

you?

Rosko · Post by **Rosko** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 7:13 am

I have the best of all worlds - a groupon for this event, and a wife with a cab chit.

Scores!!