Summer Festival of Craft Breweries @ C'est What - Jun 21-25

[GregClow]

From this month's C'est What email newsletter...

1st Annual Summer Festival of Craft Breweries

Usually, the weekend after Victoria Day we fill our coolers way past capacity, feed the staff a lot of coffee, and present our Spring Festival Of Craft Breweries. This year we are mixing things up and holding a five-day Festival running from Tuesday June 21 to Saturday June 25.

If you were to guess that we are moving the Festival to coincide with the first anniversary of the Toronto G-20 Summit, you would be wrong. Although we are very pleased that fiasco is far behind us, we are even happier with the prospect of Ontario Craft Beer Week, June 19 to 25.

A total of 26 beers will be available to sample each of the first three nights at the original bar. Each night we will be featuring about a dozen new draughts and three new casks in addition to selections from our usual line-up. On Friday we will throw open all of our taps to sampling with around forty flavours available. We will post a list of each night's sampling menu as we approach the Festival. As usual, most samples will cost a loonie.

On the Saturday we are presenting The Great Beer Chaser, no sampling, but $4 glasses / $6 pints (tax-in) of all of the leftovers that we can rotate through (not our regular brews) all day long.

Five days, eighty brews, best to start training.

www.cestwhat.com

[BigLuke78]

Heading to C'est What on Tuesday the 21st for opening night... do we need to buy tickets? What time does it kick off? Can't wait!

[Jonah Hex]

More info on the beers to be available, and when, from
http://www.cestwhat.com/music/summerfestival.asp

(Also includes info that no tickets or admission fee required, and each days' event starts officially at 4pm.)

CONFIRMED TO DATE

Tuesday June 21

Black Oak Pale Ale, Cheshire Valley IPA, Duggan's #9 IPA (cask), Granite Darkside IPA (cask), Great Lakes ??? (cask), MacLean's IPA (cask), Durham Hop Addict, Durham XXX (cask), Kensington Augusta Ale, Muskoka Mad Tom IPA (cask), Nickel Brook Headstock IPA

Wednesday June 22

Amsterdam Tempest Imperial Stout (cask), Amsterdam Two-Fisted Stout, Barley Days Dark Ale (cask), Black Oak Saison, Black Oak Bourbon Barrel Aged Nut Brown Ale, C'est What Steve's Dreaded Chocolate Orange (cask), Church-Key Saison, Grand River Dry-hopped Plowman's Ale (cask), Great Lakes Belgian Saison, Hockley Valley Black & Tan, Mill Street Ginger Beer, Mill Street Lemon Tea, Neustadt Sour-Kraut

Thursday June 23

Amsterdam KLB Raspberry Wheat, Barley Days Loyalist Lager, Beau's Screaming Beaver Double IPA (cask), Cameron's Hop Burn (cask), Cameron's Cream Ale, Creemore Kellerbier, Duggan's #99 Double IPA (cask), Flying Monkeys Supercollider Double IPA, Hop City American Ale, Hop City Pilsner, King Pilsner, McAuslan St. Ambroise Apricot Wheat, Railway City Pilsner, Steam Whistle Pilsner

Friday June 24

Amsterdam Urban Wheat, Black Oak ??? (cask), Duggan's Maibock, F&M Maple Red, King Vienna Lager, Lake Of Bays Rousse, Mill Street Weiss, Nickel Brook Strawberry Wheat (cask), Railway City Cocoloco Wheat, Unibroue Blanche des Chambly, Wellington Blueberry Cider Bitter (cask) + leftover casks from the week.

[georgemilbrandt]

Tuesday June 21

CASKS: Al's Cask Ale, Durham XXX, Great Lakes Lackey's Caskey, Duggan's #9 IPA, Granite Hopping Mad, Cameron's Hop Burn, MacLean's IPA, Muskoka Mad Tom IPA

DRAUGHT: Amsterdam Stout, Durham Hop Addict, King Pilsner, St. Ambroise Apricot Wheat, Steam Whistle Pilsner, Kensington Augusta Pale Ale, Spearhead Hawaiian Pale Ale, Cheshire Valley IPA, Black Oak Saison, KLB Raspberry Wheat, Nickel Brook Headstock IPA, Black Oak Pale Ale, Waupoos Cider, McAuslan Cream Ale, Big Butt, Coffee Orter, Caraway Rye, Homegrown Hemp Ale

Wednesday June 22

CASK: Al's Cask Ale, Durham XXX, Steve's Dreaded Chocolate Orange, Black Oak Bourbon Barrel Aged Nut Brown Ale, Granite Hopping Mad, Barley Days Dark Ale, Grand River Dry-hopped Plowman's Ale, Amsterdam Tempest Imperial Stout

DRAUGHT: Amsterdam Stout, Mill St. Lemon Tea Ale, King Pilsner, McAuslan Apricot Wheat, Steam Whistle Pilsner, Hockley Valley Black & Tan, Great Lakes Belgian Saison, Neustadt This Sour-Kraut, Black Oak Saison, KLB Raspberry Wheat, Church-Key Saison, Mill St. Ginger Beer, Waupoos Cider, McAuslan Cream Ale, Big Butt, Coffee Porter, Caraway Rye, Homegrown Hemp Ale.

Thursday June 23

CASK: Al's Cask Ale, Durham XXX, Steve's Dreaded Chocolate Orange, Black Oak Bourbon Barrel Aged Nut Brown Ale, Granite Hopping Mad, Nickel Brook Strawberry Wheat, Wellington Blueberry Cedar Bitter, Black Oak ???

DRAUGHT: Amsterdam Stout, Railway City Pilsner, King Pilsner, McAuslan Apricot Wheat, Steam Whistle Pilsner, Creemore Kellerbier, Hop City Pilsner, Barley Days Loyalist Lager, Hop City American Ale, KLB Raspberry Wheat, Cameron's Cream Ale, Mill St. Ginger Beer, Waupoos Cider, McAuslan Cream Ale, Coffee Porter, Caraway Rye, Homegrown Hemp Ale.

Friday June 24

CASK: Al's Cask Ale, Durham XXX, Great Lakes Lackey's Caskey, Duggan's #9 IPA, Granite Darkside IPA, Beau's Screaming Beaver Double IPA, Duggan's #99 Double IPA, Flying Monkeys Smashbomb Atomic IPA, + leftover casks from the week.

DRAUGHT: Amsterdam Stout, Railway City Cocoloco Wheat, King Vienna Lager, McAuslan Apricot Wheat, Steam Whistle Pilsner, Flying Monkeys Supercollider Double IPA, Amsterdam Urban Wheat, Duggan's Maibock, Lake Of Bays Rousse, F&M Maple Red, Mill St. Weisse, Unibroue Blanche de Chambly, Waupoos Cider, McAuslan Cream Ale, Coffee Porter, Caraway Rye, Homegrown Hemp Ale, Duggan's #9 IPA, Ste. Andre Vienna Lager, Flying Monkeys Smashbomb Atomic IPA, Railway City Dead Elephant Ale, St. Ambroise Pale Ale, Mill St. Organic Lager, St. Ambroise Oatmeal Stout, Steve's Dreaded Chocolate Orange, 666 Devil's Pale Ale, Neustadt 10W30, Grand River Blackberry Wheat, Denison's Weissbier.

[JerCraigs]

Anyone know if Hop City American Ale is new or just the Happy Hour, or the Barking Squirrel by a different name?

[G.M. Gillman]

I passed by after work, not realizing a festival was on. I stayed on the non-fest side of C'est What but all the fest beers were available by the pint there.

I tried Barley Days Dark Ale Cask, which was excellent, not dissimilar to the bottle but more nuanced and fresh in every way, and the dry-hopped Plowman's Ale from Grand River. The Plowman's in this form had a big twang from an unusual (for me) hop. I'd wager an Ontario-grown one. Excellent again.

A number of the casks were flavoured, e.g., with blueberry, papaya, chocolate. Not my thing but people seemed to like them.

Gary

[JerCraigs]

Anyone know if Hop City American Ale is new or just the Happy Hour, or the Barking Squirrel by a different name?

It was the Hoppy Hour.

[JerCraigs]

Iand the dry-hopped Plowman's Ale from Grand River. The Plowman's in this form had a big twang from an unusual (for me) hop. I'd wager an Ontario-grown one. Excellent again.

I almost thought it was this:
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/grand-rive ... ss/147420/

I got a strong pineapple fruit character out of it... but I dont think it was acidic enough to be it... I dont think?

[G.M. Gillman]

It was definitely unflavoured but I also got some fruity notes, I think they were from the hops used for dry-hopping. It had an exotic vegetal note too, like some hops I've had grown in Ontario.

Gary

[Malcolm]

Amsterdam Imperial Stout has been my favourite at the fest so far. Lovely stuff.

[G.M. Gillman]

I would have tried it had I known it was an Impy. My list didn't say.

Gary