Looking for the original Bar Towel blog? You can find it at www.thebartowel.com.

We have a trivia question in order to register to prevent bots. If you have any issues with answering, contact us at cass@bartowel.com for help.

Introducing Light Mode! If you would like a Bar Towel social experience that isn't the traditional blue, you can now select Light Mode. Go to the User Control Panel and then Board Preferences, and select "Day Drinking" (Light Mode) from the My Board Style drop-down menu. You can always switch back to "Night Drinking" (Dark Mode). Enjoy!

Search found 158 matches

by Peter Collins
Sun Mar 10, 2019 10:30 pm
Forum: Breweries, Tied Houses & Taprooms
Topic: Ontario brewing cities
Replies: 11
Views: 14414

Re: Ontario brewing cities

Reverence looks cool except their site links open all kinds of spammy pop ups. Not cool!

Abe Erb 3rd location is Ayr and 4th location is Guelph. No Cambridge.

Right, Foundry, down at the Gaslight district in Galt.

Cambridge is hopping! Good clean fun!
by Peter Collins
Sun Mar 10, 2019 4:58 pm
Forum: Breweries, Tied Houses & Taprooms
Topic: Ontario brewing cities
Replies: 11
Views: 14414

Re: Ontario brewing cities

distr0 wrote:Cambridge will have 11 this year
What are the other four?

I got...
Grand River Brewing
Four Fathers
Barncat
Rhythm and Brews
Jackass
Northworks
Wavemaker
by Peter Collins
Mon Apr 30, 2018 7:38 am
Forum: Outside of Ontario Beer Travel, Local Beer/Brewery Guides and Talk
Topic: Orlando
Replies: 25
Views: 21834

Re: Orlando

I was just here for a day yesterday and headed out this morning to Nashville. I'll add a spot that is worthy of a visit: Ravenous Pig. Brew pub/restaurant. Really good, to style brews. I had their Guavamente (Gose with Guava). Very nice and not over the top Gose but definitely to style. They had a c...
by Peter Collins
Sat Nov 04, 2017 1:03 pm
Forum: Breweries, Tied Houses & Taprooms
Topic: Grain & Grit
Replies: 5
Views: 4054

Re: Grain & Grit

I have to say I did NOT like what I got from G&G in cans. They're space is nice and the people are good but the beer... I had a bitter in the can and it was unsuitably under carbed. Taste was okay but didn't really do much for me overall. Also, slightly underfilled can. Their pineapple rye was t...
by Peter Collins
Wed Sep 27, 2017 6:41 am
Forum: General Beer Discussion & Random Talk
Topic: Octoberfest/Marzan
Replies: 12
Views: 6429

Re: Octoberfest/Marzan

Well, while we're not in the LCBO or TBS, Together We're Bitter in Kitchener has BOTH a Märzen and a wet hop IPA on tap at the brewery currently. Both pouring and tasting really nice. We've also got Craftoberfest coming up with around 25 breweries represented and around 11 Märzens being sent by the ...
by Peter Collins
Thu Jul 20, 2017 9:18 pm
Forum: Breweries, Tied Houses & Taprooms
Topic: Fairweather Brewing
Replies: 16
Views: 18969

Re: Fairweather Brewing

Dropped in last week for a visit. Great beer! My favourite was the dry hopped saison and came away with a couple of bottles of that. Everything they did was top notch if not all to my particular taste. HUGE brewery space out back that has so much growth potential. Looking forward to many future visi...
by Peter Collins
Mon Mar 27, 2017 8:55 pm
Forum: Outside of Ontario Beer Travel, Local Beer/Brewery Guides and Talk
Topic: Winnipeg?
Replies: 22
Views: 18871

Re: Winnipeg?

Just got back yesterday and visited the following with comments: PEG: Great little place! I was working this past week with the symphony and this place is a VERY short walk from the stage door so that was a bonus. All the beers were solid and well done. I gravitated toward the ISA and the IPA when I...
by Peter Collins
Tue Jan 31, 2017 5:06 pm
Forum: Outside of Ontario Beer Travel, Local Beer/Brewery Guides and Talk
Topic: Winnipeg?
Replies: 22
Views: 18871

Re: Winnipeg?

I'll be there in March for a week so have been doing a bit of research. In addition to the above mentioned places I did see this one:

http://littlebrownjug.ca/

I'll see about checking them out.
by Peter Collins
Sun Jul 03, 2016 8:53 pm
Forum: General Beer Discussion & Random Talk
Topic: Together We're Bitter
Replies: 14
Views: 7561

Re: Together We're Bitter

Reviving this thread for a bit... A bit of news about TWB: I'll be joining them as their brewer starting tomorrow (July 4). I have left Grand River Brewing as their Head Brewer and am excited to be joining the team at TWB to make beer for, and with, them. Hoping to see them through some growth, dist...
by Peter Collins
Mon Jun 29, 2015 4:14 pm
Forum: Beer Events & Festivals
Topic: Cambridge, Ontario Tap Takeovers at 'The Bruce'
Replies: 2
Views: 2691

Re: Cambridge, Ontario Tap Takeovers at 'The Bruce'

These are definitely worth it! I served at one repping GRB and attended the last one a couple of weeks ago for Charles MacLean. Great value, the brewers bring their best, Chef Aaron has GREAT food and for $35 for two full pints, sample flight and essentially all you can eat, it is definitely worth t...
by Peter Collins
Fri May 22, 2015 8:40 pm
Forum: Outside of Ontario Beer Travel, Local Beer/Brewery Guides and Talk
Topic: Prague and Plzen
Replies: 6
Views: 5322

Re: Prague and Plzen

Oh, I'm going to Plzen as well! Will only have a day or two there at the beginning of July but any tips will be welcome.

There is a vicarious request from one of my colleagues to have Pilsner Urquell on cask and report back to him how amazing it is. So... Thoughts?
by Peter Collins
Wed Jan 14, 2015 8:11 pm
Forum: Homebrewing Recipes and Tips
Topic: G&P No Longer Sell to Homebrewers
Replies: 2
Views: 3608

To clarify: Home brew clubs will now have to be registered as a business with all the various numbers etc. in place in order to do a group buy. They have not cut off connections with the clubs, just the manner in which they do business with them. We're working through this in Cambridge/KW/Guelph and...
by Peter Collins
Thu Nov 20, 2014 8:21 am
Forum: Local and Imported Beer Reviews
Topic: Old Flame Brewing
Replies: 3
Views: 2983

I don't know about the beers but I trust Matt7215's judgement. I know the head brewer there is Scott Pautler. A good guy who was here locally in Cambridge and part of the homebrew scene here via GRAB. Came to many meetings and brought tasty samples of his own brewing. Went through the Niagara Colleg...
by Peter Collins
Sun Jun 29, 2014 7:52 pm
Forum: General Beer Discussion & Random Talk
Topic: A really random topic for the Random Talk thread
Replies: 1
Views: 1650

And it's a single take. :D
by Peter Collins
Thu Feb 20, 2014 1:13 pm
Forum: LCBO, Beer Stores, Grocery & Indie Stores
Topic: Windsor restauranteur launches Beer Store boycott
Replies: 6
Views: 4528

"Or is he stupid enough to think that the people of Ontario don't?" This. The number of people I speak to or about who think that TBS is government owned and operated like the LCBO boggles my mind. When I tell them the facts they are always in shock. I think it's TBS's little "secret&...