Barking Squirrel Kegger at Jack’s this Thursday night between 6 and 8pm.

Go nuts over the Barking Squirrel the craft beer with some attitude.

Date:  Thursday February 24.2011

Visit the Jack  Astor’s Website for more information:  CLICK HERE

Photography by Will S.

Beerfest is back and this time it’s here with a vengeance with more food, more entertainment and most importantly…more alcohol with mor brewers and beers than ever!
Attractions:  Squeeze, Trophy, Great Bloomers, Kardinal Offishall, God Made Me Funky, Miles Jones, Styrofoam, Skydiggers, Little FEAT

Date:
August 5:  4 – 10pm
August 6: 4 – 10pm
August 7: 1- 7pm
August 8: 1 – 7pm
Location: Bandshell Park
Website:  www.beerfest.ca

Click here to buy Tickets:  Beer Store or at the Beer Fest website

Beer Vendors

Affligem Blonde (McClelland Premium Imports)
Amber Ale (Old Credit Brewing Co. Ltd.)
Alexander Keith’s (Labatt Breweries)
Amsterdam Blonde (Amsterdam Brewing Co.)
Antigravity Light Ale (Flying Monkeys Craft Brewery)
Arkell Best Bitter (Wellington Brewery)
Asahi Premium Black Kuronama Beer (Ozawa Canada Inc.)
Asahi Super Dry Beer (Ozawa Canada Inc.)
Beer Barons
Big Rock Lime (Big Rock Brewery)
Big Rock Traditional Ale (Big Rock Brewery)
Big Wheel (Amsterdam Brewing Co.)
Black Current Mead (Trafalgar Ales and Meads)
Black Oak Cask (Black Oak Brewing Company)
Black Oak Nut Brown Ale (Black Oak Brewing Company)
Black Oak Pale Ale (Black Oak Brewing Company)
Black Oak Summer Saison (Black Oak Brewing Company)
Boris Beer (The Premium Beer Company)
Boxer Ice Beer (Minhas Craft Brewery)
Boxer Lager Beer (Minhas Craft Brewery)
Bud Light Lime (Labatt Breweries)
Budweiser (Labatt Breweries)
Buzz Beer (Cool Beer Brewing)
Cameron’s Auburn Ale (Cameron’s Brewing Company)
Cameron’s Cream Ale (Cameron’s Brewing Company)
Cameron’s Dark 266 (Cameron’s Brewing Company)
Cameron’s Lager (Cameron’s Brewing Company)
Carling (Molson Coors Canada)
Cool Beer (Cool Beer Brewing)
Coors Light (Molson Coors Canada)
Corona (Molson Coors Canada)
County Dark Ale (Wellington Brewery)
Cracked Canoe (The Premium Beer Company)
Creemore Springs Premium Lager (Creemore Springs Brewery)
Creemore Springs Traditional Pilsner (Creemore Springs Brewery)
Critical Mass (Trafalgar Ales and Meads)
De Koninck Amber (McClelland Premium Imports)
Delirium Tremens (McClelland Premium Imports)
Erdinger Dunkel (McClelland Premium Imports)
Erdinger Weissbier (McClelland Premium Imports)
Fruli Strawberry Wheat (McClelland Premium Imports)
Grasshopper Wheat Ale (Big Rock Brewery)
Great Lakes Brewery
Heineken (Molson Coors Canada)
Hop City Brewing Co. (The Premium Beer Company)
Hook Norton (Beer Barons)
Hoptical Illusion (Flying Monkeys Craft Brewery)
Imperial Stout (Wellington Brewery)
Innis & Gunn Blonde (PMA Canada Ltd.)
Innis & Gunn Original (PMA Canada Ltd.)
Iron Duke (Wellington Brewery)
Jack & Cola (Jack Daniel’s Ready to Drink)
Jack & Iced Tea (Jack Daniel’s Ready to Drink)
Jack & Lemonade (Jack Daniel’s Ready to Drink)
James Ready 5.5 (James Ready Brewing Co.)
James Ready Light (James Ready Brewing Co.)
James Ready Original Ale (James Ready Brewing Co.)
Keystone Light (Molson Coors Canada)
King Brewery (Beer Barons)
KLB Raspberry Wheat (Amsterdam Brewing Co.)
Korruptor (Trafalgar Ales and Meads)
Laker Lager (Brick Brewing Co.)
Lug-Tread Lagered Ale (Beau’s All Natural Brewing Co.)
Mill Street Brewery
Miller Chill (Molson Coors Canada)
Miller Genuwine Draft (Molson Coors Canada)
Molson Canadian (Molson Coors Canada)
Moosehead Lager (The Premium Beer Company)
Nickel Brook Ale (Nickel Brook Beers)
Nickel Brook Gluten Free (Nickel Brook Beers)
Nickel Brook Green Apple Pilsner (Nickel Brook Beers)
Nickel Brook Maple Porter (Nickel Brook Beers)
Nickel Brook Organic Lager (Nickel Brook Beers)
Nickel Brook Pilsner (Nickel Brook Beers)
Pale Pilsner (Old Credit Brewing Co. Ltd.)
Raspberry Mead (Trafalgar Ales and Meads)
Red Baron Blonde (Brick Brewing Co.)
Red Bull Beer (Red Bull Beer Company)
Rickard’s Dark (Molson Coors Canada)
Rickard’s Red (Molson Coors Canada)
Rickard’s White (Molson Coors Canada)
Robert Simpson Confederation Ale (Flying Monkeys Craft Brewery)
Rock Creek Cider (Big Rock Brewery)
St. Ambroise Apricot Wheat Ale (McAuslan Brewing)
St. Ambroise Oatmeal Stout (McAuslan Brewing)
St. Ambroise Pale Ale (McAuslan Brewing)
Samuel Adams (The Premium Beer Company)
Samuel Smith’s Nut Brown (McAuslan Brewing)
Sapporo Premium (Sleeman Brewing & Malting Co.)
Special Pale Ale (Wellington Brewery)
Steam Whistle Pilsner (Steam Whistle Brewing)
Stiegl (McClelland Premium Imports)
Stiegl Grapefruit Radler (McClelland Premium Imports)
StoneHammer Dark Ale (StoneHammer Ales & Lagers)
StoneHammer Light (StoneHammer Ales & Lagers)
StoneHammer Pilsner (StoneHammer Ales & Lagers)
Stonewall (Cool Beer Brewing)
Trailhead Lager (Wellington Brewery)
Weihenstephan (Beer Barons)
William Cider
Yanjing Beer (Beijing Yanjing Beer Group)

Food Vendors

Caplansky’s Delicatessen
Elbows Mac & Cheese
Friendly Greeks
La Poutine Machine
Ontario Corn Roasters
Tiny Tom Donuts
Ted’s World Famous BBQ

Product/Promotional Vendors

Hype Energy Drink
Thomas Hines Tobacconist

A single event devoted to smaller personalized breweries of Ontario, it is none other than the SESSiON (se-shun) Craft Beer Festival of 2010.   It’s a time to enjoy what Ontario finest brew masters have to offer and for celebrating with music, food, and some really happy people.

Visit the Ontario Craft Beer Week for a complete listing of all other events!

Remember to drink responsibly!

Click here to get your tickets!

Date: June 26.2010
Price: $35
Time: 12pm – 8pm
Location:
Sunnyside Pavillion
1755 Lake Shore Boulevard West
Toronto, ON M6S 5A3

Photo Review by setibbig

List of participating breweries:

Amsterdam Brewing

Black Oak Brewing

Beau’s All Natural Brewing

Cameron’s Brewing

Duggan’s Brewery

Flying Monkeys Craft Brewery

F&M Brewery

Garrison Brewing

Great Lakes Brewery

Lake of Bays Brewing Co.

McAuslan Brewing

Mill Street Brewery

Muskoka Cottage Brewery

Nickel Brook Beers

Niagara’s Best Brewery

Propellor Brewery

Thornbury Village Cidery

Tree Brewing

Unibroue

Wellington Brewing

Title Photography by >Chris<

Find yourself in a Moosehead  Roots T-Shirt found inside a 24 Pack!  Beginning May 17th look inside your case of 2-4 Moosehead for one of five limited edition shirts.

Visit Moosehead.ca for more details!

If you like alcohol and you like your cheese then there’s no place you’d rather be than the 2010 Toronto annual Wine & Cheese Show!  This 3 day event of wine sampling, beer tasting, spirits, fine foods and gourmet cheese will you staggering out of the International wishing they’d have these shows every week!

You have to 19 years or older to get in (like that wasn’t a given) and you can’t bring your kids or babies!

EVENT INFO:

Date: Friday March 19 to Sunday March 21, 2010
Address: International Centre, Hall 5, 6900 Airport Rd., Mississauga
Hours: Friday: Noon – 10 p.m. | Saturday: Noon – 9 p.m. | Sunday: Noon – 6 p.m.
Tickets: $18.

Group Discounts for 10 plus Call 647-438-5559.

• Sample wine, beer and spirits from around the world
• Several stages serve up delicious food and drink ideas
• Experience mouth-watering culinary and wine pairings
• Discover tons of educational topics and expert advice
• Hundreds of new and unique products, recipes and pairing options

Official Website

If you needed an excuse to drive to Waterloo this weekend look no further than to beer, sausages and other wonderful things German.  Experience one of Canada’s largest Bavarian themed  festivals and enjoy the exciting amenities that are open to everyone not just the inebriated community.

Polka Polka!   Polka music everywhere you go while you explore the Oktoberfest grounds.

For more info click here to visit the KW Oktoberfest website.

Don’t forget to try out the Ontario brewed craft beer, Waterloo Dark made right in Kitchener at Brick Breweries.  

On our way to promoting more local products such as  Ontario grown fruits and vegetables we might have overlooked something else not necessarily grown but brewed, in this case the city of Guelph.

While grocery shopping for my weekend get together I visited Loblaws to grab my usual BBQ staples (steak, chicken & veggies) and I managed to stop off at the LCBO to grab some drinks.   I wandered up and down the wine aisles and grabbed the usual white and red wines but i thought I’d be more adventurous when coming up with the beer selection when I noticed a sign for Ontario Craft Brewers.  The first thing that caught my eye was the cool colours of the cans and the awesome logo.  To complete my “Ontario” themed party I decided on some local beer and picked up 6 cans (473ml) Trailhead Premium Lager for everyone to try.

Trailhead beer has a good balance of malt sweetness along with a crisp hop bitterness in the after taste.    The beer is golden amber in  colour with a stale hop and corn aroma with a bit of sweetness to it.  We found the drinkability of the beer average with no long lasting after taste lingering in the mouth and a bit plain.

It was decided that this lager was average and would best fit for a different occasion such as a refershing drink during a game of golf rather than with a meal.

We rated this beer a 3 out of 5.

For more information on the Wellington Brewery or Trailhead Lager please visit www.wellingtonbrewery.ca.

If you have a hankering for some Heineken and you’re shopping at the Beer Store make sure you might as well take advantage of the $4 off of a 24 bottle pack discount.

A regular 24 bottle (24 x 330 ml) pack at the Beer Store is priced at $41.95

Click here to for availability at your nearest Beer Store.

Deal Expires: Oct. 04.2009

Who’d ever thought there were four times as many breweries in 1862 than there are today, there must have been some good parties back then.   Black Creek Pioneer village has opened their doors to their on site brewery located in the heart of Black Creek Pioneer Village with some historic flare.

Opened in June of this year visitors are treated to a recreation of a real working 1800s brewery where employees are all dressed in period costumes brew the same ales and porters as they did in the days before confederation.

Events at the Black Creek Brewery include:

• Daily tours @ 12:30 and 3pm ~ $4 with Village admission
  - Comedic but informative guided tours of the facility
  - End of tour taste tests and invitation to stay in the pub for some cold pints.

• Field to Firkin – Every Friday form Aug-Sept @6:30pm ~ $15/$13 for members
  - Meet the Brewmaster and taste beer brewed on site
  - Another chance for a guided brewery tour
  - Enjoy the pub & restaurant good eats

• Say Cheese! And Cheers! August 13th & October 8 @ 6:30pm ~ $25/$22 for members
  -  Learn how to match your favourite cheeses with the correspoding beer flavours with food expert Julia Rogers.
  - Guests will sample five local cheeses each paired with their own on site brewed beer served with their freshly baked famous homemade root chips.
  - Also includes guided tour

• A Night at the Brewery, August 15 & 22, September 12, and November 21 @ 6:30pm ~ $75/$67 for members
  -  The most highly touted event at the Black Creek Brewery is full experience of the 1860s themed facilities with complete gourmet three course meal with each course accompanied by the local craft beer.
  - Dramatic shows/presentations and guided tour of the facilities along with sampling and a chance to meet the Brewmaster.
  - Call for tickets 416-667-6295

Please clock to visit the Black Creek Historic Brewery website here.

Where can you experience a huge variety of beer and great outside grill’n this summer?  That’s right, it’s the Toronto Beer Festival 2009 and it’s back to celebrate its’ 15th year but this time it’ll be at Bandshell Park at Exhibition Place instead of the Fort York.

Another crowd pleaser that’s also back by popular demand is the Napoleon Grilling Tent featuring the talents ofTed Reader’s Q-School.  So get out there and enjoy your summer with some BBQ and cold beer.

Hope to see you guys there!

Dates & times:

Thursday Aug.6. 2009  4-10pm/$50
Friday Aug.7.2009   4-10pm/$45
Saturday Aug .. 2009 1 – 7pm /SOLD OUT
Sunday Aug.9.2009 1 7pm/$45

Buy your tickets here:  Gettickets.ca and for more information on the festival please visit Beerfestival.ca

Please drink responsibly and take the TTC.

Must be 19+ years of age, no children, and no pets allowed – No exceptions