Posts Tagged:cask

2nd Annual Ontario Cask IPA Challenge Round 2 – Results IN!!!

So the public has spoken, Price Waterhouse Cooper confirm the counts, and Ralph is pleased to announce that Great Lakes My Bitter Wife IPA, Flying Monkey’s Smashbomb IPA, Cheshire Valley English IPA, and Beau’s Beaver River IPA will be advancing to round 3.  COngrats to the brewers, and thanks to everyone who participated.  Here’s to […]

Ontario Cask IPA Challenge – Bar Volo

So, as I missed round one of this great series of events, I made sure I got to round two, and not only that, but got there about an hour after it started.  The format is simple, pit a variety of Ontario Cask IPAs and Pale Ales against each other in a head-to-head knock-out style […]

Hop Head – County Durham Brewing

So my bro Andrew is has seen the inside of a fair few Irish pubs in his day; he was born and raised in Belfast.  So I was keen to get him over to Ceili Cottage, as I knew he would appreciate the place as much as me, and better then many.  We were foiled […]

CASK! Social Pub Crawl. This Weekend

From the good folks at CASK! Social: Cask Ale Crawl 2010 Building on the success of last year’s cask ale crawl, which won a Golden Tap Award, this year’s event will take place during the weekend of May 7th – 9th 2010.  At least six participating pubs across downtown Toronto have confirmed so far: Granite Brewery, 245 Eglinton […]

CASK! Social

I just read on Troy Burtch’s blog (http://greatcanadianpubs.blogspot.com/) that the next CASK! Social is booked for this Saturday, at The Granite Brewery.  3-6pm, admission is free, as always, just come out to spend some time with other beer enthusiasts drinking cask ale.  From the good folks at CASK! Social: We are happy to announce that […]

Ceili Cottage

So, this is not my review of Ceili Cottage. This is a post about attending a CASK! social (http://casktoronto.wordpress.com/) at Ceili Cottage, which is entirely different. Though it will contain some very positive commentary on the bar in question. Like this: I love this bar.  Here is the skinny:  Irish-style bar in Leslieville (Queen St […]

Volo, late friday nights

I drink at Volo a fair amount (so should you). So trying to objectively review them is impossible, because I have years of history there. That history is a long testimony to what is an excellently run bar that is leading the charge when it comes to beer in Toronto. I can honestly say I […]

A good weekend for beer

Wow, what happened? Somehow the past two days became big beer days. I’ll detail some of the finer points in posts to come, but briefly: Last night I closed Volo with a dear friend who is about to leave on a four month trip to Mexico. We drank great beer, ate olives, and generally had […]

Victory – a possible correction

Just a note on my Victory Cafe review. I had totally forgot hand-pumped cask ales can have a significant head on them. So it’s possible my accusation that I recieved a draft ale was unfounded. It definitely was also fairly carbonated, but that’s entirely possible too. So my apologies if I was an idiot. I […]

The Victory Cafe

So this past Friday night, after hockey, I decided it was about time to get down to the Victory. I had met Neil and Maz at a few Volo events, and had promised up and down I would stop by sometime. Before I go on, I will offer a pre-defence for the Victory: it was […]