Don’t bother shoveling. It’ll be gone by the time the sun gets swallowed by a vengeful moon next week. ALL HAIL THE PATH OF TOTALITY! With the promise of warmer weather and with patios about to open across the province, […]
Style Snapshot: A guide to the roasty, robust porter
WHAT IS IT? A style of dark ale initially brewed with Brown Malt in the 18th century, which has laterally become a robust malt forward beverage with lots of toasted malt, coffee, and chocolate notes. DANGER LEVEL Might fall in […]
News and notes: March 22, 2024
Outside my window in midtown Toronto the snow is falling, but very gently. In fact, individual flakes hover amongst the pigeon netting. The old adage that March comes in like a lamb and goes out like a lion is not […]
News and Notes: March 8, 2024
Hello and welcome to The Growler News and Notes. It’s a roundup of all the happenings in Ontario worth mentioning including openings, closures, movers, shakers, and other ephemera! Closures Sarnia’s Big Family Brewing announced via Facebook on February 21st that […]
News and Notes: February 23, 2024
Can you feel that warmth, Ontario? That’s called sunshine! It represents that it will soon be spring and that patios are within the bounds of possibility in the near future. Of course, there’s no such thing as non-patio weather, just […]
News and notes: February 9, 2024
As the winter progresses, you can just about bet there’s doings transpiring in Ontario’s beer world. The Growler Ontario is here to relay all the news that you can reasonably fit into a bi-weekly newsletter on a website with theoretically […]
Eastbound Brewing offers artful beer and food pairings at their Chef’s Kitchen Bar
The idea of beer and food pairing, although the subject of a great deal of writing over the last decade, finds relatively few practitioners in the real world. While the role of sommelier is long established in Canada’s upscale restaurants, […]
Recipe: Oyster mushrooms with corn custard
Paired with Black Bellows Ball Peen Nitro Stout Lucien Command—owner of Duff Pies—was born in Geneva, Switzerland but is originally from the south of France. Growing up he was surrounded by food – his mom owned a restaurant and everyone […]
News and Notes: January 26, 2024
Openings and closings There have been mercifully few closures taking place around the province of Ontario over the first month of 2024, and so far no openings to speak of either. If you’d like to keep track of that visually, […]
Challenges in Ontario’s craft beer industry
An honest look at the state of the industry in 2024 with PEC’s Matron Fine Beer On Monday of this week, notable Prince Edward County brewery Matron Fine Beer released a newsletter that shared in a plaintive and emotional manner […]