ONTARIO's CRAFT BEER GUIDE
Toronto’s Henderson Brewing Company has released a special lager they brewed in collaboration with Jacobsen, the Copenhagen-based home brewery of Carlsberg. Nordic lager (5.2% ABV) is an easy-drinking copper lager infused with Scandinavian angelica root. That addition is subtle, perhaps […]
The ever-popular Society of Beer Drinking Ladies is holding a particularly big event this weekend. That’s right, it’s Lady Beer Fest time again! The bevy team has brought together over a dozen Ontario breweries (plus cideries, meaderies and distillers) from […]
Every day is a good day to celebrate beer, but Oct. 9 might be an even better day. All of Canada is invited to raise a glass of locally produced beer in unison on Canadian Beer Day. The association behind the […]
For the second year in a row, Toronto’s popular beer-and-running club will celebrate Canada’s birthday by running from Toronto to Hamilton. The rally (or solo run, if you’re so inclined) starts at Ontario Place and finishes at Merit Brewing. All […]
We are lucky to have Cask Days on the Ontario beer calendar. It pretty famously is the largest cask ale festival outside of the United Kingdom. But here, on the other side of year from when it happens, I think […]
It’s great to see that the Wild Things Festival is making a return for a second year. That means another opportunity to try some of the funkiest beers and ciders from around Ontario, plus natural wines from all over the […]
By Jordan Duff Beau’s All Natural Brewing and Great Lakes Brewing are two veteran breweries that have been at the forefront of Ontario’s beer resurgence. Fittingly, they are co-brewing the feature beer for the Terroir Symposium to demonstrate to the […]
By Jordan Duff Beer and running. While at first blush, these two popular pastimes seem like polar opposites, they can pair nicely. Consider events like The Canada Beer Run, where participants run through the host city, stopping at breweries along […]
The Society of Beer Drinking Ladies is marking their 5th birthday next month with their 5th Lady Beer Fest (formerly known as the Birthday Bevy). That means that North America’s largest women beer organization will bring together 10 breweries, one […]
A few days before Christmas I found myself at the annual Indie Alehouse Stout Night. It’s hazardous and flawed to think a particular beer style belongs exclusively to a certain season — that goes especially for stout where many low-ABV […]