As the weather gets colder the temptation to stay in with a snifter of barleywine sets in. That’s fair, but we also love a good winter-season beer event. Here are three good ones coming up in Toronto. Great Lakes Christmas […]
A Wonderland of craft beer
I’m not a rollercoaster guy. Or, at least, that’s what I thought before this year. In 2018, I’ve been to Canada’s Wonderland twice already and have taken big strides towards loving the stomach-turning drops. Luckily, I had a bit of […]
Wild Things Festival launches in Toronto this June
During a recent conversation, I had with Stephen Beaumont about his new book Will Travel for Beer, he answered my question about beer festivals by saying that he’d like to see more specialized beer events in North America. As it […]
Toronto and area craft breweries open on Victoria Day
As every Canadian knows, the Monday before May 25 is set aside to celebrate Queen Victoria’s proclamation, in 1867, that all cases of beer in British North America will have exactly 24 bottles. The little-known second part of the 151-year-old […]
The Seven Most Unusual and Wonderfully Wacky Brewery Events
April is a sort of tense time in the beer calendar. Despite our current weather, it’s definitely spring, but May 2-4 is still over a month away and Father’s Day – the real kickoff for brewery events every weekend – […]
Giveaway: Junction Brewery celebrates their grand opening with the Elwins
Junction Craft Brewing has some big news – and like any good Torontonian, they made sure it involves real estate. At the beginning of the year, they took possession of a new home on Symes. Spread over 16,000 square feet […]