ONTARIO's CRAFT BEER GUIDE
It’s early January and a lockdown has once again shuttered Toronto’s bars and restaurants—one of its best for good. Katie Whittaker, owner of Thirsty and Miserable, was emptying leftover kegs into mason jars, growlers, and the cupped hands of anyone […]
“Do one thing really well.” That was the much-marketed tagline of Toronto’s Steam Whistle Brewing from its beginning in 1998 to 2018. And it served the brand well as it steadily ascended into a national beer distributed across Canada. But […]
Do you remember when Wvrst opened on King West? It was 2011 and the present wave of craft beer was just barely building in Toronto. King West, especially near Portland, was converting into a nightlife and restaurant row. I remember […]
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 […]
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 – […]