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  3. BEER!!

    in Mmmmm

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    I really enjoy Red Racer but lately my favourite IPA at the LCBO has been Sawdust City's Lone Pine.  Sawdust City also makes a very very good double IPA that is on tap at bars called Twin Pine. If you see it grab a pint!  I also have been really enjoying tall cans of Nicklebrook Naughty Neighbour.  Great session ipa!  I love Bells Two Hearted, maybe my favourite ipa.  Just recently brewed up a clone recipe of it which turned out very good.

  11. BEER!!

    in Mmmmm

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    Anyone attending Cask Days this year?  I'll be there for session 2, Saturday afternoon.  It's such a great beer festival and everyone should go!

     

    http://www.caskdays.com/

     

    The 10th Annual “Cask Days” Cask Conditioned Craft Beer Festival returns to Evergreen Brickworks in Toronto, Ontario for its third year and will offer more than 300 beers and ciders across 3 days with over 5000 attendees.  

    The festival welcomes back breweries from across Canada, United Kingdom and has invited California to be this year’s international brewery feature. Presented in conjunction with CASK ALE LA, there will be over 30 beers available from breweries across the state, both big and small that have never been served north of the border. Participating feature breweries will be announced individually leading up to the festival starting with Stone Brewing Company from Escondido, California.
     

    Along side an exceptional line up of beers, Cask Days hosts a unique beer festival experience with epic eats from Toronto’s most admired chefs, raw vinyl beats and an art gallery that showcases the best in beer label design. Additional attractions include the 6th Annual IPA Challenge, a classic arcade game zone and feature artists: Troy Lovegates and Mister Sleeep.

     

    Cheers,

     

    Jake

  15. BEER!!

    in Mmmmm

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    Cask days is such a good beer event. Last year and this year had so much good beer selections and its also so well run! No lineups for beer and so many choices.

  17. Vacationlog

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    072813

    Easily enduring another festival tent experience I got baked awake and crawled out of the tent. In one direction was a big blue sky, in the other: smoke. It looked like a glorious day in one direction and a miserable day in the other due to the ongoing forest fire across the river. Fortunately we were headed in the sunny direction!

    We were lackadaisical about our packup, enjoying more coffees and quesadillas while chatting with the neighbors. We eventually got everything into the car and moseyed through the now-nearly-empty campground, carefully avoiding glass and other obstacles. We snaked past a garbage pile that included a discarded wheelchair. Miraculous.

    We drove along the farm fields and found our way back to the highway, happy and smelly and with an indeterminate daily distance to travel.

    We had the day off but hoped to get a fair distance towards Lake Tahoe. With little else to do but drive, we drove.

    With the luxury of time we were happy to avoid the interstate as much as possible, and as the afternoon waned we pulled into Bend, Oregon. A quaint tourist town chock full of microbreweries (and for the moment, Phishheads), Bend made for a great dinner stop.

    We parked and marched across the street to Deschutes Brewery, home of one of m'lady's favourite brews. We got a great sampler tray while we waited for our table, though as I was driving (and have a palette geared towards more proletariat beer flavours) I let her do most of the sampling. It must have been pretty good beer; as soon as we got our table m'lady ordered another sampler. The food certainly was good.

    Back on the road we didn't have many more minutes of daylight, so we couldn't afford to be picky when it came to finding a campground. Even when the campground was ten miles off the highway. Even when it went from being a “campground†to a “family RV resortâ€. Ugh. I hate “familyâ€.

    As expected, the place was pricey, unfun, and packed with kids. We set up in the dusky light and pretty much stayed in the tent. We have a week of hotels coming though, so hunkering down for the night was bearable.

    And the families did squawk around us.

    Great logs as always Velvet. Also let your girlfriend know that this is coming to the lcbo in the fall....

    Deschutes Black Butte Porter / 650 / $5.30 / DESCHUTES BREWERY / USA

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