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CASK! ChallengeWhat's The Real Deal?
C'est What Coffee Porter, Black Oak Pale Ale, Granite Best Bitter, McLean's Pale Ale, and Wellington County Ale. A brewer or two will be on hand to explain the differences in style and production. Tuesday November 18, Doors 6:00 pm, Tasting 7:00 pm, Advance tickets are available for $15.00 (all charges and taxes included) Beer FestivalResults From 20th Annual Festival Of Small Breweries
About half of the forty brews available were in for just the Festival: Amsterdam Oktoberfest, Big Rock Black Amber, Black Oak Wasabi Brown Ale, Grand River Highballer Pumpkin Ale, Great Lakes Pumpkin Ale, Midland Beer Works Georgian Bay Dipper, Granite Hopping Mad, King Hopped-up Un-filtered Pilsner, Nickelbrook Oak-aged Kriek and Sahti Juniper Beer, Neustadt Elderbrau, Railway City Iron Spike Copper Ale, Scotch Irish Corporal Punishment, Okanagan Pale Ale, St. Ambroise Pumpkin Ale, Trafalgar Smoked Oatmeal Stout, True North Altbier, and Mill Street Witbier. In all, 4935 samples were sold (that's about one every four seconds). The voter turnout was also up as 16% of the samples were rated (up from 14% at the Spring Festival). Not quite election sized numbers but the contented citizen tends not to vote. The top four finishers were: In first for the third time in the past four festivals, Durham Hop Addict with a median score of 41 out of 50 followed by McAuslan Pumpkin Ale (40.5), C'est What Hazelnut Chocolate Ale (39.5), and Unibroue Chambly Noire (39.0). The full table of scores can be found here. New MenuGetting A Little Bit Greener
In partnership with GreenTBiz we are a pilot site for the use of LED light bulbs to replace our halogen bulbs at about one quarter the energy consumption. We have already converted much of our incandescent lighting to CFLs. Our bathroom tissue and beverage napkins are now 100% recycled and chlorine free. The take-out containers are now plant-based and compostable. Through Mountain View Estates we have sourced high quality organic, fair trade coffee, espresso, dark hot chocolate, and teas. Our use of the fine butchers at The St. Lawrence Market means that we are not dependent on factory processed meat. All of our meals are "made from scratch" with an absolute minimum of pre-processed ingredients. Our annual food menu review is almost "ready for prime time". Here is a sneak preview of what's new: Antojitos - It's out with the black olives and in with the Chipotle. Melange et Tu - A combo appetizer plate for those who can't make up their mind. Tortilla Chips, Antojitos, Quesadillas, and Chipotle Garlic Melt. Green Party - A vegan friendly salad of mixed greens and seasonal veggies with a savoury topping of marinated chick peas and raisins. The Hogtown - A chef's style salad of mixed greens and seasonal veggies topped with bacon and your choice of cheese Rainbow Coalition - It's basically the tried and true Mango Chicken Salad but we will use ripe, seasonal fruit instead of always relying on the fickle mango. Falafel - You will now have the option of turning it into a Falafel Salad. Green Curried Noodles - You can add calamari as well as chicken to the vegetarian rice noodles base. The Staggering Pig - Smoked pulled pork in a chipotle and red wine reduction served on baguette au jus. C'est Brule - Home baked custard dessert. We're aiming to have all of this ready for you sometime in the middle of November. Great Real, Get It Live We four anomalies who call ourselves The DoneFors have but one reason for existing here on this repugnant rock called 'Earth', and that is to bring you the music you'll be dying to hear as the doctors are pulling the plug on your respirator. The delightful buffet of tragedy and comedy that will be echoing through the factory before you trip headfirst into a vat of boiling maple syrup. The beautifully scandalous music that will be tickling your ears through your mp3 player as the anvil drops from the sky to morph your body into a sticky meat pancake. Don't look so sad, little grain; there never was any guarantee this would end pretty. Just don't give death the chance to steal you away without listening for yourself. Who knows? This may just be what saves you in the end. Saturday November 15, Doors 10:00 pm, Show time 10:30 pm, Advance tickets are available for $8.00 Ghostwalk Creek + Makita Hack and the Log Rollers Ghostwalk Creek is Stuart Henderson, a singer-songwriter centred in Toronto, backed by Dave Marshall (bass), Greg Karout (flute), Bruce Adamson (guitars) and Jeremy Elliott (drums). "I've travelled around Canada and the world, and many of my songs try to reflect the people, places and stories I've come into contact with... The "live" feel to these songs is due to the utterly unpolished, plainly under-practiced atmosphere they were recorded in. For some of these, we laid it all down and recorded off-the-floor in a big, empty lodge in Northern Ontario, on the shores of Canoe Lake. Hence, The Lodge Sessions. A bit out of tune, a few scratches here and there, but the feel of the songs came across OK, I think. What do you think?" Saturday November 29, Doors 10:00 pm, Show time 10:30 pm, Advance tickets are available for $6.00
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It seems that this craft beer thing is finally catching on. On Friday October 4 2008, at our 20th Annual Festival Of Small Breweries, hundreds upon hundreds of interested folks decided to join us for an evening of tasting, talking, (and spilling). We often had to resort to a line-up to stay within a safe capacity.
We have been steadily working to green C'est What over the past couple of years. Initiatives to reduce our energy consumption, make use of recycled and compostable products, and buy more local, organic, and fair trade products are well underway.
