This year's Canadian National Exhibition has Craft beer offerings on top. On maps it's marked as "The Wine Garden" (there is a wide range of VQA product available to sample or buy by the bottle) but it's the beer that really attracted my attention.
Continue Reading →"Beer on the pier, water on the water," is the sober-boating slogan, familiar to all Ontario cottagers. Once Rob Engman (owner and also the publisher of TAPS magazine) and Sam Corbeil (head brewer) finish construction of their brewery and tied house, Sawdust City, on the Gravenhurst boardwalk they'll be the only brewery [...]
Continue Reading →From its opening last summer I've thought of Wvrst as that wide-open restaurant, right downtown, with a menu tightly-focused on a broad selection of sausages and fries cooked in duck fat. With all the talk of ground kangaroo in tube form I don't think I realised just how much attention the people behind Wvrst [...]
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