 The 19th Annual Fall Festival Of Craft Breweries
With thirty-nine brews available for sampling, twenty-one of which were appearing just for the event, our beer festival on Friday September 28, 2007 was tailor made for the adventurous.
2799 samples were purchased and a little over a quarter of these (739) were rated. Although there was much excitement surrounding the line-up, the Toronto "beer weenie" is becoming an increasingly critical beast - raters weighed in with a typical score of about 31.5, down almost four points from the results a year previous. Eight brews finished with a score below 30 compared with one last year.
- County Durham swept the top three with Durham Hop Head, C'est What Caraway Rye, and Durham Hop Addict finishing ahead of the pack, all with median scores of 37. The Hop Head was inadvertently tasted "blind" as it's tap label was switched with the Scotch Irish (Helen) Kellertrubes Lager for the duration of the Festival.
- The Most Curious award for the most rated beer, goes to Trafalgar for Smoked Oatmeal Stout. Close behind was the remarkably unique Church-Key Flanders Sour Brown. It should be pointed out that Great Lakes Double Pumpkin Ale sold out when the festival was a mere three hours old making it the most consumed beer if not the most rated. On the other hand, past festival winners St. Ambroise Oatmeal Stout, C'est What Coffee Porter, and Mill Street Tankhouse Ale were not rated enough to make the rankings.
Cheers!
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