It was a glorious sunny day at the beer garden on The Esplanade when we gathered for the first time in a couple of years to challenge our taste buds and livers in a festival setting on Saturday May 28, 2022. As usual, complete agreement was absent with scores for many brews ranging from 0...
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What are Esters? Esters represent the largest class of flavor compounds in alcoholic beverages, responsible for contributing to both flavour and aroma of beer. The aromas and flavors attributable to esters include: anise, apple, banana, honey, juicy fruit gum, nail polish remover, pear, pineapple, strawberry. While they are best known for creating desirable fruity flavours,...
After a long winter and even longer pandemic, everyone is looking to get out and enjoy the great outdoors. To help in this quest, we have converted the parking lot down the lane at 94 The Esplanade into a beer garden. Largely sheltered from the spring drizzle, individual heaters at the tables to ward off...
We are pleased to announce the return of our semi-annual beer festival after a two-year hiatus. After three decades of giving our guests the opportunity to try different brews all in one evening, we were anxiously awaiting, once again, the opportunity to fill up those sample cups. This year our Spring Festival will take place...
What is a Witbier? Witbier, literally translated from Flemish to “white beer,” is named for its signature hazy, or white, appearance resulting from the suspended yeast and wheat proteins in the beer. Although no one knows the precise origin of the witbier style, it is thought to have originated in a monastic brewery near Leuven,...
Saturday April 9. Show 3:00 PM (three sets), doors open 2:00 PM. The Hot Five Jazzmakers are a versatile Canadian jazz group and play a mix of ragtime, blues, spirituals & classic jazz with the flavour of the 1920’s/30’s – the golden era of jazz. Don’t be confused by the word “FIVE” however. Mostly they...
What is a California Common? While there are American versions of almost every beer style out there, there are only a few true beer styles born in the US that still exist today. In the mid-nineteenth century, cream ales were developed as a counterpoint to German pilsners; in 1975 American brewing giant Miller released the...
Our ventilation system completely changes the air five times every hour. Almost as fresh as the great outdoors but with the benefit of fireplaces, great craft beer, and comfort food.
Bière de Garde While France is rightly renowned for its robust wine culture, it also has a rich but lesser known history of brewing beer. Bière de garde, loosely translated to mean beer for keeping, is recognized as France’s contribution to specialty brewing, originating in farmhouse breweries that once populated French Flanders, an area now...