Beer and BBQ
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chickenfeetThe craft beer and BBQ weekend at the St. Lawrence market kicked off this afternoon so the lemur and I stopped off to sample on our long walk home from Yorkville. We avoided the BBQ which has been extremely disappointing the last couple of years. I am convinced that good BBQ can only be found in the US in the sort of neighbourhood where you worry about your car being stolen while you are picking your order up or getting shot for the sake of a few ribs on the way back to the car.
The beer was another story. I cunningly managed to buy just enough tokens to try all the beers that (a) we weren't already familiar with and (b) looked interesting. We navigated north from Durham Brewery (good stout) to Northumberland County (excellent ESB) via a brief diversion to Unibroue to sample the Raftsman (made with whisky malt, excellent) to Scotch Irish Brewing who had a line up of four uniformly excellent brews; a remarkably flavourful bitter that was only 3.5% alcohol, an excellent London style porter, a very good IPA and a really really good Scotch heavy. We skipped past the C'est What, Granite Brewery and Mill Street stalls because excellent as they are we know them well and don't need to sample their wares!
The beer was another story. I cunningly managed to buy just enough tokens to try all the beers that (a) we weren't already familiar with and (b) looked interesting. We navigated north from Durham Brewery (good stout) to Northumberland County (excellent ESB) via a brief diversion to Unibroue to sample the Raftsman (made with whisky malt, excellent) to Scotch Irish Brewing who had a line up of four uniformly excellent brews; a remarkably flavourful bitter that was only 3.5% alcohol, an excellent London style porter, a very good IPA and a really really good Scotch heavy. We skipped past the C'est What, Granite Brewery and Mill Street stalls because excellent as they are we know them well and don't need to sample their wares!
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Date: 2004-06-11 04:23 pm (UTC)Best stout. I think I had three of these. Black Kat is one of my favourites.
Scotch Irish Brewing who had a line up of four uniformly excellent brews; a remarkably flavourful bitter that was only 3.5% alcohol, an excellent London style porter
Excellent doesn't begin to describe it. The Entire Butt Porter is based on a recipe from the mid-1700s and kicked my ass with its incredible licorice undertone.
It... uh... helps to be the wife of a beer geek at things like this. Knowing all the brewers is helpful in scoring freebies. :)
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Date: 2004-06-11 08:36 pm (UTC)