I love **Samuel Adams**, and was happy to see them at the *Festival of Beers*, but they were pouring *Boston Lager*, *Summer Ale*, and *Latitude 48 IPA*, all of which I’ve had, so with a tiny bit of regret, I didn’t purchase any samples.
TFB Sam Adams tent
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- The Moosehead tent. One of the first tents we walked past, but, according to my notes, I totally forgot to sample a Moosehead beer.
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- Molson had a new wheat beer that was pretty good.
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- The rain kept the revelers running back under the tent, which really wasn’t a problem, since we all wanted to be under there anyway.
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- We got twenty tokens for $20 Canadian, which gave us twenty 4oz. samples. Mrs. Ferment tried three ciders, leaving me with 17 tokens.
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- I’m enjoying the Molson Canadian Wheat beer in the special glass mug that all attendees receive at Toronto’s Festival of Beer.
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- I have to drink how many more of these? Life can be hard for poor Fervere.
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- I got to try the River Walker Summer Ale by Lake of Bays Brewing Company, my first local Canadian beer at the Festival of Beer.
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- Krombacher had less of a tent than a food truck. Accidentally, I ordered a “large” which meant two tokens. Luckily, the Krombacher Dark was worth it, nutty and rich.
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- On the Krombacher menu: Pils, Weizen, and Dark. Krombacher was the first European beer I came across at the festival.
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- A couple of sips into my Krombacher Dark in my nice glass mug. There was so much, I sat down to savor it.
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- My absolute favorite company name at the Festival, Fidel Gastro. I didn’t eat during the event, because who wants to fill up on food?
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- Local boys! (Local to me, that is.) But I’ve had those beers before, so I passed up Brooklyn Brewery at this event.
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- Operating out of Niagara, Silversmith offered a great craft black lager. If it can break through to the New York side, I’ll be buying its beers.
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- Snowman Brewing Co. offered a gluten-free beer, Pail Ale. It was one of the more unusual beers I tasted that day. “Fresh forest” was indeed one way to describe it.
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- Waterloo Brewing Co. served up the best pilsner at Toronto’s Festival of Beer, but the competition was strong.
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- Mill St. Brewery is popular in Toronto from what I understand. Although, I am not sure how the mermaid ties into any of this.
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- This cheeky gentleman from Beau’s All Natural Brewing Co. poured me the uniquely named Rudolphus VI, a Belgian ale—yet another beer that I hope crosses the border.
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- I would not try a beer from this brewery, because I’m extremely against using the typeface, Chicago, for anything but menus on an old Macintosh computer. My type-geek is stronger than my beer-geek.
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- Old Credit Brewing Co.’s booth was unusual in that it offered corn chips for palate-cleansing and was entirely staffed by women. This is clearly a company that knows how to move beer.
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- Creemore Springs was the first local Canadian beer I tried on my visit to Ontario a couple years back. I got to taste a couple more of its styles at the Festival, including my first zwickelbier.
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- I couldn’t resist the blue Día de Muertos skull at the Hop City booth. Turns out it poured a nicely rounded black lager called 8th Sin.
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- Maybe this image is blurry, but I didn’t notice as I took my last beer at the King Brewery booth. They had a nice malty Vienna lager that was a great way to end my sampling at Toronto’s Festival of Beers.
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- Slightly soaked and slightly sloshed, I supported my home town brews by sporting a Greenport Harbor Brewing t-shirt. Thank you, Toronto, for showing me a thoroughly enjoyable time at Toronto’s Festival of Beer 2013.