Roundhouse Craft Beer Festival

August 13, 2013 – Brand Manager for Steam Whistle Brewery and Event Organizer for the Second Annual Roundhouse Craft Beer Festival, Tim McLaughlin couldn’t have been more delighted at this year’s turnout and T-MAK World was there. Read our interview with McLaughlin here.

The weekend beer festival hit the trifecta of Ontario craft beers, gourmet food trucks and the musical stylings of one of T-Mak World’s favorite indie bands, The Honeyrunners.

Taking place at Roundhouse Park in the heart of downtown Toronto, the festival over delivered for craft beer aficionados and food truck foodies alike. The numbers tell the story with draft taps in a constant pour and deep lines at each food truck. In T-MAK World’s tireless and never-ending quest to inform its readership, the team undertook to sample many of the beers and have provided their very unscientific first annual T-MAK World Craft Beer Review from this year’s festival. The philosophy of host Steam Whistle is to do one thing really, really well and, well, we really, really know and love Steam Whistle. It’s our go-to beer of choice when we’re out and about (which is kinda all the time), so we didn’t feel the need to sample it. We’re betting you’re pretty familiar with Steam Whistle too.

With too many food choices from which to pair the Artisan beer offerings, the very juicy and tender classic Smoked Brisket Sandwich from the Hogtown Smoke Food Truck  was the perfect compliment.

                                             TMAK World Craft Beer Reviews

Brewery	The Beer	Tasting Notes	Rating out of 5
Black Oak Brewing Co.	Apricot Brown Ale	Fruity + Mellow	4
	10 Bitter Years 8% Double IPA	Hoppy + Full Flavour with Citrus Notes	4 .5
Left Field Breweries	6-4-3 Double IPA	Citrus + Hoppy with Clean Finish	3.5
	Maris American Pale Ale	Malty + Golden	3
Lake of Bays Brewing Company	River Walk Summer Ale	Refreshing +Full Body	3.5
	Crosswind Pale Ale	Citrus Notes	3.5
Mill St. Brewery	Ampel Weiss	Light + Pronounced Tartness	2
	Cobblestone Stout	Creamy Head + Roasted Malt Finish	3
Wellington Breweries	Bike Ryed Summer Kolsch	Light + Refreshing	3.5
	S.P.A. Special Pale Ale	Hoppy + Medium Body	4
Beau’s Natural Brewing Co.	Festivale  Altbier	Hoppy  with Sweetness	4
	Lugtread Lagered  Ale	Full Bodied + Golden	3.5
Nickel Brook	Bolshevik Bastard Russian Imperial  Stout	Strong + Deep Flavours,  No Head	3.5
	Berliner Weisse	Tart + Fruity Aroma	2
Neustadt Springs Brewery Ltd.	10W30 Brown Ale	Lightly Nutty + Good Hops	4
	Black Raspberry Ale	Fruity + Tart	3
Great Lakes Brewery (GLB)	666 Devil’s Pale Ale	Strong + Hoppy, Bitter Finish	4
	Chill Winston 3.8 Griselle	Clean Finish, Refreshing	4
Grand River Brewery	Plowman’s Ale	Full Flavour + Malty,Bitter Finish	3
	Tabby Abbey Ale	Malty	2.5
Amsterdam Brewery	Boneshaker IPA	Citrus Notes, Hoppy	4.5
	416 Local Lager	Refreshing Finish + Light Body	3.5
The Flying Monkey’s Craft Brewery	Smashbomb Atomic IPA	Full Flavour Citrus	4
	Hoptical Illusion Almost Pale Ale	Hoppy + Citrus	4
Provincial Beverages of Canada*	Thornbury Cider	Tart,  Refreshing + Crisp	4
	King’s Vienna Lager	Prominent Hop Flavour	4
* The only brewery to rinse each glass before pouring.

 

Verdict: Our winners for BEST OF T-MAK WORLD craft beers are Black Oak Brewing Company’s 10 Bitter Years 8% Double IPA, Amsterdam Brewery’s Boneshaker IPA and of course our usual favorite Steam Whistle Pilsner. Aside from the actual beer we must give kudos to Steam Whistle for putting together such an amazing event.

 

Article – John Dash

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