Another terrific publican also celebrated a birthday yesterday. Jeb Corbeil, the passionate co-owner of Bracebridge's The Griffin Gastropub, turned the big 30 yesterday, and I'm sure he and the rest of the staff at the Griffin, celebrated in style.
Corbeil and Curt Dunlop took over the building and the existing pub in August 2009, which was big on Alexander Keith's and cheap pints of domestic lager. The two men stripped it down, renovated the inside, and re-opened with a focus on craft beer, and a new name. Today they only serve beers brewed in Ontario and that has attracted a whole new clientele to the pub, and it shows that craft beer can survive outside the big markets like Toronto.
The pub also selects one Ontario brewery to be their brewery for the month. That title provides the brewery with access to two tap lines plus the option to stock a number of bottles, and on the last Sunday of the month the Griffin hosts a four-course beer dinner featuring beers from that brewery.
Corbeil is also behind the Muskoka Beer Festival that took place last August in Bracebridge featuring breweries from all over Ontario.
Happy Birthday Mr. Corbeil (on the left in picture. Cameron's Jason Ellesmere on the right)
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