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Saturday, March 19, 2011

Today's the Day! Toronto Beer Week 6-Month Countdown Pub Crawls

It's go time... 2 separate Toronto Beer Week (TBW) 6-month pub crawls through the streets of Toronto at the same time today, kicking off at 2pm.

Downtown crawl: Hosted by Cass Enright and Rob Symes
2pm: Meet at Queen & Beaver
2:45: Head to 3 Brewers (arrive 3pm)
3:45: Head to Duggan's Brewery (arrive 4pm)
4:45: Head to beerbistro (arrive 5pm)
5:45: Head to C'est What (arrive 6pm)
7:00: Wrap Up

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Kensington/Annex crawl: Hosted by Nick Pashley and myself
2pm: Meet at Cloak & Dagger
2:45: Head to Caplansky's Deli (arrive 3pm)
3:30: Head to Burger Bar (arrive 4pm)
4:40: Head to Harbord House (arrive 5pm)
5:45: Head to Victory Cafe (arrive 6pm)
7:00: Wrap Up

Prizes/Offers
- The OCB has provided TBW with some beer tubs full of ..... one winner per crawl (to be awarded during crawl - handed out at a later date)
- Steam Whistle has donated some prizes for the pub crawl - winners will be chosen at the Harbord House and C'est What.
- Amsterdam Brewing Co. has also graciously donated some prizes for the crawl that will be awarded along the way (on both crawls)
- Great Lakes are putting together two cool gift packs that are going to be sweet!
- TAPS The Beer Magazine has some t-shirts to award lucky crawl participants
- 2 reps from Spearhead Brewing Co. will be joining the crawl (one on each) and will have some swag

- beerbistro: Free frites
- Queen & Beaver: App specials
- Burger Bar: $5.50 tax in for a pint or a flight
- Cloak and Dagger: $5.00 select pints

Beers
- 3 Brewers is offering a Pubcrawl-exclusive $6.50 (tax and tip IN) flight of their beers
- Duggan's will be featuring the new Irish Cream Ale for the crawl
- Harbord House will have a pin of Beau's Winterbrewed
- Burger Bar: Hockley Stout, Cheshire Robust Porter, Beau's IP'eh, and Railway City ShamBock. On Cask GLB Citra Blast
- C'est What will be tapping a special cask of Big Butt (version 3) just in time for the pub crawl

Craft beer - great establishments - lots of prizes - creating memories: Join us!

1 comment:

Marina said...

Fantastic event! Steam Whistle is proud to be a supporter :)

-Marina
http://www.facebook.com/steamwhistle

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