This afternoon
Gord and I did the first ever Indie Boat Hop Craft Beer Cruise. A craft beer festival and a boat cruise ... two of my favourite things!
It was coordinated by the
Indie Ale House Brewing Company and the
Bar Hop. It was on the
Empire Sandy, a tall ship that was built as an Englishman/Larch Deep Sea class tugboat for war service by the British Government in 1943.
Tickets were $40 and included an Indie Boat Hop cup (which held eight ounces), a drink ticket, a three
hour sail (from 1pm to 4pm) and access to beer that has never been released on land! Extra drink tickets were $4.50.
Here are the breweries and cidery on the boat offering one-offs:
- Amsterdam
- Bellwoods
- Blackheart Brewing Collective
- Get Well
- Great Lakes
- Indie Alehouse
- Nickel Brook
- Sawdust City
- West Avenue Cider Company
It was a sold-out event.
Here's what I had ...
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Cherry Manilow (Grisette with cherries) from Great Lakes |
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Berry Switzer (Berliner Weisse with raspberries) from Nickel Brook |
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Bogus Journey (Berliner Weisee with raspberries and blueberries),
a Bar Hop Collab |
I wanted to try Rob & Jason's Fruitbasket (fruit punch pale ale), a Bar Hop Collab, but they never did open that keg. So I went back and had others I'd had earlier.
You could buy food onboard.
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Sausage and Goldfish was $7 |
We headed eastward and went halfway around the Islands.
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It was busy on the water |
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Looking up Yonge Street |
And then we headed back towards the dock ...
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They fired canons a couple times |
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Yes, Captain John's is STILL there! |
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There were people doing the EdgeWalk on the CN Tower |
Here we are ...
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Gord and I |
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Me |
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Gord |
It was a fun cruise and I hope they do it again. Though it was packed, once everyone got on board and got a drink, the line-ups weren't too bad.
3 comments:
That sounds like such a fun time. You guys do the coolest stuff.
Another fun day!
Wow that looks amazing Teena!
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