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The 17th Annual Festival Of Small Breweries

Our 17th Annual Festival Of Small Breweries on Friday September 30, 2005 put the spotlight on Ontario Craft Breweries. There were thirty-nine brews showcased from thirty different brewers. As usual, many attendees were more intent on the social aspects of the event and only 979 samples were rated out of the 2160 served.

• Mill St. Tankhouse Ale finished at the head of the pack with a median score of 42 out of 50. Black Oak Chocolate Cherry Stout, Mill St. Coffee Porter, and Denison's Weissbier all received scores of forty or more and qualify for honourable mentions.
• As usual, although none were universally accepted, just about all of the brews found fans. Sixteen beers finished above the very respectable average score of 37.5.
• The Most Curious award for the most tasted beer goes to Black Oak Chocolate Cherry Stout. The Scotch Irish dry-hopped cask Sargent Major was a distant second in interest. With its über-agressive bittering, some thought the Sgt. Major was "off" but many more tasters loved the "hop tea" character and it finished fifth with a score of 39.

Cheers!

Mill St. Tankhouse Ale

Black Oak Chocolate Cherry Stout

Mill St. Coffee Porter

Denison's Weissbier

Scotch Irish Sargent Major (dry-hopped cask)

Hockley Valley Dark

C'est What Coffee Porter

Amsterdadm Framboise

Granite Peculiar (cask)

Creemore Urbock

King Pilsner

C'est What Al's Cask Ale

Trafalgar Belgian Ale

Neustadt 10w30

Stratford Pilsner

Cameron's Auburn

Durham XXX (cask)

Saint André Vienna Lager

Church Key Holy Smoke

Heritage Traditional Dark

Wellington County Ale (cask)

C'est What Homegrown Hemp Ale

Stonehammer Pilsner

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