Support your local brewery in 2012 – It’s our Winter Warmer Party on January 28th!
With the holiday season running at full speed, you may be looking forward to setting your New Year’s resolution and hibernating until March. This year, rather than restricting yourself of life’s finest pleasures, why not make 2012 YOUR year of locally-produced craft beer! That’s right – you can support the world-class beers of the Ontario Craft Brewers while making a New Years resolution you can actually keep.
And, while we all like to savour an imported Belgian beer, supporting your local craft brewer has numerous benefits, including:
- Local breweries support local people - Every time we need to hire an electrician, mechanic or printer, we’re investing our money into our regional economy and keeping jobs in southern Ontario.
- Drink with the seasons - Ontario craft brewers are continually creating unique brews to match Canada’s ever-changing climate. You can visit your local brewery for seasonal selections (Black Oak Double Chocolate Cherry Stout available early February!)
- Our industry will only be as strong as YOU make it - If you want craft breweries in Ontario continuing to grow and flourish, we need your drinking expertise!
At Black Oak, we’re here to help your 2012 get off to the right start! Join us on Saturday January 28th from 5-9 pm for our Winter Warmer Party! As always, it’s $20 for all you can eat and drink, and we’ll have special one-off kegs and casks for your drinking pleasure. Delicious beef, chicken and vegan curry will be served by our friends at Burger Bar.
Black Oak Brewery is accessibly by TTC – click here for directions – but we’re more than happy to call you a taxi at the end of the night. Please enjoy responsibly.
Our monthly brewery parties are a great way to connect with other beer nuts, support your local brewery and make 2012 YOUR year of craft beer! Cheers…
The Healthy Butcher makes Black Oak Nut Brown Sausage for the Holidays
We’ve got a very special treat for you this holiday season. We’ve teamed up with our friends at Toronto’s Healthy Butcher
to bring you the Nut Brown Sausage. That’s right, simply the perfect food.
The Healthy Butcher sells food as nature intended – fresh, local and with the minimal amounts of environmentally harmful inputs. And, as a craft brewery that produces fresh, local and environmentally responsible beer, we’re delighted to lend our expertise for the ultimate collaboration.
How do you get your hands on this melt-on-your-palate sausage? Stop by the Healthy Butcher for the first batch of sausage on Thursday December 8th. After that, Black Oak Nut Brown Sausage will be available fresh for their Christmas pick-up days on the 22, 23 and 24 of December.
We’ll be celebrating the sausage on Saturday December 10th from 12 to 5 pm by pouring samples of Nut Brown for holiday shoppers at the Healthy Butcher’s Eglinton location – stop by!
So grab your Nut Brown Sausage and you’ll be the most popular person at the holiday party!
Cheers
Bake Nut Brown “Spent Malt” Cookies for our Holiday Party, December 3rd
December is synonymous with gluttony. It’s a time to celebrate the year-gone-by with friends and family while expanding your waste-line with seasonal beer and mouth-watering cookies.
With our Holiday Party right around the corner we’re busy preparing our Nutcracker Porter and Apple Rauchbier casks. However, we still need your help baking the holiday cookies! And, since we’ve got heaps of “spent malt” from brewing Nut Brown this week, why use it to bake yummy Nut Brown spent malt cookies?! Talk about full-circle…
Here’s the details:
- Stop by our brewery anytime from November 17th to December 2nd to grab a frozen 4-cup portion of spent malt
- Take the spent malt home and bake some cookies (here’s a recipe idea, but be creative)
- Bring the cookies to our Holiday Party on December 3rd and get in for FREE… Our gift to you!
If “spent grain” has you scratching your noggin, let me break it down for you. All craft beer starts its life out as grain – generally malted barley and wheat. In order to extract the sugary liquid or wort, the malted grains undergo a process called mashing. Mashing, or combining the malt with hot water, releases the enzymes in the malt that breaks down starch into sugar. After the wort is boiled with hops and other spices, the yeast is pitched and goes to work turning the sugar into alcohol and carbon dioxide.
The final product is the delicious beverage you know and love. However, with every batch of beer that is brewed, we’re left with 8 tubs of spent malt. Normally farmer Larry picks it up for his prize-winning rodeo bulls (farm animals LOVE this stuff), but we figured if Larry’s bulls gain super-animal powers from the stuff, then spent malt cookies must be pretty dang good!
So stop by, grab some spent malt, and put your baking skills to the test… Happy Holidays to all!
Black Oak’s Holiday Party is Craft Beer and Cheer, December 3rd from 3-7pm!
Yule Tidings Black Oak Beer Nuts…
While our 11th Birthday on 11.11.11 is now a fond memory – 160 people enjoyed live music from Brown Sabbath, Reethi’s Mole Ole Cask and Nancy’s gumbo – you don’t have to wait toooo long before our next brewery bash…
That’s right, on Saturday December 3rd from 3 – 7 p.m. we’re decking the Black Oak halls and celebrating a year of collaborative growth in Ontario craft beer. As always, the holiday party is $20.00 per person for tons of cheer and craft beer. No need to RSVP, just show up and pay at the door.
The holiday party will be catered by Jason Rees of Pork Ninjas. Jason’s cookin’ up:
- Nutcracker Pulled Pork, pulled fresh on-site
- Vegetarian sun-dried tomato-smoked mac and cheese
- BBQ chocolate cake with made with beer and grilled figs
- Custom Nutcracker BBQ sauce
We’ll be pairing the Nutcracker-infused dishes with cask of Nut Brown and Pale Ale Apple Rauchbier and kegs of your favourite Black Oak beer including “MOstacher in the Rye” … (Happy Holiday’s to you)…
And, what is a holiday party without an overabundance of gluttonous cookies? We’ll be asking for your help in creating Pale Ale “spent malt” cookies. Details coming soon!
We encourage you to have a good time by taking public transportation and we’ll be sure to call you a taxi at the end of the night.
Bring your craft beer lovin’ friends… The more the merrier!
Love all of us at Black Oak Brewery