My second Toronto day this week yesterday, this time in hopes of touring a few breweries. The original goal was to hit up Brick in Waterloo, but that was thwarted when I discovered they only do tours Saturday afternoons. Mark and I headed down and headed to The OverDraught for lunch. We both had a Bass on draught and I enjoyed the DownPatrick Irish Stew quite nicely. From there it was immediately down to Steam Whistle where we caught the tour in progress, and what a tour it was. I highly recommend it, very informative. I enjoyed it so much I almost wish I liked their beer, which I unfortunately do not.
Headed towards Amsterdam Brewery, which gave new meaning to “from the sublime to the ridiculous”. What a ridiculous experience that was. We showed up, the angry young man behind the counter just directed his head towards some taps in one corner against a wall of windows and said “drink samples, someone will be there later.” So we drank samples. Some kid shows up, says he doesn’t know what he’s doing, but he’ll show us around. In his defence he did his best, but he was right about not knowing what he was doing. Coming over from Steam Whistle just accentuated the point. After the four-minute tour he told us to enjoy some samples (which we had already done, and one was enough), then we headed over to drop off some coupons we had. They actually attempted to charge us $6 for the tour, which wouldn’t have happened, and then asked us if we wanted samples. *sigh*
Closed the night at Tequila Sunrise on Adelaide. Good mexican food, with a nice chorizo filling in a soggy taco and boring refried beans, but a great black bean soup. I shall continue my quest for great Mexican food in Toronto.
Today’s Random Links
Venice, Italy recreated in Lego.. insane..
Top 10 strangest home gadgets
An assassination simulator
Base jumping game
Nintendo art