The Session #28: Oh, Canada!

The topic for this 28th edition of The Session comes to us from Brian Yaeger and it is “Think/Drink Globally“.  Brian requests that we all write about the brewery that we traveled the farthest to reach, and our favorite beer there.

You can read more about Beer Blogging Friday a.k.a. The Session over on the Brookston Beer Bulletin.

If you’re looking for a vacation destination, you could do far worse than summertime visit to our northern neighbors in Toronto.

In the summer of 2005 I had the pleasure of visiting this fine city.   Our hotel (at the Rogers Centre, which is pretty darn cool) happened to be just across the street from a neat little brewery called Steam Whistle.

Constructed in what was once a steam locomotive service facility (again, freakin’ cool!) – at the foot of the CN Tower.  So bonus points already for having a completely awesome location.

They only brew one kind of beer, making today’s challenge easier.  A ‘Premium Canadian Pilsner‘ available on draught or in green bottles.

Not exactly the kind of beer you’d keep around for 4 years, so I don’t have any to drink today.  But if someone from the area wants to send me a fresh supply I’m sure we could work out a trade.

Honestly, I couldn’t tell you if it was any good or not.  It was one of the first breweries I ever visited and hadn’t tasted too much craft beer before then either.

I would go grab another Euro-style pilsner in green bottles, but I’m sure that would do the fine folks at Steam Whistle no justice.

So we’ll just have to be content with this;  Hanging out in a great city, on a sunny summer day, in that clever little brewery, with a bunch of great people, drinking a nice cold refreshing beer, how could it have been anything but good?

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