A Well of Inspiration: events

Toronto Beer Festival Pt.2

5:23 PM

Hello Friends!!

Yes, I know. I have been MIA for a little bit. Since I love you guys so much, I decided the only way for me to say 'I'm Sorry' is to give you two blog posts this week.

In my last post here, I let you follow me to the Toronto Beer festival. I showed you the vast variety of beer being consumed during beer fest.

Today its all about the festival itself and all the fun things you can do, while sipping away on your beer.

Along side yummy bubbly beverages, the festival was filled with unique food joints. Some of which I had never heard of, and some like Smoke's Poutinery which are staple Toronto fast food places.

To keep folks entertained, games like a bean bag toss, a beer bottle ring toss and random cut outs of people were placed randomly around the site for some good picture moments.

Of course, as my due diligence, I had to tweet about the fun I was having and pose with gentlemen in fancy dress.

Dress is from New Look from a year ago: similar here. Hat is from Romania ages ago: similar here. Sandals I got as a gift: similar here. Bag is from India: similar here.

One of my favourite parts of the festival, besides the booze (obviously) was the club like outdoor space sponsored by BudLight. Complete with a DJ, pounding songs, and drunken ppl dancing, it was like being on holiday on a tropical beach dancing away in the sun.

SteamWhistle had a huge school bus covered in their logo and colours in front of their beer tent and invited people to get crafty by making themselves ridiculous hats out of the beer boxes.

We took pictures of some true gems.

Throughout the festival, lots of giveaways were also happening, naturally involving social media.

Lastly, Clive's favourite part of the festival, was the apple smashing cage. Yup you read right! They had crates upon crates filled with apples, that you smashed against a blow up cage.

All in all, both Clive and I had a grand ol' time and were extremely hoppy (see what I did there) to be a part it.

Being invited to the Toronto Beer Festival really made me so proud of my little blog and how its has grown in the past year. It is no doubt thanks to you who read it and follow along my silly adventures in this amazing city, I can call home.

It really means a lot to me when I get your sweet comments, it truly makes my day.

Hope you've been inspired.

Beer Festival 2013 - Toronto Pt.1

8:46 AM

Hello Friends!!!

Toronto during the summer is transformed into a sunny metropolis filled with festivals that are the perfect way to celebrate all sorts of occasions, be it Pride Week, Carabana, or in our case BEER!

A Well of Inspiration was extremely kindly invited to the Beer Festival 2013 in Toronto last weekend.
So Clive and I mentally and physically prepared ourselves for some beer sampling and generally having a good time.

To be honest, I had never attended a beer festival, in Toronto or anywhere in the world for that matter, so I had no idea what to expect. Well, I was in for a surprise.

Because, we had so much fun and there was so much to see and do, I decided to write about it in two parts and give you guys a good low down of the event.

So lets talk about the main subject here and that is of course the BEER! (I'm a poet and I didn't even know it)

After you walk through the gates and they check your ID, you are given a cute half pint glass and a few sample tokens. Be aware that if you misplace your glass or break it, there is a charge to replace it, so make sure to keep and eye on it, or do what the Beer Festival veterans do and tie it around your neck with a shoe lace or lanyard. Wish I thought of that prior to attending.

Our Social Media tent was sponsored by Goose Island Vintage Ales and we had the chance to try both of their beer creations. I had Sofie, a light and fruity beer, while Clive tastes Matilda a darker hoppier beer. I preferred Sofie and later went back for seconds.

You can tell by the map just how many vendors and delicious beer brewers from around the world were in attendance.

We were extra excited to find the Brit tent as well and naturally had to pose with the Queen.

Unfortunately, New Castle Brown was not my favourite, as per my extremely pleased expression.

Alexander Keith's little space was my fav, they had a mini tour on how the beer is made and gave out almost full glasses of sampling even though we only asked for half. Good on ya Keith's.

The Moosehead tent was a close second of my fav tents, as not only did they give away free sunglasses, but they had good tunes playing with a dance floor surrounded by beer, including Twisted Tea, Hard Iced Tea, which I had like three times.