threecb
01-10-2004, 03:46 PM
By now you're probably thinking "did they do anything else while they were there?".
I assure you all, we did lots of touristy stuff (and went to the Maple Leafs game, too). As a matter of fact Mill St. made it real easy to combine sites, shopping, and beer! My wife was still not totally up for adventure, but she hung in there as we went to the Distillery District on Saturday, Jan. 3rd.
The Distillery District is on the site of the former Gooderman and Worts Distillery complex (hence, the name!:p), and is still in the process of being renovated. It's a rather large complex that now houses Galleries, Artist and Film Studios, Gourmet Shops and Restaurants, Condos and some other funky places. Including the Mill Street Brewery. They have usually have 4 regular beers, plus the Denison's Wheat and a seasonal for a total of six. We caught them on a bad, post-holiday day, apparently. They only had 4, including the Denison's. One of the missing ones was their much heralded coffee porter (I guess coffee porters weren't in order for this trip, since I missed C'est What's, too). The other was that there was no seasonal offered. What I did taste:
Organic Lager: Mill St. admits in an article posted at the brewery that they are wooing the female non-beer drinker with this beer, packaged in 7 oz pony bottles. My wife took umbrage to this. It was a pale, rather clear yellow, and not quite as bad as it looked. Slight floral hop nose. Crisp, bubbly mouthfeel - like ginger ale. Could be refreshing in the summertime. A decent lawnmower beer, maybe.
Sparkling Ale: This beer didn't do much for me. It poured straw yellow with alot of carbonation. It was probably a three oz. serving, and a bit too cold, so I didn't detect much that I can talk about. Maybe a little bit of a floral nose. No malt to talk about. Next!
Tankhouse Pale Ale: This was my favorite of the three tried. A deep orangy amber beer with a strong floral/fruit hop nose. The hoppiness stayed throughout, letting an applelike flavor come out, though there was a good amount of malt flavor coming through to keep it well-balanced. I brought a sixpack back to the states and had a bottle last night. It poured with an off-white head that clung to the glass nicely. I detected a slight phenolic sharpness, but not in a bad, over-the-top presence. It held up well.
So Mill St. is a promising young place. I'd reccommend stopping in while poking around the shops of the Distillery District.
I assure you all, we did lots of touristy stuff (and went to the Maple Leafs game, too). As a matter of fact Mill St. made it real easy to combine sites, shopping, and beer! My wife was still not totally up for adventure, but she hung in there as we went to the Distillery District on Saturday, Jan. 3rd.
The Distillery District is on the site of the former Gooderman and Worts Distillery complex (hence, the name!:p), and is still in the process of being renovated. It's a rather large complex that now houses Galleries, Artist and Film Studios, Gourmet Shops and Restaurants, Condos and some other funky places. Including the Mill Street Brewery. They have usually have 4 regular beers, plus the Denison's Wheat and a seasonal for a total of six. We caught them on a bad, post-holiday day, apparently. They only had 4, including the Denison's. One of the missing ones was their much heralded coffee porter (I guess coffee porters weren't in order for this trip, since I missed C'est What's, too). The other was that there was no seasonal offered. What I did taste:
Organic Lager: Mill St. admits in an article posted at the brewery that they are wooing the female non-beer drinker with this beer, packaged in 7 oz pony bottles. My wife took umbrage to this. It was a pale, rather clear yellow, and not quite as bad as it looked. Slight floral hop nose. Crisp, bubbly mouthfeel - like ginger ale. Could be refreshing in the summertime. A decent lawnmower beer, maybe.
Sparkling Ale: This beer didn't do much for me. It poured straw yellow with alot of carbonation. It was probably a three oz. serving, and a bit too cold, so I didn't detect much that I can talk about. Maybe a little bit of a floral nose. No malt to talk about. Next!
Tankhouse Pale Ale: This was my favorite of the three tried. A deep orangy amber beer with a strong floral/fruit hop nose. The hoppiness stayed throughout, letting an applelike flavor come out, though there was a good amount of malt flavor coming through to keep it well-balanced. I brought a sixpack back to the states and had a bottle last night. It poured with an off-white head that clung to the glass nicely. I detected a slight phenolic sharpness, but not in a bad, over-the-top presence. It held up well.
So Mill St. is a promising young place. I'd reccommend stopping in while poking around the shops of the Distillery District.