Ralph Morana: The Volodymyr Zelensky Of Local Beer
Ralph Morana had a life before most of us knew him. He was married, had two sons, and owned...
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Tag: Bar Volo
Cask Days Report
Cold weather and rain couldn’t keep the beer drinkers away from Cask Days at the Evergreen Brickworks. A combination of craft beer and propane heaters kept the attendees as comfortable as possible underneath a tin canopy. A...
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#Beaulo: Beau’s Tap Takeover at Bar Volo March 29th
Beau’s Brewery and Toronto’s Bar Volo team up for the Beau’s Tap Takeover at Bar Volo… this is going to be a very special evening indeed. Expect to see many of the extended GFR team there amongst the Beau’s Army. Come over and say hello!
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Bar Volo’s Cask Days: Probably The Best Cask Festival In Canada
Say what you like about Mozart and Miles Davis, there are few human endeavours that bring more pleasure than a good beer festival. The very idea of a beer festival would have been unthinkable in these parts thirty-odd years ago. Large groups of people standing about sampling local beers and debating the relative merits of, say, O’Keefe Old Vienna and Carling Red Cap is a concept that owes more to Monty Python than reality.
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Where Does Our Beer Come From?
The pioneer of importing “foreign” beers from other provinces is Ralph Morana, owner of Bar Volo on Yonge Street, evangelist for good beer, and constant thorn in the side of the LCBO and the licensing authorities.
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