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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Ralph Morana had a life before most of us knew him. He was married, had two sons, and owned...
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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.
Read MoreThe 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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