The Tuesday Mash – Oct. 9
Today’s best links and articles. Updated throughout the day …

Great Beer – Part 1 | Part 2
I have seen a lot of things that don’t make me happy in the draught beer world but yet I remain an optimist. I will have draught every where I go simply to find out the quality and serving and pouring techniques. [Quench Your Thirst]

Ottawa’s First Brewery Market
Hintonburg will be hopping on Saturday, Oct. 13 when Ottawa’s first Brewery Market will be held on the site of a former garage (Wally Becker’s at 1000 Wellington St. West). It will be like a farmers’ market, but showcasing local beer and brewers, 10 in all, making it the biggest Brewery Market yet… [Ottawa Citizen]
Creemore Springs Wants YOU
Creemore Springs Brewery is looking for a true beer lover to feature in the upcoming issue of TAPS The Beer Magazine. In past issues we have published the stories of many beer enthusiasts across this great nation, and now it is time to do it again. [TAPS]

Steam Whistle Taps into Oktoberfest
We arrived at Steam Whistle’s gorgeous brewery in Toronto only twenty minutes after the doors officially opened and already a line of eager mensch and frauen (many dressed in traditional Oktoberfest garb) was snaking around the outside of the building. Although I decided to leave my lederhosen at home that day, I wasn’t any less excited. [OCTA]

Seasonal Beer is not Very Seasonal
It seems we have lost touch with when foods are in season. Eating and drinking seasonally is not exactly convenient, it pretty much the exact opposite. Adapting our dietary habits based on nature’s timing is hard; it takes time, and commitment. In our modern industrial food culture, where canned, frozen or fresh flown in from somewhere warm, is available year round, seasonal eating is only for the die-hards. [Love Good Beer]
