Comments on: Brew 2.0: A Beer Tasting at the Air Canada Centre

By: Brew 2.0 Molson’s Event for Online Content Creators » Vancouver Blog Miss 604 by Rebecca Bollwitt

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:21:36 +0000

[...] held a similar event in Toronto and invited bloggers like Joey deVilla, Greg Clow, and the Cheap Eats Toronto folks. To add to the history-theme of the event, Molson [...]

By: Molson Presents a Beer School for Bloggers « Beer, Beats & Bites

Molson Presents a Beer School for Bloggers « Beer, Beats & Bites — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:21:51 +0000

[...] that information was passed on to the generally non-beer-savvy group that attended. As shown by the blog posts that followed from some of the attendees, they opened a few people’s eyes and minds to [...]

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:24:48 +0000

Yeah, I woulda skipped the Canadian, Coors Light, Heiniken, Corona, and Rickards completely. It’s gotten so that I can’t even stomach the smallest sip of the macro brewed beers. Doesn’t matter if it’s Molson or Labatt. They all taste like crap.

By: Eden Spodek

Eden Spodek — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:26:11 +0000

Great post and great pics Joey! I felt like I was there again. I had a few sips of Corona, Rickards White and the Kasteel Cru – not much compared to you but lots for a non-beer connaisseur like me. Guess I should have tried the Creemore. Nice chatting with you and Wendy too.

Cheers!

By: meegs

meegs — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:26:34 +0000

Joey! What an amazingly accurate account of the evening (considering the # of beverages…). Thanks so much for the link love – but rest assured I did only the easy stuff – inviting our fav bloggers to an event where Adam & Tonia did all the real work! Hope to see you again soon & keep on rockin’ that badass ‘cordian.

your fan
meegs

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:36:49 +0000

Great post! Glad you could join us and supply some great tunes. Plus, always fun to reminisce about the good ol’ days sneaking beers in Toronto’s parks. My soon to be wife from Belleville always has a good laugh at that image. The urban bush party

Cheers!

By: Wendy

Wendy — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:48:21 +0000

(Of course, if you really want to get into it, that last is pronounced “lagah rin the house”.)

By: Wendy

Wendy — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:47:14 +0000

Mmmmmm…delicious semantics!

I’ll take a pitchah of the finest lagah in the house!

By: Joey deVilla

Joey deVilla — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:00:26 +0000

@Brian Gadell: Hey, Brian!

I make a distinction between “Sliders” and “Slyders”.

White Castle owns the trademark on the “Slyder” spelling: it’s what they call them on their menu. When referring to the one true mini-burger, the White Castle mini-burgers, I use the term “Slyder”.

I used “Slider”, which is not a White Castle trademark, as a pretty convenient and far more wieldy term than “mini-burger”. It does not refer to the One True Mini-Burger. I think of it as being akin to the same way that we use the word “Kleenex” to refer to any “facial tissue” or “Band-Aid” to refer to any adhesive bandage. For that matter, consider the way “Coke” is used to refer to any kind of soft drink in Georgia.

That said, I must commend you on defending White Castle. They’re tragically underappreciated in the burger world. which is a shame considering that they’re the company that elevated the hamburger from just one step above eating cat food (that’s the way they were viewed in the early 20th century, especially during the Depression) to the beloved sandwich it is today.

By: Brian Gadell

Brian Gadell — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:22:15 +0000

Hi, long time reader, first time poster…

As a native St. Louisian I take offense at your characterization of a “slider” as any miniature hamburger. A “slider” is a WHITE CASTLE’S hamburger. All others are imitators and fakes.

Thank you, that is all.

By: Maria

Maria — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:30:15 +0000

Thanks, very informative.
A few months ago I blogged about a book that explains the whole process of beer (and wine), and food pairing with beer (and wine), it’s called He Said Beer, She Said Wine, here’s the link to the post: http://www.nakedknitgirl.ca/?p=3688
Also, very interested that they invited Rannie to the tasting, he doesn’t drink, and certainly not beer. Oh well.
OK, one extra thing, sorry… it seems like the tacos were hard???? what the heck??? those are NOT Mexican tacos, those are Texan, so they should have been paired with a Texan beer or something. Mexican tacos are soft, like the ones we had at my house during my party. I have tons of pictures of the real tacos on my blog, here’s an example: http://www.nakedknitgirl.ca/?p=2770
Mmmh, now I’m hungry!

By: Tonia

Tonia — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:25:58 +0000

Hey Joey!

Happy to hear you enjoyed the event — really glad you could join us.

Lovin’ the photos — I have a few more of you taken during your fantastic performance and will send them your way.

Cheers,
Tonia