03/11: Miata Time
Category: General
Posted by: The Agnew Family
Another spectacular day. To celebrate the glorious Indian Summer Day we drove the sports cars to Collingwood where we enjoyed lunch at The Smoke.
Ed had the famous "Cow Meats Pig" Sandwich --- "A 6 oz pile of Pulled Pork, on our Coleslaw, with our Carolina Mustard and Hot Vinegar Sauce, Topped with 6 oz of Beef Brisket, and Drunken Mushroom/Onions on a Grilled Bun" (description borrowed from the menu). I had the much more modest "Smoked Balls of Meat". Yes, Ed did manage to eat the entire sandwich and baked beans but he didn't eat any supper!
We took the long way home stopping in Creemore for a tour of the Creemore Springs Brewery.
The beers brewed by Creemore Springs are natural beers made from spring water (from a spring just outside of town), barley, hops and yeast --- no added preservatives. Something I learned is that there are more than a hundred varieties of hops and it is the hops that give the flavour to the beer.
The copper kettle ensures that the heat is distributed evenly during the brewing process. The beer then goes through a fermenting process and is aged. Finally it is filtered and bottle. The entire process takes about one month.
Most of the beer at Creemore Springs Brewery is bottled or canned but some of it put into kegs and served on tap at restaurants.
After the tour you can sample a few of the beers and, of course purchase some beer to take home.
Ed had the famous "Cow Meats Pig" Sandwich --- "A 6 oz pile of Pulled Pork, on our Coleslaw, with our Carolina Mustard and Hot Vinegar Sauce, Topped with 6 oz of Beef Brisket, and Drunken Mushroom/Onions on a Grilled Bun" (description borrowed from the menu). I had the much more modest "Smoked Balls of Meat". Yes, Ed did manage to eat the entire sandwich and baked beans but he didn't eat any supper!
We took the long way home stopping in Creemore for a tour of the Creemore Springs Brewery.
The beers brewed by Creemore Springs are natural beers made from spring water (from a spring just outside of town), barley, hops and yeast --- no added preservatives. Something I learned is that there are more than a hundred varieties of hops and it is the hops that give the flavour to the beer.
The copper kettle ensures that the heat is distributed evenly during the brewing process. The beer then goes through a fermenting process and is aged. Finally it is filtered and bottle. The entire process takes about one month.
Most of the beer at Creemore Springs Brewery is bottled or canned but some of it put into kegs and served on tap at restaurants.
After the tour you can sample a few of the beers and, of course purchase some beer to take home.