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​Craft, Cask, and Culinary Event coming September 10th!

What's going on in and around Newmarket this weekend
This weekend, it's bottom's up at the 3rd annual Newmarket Craft Beer Festival, you can run away to the circus, watch an exciting international polo match, and 'pawty' with your pups

Debora Kelly
Jun 23, 2023 12:30 PM

Friday, June 233rd Annual Newmarket Craft Beer Festival, June 23 to 24: The Newmarket Craft Beer Festival showcases more than 25 craft breweries from across Ontario including Old Flame Brewery, Red Thread Brewery, Haven Brewery, The George Eatery and Brewery, Red Line Brewhouse and Founders Original, alongside culinary vendors, live music, free massages, games, yoga and zumba classes, Bark Zone and more at Fairy Lake Park, 520 Water St. Opening at 6 p.m. Friday. Early bird tickets, starting at $15, are available communitycraftbeerfest.com/

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 https://www.newmarkettoday.ca/local-news/whats-going-on-in-and-around-newmarket-this-weekend-7182611 ​

​What's happening in Aurora, East Gwillimbury, Georgina and Newmarket (June 23 to 29)

By Newmarket Era
Wednesday, June 21, 2023
1 min to read
Article was updated Jun 21, 2023

Newmarket Craft Beer FestivalTwo days of 15 of the top breweries, cideries and spirits, plus food trucks, live music and more. For more information, visit www.communitycraftbeerfest.com.
Venue: 520 Water St., Newmarket (Fairy Lake Park)
Event date and time: June 23, 6 to 10 p.m. and June 24, noon to 10 p.m.
Audience: All ages
Price: $20 in advance, $25 at the gate

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​https://www.yorkregion.com/news/whats-happening-in-aurora-east-gwillimbury-georgina-and-newmarket-june-23-to-29/article_c02c362b-1eb7-5569-8743-0ef34adfddb2.html 

What's cask, you ask?
​New event coming to Durham celebrates local cask beer and cider

The Cask, Craft and Culinary Event takes place Sept. 10 at Two Blokes Cider in Seagrave

By Jillian Follert
Aug. 25, 2022

​Like bread, cask beer and cider is best served fresh.

A new event coming to Durham in September will offer the chance to try one-of-a-kind beers and ciders served fresh from the cask, while soaking up the ambience of a working farm.

The Cask, Craft and Culinary Event takes place Sept. 10 at Two Blokes Cider in Seagrave.

“The mission is to support local and to highlight Ontario producers,” said Michelle Planche, president of Community Craft Beer Festivals, which is hosting the event.

A cask beer garden will feature drinks from breweries and cideries located within an hour of Two Blokes, including Old Flame Brewing Co., Applewood Farm Winery, 5 Paddles Brewing Co. and Slabtown Cider.

Cask beer is a mainstay in British pubs and has become increasingly popular in Ontario over the past decade.

It's an older style of beer that's unfiltered and unpasteurized. After maturing in a cask, carbonation happens naturally, which means there is no need to add carbon dioxide or other chemical enhancements.

Once a cask is cracked, the beer needs to be consumed within a few days — ideally right away for maximum freshness.
“Basically, it’s a living beer,” explained Matt Somerville, one of the co-founders of Two Blokes Cider. “There’s a lot of excitement from the brewing community … doing a keg or a canned product, it’s more of a production line. Cask beer allows them to really showcase their craft.”

The Sept. 10 event will also feature vendors selling Ontario products like cheese, chocolate, jams and sauces, as well as several hands-on culinary workshops.

The evening wraps up with a concert under the stars headlined by The Wilderness, an indie rock band from Kingston.

Somerville says Durham and surrounding areas are seeing huge growth in the number of small-batch producers, which is creating an emerging food and culinary scene.

“The idea is to get us on the map and showcase that this isn’t a pass-by area. This isn’t a pass-through area. This is a come-to area,” he said.

Like the Leaskdale Loop — which encourages people to take a self-guided tour of local studios, farms and unique destinations in the Leaksdale countryside — Sommerville says the growing number of craft breweries and cideries in the area creates the chance for residents and tourists to visit multiple locations within a short distance of each other.

The Craft, Cask and Culinary Event runs from noon to 10 p.m. on Sept. 10 at Two Blokes Cider, 21300 Simcoe St. in Seagrave.

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​https://www.thestar.com/local-oshawa/life/food-wine/2022/08/25/what-s-cask-you-ask-new-event-coming-to-durham-celebrates-local-cask-beer-and-cider.html

​Scugog cidery hosting
‘Craft Cask Culinary Event’ September 10

Two Blokes Cider in Seagrave is hosting a Craft Cask Culinary Event at the Port Perry-area cidery on September 10

By Glenn Hendry
Sept., 1, 2022

Produced by Community Craft Beer Festival, the people behind this year’s Newmarket Winter Craft Beer Festival and the Aurora Craft Beer Festival, the Craft Cask Culinary Event is a celebration of cask beer and cider, artisanal food and culinary experiences all presented within a bucolic working century farm.

​Set to celebrate the art of craft through local breweries and producers, the Durham Cask Beer Garden will host a variety of vendors from around Ontario, including Old Flame in Port Perry and 5 Paddles in Whitby, and will feature cask ales – unpasteurized and uncarbonated beer meant to be drank fresh – as well as cider from nearby producers such as Slabtown and of course, Two Blokes.

The culinary experience will take place inside the cider house, consisting of five one-hour sessions that include tastings and teachings in areas such as beer/wine & food pairings.

Live music will also fill the air with the Concert Under The Stars featuring The Wilderness, a separately ticketed show.

Advance tickets for this dog-friendly and kid-friendly event (under 19 get in free) are $12, which includes two beverage tokens. The price goes up to $15 at the door. Tickets for the Wilderness concert are priced at $25.

Two Blokes Cider is located at the Somerville Farm at 21300 Simcoe Street, just south of the village of Seagrave and a short drive north of Port Perry.

See the original article at:
https://www.insauga.com/scugog-cidery-hosting-craft-cask-culinary-event-september-10/

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