O, What a Community

There is no better community to be a part of than the Ontario Craft Brewing Community.

When it all boils down, the best part of being an Ontario Craft Brewer is that we are all doing our best to make good beer. We aren't fighting or boasting or trying to best our friends. We are all trying to make flavorful beer. Beer that can be shared with friends. Beer that can either make our friends' faces light up with joy or beer that can make our friends' faces squinch up with a desire for another beer.

Its not about making people turn against one flavor. Its about finding a flavor that our friends enjoy. If they don't like stouts, then we give them a pilsner. If they don't like ales, then we give them a lager. Its a communal joy that we want to share. A discovery that can only be shared amongst friends.

When you are out on a patio this summer season, please point your friends towards a beer that you enjoy. Like a song, you your friends may not like your first choice but they may dig your second or third. No matter how many tries it takes, they will appreciate something new, soon enough.

It is better to try something new and not like it than to turn your back on new flavors altogether. You may be turning your back on your favorite beer and that would be the worst thing you could do that you would never know.

Yoda said that at 1.20am at the Wooly.