Visiting Badlands Brewing

Badlands Brewing is, at this moment, the favourite “local” brewery for this writer. After about half a year or so of weekly deliveries from Badlands, a little crew from Toronto decided to finally check out the brewery itself, up in middle-of-nowhere-farm-country (sorry) Caledon.

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Where to buy take-out craft beer in downtown Toronto

Yes, we talk a lot about downtown kid things, but the parents of downtown Toronto kids need some tasty beverages — namely: craft beer. Now that Ontario’s alcohol laws have changed, your ability to buy take out craft beer in downtown Toronto has very much changed. Sure, the LCBO stocks a decent selection of Ontario craft beers (and The Beer Store – and some grocery stores – will have some as well), but there are many breweries (in Ontario and beyond) that simply don’t have the ability (or the desire) to get listed in the LCBO. To find such beers, you can usually get them from the breweries themselves (walk-in or have them delivered) but many of such breweries aren’t downtown for easy take-out. So, where can you buy craft beer downtown aside from the LCBO?

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