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Best Bitter
A distinctive copper coloured,
full-bodied ale finished
with Yakima fuggle hops.

Original Gravity - 1046
Alcohol Content - 4.5%

 

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Best Bitter Special
(Dry Hopped)
Our regular bitter but
cask conditioned and
dry hopped with wonderful
results.
Original Gravity - 1046
Alcohol Content - 4.5%

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Traditional India Pale Ale (IPA)
Traditional India Pale Ale, light in colour
and well hopped, cask conditioned.
Original Gravity - 1052
Alcohol Content - 5.0%

 

 

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Peculiar
Peculiar is a dark ale
with a slightly sweet but dry palate.
Original Gravity - 1056
Alcohol Content - 5.6%

 

 

 

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Ringwood Ale &
Ring Berry Ale

A filtered pale blonde ale, gently hopped
and lightly carbonated.
Ringberry, the first cousin to Ringwood,
is a Raspberry flavoured blended ale
with a very pleasing taste.
 Original Gravity - 1052
Alcohol Content - 5.0%

 

 

 

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Keefe's Irish Stout

A black bitter stout
with a buried hint of sweetness
and a creamy head.
Original Gravity - 1046
Alcohol Content - 4.5%

 

 

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Summer Ale

A special offering,
light in colour
and alcohol content (4%).
It is full bodied and refreshing.
Original Gravity - 1042
Alcohol Content - 4.0%

Available May to September

 

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Why Gin Lane Ale?
Gin Lane Ale is the Granite’s new “barley wine”.   Barley wines are very strong ales ranging in alcohol from 8% to 12% ABV.  They are also very heavily hopped with IBU (bittering units) from 50 to 100.  (Granite’s IPA is a 45 IBU). They originated in England over 100 years ago when English brewers were trying to compete with the influx of wine from France.

 Gin Lane Ale comes in at 9% ABV with 55 IBU’s.  It was very well hopped in the brewing process and it was also dry-hopped in the secondary fermentor, much like we dry hop the Bitter and IPA.   It is made with lots of 2 row malted barley, carastan malt, black malt and flaked barley.  It has been generously hopped with East Kent Goldings (bittering hops) and Fuggles (aroma).  It was also dry hopped with Fuggles. The alcohol strength will be immediately noticed and you should get a “winey” sweetness.

Barley wines often come with some “interesting” names indicating the strength and repercussions of the beer.  Examples are Doomsday II Ale, Old Crustacean, Old Knucklehead and Old Foghorn.

Beer Street and Gin Lane are 2 famous engravings by Hogarth showing the good of beer and the evil of cheap spirits.  We have used Beer Street at the Granite for years as how we think beer should be treated; now we can recognize Gin Lane.

Could a beer like this have saved these poor wretches from evils of cheap gin?

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  • Amber and Tan: Best Bitter mixed with an equal amount of Peculiar.
  • Black and Tan: Best Bitter topped with an equal amount of Keefe's Irish Stout.
  • Shandy: Best Bitter topped with an equal amount of Lemon Soda.
  • Ringwood Ale and Bitter : Our Ringwood Ale  mixed with an equal amount of Best Bitter.
  • Bitter Tops: Best Bitter topped with a spritz of lemon soda.
  • Granite Blackberry: a mix of Irish Stout and Ringberry

WHAT THE * * *CRITICS SAY

"Toronto's best brewpub ales"
 Toronto Life Magazine

"A deep amber-brown ale of 5.6, Peculiar is clear, soft and fruity. This is a classic old ale. ***"
 Michael Jackson, Pocket Guide to Beer

"The pronounced fresh aroma (of the dry-hopped best bitter) is almost reminiscent of a
walk in the autumn woods. ***1/2"
 Steve Beaumont, Great Canadian Beer Guide

"Keefe's Irish Stout delivers a delightfully complex mouth starting with chocolate malt,
followed by roasted malt and cut with a light bitterness. Superb."
 Ian Bowering, In Search of the Perfect Brew

 

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Care to read about the Granite?
Check out :
"What's Brewing" - The Newspaper of the Campaign for Real Ale

 

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Ron Keefe, Proprietor
Granite Brewery and Restaurant
245 Eglinton Ave. East
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M4P 3B7
416-322-0723 tel
416-322-0117 fax
1-877-884-4645 toll free
 www.granitebrewery.ca

last updated:
October 2009