Video: The story of our soap
We use local, sustainable ingredients whenever possible, and that's true even when washing hands. All of our washrooms how have handmade soaps from Bar Á Savon in Wakefield. We shot a short video with Bar Á Savon owner Ingrid. Enjoy!
Recipe: Flora Hall Oatmeal Stout Beer Bread!
We bake our breads fresh every day, including the loaves and loaves of our Oatmeal Stout Beer Bread that get dipped in soup or crunched with house pickles. Here’s the recipe from chef Linette, so you can try it at home and let us know how it goes! Flora Hall Oatmeal Stout Beer BreadIngredients1/4 cup honey (the kind from bees)1/4 cup molasses (the regular kind, not, like, pomegranate)1/4 cup yeast (it’s alive!)4 cups Flora Hall Oatmeal Stout9 cups white flour2 cups whole-wheat flour1 cup oats1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon salt (sounds finicky, we know, we know)Bloom the yeast in warmed...
New mural at Flora Hall!
Dom Laporte has created a great mural inside Flora Hall Brewing. Watch the video below to find out how it came together, and why . . .
SOBDL’s Erica Campbell answers our Proust Beer questions!
Erica Campbell is cofounder and co-operator of the Toronto-based Society of Beer Drinking Ladies, which hosts its second “Bevy” in Ottawa Dec. 15. (All-Saints Event Space, click here for info and tickets on Facebook, or here on Eventbrite.) We asked Erica to complete our Proust Beer Questionnaire, and here are her answers . . . 1. The first beer I ever drank was . . . Brick Brewery Red Cap (from my Kitchener-Waterloo upbringing!) 2. The last beer I drank was . . . A pint of Henderson BEST Amber this afternoon at the Gladstone Hotel. 3. The best beer I’ve ever had was . . . Heady Topper...
All your gift needs in one place!
Take care of all your gift needs in our beer shop, and then relax at the bar with a cold one!
Video: Feeding farm animals
A short video of where all that used malt and wheat and such goes . . .
Bitter batter! Weekend lunch special for December . . .
Bitter batter! Fri, Sat & Sun in Dec we have fresh-cut chips, homemade tartar and ketchup, mushy peas and fish in our English Ordinary Bitter batter. Just say, “bitter batter up!”
A limited-edition printing of Flora Hall woodcuts!
Get Flora Hall on your wall! Artist Guillermo Trejo made a woodcut of the brewery, and you can see it by the bar during Flora Fest 1 on Saturday, Oct. 27. Edition of 10 prints only, so get one soon from our friends at Studio Sixty Six in the Glebe!
Beer Passport and our Proust Questionnaire!
Mike Stulberg is the Toronto-based founder of Craft Beer Passport, the program that recently expanded to Ottawa, including Flora Hall Brewing. See more about the program click here. To get to know Mike a bit better, we invited him to answer our Proust Beer Questionnaire, and here are his answers . . . 1. The first beer I ever drank was . . . a Lakeport Honey from my best friend’s dad’s basement fridge. We would wait until he went to sleep, then sneak downstairs and share a bottle. Half a bottle of that stuff was about all I could drink at the time and more than I’d want to drink now! 2....
White IPA launch!
On July 19 we launch our newest beer, a White IPA with Pear! Bright, fruity flavours are especially refreshing on a hot summer day. Brewed with wheat, oats, pear juice and orange peel. Fermented with our favourite Belgian yeast strain and dry hopped with lots of Galaxy, Centennial and Cascade hops. Available on tap or in cans to go. Join us to sample and...
