Holiday Cheers!
The snow is flying and the holiday invites are starting to arrive. Why not give the gift of beer this year? Canada's Premium Pilsner is all dressed up for the holidays with a convenient gift tag on top of the box and new festive bottle caps. Take along a carton to your next holiday gathering.
Steam Whistle in the Media
ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FARCE was on site at Steam Whistle Brewing in November to shoot a "farce film" for the final episode of this great Canadian comedy show, due to air December 31st on CBC Television. See if you can recognize our location in the clip and email info@steamwhistle.ca with your comments.
Always proud of our Environmental Initiatives, Steam Whistle Brewing was a recent host to Chinese Central Television's show "Green Space" which was here in Toronto to feature us as part of this innovative, environmental, world-class city. Nice!
On October 16, 2008 Steam Whistle co-founders, Cam Heaps and Greg Taylor, were honoured as winners in the Consumer Category for Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Cam and Greg gave heartfelt speeches thanking their familes, our customers and our many dedicated staff, all of whom contributed to the company's success.
Steam Whistle has proudly supported a number of Canadian national and Olympic teams, and most recently partnered with CAN Fund to help raise support for Canadian Athletes. Here Malcolm Howard, Men's 8 Rowing Medalist is shown having a cold one! GO TEAM CANADA!
Plans taking shape at the Roundhouse Rail Museum
Pictured left is "Cabin D" being moved into position in Roundhouse Park, as both indoors and out, progress is being made on the coming Toronto Rail Heritage Centre. Steam Whistle has been involved with our neighbours in a few small ways. Always ready to help, we are really looking forward to the Museum opening!
Steam Whistle UNSIGNED Alberta
On November 20, our 9th Steam Whistle UNSIGNED Indie Music concert rolled out in Calgary's Broken City Social Club featuring The Bicycles, Hot Panda and Sleepless Nights. As with all our UNSIGNED concerts, $5 at the Door goes to charity. To date, our indie music series has raised $10,000 for the Artists' Health Foundation Centre, $555 for the Calgary Underground Film Festival, $1500 for the Regent Park School of Music, $400 for the Elephant Artist Relief.
Click here to link to our Unsigned music clips, photo gallery and podcasts.
Halloween Bash at Steam Whistle
Steam Whistle staffers hammed it up at our Annual Halloween Party as the stupendous mystery solvers, Fred (Chris Henderson) Daphne (Jill Henderson), Thelma (Jenny Henderson) and Shaggy (Ryan Giesen). Our 1967 Scoobie-Doo-inspired "Steam Machine" was their perfect back drop. Check out our Halloween Photo Gallery for pics of the hundreds of party-goers.
Steam Whistle in the Cycling World
Steam Whistle has sponsored many different cycling disciplines this year. Pictured left is Ed Makarchuk of road cycling team SOUND SOLUTIONS who took the win at the Ontario Provincial Road Race Championships in Elliot Lake on the difficult Rattlesnake Hill Course. Pictured middle is a competitor in the World Indoor Cyclo-cross Championships in Springbank, Alberta fueled by Steam Whistle. And right, is the Impala Steam Whistle Racing Team, who competed in Ontario's downhill cycling circuit. Congratulations to all the competitors on a great showing.
E-news Contest
The Canadian Stage Company, Canada's leading not-for-profit contemporary theatre, is dedicated to programming international contemporary theatre and to developing and producing landmark Canadian theatre. CanStage is one of the many arts organizations that receive support from Steam Whistle annually and they want to give back by offering Steam Whistle drinkers the chance TO WIN two (2) tickets to any Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday evening performance of their upcoming productions at the Bluma Appel Theatre: It's A Wonderful Life, Miss Julie, Shirley Valentine, or Doubt, a Parable. For your chance to win, simply email contests@steamwhistle.ca and tell us the name of the actors starring in one of the CanStage productions. One entry per person. Contest closes Dec 10th.
Previous Contest Winners
Ontario Retro Style Fridge Winner writes, "Tim delivered the fridge yesterday & everything went well. It fit perfectly in its designated spot & is now quietly chilling our beer & wine! A note of thanks to you & your team for a great contest prize: you can be sure it will be getting lots of use. I've put your Steam Whistle wall bottle opener right next to it- looks like a million bucks!" Cheers, Rob Le Guillou
Alberta Design-A-Deck Winners included:
Denis Lebel - Broken City; Marsha Ellen Meidow - Drum and Monkey; Alexander Kurth - Marquee Room; Noel Kueh - Palamino; Megan McCauley - The Ship and Anchor Pub; Tawny Mindel - The Auburn; Stevan Vinci - Tubby Dog;
’ÄòTen Deep' - The Ming.
Enjoy your new art piece decks!
Make Your Mark on the World! We've been pleasantly surprised by the number of exotic places Steam Whistle fans have trekked with our Pilsner. Check out our NEW website travelogue and send us your stories and pics if you've travelled the globe with Steam Whistle Pilsner. Email to: traveldiary@steamwhistle.ca
May you and yours have a wonderful holiday season,
From the Good Beer Folks, sybil@steamwhistle.ca
