Lauder Beer Festival is a yearly festival held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in the neighborhood of Oakwood–Vaughan for one day each summer. The festival was in response to the much bigger and The Beer Store-run Toronto Festival of Beer. The Lauder Beer Festival not only showcases craft brewers from Ontario and Canada but from Europe and the United States as well. Started in 2006, the festival celebrates a vast variety of beer in the micro and craft brewery industry. The Lauder Beer Festival stretches a 1 kilometer section of Amherst Avenue between Lauder Avenue in which the festival is named to the west and Glenholme Avenue to the east. The festival was started by 4 area residents and continues to grow each year.
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The Lauder Beer Festival when first established featured a wide scope of beer from a number of regions for its first two years. In 2008 its founders changed the format of the festival. It was then introduced that each year the Lauder Beer Festival would showcase beer exclusively from one nation each year. For the 2008 festival the festival offered a wide range of beer from across Canada.
In its first two years the festival offered chicken wings, hotdogs and hamburgers. With the revamping of the festival in 2008 to focus on selected beers from selected nations the food offered was to also focus on the selected nation as well. In 2008, the festival showcased a menu of Canadian dishes such as maple salmon, bison burgers, bacon wrapped scallops and corn on the cob.
In 2009 and 2010 the Lauder Beer Festival organizers did not put on an event for numerous reasons. It has been rumored that the festival will return in 2011 and will showcase the beers of Germany.