Beer for the troops...

[Alex Blair (RIP)]

Mill St. Brewery sends Super Bowl salute to soldiers in Afghanistan
Award winning GTA-based Microbrewery Provides Beer for Super Bowl Sunday
Celebrations at Kandahar's Canada House

TORONTO, Dec. 20 /CNW/ - Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan will be
celebrating Super Bowl Sunday with some bodacious batch-crafted beers from the
GTA-based Mill St. Brewery. Mill St. will be sending cases of its
award-winning Tankhouse and Stock Ale to Canada House, in Kandahar, for the
February 4, 2007 NFL Championship game.
Mill St. recently approached the Canadian Forces Personnel Support Agency
about providing beer to troops stationed in and around Kandahar for Super Bowl
Sunday and were granted special permission for the delivery.
"This special opportunity to provide beer to our forces for Super Bowl
Sunday is thrilling," says Tony King, Marketing Manager, Mill St. Brewery.
"Watching sports with a cold beer in your hand is an integral aspect of
Canadiana, and we are pleased to be able to give our men and women overseas a
small, but delicious taste of home."
The special shipment will be sent out in early January, in order to
arrive on time for the Super Bowl.
"As a company, Mill St. wanted to make this gesture in general, as a
token of our appreciation for the risk our soldiers make for Canada everyday
they're overseas," says Tony King. "But as word of our donation spread through
the company and industry, it was apparent that this was more than a general
statement of support; it very quickly became very personal."
Among its connections to the Canadian military, Mill St.'s Western
Ontario Marketing Manager Doug Cameron is a member of the Fourth Battalion The
Royal Canadian Regiment, a reserve unit (of the Canadian Forces); Tony King's
father served as a member of the Canadian Forces with NATO forces in Germany
and countless other Mill St. employees, friends and family have connections to
the men and women serving in the Canadian Forces.

About Mill St. Brewery

Mill St. Brewery (www.millstreetbrewery.com) is East Toronto's first
commercial brewery to open in more than 100 years, producing handcrafted beers
and ales in the historic Corktown area of the city.
Officially opened in December 2002, the brewery is housed in an original
tankhouse within the historic Gooderham & Worts Distillery complex, now known
as the Historic Distillery District.
Mill St. Brewery produces a variety of award-winning beers, including
small batches of seasonal brews. Mill Street currently offers Original Organic
Lager (with 100% certified organic ingredients), Tankhouse Ale, Stock Ale and
Balzac's Coffee Porter (featuring roasted beans from Balzac's Coffee, a
Distillery District neighbour).



For further information: Danny Roth, Brandon Communications Inc., T.
(416) 850-0614, E. droth@brandoncom.ca; Tony King, Mill St. Brewery, T. (705)
828-5789, E. tony.king@millstreetbrewery.com