Ontario Craft Beer Week arrives on Sunday for their fourth annual excuse to drink for a week tribute to the great beers that this province has to offer. There are over 30 participating Ontario brewers hosting 150+ events across the province and as you can imagine given that this city is the centre of the universe, a large number of them are occurring right here in Hogtown.

The week will offer all manner of beer and food pairings, brewmaster's dinners, pub crawls, brewer collaborations, celebrations of cask ales and one-offs and much, much more, so, while it's tempting to try to attend all the events (and I applaud your moxie for thinking of it) it would quite literally be impossible (not to mention detrimental to your health).

So to help you plan your week of libations, I've taken the liberty of selecting a few highlights in order to whittle the comprehensive list of every event happening in Ontario to a manageable two or three local events each day so all you have to worry about is ironing your drinking pants.

The best microbreweries in Toronto used to comprise a pretty short list. In fact, the last time we did one of these lists, we were compelled to pad it with some great-in-their-own-right neighbouring brewers like Wellington Brewery in Guelph, County Durham Brewing Company in Pickering, Cameron's Brewing in Oakville, and Flying Monkeys in Barrie. These days, however, it's a testament to city's thriving craft beer scene that we not only easily populated a list with brewers from Toronto proper, but that there were so very many places making great beer in the city.

Here, with reader input, is a list of the best microbreweries in Toronto.

Earlier today Steam Whistle Brewing announced a partnership with Grocery Gateway, a division of Longos that handles home grocery delivery. The partnership means that if you're ordering groceries for home delivery, you can add a few Steam Whistles to your order as well.

The service, which naturally comes at a premium means you'll be able to order 12 packs of bottles, 6 packs of cans, ($1.50 fee) or even single tallboys of pilsner ($0.50 fee) to your grocery order (the press release even boasts that they'll be delivered chilled!).

The best Irish pubs in Toronto offer more than a pint of a Guinness and a handful of vaguely traditional menu options. Sure, some of them are about as Oirish as Tom Cruise's accent in the movie Far and Away and have as much to do with a traditional Emerald Isle experience as the Lucky Charms Leprechaun, but what they do all have going for them is a healthy does of that famous Irish hospitality.

While it seems to be arriving in spurts, summer is nearly upon us here in Toronto. It's a special time in the city when the sunglasses come out, we start to show a little more skin, and we queue up for a space on one of the city's great patios.

It's a also a time in the city when put away the heavy, boozy beers that kept us warm all winter and look to a crisp, refreshing beer better suited to long, lazy days in the sun.

With that in mind, here are a dozen of some of the best local offerings for easy summer drinking, as well as some info about where you can get yours.

Summer beer festivals in Toronto present only one problem — because there are so many to choose from, keeping track of them all actually becomes difficult. And, let's face it, you've already got enough on your plate — what with picking out the the right tank top and sunglasses to wear while you patio-hop to kill the time between beer festivals.

So, to take some of the stress out of our collective beer-drinking schedules this summer,
I've compiled a list of the various beer festivals happening in the city so that the biggest decision one has to make is whether or not those slick Wayfarers clash with flip flops.