Birreria Volo
BeerAdvocate magazine|#119 (December 2016)

When your father is one of Canada’s most renowned craft beer publicans, opening your own beer bar is a high-pressure situation.

Crystal Luxmore
Birreria Volo

Brothers Tomas Morana, 26, and Julian Morana, 29, cut their teeth working at their father Ralph’s famed Bar Volo—a Toronto beer mecca that catalyzed Ontario’s IPA scene, nurtured its real ale love, and brought in cult brews from around the world.

This September, the brothers opened their first bar, Birreria Volo, in Toronto’s Little Italy. The Moranas didn’t want to do a “Volo II,” but they did want to lead the way—just like Ralph had when he switched his wine restaurant to a beer bar 15 years ago. “Bar Volo started as a niche beer bar,” says Julian Morana, “and just like that bar helped inspire a craft beer-only format, we knew we wanted to create what a beer bar could look like 10 or 15 years from now.”

This story is from the #119 (December 2016) edition of BeerAdvocate magazine.

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