We are also putting together a glass shipment from Belgium ..

I'll keep you posted.

Cheers,

Paul

Hi there -- we bring Burton Bridge in yes ..

email paul@greatdrinks.com or call 416 462 1577

cheers,

paul

greg -- the fruili sold just as much ... and slower than many ... of the other thematics it was released with last year. just for the record.

indeed. i wince and cringe just the same. but ... no -- margins are all the same, relatively speaking -- it's just that basically each of those eastern lightweights are "guaranteed" a reasonable level of sales within their ethnic groups many of which are swelling or rising in the ranks these days an...

WE (agents) - and whoever else advertises in it - "pay" for that magazine. $10,000 a page (ad).

RUBAIYAT Available at the moment ... Piraat (Belgium) 330 ml 10.5% alc./vol. Bruegel Amber Ale (Belgium) 330 ml 5.2% alc./vol. Yersekes Mosselbier (Belgium) 250 ml 5.2% alc./vol. Leutebok (Belgium) 330 ml 7.5% alc./vol. Delirium Tremens (Belgium) 330 ml 9% alc./vol. Petrus Triple (Belgium) 250 ml 7....

"potential" is the operative word here. unfortunately -- and i've thought a lot about this -- i can't blame the people who run the department necessarily. it's more a function of the SYSTEM. the monopoly system, the archaic rules that are behind it, the drive for profitability, etc. certain beers - ...

A very diplomatic answer -- from them. OK. HERE is how it works. Once a year (occasionally there are others throughout the year but this is the main one) they issue their annual purchasing plans which set out what essentially amount to tenders. These "tenders" which are spaced throughout the year (s...

Thank you for all your positive - and ... not so positive - comments on the J Ginger .. :-) I just want to state one thing for the record: this beer IS the regular Jenlain Blonde with added "ginger essence". My point, simply, is that this beer is not a brand new (cheap, inferior, "swill") concoction...

Yes pls call 416 462 1577 or email paul@greatdrinks.com for availability .. !!

Cheers,

Paul

josh -- the lcbo IS very "profitable". OUTSIDE and OVER AND ABOVE all taxes ... there is a 145% markup - yes that's right ... a 145% markup - on spirits, for example ... 64% on wine ... and so on. gross profit mind you (i.e. before admin costs, warehousing, salaries, etc.) but OVER AND ABOVE ALL tax...

I agree with you. I think I was going somewhere else with this. I guess I was giving a relatively vague answer to something I didn't read fully. I was simply stating the fact that the LCBO HAS in the past - more than now - been reluctant to buy IMPORTED unpasteurized beer as the shipping and storage...

most of the reluctance - which has now SOMEWHAT but only slightly somewhat subsided - was the logistics side of it. shelf life issues -- refrigeration issues -- the fact that things (stock) don't always move fast through the LCBO (specialty, more interesting things that is -- smirnoff ice or yellowt...

The large bottles come in cases of six. We don't normally import them. If you were interested -- they certainly have to be sold in full case lots. That's the law. In terms of bringing them in -- if there was interest -- we could do .. but we're looking at months. If there is interest we will do thou...

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