The Bar Towel

Greg, Your description of the website is at least one of the causes of the former partnership's demise. I knew both Mike and Lorne well and they were good guys interested in beer. Unfortunately looking to the US as an opportunity to solve problems already mounting at home has never been a good strat...

I would be happy to pick up the lot of it in one of our trucks. I'll pay you directly and then we can have a beer tasting/brewery tour/split up the goodies... up here in the sticks. :smile: Hey you guys have been trying to figure out a way to get together at a brewery or pub for weeks. I'll even hel...

Lyle, let me know if/when it is in and I'll try to pick some up. howardt@creemoresprings.com

I was at this brewery and they sold that beer in a funky 3.5l and 5l bottle. Very cool, good beer too. They also made a great unfiltered lager on tap...they served it with homemade beer schnapps.

Manul, you have identified one of the odd, but real challenges, we faced as a small brewer. 2 points on date coding bottles. The first is that because we do not pasteurize, our bottles are cold and covered in condensation when we label and box them up. We have not been able to find an ink that will ...

If you go say hi to Oli for me, and thank him for that pretty picture in the Post article. This keeps up, I am going to have to start taking back all those things I have said about beer critics over the years.

Admittedly, the LCBO system fails in the cold storage of beer. We have for the most part sucessfully addressed this by keeping short inventories and reminding people to refrigerate the product when purchased. The oxidation rate of the beer at an LCBO not in the cooler is 3:1. For example, a 3 week o...

If I am not too late, I would be interested in buying a couple of cases and splitting up the lot if it helps. You guys can pick the brands, just let me know what my share is and the pick up.

If I am not too late, I would be interested in buying a couple of cases and splitting up the lot if it helps. You guys can pick the brands, just let me know what my share is and the pick up.

The Vintage Ale, according to Peter, matures for 3 months prior to bottling. This is a much different process than aging in a bottle. These are large volumes of beer in stainless steel, happily sleeping with Mother Nature on their own yeast.

'A' thanks for the note about Vintage Ale. I called Peter Mcauslan and asked him about it. He chuckled over the controversy and re-affirmed me as a know-nothing Anglo who only deserves to brew and drink 5%-6% lagers (no matter how great they are). :smile: He then confirmed that his Vintage ale impro...

Whoa, I was celebrating a rare Leaf win with some friends last night and perhaps I was a bit punchy. Matt and Manul, of course you are both right, there may be good smoked beers and I can no more write off the whole category than Dan did English Ales. The ones I have tried to date are not to my tast...

I have had the Mahr's Wheat Bock. Very tasty. At the brewery, you can buy it in the funkiest 2.5l bottle I have ever seen.

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Thanks for the kind words (Josh,A, rabbit), I wasn't fishing for compliments...really. Creemore IPA? We have actually thought about it. In the end, you have to do one thing well. We are a lager brewery...German style brewing. There is a real worry about yeast contamination trying to do lagers and al...