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Hi Cass, Not sure if you'll get this in time, but I just thought I'd make a couple of recommendations as well. I've been to de Wildeman and would recommend it highly, despite some people's bad experience with the service. The beer selection is great and they even have a non-smoking room - very rare ...

Hi Jaymack - sorry for the delay in getting back to you, but I've been kind of busy lately and not online too much. The bottles are yours if you still want them - I have a few dozen I believe, all 500ml. I'll need some time to get them organized, at which point I'll be able to tell you just how many...

If there's anyone out there who wants some 500ml bottles for bottling your home brew I've got a few dozen that I'd like to get rid of. I was saving them for home brewing myself, but have too many and am not doing any brewing anyways. Many have been washed and have had the labels removed. Yours for t...

Put me down for a case of the Adam.
Thanks.

Put me down for a case of the Titan IPA.
Cheers!

You'll feel like you've died and gone to heaven! Hershey has a chocolate spa, and now the Czech brewery Chodovar has a beer spa: An original curative spa therapy connecting a soothing hot bath, the spring of healing mineral water IL-SANO, the unique dark Bathing Beer and rejuvenating effects of beer...

At least we now have a decent selection of Pale Ales: Black Oak Pale Ale Tankhose Ale Niagara Falls Pale Ale Cameron's Auburn Wellington SPA (don't say anything about Rickards or the new Upper Canada...) - I'm still bitter that Dragon's Breath was taken away... You could ad Headstrong to that list,...

I was at Allen's last Friday and they had the already mentioned Dennisons (Dunkel, that is), Fuller's ESB and Headstrong Pale Ale, which I had a couple of pints of. Very tasty! Many others on tap also, but these were the highlights that I can remember.

Perry - What about those of us who can't make it to Volo tomorrow? I could meet you/pick up my case at the Judge if you're also heading out there sometime.

Finally Toronto's Polish connection pays off at the LCBO for beer lovers! I inquired this winter about special ordering Zywiec Porter but was denied, for whatever reason.

Check out Josh Oakes' Quebec beer roadtrip article on ratebeer, "THE BLOND, BLANCHE, ROUSSE ET NOIR TOUR":
http://www.ratebeer.com/Beer-News/Article-515.htm

Previously discussed in the "Homebrewing" section:
http://www.bartowel.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=600

Who is this Mr. Lacey and how fast can he be fired? FYI, from the Toronto Star: "John Lacey, (is the) former vice-chair of the LCBO's board of directors who chaired the panel, ... the panel also included Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner Gwen Boniface, consultant Ann Dumyn and former busi...

I believe people had to ask at the front for booze and some guy got it from the back, very similar to the Beer Store today. This goes back before my time, but I think my father-in-law once told me that the LCBO used to require customers to have a type of "permit", sort of like an age of m...

There's a good article on American Pale Ales in yesterday's New York Times , complete with audio reviews of a few of them. Of the beers mentioned, only Anchor Liberty Ale is available in Ontario, but interesting nonetheless. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/29/dining/29ales.html?incamp=article_popular...