The Bar Towel

El Pinguino wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 4:08 pm Does anyone else have a weird completionist mentality like me,

I used to, but it's next to impossible now with so many beers being released. I have also had too many times where I do "one of everything!" at a brewery then half of them are not great when I get home!

The $19 was only for two specific ones IIRC. Most of the bottle pours were more like $10-12 per 5oz, which works out to around $52 per 750ml/26oz which is a lot but not crazy given that the bottles started at around $35 per bottle retail. Some of the rarer ones were significantly more. Lots of peopl...

I think part of it is that there is SOOO much beer out there now that there is not really as much scarcity as there used to be, but also as I get older, the bar for what i'd be willing to line up for has gotten a lot higher and frankly there aren't many beers I'm willing to line up for anymore!

Nickel Brook has re-branded their No Bad Daze Easy Going Lager to simply Easy Going Lager. Hmmmm. Can't think of why. Turns out it isn't re-branding, but a replacement. "Please note that this new brew will be replacing our "No Bad Daze - Easy-Goin' Lager". You can still purchase No B...

It's been several years since we were there but Bear's Paw Bakery was great when we went in 2017. We enjoyed a nice dinner at Jasper Brewing despite the beer not being super impressive. I was going to recommend the old school movie theatre but it appears to have permanently closed. Driving between t...

I tried them shortly after they first opened and enjoyed it but haven't had the chance for a return visit yet.

624 new to me ratings from 173 Breweries Favourite Ontario Brewer: Volo (18 new beers, Average 3.68/5), Still Fields (7 new beers average 3.7) I think Volo was the only bar in Ontario I visited multiple times in 2023. Favourite Ontario Beer: Volo Beer Lino (based on being my top rated, and I had sev...

I have meaning to check it out but never seem to make my way to that end of town recently. Hopefully sometime in the new year.

I think chase is the operative word in many ways. It used to be such a rarity to find new and interesting beers that a "Bar X has Beer Y!" post on Bartowel would send us running. Now it's pretty much impossible to keep up with all the beer just from Ontario. I love CBN and appreciate it - ...

FYI Toronto Pubic Library users can access Star articles via their website https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/books-video-music/downloads-ebooks/digital-newspapers.jsp (Library site is still a mess right now so not 100% sure this link works - try https://www.proquest.com/barcode?accountid=14369&...

Welcome! Cheers!

Skeleton Park acquires both Signal and Spearhead: https://thewhig.com/news/time-was-right-for-big-beer-business-moves This is another one where it surprises me a bit to see which brewery is doing the purchasing vs being purchased - I would have thought Spearhead was the bigger player. Will be inter...

Well if BlogTO has the same effect on Revel as they have on cheap but good restaurants, and day hikes "near Toronto" then Revel is about to make big bucks!!!

Seriously though, I hope this publicity and attention does help them out.

I was mostly kidding. It would kind of depend on how you define good; Some breweries are objectively good but their beers aren't necessarily to my own taste. Other breweries make some beer that is great and some that is not. (Some breweries have a reputation based on hazy IPAs, or adjunct beers that...

Craig wrote: ↑Mon Sep 25, 2023 10:24 pm Okay, now rank them.

Based on what criteria?