The Bar Towel

I agree completely. I really can't recall a better British beer available in Ontario than the 1845. It's delicious stuff, which will no doubt vanish from the shelves now you and Beaumont have let the cat out of the bag...

So Greene King brew a special competition beer and enter it under the same name as a quite different regular beer. After the results, they'll doubtless plaster their pubs with posters proclaiming that their IPA won second prize in the GBBF. I wonder if the Trade Descriptions Act covers this kind of ...

Great news on both fronts. Can't wait till the reinforcements show up.

Since last weekend, there seems to have been a Toronto-wide drought of my favourite IPA. At first I thought this was the effect of excessive thirst among Festival attendees, but the shortage has persisted through the week. Even worse, I've recently heard rumours of production problems. Does anyone (...

Well I have no experience with the other two, but I'm very familiar indeed with the Greene King IPA, and it's nothing to write home about at all. Either it's improved dramatically since my last pint 6 months ago, or most of the other brewers in the country have gone out of business.

Have you tried any yet? I had a couple from the Summerhill LCBO, and I was pretty underwhelmed. It tasted bland and underhopped to me. I know I've had better in the past, so I'm not sure what's happened with this batch. Also, I believe the label claims that Summer Lightning is bottle conditioned, bu...