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- Sat Apr 12, 2025 9:56 am
- Forum: Breweries, Tied Houses & Taprooms
- Topic: Steadfast Brewing
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2967
Re: Steadfast Brewing
Funny, I was just looking into this brewery like 10 seconds ago. They're pretty new, but I hear it's a nice spot with solid beer...plus tacos. Count me in!
- Sun Feb 16, 2025 4:39 pm
- Forum: General Beer Discussion & Random Talk
- Topic: Best Ontario Beer to Stockpile?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 24284
Re: Best Ontario Beer to Stockpile?
Then I realized I have too much beer to drink already, so no stockpiling for me. I have so much ancient bottled product in my cellar that never gets drank, so I agree I didn't need to buy any more fancy stuff. (Side note: Bar Towel cellar drinking party at my place??) I'll probably just pick up som...
- Sun Feb 16, 2025 4:37 pm
- Forum: Outside of Ontario Beer Travel, Local Beer/Brewery Guides and Talk
- Topic: San Francisco
- Replies: 49
- Views: 112541
Re: San Francisco
https://www.eddies-list.com/p/toronado-craft-beer-bar-listed-for-sale Toronado Craft Beer, San Francisco Listed For Sale I've heard the service was crappy and they were intolerant of lots of people. Hopefully it gets replaced by something better. I'd been to Toronado a couple of times over the year...
- Wed Feb 12, 2025 9:58 am
- Forum: Breweries, Tied Houses & Taprooms
- Topic: Breweries closing and/or restructuring and/or bought out
- Replies: 160
- Views: 360904
Re: Breweries closing and/or restructuring and/or bought out
Saw a post on Reddit that Saulter Street is closing. Can't say I ever enjoyed anything I had from them Not super surprised at this. The space was nice but it felt like they never broke through. Yeah, same. Eastbound is also right across the street and has a nicer space, good food and somewhat bette...
- Tue Feb 04, 2025 12:54 am
- Forum: LCBO, Beer Stores, Grocery & Indie Stores
- Topic: LCBO & the Trade Wars
- Replies: 49
- Views: 43775
Re: LCBO & the Trade Wars
Hoping the inter provincial trade barriers come down as a result of this nonsense. I'd love to see some Quebec and BC stuff in that shelf space opening up. Hope so indeed. Covid brought about all the take out stuff, hopefully this can spark that. There was an article recently (I think in the Globe)...
- Tue Jan 21, 2025 12:45 pm
- Forum: Breweries, Tied Houses & Taprooms
- Topic: Who's selling 355ml cans?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 14589
Re: Who's selling 355ml cans?
I disagree BUT people like me probably buy a lot less beer than those that want tall boys and bombers so have no fear, your "cuck cans" won't take over the industry, and you'll be able to continue drinking 10% alc bombs by the half liter They must have done a collab with Bellwoods because...
- Tue Jan 14, 2025 1:04 pm
- Forum: Good Pubs, Brewpubs & Beer Bars
- Topic: Bar Hop 2 (Peter St)
- Replies: 84
- Views: 184223
Re: Bar Hop 2 (Peter St)
Bar Hop 2 closing on Saturday: https://www.instagram.com/p/DExww83yXJs/ Friends… It is with mixed emotions that we have made the difficult decision to permanently close the 137 Peter Street Bar Hop location, with our last day on Saturday January 18th . Since the onset of the pandemic, which changed...
- Tue Oct 01, 2024 3:06 pm
- Forum: Outside of Ontario Beer Travel, Local Beer/Brewery Guides and Talk
- Topic: Where would you go for 4 or 5 days?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 56651
Re: Where would you go for 4 or 5 days?
Great suggestions here! I put together a few hypothetical road trip (from Toronto) itineraries in mid-March 2020 which never came to fruition, for obvious reasons. This list might already be obsolete, but here it is: With a border crossing: Rochester, NY: - 3 hours from Toronto - Brooklyn's Other Ha...
- Tue Oct 01, 2024 2:54 pm
- Forum: Beer Events & Festivals
- Topic: C'est What Fall Festival 2024
- Replies: 3
- Views: 24460
Re: C'est What Fall Festival 2024
I was in on Friday (by coincidence) and they still had everything on tap, including an excellent Wood Brothers hazy boi.
C'est What remains one of the best pubs in town, IMHO.
C'est What remains one of the best pubs in town, IMHO.
- Tue Sep 17, 2024 8:07 pm
- Forum: General Beer Discussion & Random Talk
- Topic: Prince Edward County
- Replies: 3
- Views: 16464
Re: Prince Edward County
It's one of the best parts of the province to visit, and the beer scene is awesome. Two minutes from Matron is All My Friends Beer Co., which I consider one of Ontario's top breweries (currently ranked 5th on Untappd). Strange Brew is definitely worth a visit, and I'm also a fan of Gillingham. I've ...
- Thu Sep 05, 2024 4:12 pm
- Forum: General Beer Discussion & Random Talk
- Topic: What's Your Favourite Ontario West Coast IPA?
- Replies: 70
- Views: 125632
Re: What's Your Favourite Ontario West Coast IPA?
I had the San Diego Super Sauce from Rouge River and it was quite good. It's at the Lickbo now: https://www.lcbo.com/en/rouge-river-san ... -ipa-38795
- Thu Sep 05, 2024 4:02 pm
- Forum: General Beer Discussion & Random Talk
- Topic: What to do when the beer selection sucks?
- Replies: 61
- Views: 82830
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So, my hop oil arrived in the mail today, and I was pretty excited to try it out. Brilliant! I'm glad you did this, and I found your whole post really entertaining. Imagine the possibilities.... you could turn Keith's into something that vaguely resembles an IPA! Sorry to revive a dead thread, but ...
- Thu Sep 05, 2024 3:34 pm
- Forum: LCBO, Beer Stores, Grocery & Indie Stores
- Topic: Beer in Convenience Stores coming early
- Replies: 32
- Views: 79962
Re: Beer in Convenience Stores coming early
Sounds a lot like how it is here then, though I wonder if the deps get to order directly from breweries if they like? Access truly has come a long way in the last 10 years, it's so much better than it was. One thing I would love to see is a relaxing of provincial barriers in particular. There's no ...
- Thu Aug 22, 2024 5:27 pm
- Forum: Good Pubs, Brewpubs & Beer Bars
- Topic: Thirsty & Miserable
- Replies: 15
- Views: 58260
Re: Thirsty & Miserable
Nice. Hope they can recapture the diveyness!
- Tue Jul 30, 2024 4:41 pm
- Forum: Beer Events & Festivals
- Topic: Toronto Festival of Beer 2016 - Jul 22-24
- Replies: 16
- Views: 47831
Re: Toronto Festival of Beer 2016 - Jul 22-24
Sounds pretty good to me! I was in Ypsilanti that weekend for the Michigan Brewers Guild festival, but wouldn't mind hitting this up next year if the stars align.