The Bar Towel

We are looking at brewing Real IPA in August.

Send me a note with further specs.

Jon

I got a few minutes before the store opens so I thought that I would clear up a few items. Our next seasonal brand will be Henry's Irish Ale. Henry Calcutt, an Irishman, started Calcutt Brewery in the early 1860's here in Peterborough. The brewery closed as a result of prohibition in the 1920's. Hen...

Oh yeah I remember this thread. Looking back on my last post I now realize that what I said is rather confusing and factually incorrect. FG (final gravity) usually refers to the end point of fermentation. In this case I was speaking to the concentration of the wort in the kettle after the boil. The ...

Re PHB Batch#2 Square Nail Pale Ale:

"Oops, I did it again baby" - delicious.

Jon

Re PHB Batch #1 O.C. Rouse Wheat Ale:

In a word the beer is being described as "delicious". I concur.

Jon

By the Glass allows breweries to license their production area and adjoining areas to serve beer by the twelve ounce glass from 11-6pm daily. It came in on May 9th. Go to the AGCO site for further info- look under --new on this site --and scroll down.

A few thoughts: In Stephen's blog he mentions three licensees that would be prepared to take on some extreme beers. That is pretty sad for a city the size of Toronto. Sure he could add to the list, but the numbers aren't there. The Pubs are part of the problem. They want incentives and receive them ...

How nice that people remember good beer ten years after it was brewed ( to the day). KLB Pale Ale #10 was and always will be one of my favourite beer memories. I was enjoying a pint at St. Veronus the other evening reminiscing with a fan about #10. The boiler failed and the FG was too high. Hence th...

All this makes me wonder; what did Molcoors really buy and what are their intentions? Surely not the 40K Hl of volume - the majority of it which is discount priced draught. Or the functional albeit unsophisticated brewing equipment. It has to be the Brand and its potential. Unfortunately the Molcoor...

Riiight, One yea, one nea, 79 views. Looks like 3) WGAF takes it. Not the result I expected from the opinionated members of this forum. Probably right where Molcoors wants it to be. In the longterm the Molcoors purchase of Creemore will make for an interesting case study. The lay low strategy has be...

It has been over six months scince Bar Towel first broke the news of the Molson/Coors purchase of Creemore. What is your opinion of Creemore the brewery and the brands now that the dust has settled?

1) Yea
2) Nea
3) WGAF

PH

Throw them in the Bay. An easterly current may return them from whence they came.

A few years ago - probably unchanged - Creemore went something like this: North American two-row Carastan malt 1% black malt Sazz and two other continental hops- perhaps tettnanger and styrian goldings. Spring water and copious amounts of phosporic acid to remove the temporary hardness. Hmmm, is it ...

Ok, just gravity brew one industrial style lager. Add varying amounts of colour,water, hop extract, enzymes and extract. Wow, eight beers and we only have one fermentor. Now lets find a body builder and hit the market place with a gigantic budget. Chances of success?; inversely proportioned to the s...