The Bar Towel

Tough times across the pond.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/a ... ust-brexit

I discovered Northern Lights Hazy IPA last week. Very nice.

I don't think I have seen it available around Toronto.

Thanks I will dip into this. I was following his blog for a while but it appears to have gone on ice. I just chalked it up to lots of personal COVID era projects that people moved on from. I'm not disparaging here, it and others are clearly passion projects and that's great. Personally, I'm not in t...

Enjoying Great Lakes current 7 Barrel Series Flight HBC 1019.

A very nice bright and refreshing take on NEIPA. I have found too many beers in this style to just be acrid. This one is good and clean. Well done!

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jul/22/end-of-the-bartender-the-uk-vending-machines-pouring-pints-for-the-masses I was at an event in San Jose years ago where they had a variation on this. You still had to pull your own, but it had some sort of throttle to help get a good pour. The best pa...

"A representative for Anchor Brewing Co., Sam Singer...attributes the decision to a mix of familiar factors: “the impacts of the pandemic, inflation, especially in San Francisco, and a highly competitive market left the company with no option but to make this sad decision to cease operations. ...

Geez, you'd think they could have knocked out some hard soda or something to bring in the revenue.

Also Pohjala, do go. We didn't do the sauna thing but the whole facility is fantastic. In fact I can't recommend Tallinn enough, a gorgeous city and a seemingly underrated country in general. Lots of very good local breweries and craft imports too; I was impressed for such a small country, they pun...

Yeah, golf or fishing would help get my attention, but chilling by a lake also works for me. Thing is, my mom lives on a lake, so I can always go chill there and I've set her up with a kegerator and keep it stocked up with homebrew. (most of the time when her friends don't clear it out too fast. LOL...

I know someone who does contracting up in that area and flagged this place with me just before they opened. He thought it has a lot of promise, but he did mention he felt the beer was pretty uninspired. I'm not sure if he did any work there or just got a sneak peak. The beer could have improved sinc...

Good article in Slate today (it looks like they're doing a series). I'm pretty sure much of this applies to Canada as well.

https://slate.com/business/2023/07/beer ... -beer.html

S. St. Jeb wrote: ↑Wed Jun 28, 2023 4:15 pm Not starting until August 2?? LOL. Wouldn't want to evaluate the initiative on the whole summer now, would we?

Well, I guess we should be grateful that we don't have to get a note from our parents to participate.

37. American Style India Pale Ale Gold Big Chute Quayle's Brewery Ontario 2023 Never heard of these guys, are they any good? My wife was at Quayle's last week and was impressed. She brought me back some samples (she knows what she's supposed to do :wink: ). So far I have only tried the Big Chute. I...

Word is they are closed or closing for good. Too bad. TBH, I haven't been since before the plague, but it was nice they were there. I wonder what will happen withe space?