The Bar Towel

Last night while watching a great, if disappointing ball game:

Blood Brothers Hail Saison: Heavily oxidized, but the honeydew mellon was really nice on this. I'd love to try it again fresh (My bottle was about three weeks old).
Collingwood Saison: unremarkable.

Grabbed some Lambda at noon today. I was told they are trying to limit people to 8 bottles. It didn't sound firm though, at least in the way the cashier phrased it. She also suggested that next week's release would likely be limited to 4, but she wasn't entirely sure.

Second, where do you find these great trading partners for BC beer? Beer Advocate. I started with the Canadian Beer it Forward blind swaps (CANBIF). From there, simply updating my "gots" on the site when I shop at Bellwoods seems to encourage trade requests. There definitely is a demand f...

I think the sample idea would be nice, especially since the pub opens much later than the bottle shop. Those of us who like to go at lunch have to buy based on expectation and experience. That said, I've never had any trouble finding trade partners for any of the bottles I buy. I always buy the maxi...

This one is closed. Thanks for all the responses.

The Fresh Hop Pale Ale is enjoyable.

I'm in the process of working something out with the initial respondent, but if things do not work out, I will be in contact. Thank you.

Trying to help a friend out and I seem to have already either consumed or traded my 8 bottles. Cellar organization software is going to the top of list for Santa this year! Looking for a bottle of Bellwoods Motley Cru 2015. For trade: Driftwood Obscuritas Dark Sour. Have a lot of other things too, i...

I'm on board the Burdock bandwagon. The Brett Farmhouse Saison was very good, and even the California Common was enjoyable, particularly for a style that I have little interest in.

Northwinds Night Moves (Wet Hop Belgian Pale Ale with Roasted Sweet Potato)

I'm not sure if I should be disappointed or happy that the sweet potato in this one is negligible in the flavour. The Belgian aspects emerge slowly, but everything is very mild in this beer. Good, but not what I expected.

Boy the LCBO loves those Historic Beers of Scotland.

I bet a bunch of these repeats sell well due primarily to secret santa shoppers. I know that one or more of these makes an appearance at my wife's work Christmas party every year...

Kudos to Burdock for having an easy to use web-site that tracks the current beer inventory, down to the bottle.

More of this please local brewers!

Agreed. The brewer I spoke with was very congenial. I'm sure they would want to know that this happened. My bottle of the gose is much darker than the saison, at least as viewed through the bottle glass. I'm hoping the generic labels and the paper tags are temporary until they get their feet under t...

Has anyone been by to see what hop this batch of Monogamy highlights?

It isn't a name I would have chosen, but then again, I can't think of a local brewery name that i really like. Is there a worse name than Indie Alehouse?

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