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- Fri Jan 05, 2024 10:14 am
- Forum: Breweries, Tied Houses & Taprooms
- Topic: Breweries closing and/or restructuring and/or bought out
- Replies: 82
- Views: 14475
Re: Breweries closing and/or restructuring and/or bought out
Apparently Mash Paddle in Brantford is closed, but will be re-opening under new ownership, new name, new everything? Anyone know any details? No, but I did see a picture of the new branding/name. Not a great thing to judge a book by its cover, but………. Yeaaah, big oof on that name and branding. Does...
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 1:53 pm
- Forum: Breweries, Tied Houses & Taprooms
- Topic: Breweries closing and/or restructuring and/or bought out
- Replies: 82
- Views: 14475
Re: Breweries closing and/or restructuring and/or bought out
Apparently Mash Paddle in Brantford is closed, but will be re-opening under new ownership, new name, new everything? Anyone know any details?
- Wed Dec 20, 2023 12:57 pm
- Forum: General Beer Discussion & Random Talk
- Topic: What's Your Favourite Ontario West Coast IPA?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 6981
Re: What's Your Favourite Ontario West Coast IPA?
I haven't seen this out in the wild near me, but my wife stumbled on it at a 'bo near her parents and grabbed a couple. She has a mostly helpful habit of grabbing new stuff to try without knowing what she is getting into. It works until she bumps her head on some lactose crap or other unfortunate b...
- Tue Dec 19, 2023 9:24 am
- Forum: LCBO, Beer Stores, Grocery & Indie Stores
- Topic: Winter Release ???
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3583
Re: Winter Release ???
Last round we got the 'Special edition - partially decaffeinated' Peche, is this batch the same?
I did not love the previous batch as much as I usually love Peche
I did not love the previous batch as much as I usually love Peche
- Mon Dec 11, 2023 12:36 am
- Forum: General Beer Discussion & Random Talk
- Topic: What's Your Favourite Ontario West Coast IPA?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 6981
Re: What's Your Favourite Ontario West Coast IPA?
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- Tue Dec 05, 2023 5:20 pm
- Forum: Breweries, Tied Houses & Taprooms
- Topic: Breweries closing and/or restructuring and/or bought out
- Replies: 82
- Views: 14475
Re: Breweries closing and/or restructuring and/or bought out
Shit, this sucks
- Thu Nov 30, 2023 3:56 pm
- Forum: Breweries, Tied Houses & Taprooms
- Topic: Breweries closing and/or restructuring and/or bought out
- Replies: 82
- Views: 14475
Re: Breweries closing and/or restructuring and/or bought out
2 more down. I don't think I've actually heard of either of them before this
Laylow:
Katalyst:
Laylow:
Katalyst:
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 5:17 pm
- Forum: Beer Events & Festivals
- Topic: Goose Island Black Friday & Bourbon County Stout
- Replies: 92
- Views: 29950
Re: Goose Island Black Friday & Bourbon County Stout
Ugh, yeah. Some of those 'Bastard' series were SO good.MatttthewGeorge wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2023 3:46 pm ...On the flip side, unfortunately Nicklebrook, who may have arguably had the best bourbon RIS ever at one point, has totally fallen by the wayside in this category.
- Thu Oct 19, 2023 9:19 am
- Forum: Breweries, Tied Houses & Taprooms
- Topic: Revel Cider
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1540
Re: Revel Cider
Surprising news. They JUST finished construction on the new bar and everything too. I've been meaning to go check it out but I'm not in Guelph much any more.
- Wed Sep 13, 2023 4:50 pm
- Forum: General Beer Discussion & Random Talk
- Topic: Best Ontario pilsners
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2921
Re: Best Ontario pilsners
Fairweather Donna, but I've found it varies batch to batch anywhere from 'pretty good' to 'world class'
- Tue Aug 08, 2023 9:29 pm
- Forum: Breweries, Tied Houses & Taprooms
- Topic: Innocente Brewing
- Replies: 42
- Views: 26074
Re: Innocente Brewing
None of you are wrong. He was super nice to me as well. The sanitizer production during early covid was awesome. He also posted some absolute trash over the following couple years which has made me pretty uninterested in ever visiting again.
- Wed Jul 12, 2023 2:54 pm
- Forum: Outside of Ontario Beer Travel, Local Beer/Brewery Guides and Talk
- Topic: Anchor Brewing Ceases Operations
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3295
Re: Anchor
Man, 127 year run. They were one that seemed invincible.
- Wed Jun 07, 2023 9:19 am
- Forum: Breweries, Tied Houses & Taprooms
- Topic: Barncat Artisan Ales, Cambridge
- Replies: 290
- Views: 159956
- Thu May 18, 2023 11:26 pm
- Forum: Breweries, Tied Houses & Taprooms
- Topic: True History Brewing
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5487
Re: True History Brewing
For anyone else who doesn't want to google, this is in Toronto
- Thu May 18, 2023 12:38 pm
- Forum: General Beer Discussion & Random Talk
- Topic: Recruiting back to the Bar Towel
- Replies: 54
- Views: 16116
Re: Recruiting back to the Bar Towel
I've added a new feature to the forum - user mentions. So by going @ and then typing a username (list should appear) - such as @Cass it *should* create a notification for the person. FYI you can enable email notifications to yourself when this happens in the User Control Panel > Board Preferences >...