The Bar Towel

RE: Coronavirus, the LCBO, and supporting our local brewers. Since the COVID shutdown started, my beer shopping at traditional outlets has nosedived. I now rely almost exclusively on brewery retail stores and online delivery for craft beer. Granted, before COVID, I was already purchasing about 85-90...

Belgian obviously knows what he meant better, but I didn't read it that way at all. I wouldn't call it dismissal, but rather Ontario's beer scene has become so good it's negated the need to drive down to the US to get excellent beer. Which if you think about it isn't preferable to getting great bee...

Let us hope the best survive, there's some really good talent and hard work going into Ontario brewing such that the quality & range of brews we have didn't even exist 10-15 years ago. Definitely agree with this. We have done an excellent job of catching up (more or less) to the great beer nati...

Lockdown drinking continued: Left Field Glorioso Italian Pilsner Left Field Queen of Baseball IPA Indie Alehouse & Bar Volo Bay Street Bitter Bellwoods Universe IPA Bellwoods Grandma's Boy 2020 - Vanier Plums Indie Alehouse Hammer of the Dawn - Belgian Tripel Birroteca Bionda Italian Pilsner And...

Over the last little while at home, doing my best to social distance: Indie Alehouse Eataly Saison Junction Craft Huckleberry Sour Indie Alehouse Holy Hand Grenade Bellwoods A Stout With Coffee - Sam James Espresso In Bloom Indie Alehouse Pepin The Short Patersbier Molson Stock Ale Indie Alehouse Do...

A fantastic resource. Thank you Cass.

Also glad to see the province doing the right thing for bars and restaurants. Anything that can help ease the financial losses they are experiencing is a good thing in my books.

Do you have review notes on Beerlab! In general, facility and products? I’ve never been while in London. Usually just go to Storm Stayed, Forked River or Milos. Should I visit Beerlab!?? This is my review from BA: 4.4 / 5 London's best and most innovative craft brewery, specializing in hoppy pale a...

Over the weekend in London: At Milos' Craft Beer Emporium: Muddy York The Olli Heirloom Lager (draft) Godspeed Tmavý Ležák 12 (draft) Matron Fine Beer Janky IPA (draft) Godspeed Kazoku - Saison w/ Plums (draft) Bellwoods Jelly King - Kiwi & Passionfruit (sample) At Beerlab!: Beerlab! Loom - Farm...

Lol, I love that you go on a big vacation to Florida and hit up everything that they have to offer, then come home and are just like "Yeah, that was a lot. Let's have a BCBS." :D Lol! What can I say. It was likely our last vacation for a very long time, so I had to end things with a bang....

At Proof Brewing Company in Tallahassee, Florida: Proof La La Land (draft) Proof Ghost Totem Porter (draft) Proof Lager (flight sample) Proof Featherweight IPA (flight sample) Proof Pomegranate Passion Fruit Evil Kiss (flight sample) Proof EightFive-0 Pale Ale (flight sample) At Fermentation Lounge:...

Over the weekend at WVRST Union Station and C'est What?: Pilsner Urquell (draft) Clifford Dark Streets of London ESB (draft) Left Field Greenwood IPA (draft) Big Rig Alpha Bomb w/ Green Tea, Coconut & Citra (cask) Indie Alehouse Shadow Chaser IPA (draft) Over the week at home: De Dolle Oerbier S...

Any Bar Towelers been out this way recently? Will be here for three days in early March (Thursday to Saturday). Looking for recommendations on must-visit beer destinations - beer bars, breweries, and beer-focused restaurants - in the city proper. Plan is to arrive around noon on the Thursday and lea...

Craig wrote:How was the Old Man Lackey?

Very good rep of the style, I thought. Full review here. Cheers!

Over the week at home:
St. Feuillien Brune
Rainhard Pure. West. West Coast IPA
Unibroue La Résolution
Sawdust City Lone Pine IPA
Great Lakes Olde Man Lackey Olde Ale
Bellwoods An Imperial Stout With Coffee
Brasserie Dubuisson Scaldis Amber

At Bellwoods Brewery Hafis Road:
Bellwoods Triverse IPA (draft)
Bellwoods Barn Owl No. 19 (bottle sample)

Over the week at home:
Great Lakes Absacker Helles Lager
Junction Craft Sea Berry Sour
Great Lakes Dmitrij Fong Red IPA
Rainhard Armed 'N Sabro
Great Lakes RoboHop New England Imperial IPA