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Hmmm. My only guess is that they decided to centralize the manufacture/filling of those odd 650 mL cans in one location, and Vietnam wound up being the choice. Shrug. I have to imagine (because I do not travel) that a lot more of those big cans get sold in the Asia-Pacific region vs. North America. ...

I've asked Beyond the Pale about their lack of dates on their cans when i was at their brewery and they stated it would cost too much for them to do it. But then again, since they've expanded, they seem to be coasting on their reputation in the Ottawa area. The service at their new location is atro...

This bugged me when I tried several of their beers (including Aromatherapy and Pale ale project) a while back. This was in January (and I had purchased them in London in December), so if your cans were from the same runs then they must've been at least 8 months old minimum. Yuck. Based on your comme...

Don't disagree with that. I'm not supporting Doug Ford as the optimal outcome for Ontario. I'm just saying I think there is little chance that he intends to privatize the LCBO. On balance, I think he may turn out to be more open to a loosening of some of the dumber rules surrounding beer that all o...

I obviously misinterpreted "dismantling profitable public corporations". This is a beer-related board so you might see how I could infer that you were talking about the LCBO. Simple me. No doubt you were having much deeper thoughts. You asked me to cite evidence of something I didn't asse...

You're right guys, I'm sorry for suggesting that the Doug Ford-led PCs may do something stupid for short-term gain. How silly of me.

midlife crisis wrote:Cite the evidence that "privatize the LCBO" was part of the new government's platform. I'm sure you will find it was not.

Perhaps I would, if that had been a thing that I had actually said and not merely a strawman of your own construction.

Conservatives love dismantling profitable public corporations and then selling off the parts. They would much rather see that cash cow being milked by their friends and cronies in the private sector. hmmm. 91 years since a Conservative government started the LCBO and 11 Conservative Premiers before...

My guess is Doug does nothing once he sees how big of cash cow it really is.... Couldn't disagree more. Conservatives love dismantling profitable public corporations and then selling off the parts. They would much rather see that cash cow being milked by their friends and cronies in the private sec...

I'm pretty sure Duplicitous existed well before they put out that mystery pack. I guess it's possible that they just slapped a mystery label onto an existing product (in order to see if it was worth pursuing a wider release), but I don't know why they'd choose to be secretive about it. Same with the...

I don't like to see small businesses close but I'm also not exactly surprised. Even after the ownership change they seemed to keep doing the same things they had always been doing. They made an oatmeal (coffee?) stout that was solid, and their dark ale was fine I guess. Nothing else really comes to ...

That said, buck-a-beer disappeared a decade ago, and even with this supposed removal of a minimum selling price, who's to say the swill could even be sold for $24/case nowadays? The price of everything has gone up in that decade, and even back then it was a low margin model that brewers probably do...

Stay tuned for the next episode of Deep Thoughts with Doug Ford

Wow! Gotta love this. http://www.canadianbeernews.com/2018/05/30/central-city-brewers-moving-from-355-ml-to-500-ml-cans-with-no-price-increase/ Didn't this happen here, like a year or two ago? Our memories may be off but I think you're right. When Red Racer IPA first showed up as a regular listing ...

An extra 50-60 cents per tallboy isn't going to cause the Beau's demographic to flinch. They are already acclimated to the mark-up. It'll sell at least as well as any of their other stuff, if not better. FWIW, I had a couple cans of Full TIme last week. I agree with pretty much everything that has b...