The Bar Towel

....Ontario needs to shut down that monopoly.... I think we're getting closer. (I didn't say close.) It's certainly part of the broader conversation, now. You may not be able to make people care about good beer, but you can make them care about monopolies and shady political donations. And foreigne...

So, if I'm following, there are beers sold in deps that aren't brewed in Quebec. But they are imported by companies which brew in Quebec. Nice loophole.

From the Toronto Star: To raise money and cut costs Ontario will sell the downtown Toronto LCBO warehouse and privatize more Service Ontario operations, Finance Minister Dwight Duncan said Monday. The government — which is preparing for the release of Wednesday’s Drummond report on cost-cutting — wi...

"only companies that make beer in Quebec can sell through convenience stores where most Quebeckers buy beer" This can't be right. it is correct, i personally dont think that the Quebec retail system is better then what we have here the Quebec brewing scene and the way the brewers are repr...

"only companies that make beer in Quebec can sell through convenience stores where most Quebeckers buy beer"

This can't be right.

More great news. This has gotta be good. Can't wait!

kafercrazy wrote:Double Hop Head is delicious.

I'm gonna go buy more.

Yeah, and this definitely is not old stock.

Yeah.

I could drink that stuff for the rest of my life.

(Or are we not doing the Sloan thing any more?)

I got smart and married a math teacher. (I hate math).

Streets wrote:Thanks NR Man, that sounds interesting! I should have a better copy on my server tonight if anyone wants to watch it outside fof youtube.

(English Major here too, but I think ten years of email has ruined me.)

Fifteen years of teaching it has made me homicidal!

kafercrazy wrote:8 Double Hop Head come to Peterborough ... seriously?

they were gone in a couple hours.

Thanks.

Thanks for the heads up. I was going to stop in tomorrow.

TheSevenDuffs wrote:

Streets wrote:

matt7215 wrote: i was very underwhelmed by spearhead

If that's a word...

No it's not. I looked it up.

Is that one of the skills you learned in your school?

From today's Toronto Star: The LCBO has fired one of its employees for an alleged scam involving more than a million dollars in fake liquor sales to fictitious diplomats. In addition to firing the man they believe is responsible for the fraud, the LCBO has “significantly changed its practices relate...

skaghevn wrote:

SteelbackGuy wrote:I wonder how beers like Stella or even Blue survive for that matter.

Excellent marketing. Good marketing might allow a beer to experience a temporary upsurge in sales (ie: Black Label); excellent marketing keeps the sales pumping.

And price. For the macros, anyhow.

Kel Varnsen wrote:Anyone have any idea of the optimum aging lenght for the 2011 Vintage Ale....

If it helps, I just had a bottle of 2006, and it was friggin' brilliant. I also had the 2004 and 2005 a year or two beyond their dates, and the 2004 was excellent, and the 2005 was just okay.