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Once-private collection of rare ultra-aged luxury Scotch whiskies arrives in Canada "...the Gordon family decided the timing was right to bottle and release some of these rare Scotch whiskies. Kirsten Grant Meikle, a fifth-generation family member, says they sampled hundreds of whiskies from t...

Cass wrote: ↑Wed Jun 07, 2023 7:11 pm Will probably post some pics mid-drinking

Just try to make sure we don't have to turn our head sideways to look at them.

A'hem. Thinking of you Gary Gillman.

Cass wrote: ↑Tue Apr 25, 2023 8:14 am Hopefully the Kensington location becomes something again, nice to have a brewery to visit down there.

And it seems it will be so.

Kensington Brewing Company Reopening Toronto Location Next Month

Cass wrote: ↑Wed May 24, 2023 8:25 am Bookmarking is old school

For me, it's saving it as a favourite. Problem is, I don't know if that makes me more old school than you, or less.

Good initiative Cass. It has already rekindled some interest from past friends of this forum.

More thanks to y'all. Interesting that the Fat Tug description on the Driftwood web site does not mention pine: Brewed with the hop aficionado in mind, Fat Tug is a Northwest-style India Pale Ale with an intense hop profile featuring notes of grapefruit, mango, melon and passionfruit. Sufficient ma...

anthony9 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2023 3:29 pm Looks like they will be opening a location in Liberty Village. Via their instagram.

I saw it via Canadian Beer News. I don't do social media.

Saw this today.

Brewhopping Across London

seangm wrote: ↑Mon Oct 24, 2022 12:42 pm ... Side Launch definitely needs to revisit its branding ...

And they have.

https://www.canadianbeernews.com/2023/0 ... -branding/

Did they give you an honorarium for your suggestion?

St Ambroise Pale Ale (with the gold label) was one of my first beer loves that helped get me away from macros as it had a unique taste - nothing at all like the pale ales we have today. It used to a regular for me until maybe 2010 or so when I guess I got bored with it. Would love to try it again b...

Bench Brewing Purchases Niagara Cider Company

I had their Ball's Falls Session IPA at the Grimsby Peach King Jr. C hockey game last night; it was great.

2006 - seems like ancient history: https://www.bartowel.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=18110 "5) Mail your completed forms to:" :D Feels like we were all way more excited about the possibility of beery things back then....spoiled by what we have locally. For sure, it's a whole different world ...

The Int'l Tripel Day was actually started by a local guy, @craftbeerdays (I follow him on Instagram). To his credit he's got a lot of breweries participating this year and releasing tripels specfically for the occasion. It's probably easiest just to link the website, he's got a pretty exhaustive li...