The Bar Towel

This just in from today's Sunday Mirror. The figure of 200 million more "pints" being sold to customers each year than are bought from breweries is insane! NEW GLASS MARKS TO END PINT RIP-OFF Apr 18 2004 By Stephen Hayward GREEDY pub landlords are under pressure to bring in bigger beer gla...

Thanks for the Fuller's tip, JerCraigs. Will have to check out the Dark Horse. Does anyone know if there's anywhere else in TO, besides Dora's/Allen's, where Fuller's is served on tap? I'd heard they were making inroads into Ontario not long ago, but they don't seem to have penetrated the market ver...

A question: Why is it that so much British bottled beer is sold (even in Britain) in 500 ml bottles? Wells is the only brewery I can think of offhand that bottles at 568. Sam Smith's, for some weird reason, is 550. Youngs, Adnams, Black Sheep, Fullers, etc. all at 500.

Cheers to the Pist for fighting the good fight. Of course, if the government were to introduce that standard, surely bars would just charge more for the bigger (i.e. real) pints. I don't see the consumer winning here in the short term, but at least we'd know what we were getting when we ordered a pi...

God love the Duke of Gloucester, and let's hope they never renovate and become one of the soulless Duke chain pubs. Sure the beer selection's unimaginative, and they probably haven't changed the jukebox selections since they opened either, but it's one of Toronto's few "character" establis...

dhurtubise wrote: "Governator:Not the same kind of beer at all. Sounds like a typical hoppy american IPA." No doubt. As far as Flemish sour ales go, it would be nice to see Liefmans Goudenband back at the LCBO -- been a few years, hasn't it? Any chance of a return visit, or is it too extre...

Forget Rodenbach -- how can we get a hold of ... The Governator?

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