The Bar Towel

Ahhhh, bummer. Thin Man will be awesome, Colter Bay will be interesting. The Blue Monk was a great venue and will be missed, but Shatzel can't be stopped!

matt7215 wrote:So this week we finally finished our brewery set up and we are now fully operational

we picked up our hops today and our first pitch of yeast is getting delivered tomorrow

brewing the first batch on Sunday!

GET IN MY BELLY!!!

(Great news and congratulations!)

I enjoyed a thoroughly tasty weekend thanks to fellow member Boney! Friday was an outstanding can of Hopslam, which I forgot was 10% and had me wondering why I was feeling so sleepy when I finished... Saturday was another bright DIPA called Rico Sauvin from Against the Grain, love those hops! Cheer...

Yeah. I can see all those reasons.....regularity, novelty, and beer characteristics. As for the spiced impy rum barrel of Skeleton Key, I can totally see the spice turning some off. I didn't mind it at all last year and I like Rum barrel aged beers, so I was excited for this release. I totally get h...

walz22 wrote:Any idea on the price per bottle?

After tax, a tad under $10 for a 750.

While TO certainly has an embarrassment of craft beer riches compared to 5 years ago, agree, there's nothing with the same mix of great beer, location and atmosphere that Bellwoods has. When Rotate This moves into Ossington, that's going to be one expressive street (not commenting on cost, but how ...

Nickel Brook's Lab Series 2, Brett Farmhouse is out at the brewery now.

While TO certainly has an embarrassment of craft beer riches compared to 5 years ago, agree, there's nothing with the same mix of great beer, location and atmosphere that Bellwoods has. When Rotate This moves into Ossington, that's going to be one expressive street (not commenting on cost, but how m...

OK, well yes, I do indeed inderstand the context of the discussion. Perhaps I wasn't clear enough in my comments. Let me clarify. I really enjoy having good discussions about beer. That's why I'm social at the pub and post things on various beer forums. What I don't understand is why some people get...

^^^ Agree with all of your benefits/detriments in principle, but I would still say opinions are just opinions. There can be well informed, insightful opinions or baseless opinions said simply to get a rise. I think most reasonable people can sort them out pretty easily. Most things that do get debat...

Yeeesh. OK. Super pricey.

So Portwood went to a brewery he doesnt care for to spend too much money on beer he knew going in he would find overpriced? Bingo. Reminds me of the two "winners" on untappd who continue to drink Bellwoods beers and crap all over them for having some of that "Bellwoods character"...

Made it out last weekend and was really impressed. Between my wife and I, we sampled all 7 of their offerings on tap. All were good to very good examples of their sytles. They also had a cask IPA that, frankly, was better than any of the cask IPA's I've had at cask days. Importantly, nothing I've tr...

"We need more lagers brewed in Ontario". - Said no one, ever. I wish these guys luck. "We need more GOOD lagers brewed in Ontario" - boney, February 7, 2015. :) you still writing 2015 on your cheques? :) Ahhhh, damn it.......yes. Can't take credit for the "SHED" monike...

"We need more lagers brewed in Ontario". - Said no one, ever. I wish these guys luck. "We need more GOOD lagers brewed in Ontario" - boney, February 7, 2015. :) What are there, like almost 20 different styles of largers, almost all of them now underrepresented in Ontario and pre...