The Bar Towel

the.brewer wrote:Where are the ON brewers apart from Sleeman, Labatt and Molson?
Respectfully,
Michael Hancock

Cool Beer will be there.

Actually, it does look like an impressive list. Too bad I'm pinching pennies. Yeah, like I don't have any plans for those.

I just checked a couple of high alc. beers on the LCBO website. Aventinus is $2.75 (on sale for $2.55 until later this month), and I'm pretty sure that's the same price as before. Maudite and La Fin Du Monde are $5.50 and $5.75 respectively for 750 mL bottles - I thought they were the same price, s...

So I have come across a few things that have peaked my interest: - Moxie's Bar at Square One in Mississauga carries Moxie's Amber and Moxie's Blonde. A post on ratebeer yielded no responses, found one review at http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/rate_results/415/15562/ for Big Life Blonde and Big Lif...

Well, I should have known, the LCBO lab is holding up the Cantillons deeming them "unfit for sale" because the "volatile acidity" exceeds the standard....no doubt Molson Canadian sets the standard! We'll be appealing this ruling based upon the fact that Cantillon is such a uniqu...

The Financial Post ran a pair of editorials by Terence Corcoran and David Menzies today (April 27) on this subject. The focus of both is a report that has been submitted by the Brewers of Canada to the provincial government slamming the financial performance of the LCBO. While I am just as reluctan...

This is really scary: http://www.ourlcbo.com/beer_store.htm Funny stuff, though. I especially like the bit about "Belgium and Brazil", glossing over the fact that there's a difference between being owned by Belgians and owning some Brazilians. But regardless, I agree that a takeover of th...

Anyone know the status of: Sudds Brewery (Chippewa) CEEPS (London) Moose's Loose (North Bay - I think Joe said they were never a brewery) Grattan's Brewery (Scarborough???) Port Arthur Brasserie (Thunder Bay) Charley's Tavern (Windsor) The above are all listed in the latest Great Lakes Brewing News...

The 2006 World Cup may have a distinctly American flavour if FIFA's beer contract remains in place. Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc. has a deal with FIFA, world soccer's governing body, that gives the American company exclusive rights to sell beer in and around World Cup stadiums in Germany. Anheuser-Busch...

According to Yahoo! news, its a done deal. As of today, Sleeman now controls the assets and brands of Unibroue. The deal is for $36.5 million, all cash, and Sleeman assumes Unibroue's debt of $5.5 million. The majority shareholders, Dion, Charlebois et al, control 71.5% of Unibroue's stock and the ...

Note to taxpayers: This type of pork-barreling doesn't exist when alcohol distribution is privatized. I don't mean halfway, we're selling the LCBO so only a large corporation can control distribution privatized, either. I mean anyone who wants to open a beer store can if they want to privatized. Do ...

On 2004-04-07 12:57, esprit wrote: The first shipment should be arriving this/next week. The Vigneronne shipment has not left Belgium, primarily because the LCBO took so long to ship the first order. That order sat in Antwerp for several weeks waiting to be consolidated into a container. The brewer...

Sounds like this dude's all about the science of brewing, sure, but his resume isn't that impressive. As for the art of brewing, show me a guy who's trained under Dany Prignon, Jean-Louis Dits, maybe the monks of Weltenberg, or if he's making lager perhaps Starobrno, or a village brewer in Franconia...

http://www.ratebeer.com/Events-Detail.asp?EventID=808

More info as I get it.

On the Beer Store's website

"Perhaps the best selection of beer in the world."

I would actually have to disagree with Nick about the WHoPG. Most of the English selections are ho-hum, while the imports are almost all commonly available in the US. It's not a bad spot, but for the experienced North American beer hunter it's a lot of the same old stuff. You really are wasting your...