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- Wed Jan 15, 2014 7:04 pm
- Forum: General Beer Discussion & Random Talk
- Topic: Beau's Exporting to NY
- Replies: 77
- Views: 16624
^^^Midlife, though my post followed yours, i wasn't specifically crapping on your list. I also had denison's and hellwoods on my list of four before i got stuck. One problem with the sixer is, do we fill it with a variety of styles just for the sake of style variety or do we fill it with the best si...
- Wed Jan 15, 2014 6:06 pm
- Forum: General Beer Discussion & Random Talk
- Topic: Beau's Exporting to NY
- Replies: 77
- Views: 16624
I though Matt's point was to try and put together a six pack of ONT craft that would impress our counterparts to the south, then realize how difficult that would be, especially if you can't include apa ipa iipa. What I'm seeing, and obviously everybody has their own tastes/opinions, are a few (possi...
- Wed Jan 15, 2014 12:02 pm
- Forum: General Beer Discussion & Random Talk
- Topic: Beau's Exporting to NY
- Replies: 77
- Views: 16624
- Wed Jan 15, 2014 10:49 am
- Forum: General Beer Discussion & Random Talk
- Topic: Beau's Exporting to NY
- Replies: 77
- Views: 16624
I think if you accept the premise that Ontarians are hyper critical of their beer, then you have to be mindful of the affect that has on RB and BA ratings when analysing rankings. IMO a beer like Lake Effect is so enjoyable an IPA I'd have to have a Sculpin or Alesmith side by side with it to say fo...
- Mon Jan 06, 2014 5:01 pm
- Forum: General Beer Discussion & Random Talk
- Topic: What're you drinking right now?
- Replies: 16950
- Views: 3112086
^I find it amazing how much TP improves with even as little as a year on it; I can only imagine 8 year old! I admit though that i'm not a big fan of unibroue yeastiness which I find very prominent in fresh TP, so aging makes a big difference for me, changing the beer from ok/not a favorite to delici...
- Tue Dec 31, 2013 12:50 pm
- Forum: Local and Imported Beer Reviews
- Topic: Founders Features
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6458
^I agree. When additional ingredients like chocolate or coffee are added it doesn't make a fair comparison to grade a beer to one that stays within the basic four ingredients; so comparing the breakfast with peche and deciding which is better makes sense to me, but not comparing against regular temp...
- Tue Dec 31, 2013 7:51 am
- Forum: LCBO, Beer Stores, Grocery & Indie Stores
- Topic: New Arrivals at LCBO & TBS
- Replies: 5283
- Views: 1846367
- Mon Dec 30, 2013 12:25 pm
- Forum: Local and Imported Beer Reviews
- Topic: Founders Features
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6458
^^By impy I was refering to the breakfast which is its category on RB (though I now realize Founders has a plain impy too). The backwoods is the scotch I refered to. I've never tried the all day ipa but I agree some of our Ontarian ipas, like the ones you mentioned, are coming along nicely and are m...
- Sun Dec 29, 2013 5:36 pm
- Forum: Local and Imported Beer Reviews
- Topic: Founders Features
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6458
Great Lakes brews some excellent beers but many / most of those are seasonal or only available at the brewery or in select downtown TO pubs; for example, Harry Porter which i'd love to try and would be right there buying a sixer at the LCBO if i could...my point on Founders is that their robust port...
- Sun Dec 29, 2013 11:21 am
- Forum: Local and Imported Beer Reviews
- Topic: Founders Features
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6458
Loving the porter, wishing it could be a permanent listing or that an Ontario brewer could take up the challenge and brew something similar or, god forbid, better--if that's possible in Ontario..(?) The Backwoods is the pleasant surprise of the release for me, as the thought of scotch ale didn't rea...
- Sat Dec 28, 2013 2:10 pm
- Forum: General Beer Discussion & Random Talk
- Topic: Belgian Quad Blind Tasting Results
- Replies: 45
- Views: 13159
- Sat Dec 28, 2013 8:29 am
- Forum: General Beer Discussion & Random Talk
- Topic: What're you drinking right now?
- Replies: 16950
- Views: 3112086
- Fri Dec 27, 2013 1:03 pm
- Forum: LCBO, Beer Stores, Grocery & Indie Stores
- Topic: New Arrivals at LCBO & TBS
- Replies: 5283
- Views: 1846367
- Fri Dec 27, 2013 1:00 pm
- Forum: General Beer Discussion & Random Talk
- Topic: Belgian Quad Blind Tasting Results
- Replies: 45
- Views: 13159
^Interesting, thanks. Checking some other bottles of Roch I now realize I was looking at the wrong numbers (there's two sets in the bb box). So the bb is actually 21 08 2018, which makes the beer 4 months old (which makes sense, as it was a recent purchase). Now I'll let my other Roch bottles wait u...
- Fri Dec 27, 2013 10:56 am
- Forum: General Beer Discussion & Random Talk
- Topic: Belgian Quad Blind Tasting Results
- Replies: 45
- Views: 13159
A few aging questions while we're on the topic--- I'm curious if you guys are basing your aging numbers on production dates or just how long you actually cellared a beer after purchase? My current Roch 10 has a bb of 08 04 16---would any of you know how old that make it already? I think Chimay does ...