The Bar Towel

What are BarTowellers up to? Is there gonna be a pow-wow for BarTowellers?

I'm just happy we could fit a Seinfeld quote in...

It's the age old question... To swirl, or not to swirl. I'm all for the swirl. "Now, he does 'the pinch'...personally, I think it's a little presumptious. I prefer 'the swirl.'" "Is it a clockwise swirl?" "I prefer clockwise, but it's not written in stone" *There's &qu...

I'm not really upset to hear of this at all... I'd much rather see Lakeport gain some market share rather than Molson or Labatts. I personally (someone who drinks neither) can't see much difference in product quality, taste, or brewer's integrity. Actually, the only difference seems to be the shamel...

The Beer Store stopped selling it awhile back.
I know you can still get it (or at least similar products) in the U.S. though

...political advantage of the Macro Mob? I'd say the Ineffectual Crown-Corp theory makes more sense than some neat-and-tidy Conspiracy. Belgian, you nailed it. I agree in entirety with your post. We are certainly in agreement, are we not? Your "Ineffectual Crown-Corp theory" was the same ...

Just surfing around and picked this off Volo website: In their Food & Wine section, Toronto Life magazine has released a list of Toronto's best beer spots. It's well worth a look. http://www.torontolife.com/cityguide/listing.cfm?listing_id=11387 Also, anyone been to Allen's? Is it any good? A co...

As a side note... Our "Beer Store" braggs of 350 beers of which only 2 stouts, 1 porter, 2 bocks (if you consider Faxe Festbock as one, the only other being Niagara Eisbock at *select few* locations), 0 barleywine, 0 scotch/wee heavy, 0 gueuze/lambics, and only a couple Unibroue products t...

[I don't know what more we can do. To use the Dogfish Head Chicory Stout as an example, there isn't Toronto downtown store that has any left but there are 80 in Brampton. WTF good are they there? ---> same with the one store that had Rodenbach sitting around??!?!?!? I won't even try to understand t...

For the record...

the manager at Spadina Beer Store told me they ARE sold out of Terrible and NO LONGER carry it. That's what I was told. Now I'm telling you guys.

While I'd love to churp in my two cents to this discussion I think that you've all done a good enough job assessing the situation. We BarTowellers all share a similar view (or should I say discontent!!!) with the LCBO. Without restating what you've all just written, sufficient to say I agree, I empa...

I will be stocking up on the best of what I can find. I'll let you in a couple weeks time what I could come up with.

I just had a friend bring me back some La Frigante and Moinette Blond from the SAQ . Ill be in Montreal a couple weeks from now and stocking back up on a whole slew of stuff for trade if anyone is interested. The SAQ selection is weak (with a few exceptions) but I'll see what else I can find around ...

The Asam-Bock is, in my taste, an incredible beer. I am very excited to be able to revisit it. And while I am also very excited about trying the DFH and Liefman's, I can't help but be quite disappointed with the other selections. Whatever reasons this list of beers was chosen over others aside, thes...

I have gone to Cest What a good number of times and without exception have each and every time had a positive experience. Very, very friendly and helpful service especially. An excellent rotating tap collection (never had a problem finding a new beer to try) and I liked their food too! We frequently...