The Bar Towel

Tulsa Twister is a Prairie collab. Nice!

Did an other half/veil/grimm IPA tasting with some friends south over the border. Veil has invaded my US top 5, at least for hoppy beers.

Belgian wrote:Dupont Avec Les Bons Voueux, such a nice brew in the 375ml format. Great house yeast character with so much nice added 'oomph'. A stocker-upper.

Good call. just grabbed a couple.

Once you've had some of the better IPA being produced elsewhere Ransack kind of loses its luster. I like it when I can find it fresh (luckily almost never a problem as of late) but I'll usually pass it up over whichever Great Lakes Seasonal IPA is in the LCBO at the time.

Whoa, nice price on that Kriek!

No BCBS (and to be fair I really wasn't looking very hard) but over the weekend in Buffalo I was well taken care of: Otter Creek Free Flow Singlecut Mo'Shuggie Funky Buddha Nikolai Vorluff Grimm Tesseract Grimm Magnetic Compass Grimm Super Spruce Grimm Sumi Ink Amsterdam Double Tempest Westy 12 from...

There's some info on FB about the Goose Island/WNY relationship. Allegedly your final sentence could be more accurate than you realize.

You mean Mike Zigomanis and Luca Caputi haven't resulted in a windfall for Frank on dollarama-quality energy drinks? Say it ain't so!

Finally got my hands on some of The Juice. A bit thin but that's my only somewhat minor qualm about this one. Big flavour in the vein of what's happening in the North-Eastern United States.

Some new ticks via an LCBO gift card with some balance on it:

Sleeping Giant Northern Logger
Sleeping Giant 360 Pale Ale
Amsterdam Autumn Hop
New Limburg Belgian Blonde

Earlier at Folly/Burdock:

Folly Canadian North
Folly ULLA
Burdock IPA
Halo Event HOrizon

I just use cooler area of my basement (AKA Crawlspace) that sees virtually no light. Which is probably to say I'm storing beer rather than cellaring them.

Two best posts in this thread: "It's your beer" and "i spend my money on what's good and what will be good."

Not much in the way of new ticks but talk about a quality winter release! Gonna be nice to have a few of these during ski season

A vertical of Fayston Barrel Aged Stouts with a friend visiting from Vermont. In order of best to very good: Coffee Fayston Rum Barrel Fayston Bourbon (Pappy) Barrel Fayston Regular Fayston I had coffee at #1 while he had Rum at #1. The Pappy was still very good but the other two were a couple steps...

We are extremely excited to announce the release of our first sour beer. 'In the Beginning' is a sour golden ale aged in stainless for many moons with our house mixed culture, then re-fermented in the bottle. $10/750ml bottle (limit 6 per person) available at the brewery starting this Friday. Damn ...

The Leelanau is 15 or so bucks at the brewery, so the 18 bucks is actually a bit of a discount. Still, if I'm paying 18 bucks for a 375 ml bottle of anything it had better have brewed at 403 Hill Rd.