The Bar Towel

atomeyes wrote:...glad you enjoy the sizzle. leaves the prime cuts of steak for a small group of us to eat.

There are so many of us who enjoy the prime cuts. "Shitty videos" are irrelevant. We all can choose which breweries to buy from, and which to ignore.

...It seems like every fifth new brewery has a familial designation in the name (Blood Brothers, Brothers, 4 Fathers, etc.). I mean, I have no plans to open a brewery but am thinking I should register a name just in case we start running out of allowable combinations! I'd hate to be left with 2 Ste...

it's not picking. it was a legit question. I'll repeat this, and this is the last time: I have no business or professional interest in the brewery. ...while they're proclaiming their lack of macroness, and i and most of my friends have no patience for this silliness.... The brewery's attractiveness...

i watched the video. just wondering what it was that you loved. and a serious question: do you work for the brewery? you also created this other post/thread before about the same brewery. ... you've taken an interest to this brewery. maybe it's in your home town? maybe you know the brewers? maybe y...

Brothers just posted this on Facebook! Love it.

"We turned crap beer into craft beer, substituting macro light lager for our brewing water when making a 6.5% American I.P.A. Check out the video!"

It was a good genre descriptor until it started including anyone independent. The problem is that it's almost completely legally unenforceable because it's so vague. From Canadian Beer News, 23/9/15 "At least 20% of shelf space in all grocery stores, LCBOs and Beer Stores will be dedicated to ...

BakaGaijin wrote:Craft breweries bought by conglomerates do not qualify as 'craft' as per grocery store craft beer allocation requirements.

Interesting. Is there a website where these requirements are published? Thanks.

...Imagine what would have happened if they'd decided that you could sell beer everywhere. The situation would be this: Craft brewers completely overwhelmed, large brewers with existing supply chains able to get on shelves everywhere and the domination that people assumed would happen with grocery ...

...Apologies if I get a little stroppy about it. It's a huge industry and societal change whose most frequent criticism is that it's not working perfectly a month in... No apologies needed. I think there was, for decades, a lot of pent-up anger at the "Nanny State" of Ontario, most recent...

... I'm going to ask you to go with me on this: Do you think that they would have been included during the first three months of the program? Do you think they would have been everywhere? Most places in Montreal you're lucky to get 50 and Boreale and Heineken. Here is a very timely article from The...

...I'm going to ask you to go with me on this: Do you think that they would have been included during the first three months of the program? Do you think they would have been everywhere? Most places in Montreal you're lucky to get 50 and Boreale and Heineken. The IGA you're talking about, I'm betti...

... To be in a number of grocery stores you need to be able to make like... 30,000 HL of beer annually? The good news is that small breweries now have the ability to expand into an expanding market... Last week I was in the IGA at the Alexis Nihon Plaza in Montreal. This is an ultra-modern grocery ...

...Can I hazard to guess that you tried the Muskoka Charlotte's Web? Cloying is not a term that I throw around lightly as I'm usually pretty forgiving of sweeter beers, but that one was over the top even for me. Your comment on cloying made me rethink. Maybe I tossed it out there too quickly. I was...

... I would consider their beers the closest approximations to true Belgians that I've seen from Ontario craft brewers. Too often I find that the interpretation of Belgian in this province is simply using a Belgian yeast strain while continuing to use North American hops... Thanks for your detailed...

Interesting business plan. Hope the concept of providing only 750ml bottles works for them. It seems to be working for Refined Fool in Sarnia, though they have virtually no competition in the area. When you have no competition in your local area, you have the luxury to experiment. Four Fathers has ...