The Bar Towel

Likely just got a new shipment today. Way more Deschutes and Rochefort on the shelves than the 1 and 0 that the inventory says.

Amsterdam's Tempest IS is showing stock all over the place. Along with the Deschutes and a new shipment of Rochefort 8 (at $2.55), King and Spadina is somehow at the fore of bringing in new beers right now.

King & Spadian was fully stocked with Deschutes just now.

The fact that you can buy t-shirts and framable prints of Bellwoods' labels (and people are buying them) shows that they're also missing out on potential revenue (and brand expansion).

Good timing! May be going to Germany in the spring for work, and realised that I hadn't been to Berlin since I was a teenager (and the idea of an Aussie-themed bar with big mugs of Fosters was what excited me...)

I know several people to are interested in beer and enjoy trying new beer, but not to the point where they are hanging off the drinkvine new release section to make sure they aren't missing anything, and to these people Beau's is often listed as one of their favourite breweries. Or, more so, not re...

The Lost Coast and Sawdust City Long Dark Voyage... are on the shelf at King and Spadina. Looks like it's just the Deshutes that is still missing from this release.

(The $4.80 for 650ml of the Lost Coast 8 Ball seems like one of the best deals at the 'BO lately.)

La Vache Folle, LTM Baltic Porter and the Xbeeriment were on the shelf at King/Spadina at lunch today. The Xbeeriment label says 10.4% but the LCBO slap on is only 8.4% biggest discrepancy I've ever seen.

I quite liked the Red on Red that I picked up last week.

Unsurprising to anyone who's been by in the past year+, but Smokeless Joe on College is closing: http://www.thegridto.com/blog-post/closing-time-smokeless-joe-up-in-smoke-again/ I remember being pretty psyched when it opened a couple of years ago, as it filled a bit of a College-west-of-Bathurst was...

Last summer, we stayed between Spuyten and Barcade. Would you recommend the place? How did you find it for getting in and out of Manhattan (assuming you went)? It was an AirBnB place before the City started making news about potentially cracking down on such rentals (not sure where they're at with ...

from your linked-to post in the What're You Drinking thread: Anyone else find Spuyten to be a ridiculously obnoxious, expensive, and overrated hipster den from hell? By contrast the Barcade folks were much more down to earth and the tap list was very diverse. Had a delicious sour stout, a pale smoke...

It's not *actually* visiting Vancouver, but does anyone have any specific local recommendations on what I should ask my Vancouver-based beer trading partner for?

The Dieu du Ciel feature a few years ago was all single 341ml bottles.

they've rebranded and the bottles for the Hop Nouveau actually look sort of attractive and much more in keeping with a new generation of craft beers at least it's got that :wink: (and it doesn't look like a kid's grade 5 clipart computer project from 1996 like their Maple Leaf Lager) http://farm6.st...