The Bar Towel

^^^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...

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...

^^Nutcracker, Tempest agreed. If you include King and Creemore, then you can include Beau's too.

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...

^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...

^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...

I know there was a discussion about this somewhere, but I couldn't find it, so...

Red Racer WITH bb date stamped on the bottom is back (in Aurora).

^^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...

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...

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...

^I don't know if I can find the inner strength to wait another 8 years!

Last night:

St. Ambroise Oatmeal Stout while preparing dinner,
then during the Leaf's game
a 2008 and 2013 Fuller's Vintage ale side-by-side; the 2008 won for aroma and flavour hands down

^WARNING: Check the beer reviews section before trying this!!!

^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...

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 ...