The Bar Towel

I would assume adding cocoa and cranberries would add significantly to the price of making a beer. Not to mention it's apparently a double, so I don't think the price is out of line for 750 mL, but it is about twice the price a 750 mL of a Unibroue beer.

I had the same problem with Black Currant Rye last year. The worst part was I went to one of the brewery seasonal release parties, tried a sample of Black Currant on tap and really liked it. So I bought a few bottles. But when I opened the first one, at most a week later, the beer from the bottle t...

I opened a bottle of this year's Black Currant Rye Lager. Smelled sour, the taste reminded me of the infected Corporal Punishment I had last summer. I couldn't have more than a few drinks and put it aside. The bottle and the glass I poured most of it into still have a bit of head about 5h later. Tha...

Welcome to the forum. Nice to see another Londoner on board. Lots of Scotch Irish at my LCBO store, and I buy it often and it is always good. That's good hear, I really WANT them to be really good. It's my favourite ON brewery, probably because Sgt. Major was the first ON craft brew that I really l...

Glad to hear this is good so far, I have avoided picking it up because every bottle I saw on the LCBO shelves had obvious sediment on the bottom. Strangely this didn't stop me buying the Black Irish a couple weeks ago. I've read threads on here before about SI/Heritage having contamination problems ...