The Bar Towel

Ale's What Cures Ya wrote:I've found another hobby that fills the craft beer void.

But you can't tell us what it is for fear of it becoming "trendy", right?

When I hear ownership, I immediately wonder about the numbers and the power of control.

Kel Varnsen wrote: not sure how much power 1 share will have.

guessing in the ~0% range.

Looks like no more word on this since it was talked about on Sunday/Monday. I have tweeted at Cole's, who said last night that there would be info this morning about the event.

There is talk of tickets, so it would be nice to know more than 3 days in advance so if I wanted to go, I could.

Sidebar: I will say that I do not rate Ontario (and most other) beers due to working in the industry. I just think if you work in the industry (making, selling, serving, retailing) it's not appropriate to do so. I've always wondered why you don't. Now I know, and I think that's a fair practice. It'...

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Mike Shatzel.

Any reason they aren't making it public like they did with BC? That's this coming Saturday, so are they just hoping to keep the hype down, or?

this list is pretty bleh. Moralite's the only beer i'd buy. Yeah, and it's likely not going to be the pinnacle of freshness, compared to getting it in QC. It's encouraging that St. Louis moved well enough they bothered to bring it back so soon. That might encourage them to try other beers of the st...

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TheSevenDuffs wrote: Christmas holidays always mean lots of beer and lots of sharing...

It has always been, far and away, my favourite time of year. Since I've become a craft enthusiast, it's only gotten better. Love to share awesome things with awesome people.

Rogue Voodoo Doughnut Pretzel Raspberry Chocolate LCBO#: 403147 | 750 mL bottle $10.95 < shakes head > Not something I'm rushing to get. I'll try it. It's got to be better than the Maple Bacon which was horrid. No, it doesn't. Just when you think the lowest level of suck has been attained, Rogue go...

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/12/16/tom-kott-think-the-beer-store-is-bad-check-out-the-saq/ Yeah, SAQ are a bunch of elitist wine snobs. They barely even deal in beer; basically, if it's not from Belgium, it's shit. Quebec's huge private beer industry is great, but it exists out of neces...

spinrsx wrote:Ddc moralite coming to the lcbo in the spring. Woooo

Provided it's fresh, that's neat.

northyorksammy wrote:Restrain competition is against Federal law. We should petition Ottawa to break both institutions up as consumers are not being properly served.

This is really the desired outcome. Anything short of that is risking switching the devil we know with the one we don't.

TL;DR: As a general rule, this should never be followed up by anything else in a comment. Im sorry that you unfamiliar with the common usage of 'tl;dr', allow me to enlighten you (or "LMGTFY", as it were): TL;DR TL;DR, an acronym for "Too long; didn't read", is Internet slang us...

read it and (literally) weep, boys and girls. http://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2014/12/09/the_beer_stores_secret_sweetheart_deal_with_lcbo_revealed_cohn.html?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed TL;DR: LCBO tries not sell 12-24 packs of beer. That's not exactly news to any of us, nor...