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I hope to be proven wrong but I think the last few years with the seasonals & brewery features will be looked back as the best we had it. In particular, the Founders release. leanne.rhee@lcbo.com - Beer category manager for the LCBO. We should mass-email her with complaints about the planned re...

Westmalle Tripel arrived in May at the warehouse!

wow, really unimpressed with the jacobins Really? I'm curious what you didn't like. I rather enjoy it and the price point is great. If Bellwood's released a Flanders Red it would be more than twice as expensive per ml. That is not a shot at Bellwood's, just a fact that illustrates it is good value ...

Fresh Pilsner Urquell (mid April)
Fresh Czechvar (March 31)
Fresh Weihenstepaner Hefeweissbier (mid April)

at Bayview Village LCBO


edit: "Freshish"

Montecillo Reserva 2006 is great. It probably is at its peak right now.

I am going to brew my second batch of homebrew in the next few weeks. I want to brew one gallon of pilsner using Budvar yeast, saaz or spalt, and either pilsner or marris otter malt. I doubt It'll turn out great but I am thinking that trying to brew a small batch of clean lager will give me an idea ...

Alesmith Speedway Stout - holy cow what a powerful, delicous beer. I've wanted to try this for about ten years, and the 'muchness' of Alesmith's beer-crafting makes their products extremely rewarding. I could envisage the barrel-aged version being even more mouth-coating, if that's even possible. S...

Has anyone seen the new Orval release? Drinkvine shows none in Toronto, but I thought I heard there was a new crop of bottles out? I got some a few weeks ago, haven't seen any since. This batch was bottled in Jan 2015, so they are just approaching the 6 months mark. The brewer believes the beer is ...

I was just raving about a 2013 bottle. I buy a case or two and forget it awhile. It's really that kind of "Vielle Provision" beer - meant to survive till you need it. Thats good to hear, I'll buy a case then. I always hesitate to buy single bottles since they are usually skunked. I always...

The Saison Duponts at the LCBO right now have a best before of 05/2017. Last August the best before was 07/2017, so we now have older beer than the last batch. What's the deal? Does anybody know when Saison Dupont is at its best? I thought the 07/2017 batch tasted great last fall, I don't know how w...

The predominant trend is to avoid true character in those beers - if you order an Ontario-made Saison, Leipziger Gose, or Flanders Ale IMLE it is likely to play it very safe rather than display true earthiness and funk, salty sweaty sourness, solid dryness or any real flavor profiles those beer sty...

Is it me, or is SN PA not worth the bother? I've had it numerous times in the US and never come away impressed. Maybe 5-10 years ago it would have been something, but now with GLB, muskoka and others pushing the IPA limit, it always struck me as a pedestrian beer...? I'm normally the first to defen...

Does anybody know if Westmalle Tripel will be coming to the LCBO? It has been listed now for about 6 months.

Belgian wrote:750ml bottle of Saison Dupont with over a year on it, amazing stuff and now accentuating the fruity and lemony notes under the earthy dryness.

This and Orval are two of the greatest beers, ever.

I would add Aecht Schlenkerla Fastenbier to that list, at three months old it's still in top shape.

Hopefully someone from the importing agency or the brewery can clear this up. I picked up a six-pack today with the same 25/03/15 code mentioned earlier in the thread. That date is on the back label of every bottle, and (at least with the bottles I picked up) someone has gone out of their way to st...