The Bar Towel

I know I keep saying this, and I figure I will continue saying it anyway:

The LCBO is not designed for Beer Sales and never was. It's like criticizing a subway for not reaching 30,000 ft.

Really? You think it's a conspiracy whereby they stop bringing in beers that sit on the shelves indefinitely and don't sell because they have 12 packs in 10 stores as a test market? Lemme ask you something. How many bottles of Mikkeller did you buy when they came in? How many bottles of Nogne's Sunt...

Here's the thing, and some of you may remember this from beer ca. 2006-7. One of the reasons there wasn't a lot of interesting beer was because there wasn't really a showcase for it. With two cider specific bars, you're going to see more high quality, interesting ciders being offered more frequently...

Refined Fool has some nice tricks up their sleeve. I'm looking forward to trying that one.

I'll take a Creemore Keller over any trendy rotting/brett/sour/mop bucket mess with a goofy misogynistic or sports themed name any day... This is correct. Fresh Creemore stuff (FRESH being operative here) is a lot better than much of the rest of the market in Ontario. The problem is dirty lines and...

I have tried everything in the province this year.

It is Tracks ESB

sprague11 wrote:"Hey guys, lets start a club. I call president!"

That is inevitably the problem with guilds and organizations, especially in an industry like craft beer where being a little disdainful of authority is one of the reasons people do it at all.

There is precedent. There was one in the 1890's before Davies unionized, everyone else went on strike and screwed up the alliance.

The nomenclature is important here. Ontario doesn't recognize "craft". Ontario recognizes "small brewers" in their legal framework. Interesting. For reasons I can't explain, I've never been keen on the term "craft beer". Back in the 80s and 90s, we spoke of "micro...

...Imagine what would have happened if they'd decided that you could sell beer everywhere. The situation would be this: Craft brewers completely overwhelmed, large brewers with existing supply chains able to get on shelves everywhere and the domination that people assumed would happen with grocery ...

...Imagine what would have happened if they'd decided that you could sell beer everywhere. The situation would be this: Craft brewers completely overwhelmed, large brewers with existing supply chains able to get on shelves everywhere and the domination that people assumed would happen with grocery ...

...Apologies if I get a little stroppy about it. It's a huge industry and societal change whose most frequent criticism is that it's not working perfectly a month in... No apologies needed. I think there was, for decades, a lot of pent-up anger at the "Nanny State" of Ontario, most recent...

Masterplan wrote:Who supplies the grocery stores with the beer? The LCBO, the beer store, or the individual breweries?

Depends on what the brewery decides to do.

...I'm going to ask you to go with me on this: Do you think that they would have been included during the first three months of the program? Do you think they would have been everywhere? Most places in Montreal you're lucky to get 50 and Boreale and Heineken. The IGA you're talking about, I'm betti...

... To be in a number of grocery stores you need to be able to make like... 30,000 HL of beer annually? The good news is that small breweries now have the ability to expand into an expanding market... Last week I was in the IGA at the Alexis Nihon Plaza in Montreal. This is an ultra-modern grocery ...