The Bar Towel

Went last night. Great to have another place to go. Food was great. Had the oysters and the meat pie. Beer was great...No 9 was very fresh. I hope that they last there! Disappointed with the downstairs though....it's not set up completely yet, but I used to love the downstairs when it was still Deni...

I totally agree, going to The Beer Store is like going to a Timmies Drive Thru. You line up, tell them what you want, if they haven't got it you pick something else. The product comes out, maybe fresh maybe not, I know now to look for dust. Comparing them to Timmies is giving them too much credit ;)

I actually like the LCBO and hope they keep it....I may disagree with some of the product choices they make or do not make but on the whole it is a very classy and customer friendly experience. The beer store however is perhaps the most ghetto retail experience I have ever had. Even dollar stores an...

Take away the beer store...allow sales in variety/grocery stores. Please Dalton save us from this out dated model!

Interesting article in Torontoist http://torontoist.com/2009/12/heroes_and_villains_2009_villains.php?gallery0Pic=3#gallery Every time I go to the beer store I hate it a little more. I was there two days ago -- had to wait 15 minutes while some guy unloaded a years worth of wine bottles. Then I of c...

Even servers have bad nights....maybe it managed to get ahold of the BrewDog Tactical Nuclear Penguin: 32%!

I hope it comes true!

I'd love to try it....interesting video from these guys:
http://www.vimeo.com/7812379

Oh, if only we could even discuss this as a possibility in Ontario!

North Carolina is considering a law to allow beer sampling in grocery stores, where wine tasting is already allowed.

http://www.heraldonline.com/120/story/1483412.html

The Ontario gov't should definitely break the foreign stranglehold on the beer that Ontario consumers drink! This just highlights the ineptitude of our regulators! Put the beer store back in the hands of Ontario! OR allow new owners to enter the market! (ie private beer stores!!!)

Wow....Just sitting here at the Harbord house. I'm very impressed. Much better than Rowers ever was!(it may be a little of a different place for a different time of my life). I'll write a more thorough review later.

Wow, from the review it sounds like Rowers "grew up" into the harbord house. Like a few other noted here, Rowers used to be the local for me while in University. I still fondly remember the giant barrel of peanuts upstairs and peanut shells everywhere. It sounds like a good tap list (much,...

It could increase beer prices!!...

Climate change to impact beer: scientist (Globe and Mail)

Actually goes well with the posts of the beer bottle brick here:
http://www.bartowel.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=3593

It's an old link, but made me smile!

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/06 ... _bottl.php

Sadly, I suspect such a device wouldn't make it through the Canadian fall let alone a Canadian winter....unless....you filled the contraption with really strong beer!