The Bar Towel

Part of the problem is getting the public aware of the products in the first place though. Getting beer into an LCBO store is useless if nobody knows about it and goes and buys it. Yeah that's all well and good but if the public can't get the products easily or at all due to stupid rules then what'...

Wouldn't it be simpler and cheaper to eliminate some of the stupid ass rules the LCBO, Beer Store, microbreweries and brewpub establishments adhere to and allow the microbreweries and brewpubs to have their products in the marketplace more easily?

Different tastes are always welcome Lister, it makes the board much more interesting. I think so too. It's good for discovering new things to try. Sometimes it works (Denison's and Magnotta's weissebiers) and sometimes it doesn't (Headstrong PA and Sgt Major's IPA.) Ever since my homebrew honey dis...

I'd just like to say thanks to Rob and all the others that put out Algonquin Honey Brown. I was wondering what happened to the brew beyond finding out a couple of years ago of Brick buying them. Sadly it follows the long line of products disappearing that I really like. :( I wish someone would bring...

Well that was, um, disappointing. I guess no one got through.

And fruity beer isn't girly!

I try real hard to like Barbar Winter Bok. It gives me a headache I think. I brought back from Montreal a 500ml bottle of Barbar Honey Pale Ale. I gave that a try on Sunday. There wasn't much honey taste there and it tasted to me like most blanches. There was a certain spiciness to it which I don't...

I haven't yet found a honey beer I like. I used to taste mead and never really came to terms with that either. The only mead I've tried is the raspberry one from Trafalgar. I like it but not the cost so it's a rare treat. ($14 for six tiny 200ml bottles.) I tried aging a bottle for a year but didn'...

Actually, you probably had John Labatt Honey Brown, a draught-only beer that has been around for a year or two. This new Labatt Genuine Honey seems to be a different beer. Yeah, that's probably the case. The servers never mentioned the brown part when doing their rundowns of what was on tap. I'll p...

OK, let's get back to the original point of this thread - making fun of big beer company press releases! Here's one - anyone want to take a crack at it? :D Made with pure Canadian honey, Labatt Genuine Honey launches in Ontario Wow! How many times do they have to say pure Canadian honey? According ...

esprit wrote:We were Scoune's agent in Ontario for a while and submitted a number of their products to the LCBO for consideration for the seasonal programs....all were rejected and, as usual, with no reason given so we pretty much just gave up.

Nuts! My sister and brother-in-law from Toronto were just in town yesterday and we made a beer run to La Trappe a Fromage in Gatineau. Funnily enough, Yves picked up a sixer of Schoune Maple... It sounds like you are having a little bit of bad luck with timing and location with this beer :wink: Fig...

If anyone from Toronto decides to stop by Schoune, would you be willing to haul back 24 bottles of the maple ale? Aside from the obvious reimbursement I'll give you five bottles of Sgt Major's IPA and four bottles of Unibroue's Trois Pistoles or if those two brews aren't your fancy some extra $$$ fo...

When I visited the Schoune brewery in the summer of 2002, I was told that they were talking to a rep/agent in Ontario, and planned to start sales in Ontario with their Blanche de Quebec. Obviously, this never happened. Out of morbid curiousity I looked up where the brewery was on Google Maps. GAH! ...

Since I have a sweet tooth and an aversion to bitterness I tend to seek out the sweeter beers out there. I enjoy the flavour of maple and have tried several maple beers over the years. Upper Canada Maple Wheat is the weakest one I've had. It follows in the same footsteps as Sleeman's "Where's t...

Bobbyok wrote:And money I'd imagine. Molbatts has deep pockets. One store might not be so tough to open, but a chain? That would take some serious cash.

Assuming the legislation problem is fixed, the chain would be of slow managed growth in key areas they know they'd do well in I presume.