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- Wed Jun 09, 2021 3:10 pm
- Forum: Breweries, Tied Houses & Taprooms
- Topic: Willibald
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7080
Re: Willibald
Nice touch to have guest beers! Many Ontario breweries now have "guest" beers in their tap rooms that they sell to walk in (or curbside pick-up) sales but none that I know of are shipping. Could be because they don't have the bag of chips to include as the "food" to comply with ...
- Fri Apr 09, 2021 9:29 am
- Forum: LCBO, Beer Stores, Grocery & Indie Stores
- Topic: The Beer Store in the news for losing money
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5273
Re: The Beer Store in the news for losing money
How do you lose money .... instead of improving their business model. The business model was set up to distribute beer for the brewer/owners (currently 2 primary owners: AB Inbev & Molson Coors, and to a smaller extent Sapporo). As Jordan has written many times elsewhere, its meant to be a &quo...
- Sat Dec 12, 2020 3:02 pm
- Forum: LCBO, Beer Stores, Grocery & Indie Stores
- Topic: New Arrivals at LCBO & TBS
- Replies: 5283
- Views: 1871514
Re: New Arrivals at LCBO & TBS
So I heard through the grapevine that Orval has shown up in the LCBO warehouse, but it's not listed yet. I haven't seen any news regarding the LCBO bringing it back, so curious if anyone else has heard anything about this? There's apparently 20k bottles, which seems like a lot for a private order. ...
- Sat Dec 05, 2020 2:57 pm
- Forum: LCBO, Beer Stores, Grocery & Indie Stores
- Topic: 2020-2021 Winter Season at the LCBO
- Replies: 28
- Views: 14070
Re: 2020-2021 Winter Season at the LCBO
... but perhaps that's how they justify charging $23... I suspect it's either a marketing strategy to create hype around the GI brand or perhaps corporate half-assery. Both of these are true, however, the fact the beer is 14.6% ABV does not help. If I remember correctly, in ON beer over 12% is cons...
- Sat Dec 05, 2020 2:57 pm
- Forum: LCBO, Beer Stores, Grocery & Indie Stores
- Topic: 2020-2021 Winter Season at the LCBO
- Replies: 28
- Views: 14070
Re: 2020-2021 Winter Season at the LCBO
... but perhaps that's how they justify charging $23... I suspect it's either a marketing strategy to create hype around the GI brand or perhaps corporate half-assery. Both of these are true, however, the fact the beer is 14.6% ABV does not help. If I remember correctly, in ON beer over 12% is cons...
- Thu Dec 03, 2020 5:02 pm
- Forum: Breweries, Tied Houses & Taprooms
- Topic: Von Bugle Brewing
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6649
Re: Von Bugle Brewing
Harder than they thought to do more than one thing wellS. St. Jeb wrote:Steamwhistle is shutting this down.
- Mon Nov 30, 2020 7:54 pm
- Forum: Breweries, Tied Houses & Taprooms
- Topic: Brunswick Bierworks
- Replies: 13
- Views: 9158
Re: Brunswick Bierworks
...Don't know what the overall sales are but it might well be healthy? I suspect that they must be to have attracted the investment. A business being able to attract investment, and being an attractive investment aren't necessarily the same thing. see Constellation Brands buying Ballast Point for $...
- Wed Nov 25, 2020 8:16 pm
- Forum: General Beer Discussion & Random Talk
- Topic: What're you drinking right now?
- Replies: 16950
- Views: 3143466
Re: Impy, not evn a wrd.
the peeps are saving up for the goose that laid the $23 golden eggBelgian wrote:Also the excellent Cigar City Marshal Zhukov BARIS is just $15 at Spadina and Front store.
I guess they've given up selling this beast for $20-30?
- Thu Oct 08, 2020 7:33 am
- Forum: Breweries, Tied Houses & Taprooms
- Topic: Collective Arts
- Replies: 195
- Views: 119627
Re: Collective Arts
Origin of Darkness 2020 Series released: https://www.canadianbeernews.com/2020/10/07/collective-arts-brewing-releases-origin-of-darkness-series-beers-for-2020/ Four beers, each one in collaboration with a different brewery, including a Cognac barrel-aged Baltic Porter with Põhjala(!) ... AND at onl...
- Sun May 24, 2020 5:12 pm
- Forum: LCBO, Beer Stores, Grocery & Indie Stores
- Topic: red tape in New Brunswick
- Replies: 21
- Views: 10127
Re: red tape in New Brunswick
correct, but notice that the breweries doing this have to include some food (same for bars/restaurants)*matt7215 wrote: anyone with a tied house licence can sell packaged beer from their restaurant
i.e. a bag of chips with the beer from another brewery and you're good to go
- Tue May 19, 2020 12:24 pm
- Forum: General Beer Discussion & Random Talk
- Topic: Modern trends
- Replies: 52
- Views: 17975
Re: Modern trends
"...pretty much anything that Godspeed is doing..."duckdown wrote:Which lagers are worth seeking out right now Sean. I also ordered a 4 of Ice Cold Beer to try
- Sun May 17, 2020 5:59 pm
- Forum: LCBO, Beer Stores, Grocery & Indie Stores
- Topic: LCBO Winter Seasonal Craft Beer Release 19/20
- Replies: 43
- Views: 23375
Re: Cigar City Marshal Zhukov Russian Imperial Stout
+1 (not worth $20, even for 650Ml)MatttthewGeorge wrote:Nice beer. Not worth the $$ imo.
- Sat May 16, 2020 7:26 am
- Forum: General Beer Discussion & Random Talk
- Topic: Modern trends
- Replies: 52
- Views: 17975
Re: Modern trends
At the risk of pissing everyone off (remember: old man yells at clouds), here are my pet trendy peeves. -The aforementioned abuse of lactose additions -Spoiled beer, sorry I mean "sour" beer. -Vanilla, bacon, coconut, herrings, marzipan, cheese, etc Shit that should not be ruining beer. I...
- Thu May 14, 2020 8:47 am
- Forum: General Beer Discussion & Random Talk
- Topic: Coronavirus
- Replies: 54
- Views: 22026
Re: Coronavirus
The LCBO do deliver though, they just do it through Canada Post. They rolled out Foodora for their stuff too, but i think got caught off guard when Foodora left Canada. good point BUT as I mentioned, Canada Post is not actually delivering alcohol, they are taking the box directly to post office (in...
- Thu May 14, 2020 8:17 am
- Forum: General Beer Discussion & Random Talk
- Topic: Coronavirus
- Replies: 54
- Views: 22026
Re: Coronavirus
This is an organization first / customers last mindset. Their main concern is protecting staff, not society. I agree with your first point but protecting staff is not a concern for their safety as much as a concern not to piss off the union. The union is doing their job, and this situation is a per...