The Bar Towel

Hot off the press - both releases scheduled for week of Sept 8th. More details soon...

FALL RELEASE:
415950 / Hofbrau Dunkel / $3.15 / 500 / 5.5
420323 / Tree Brewing Old School Stout / $5.35 / 650 / 5.5
420331 / Amager Sundby Stout, Danish Ale / $6.95 / 500 / 6.2
420349 / Viking Chili Stout, Premium Danish Ale / $8.40 / 500 / 9
333898 / Samuel Smith Organic Chocolate Stout / $4.95 / 550 / 5
421768 / Scaldis Amber, Extra Strong Belgian Ale / $3.75 / 330 / 10
417873 / VIVEN PORTER / $2.95 / 330 / 7
429480 / Stewart Cauld Reekie Stout / $4.85 / 500 / 6.2
429498 / Epic COFFEE & FIG IMPERIAL OATMEAL STOUT / $14.35 / 750 / 8
265140 / Weihenstephan Vitus / $3.60 / 500 / 7.7

HALLOWE'EN/OKTOBERFEST RELEASE:
313916 / Mill Street Harvest Sampler / $13.65 / 2,130 / 5
67710 / Great Lakes Brewery Pumpkin Ale / $4.95 / 650 / 5.5
362814 / Great Lakes Brewery Saison Dupump / $5.95 / 650 / 5.2
311225 / Black Creek Pumpkin Ale / $4.45 / 500 / 5
132753 / Highballer Pumpkin Ale / $3.95 / 500 / 5.2
90738 / St Ambroise Pumpkin Ale / $9.95 / 1,364 / 5
417014 / Ayinger Octoberfest / $3.10 / 500 / 5.8
431288 / Day of the Dead Amber Ale / $14.50 / 1,980 / 5.5
207084 / Samuel Adams Octoberfest / $13.70 / 2,130 / 5.5
433540 / Beau's Oktoberfest Mixed Pack 2015 / $24.00 / 2,400 / 5.6 - 8

meh

I really enjoyed the porters from last year's autumn release (Anchor, Smuttynose, Acadia). This release a little light. It will be good on my wallet at least.

I'm not sure it could possibly be a lamer release.

Lots of stuff in there in the 85-95 range on BA/RB that I've never tried before.

i mean the glb saison dupump is surprisingly good but whatever

The only thing I'm really looking forward to here is the Beau's Oktoberfest pack because it'll have their Boom Gose The Dynamite.

I've never had it fresh but I did have a ~2 year old bottle at the Rhino a while ago and it was still pretty darn good.

Curious to see what the other 3 beers end up being though.

More money in my wallet. Works for me.

Blasphomet wrote:I'm not sure it could possibly be a lamer release.

Great Lakes could have released a THIRD pumpkin beer?

skootles wrote:The only thing I'm really looking forward to here is the Beau's Oktoberfest pack because it'll have their Boom Gose The Dynamite.
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i had it once.
first 1/3 was good.
once it warmed up it tasted like vomit.
it's all yours.

Looking forward to the Hofbrau Dunkel, I love german lagers so much....

This is pretty uninspiring especially after just coming back from a trip out west and enjoying everything BC and Alberta have to offer. I've yet to be impressed with any of the beers they've been bringing in from Denmark. I wish they'd stop take a break from those breweries.

MetalHead wrote:This is pretty uninspiring especially after just coming back from a trip out west and enjoying everything BC and Alberta have to offer. I've yet to be impressed with any of the beers they've been bringing in from Denmark. I wish they'd stop take a break from those breweries.

yeah, amager is terrible, i didn't care for the two beers i had from them so far and won't be revisiting them anytime soon.

nice work on this release lcbo! 95% of my beer money continues to go the states and canada gets maybe 10% of the taxes (since that's about how often i get pulled over)! be better at the beer game already, ontario!

I'm excited to see the Ayinger Oktoberfest coming here for (I think?) the first time. IMO it's the textbook Okt/marzen; I've measured all others available over the last few years in Ontario against this and have been continually disappointed--- I think it blows the likes of Sam Adams, Beau's and Hoffebrau out of the water.

--just to add to my post above, I do like the Black Oak Okt but it's like twice the price of Ayinger....

I'll buy a few of these:

GregClow wrote: 415950 / Hofbrau Dunkel / $3.15 / 500 / 5.5
420323 / Tree Brewing Old School Stout / $5.35 / 650 / 5.5
420331 / Amager Sundby Stout, Danish Ale / $6.95 / 500 / 6.2
417873 / VIVEN PORTER / $2.95 / 330 / 7
429498 / Epic COFFEE & FIG IMPERIAL OATMEAL STOUT / $14.35 / 750 / 8
265140 / Weihenstephan Vitus / $3.60 / 500 / 7.7

And these:

GregClow wrote: 362814 / Great Lakes Brewery Saison Dupump / $5.95 / 650 / 5.2
132753 / Highballer Pumpkin Ale / $3.95 / 500 / 5.2
417014 / Ayinger Octoberfest / $3.10 / 500 / 5.8

But the rest of the release is a snooze fest. Very unfortunate to see that Pumking, Warlock, Amsterdam Autumn Hop, Nickelbrook Wet Hop, the various U.S. porters from last year, and singles of the Beau's O-Fest are not returning. This is the first time in five years that I haven't made a "haul" trip to the States before the summer, but I will definitely be doing one in the fall based on this release. It looks like this the first significantly scaled-back release since the Board put out that worrisome trade document following the announcement of beer sales in grocery stores.