Ontario Craft Beer, Imports and Pumpkin Beers at the LCBO (Fall 2019)

[JaseWescott]

Rolling Out Sep 15th, 2019

ONTARIO CRAFT BEER RELEASE

11871 Lake of the Woods Nautical Disaster Dry-Hopped - 473mL
536516 Anderson Autumn Ale - 6 x 355mL
481143 Clifford Porter - 473mL
538207 Perth Cascader Invader Wet Hop - 473mL
628875 MacLean's Cherry Porter - 473mL
647990 Niagara Oast House Pitchfork Porter - 473mL
12338 Lake of Bays Flight Plan Double IPA - 473mL
576579 Fenelon Red Ale - 473mL
12339 Wellington Welly Mix Volume 7 - 4 x 473mL
636274 Mill Street Chocolate Cherry Blossom - 473mL
13335 Wild Bog - 473mL
628883 Walkerville Brewery Rob Roy Scotch Ale - 473mL
617563 Cowbell McNall's Mission - 473mL
647180 Waterloo Salted Caramel Porter - 473mL
12553 Elora Australis - 500mL
12383 Left Field Big Train - 355mL
524876 Double Trouble Pecan Pie Porter - 473mL
12388 Foliage Autumn Ale - 473mL
12389 The Bandit Oktoberfest Smoked Lager - 473mL
638510 Sawdust City Blood of Cthulhu Flavoured Imperial Stout - 473mL
12391 Collingwood Autumn Kellerbier - 473mL
12579 Fergie Jenkins Classic Pilsner - 473mL
12853 Lake of Bays Twilight Hour Coffee Stout - 473mL
617712 Spearhead Sam Roberts Band Ale - 473mL
617589 Royal City Rembembrance Red Ale - 473mL

IMPORTED CRAFT BEER RELEASE

92791 La Trappe Quadrupel - 750mL - Belgium
265140 Weihenstephaner Vitus - 500mL - Germany
11695 De Moersleutel Dolle Dries 2 Imperial Porter - 440mL - Netherlands
483180 Uerige Alt - 330mL - Germany
10239 Dubuisson Scaldis Ambrée - 330mL - Belgium
84889 Hofbrau Oktoberfestbier - 500mL - Germany
10335 Pohjala Must Kuld - 330mL - Estonia
10502 Black Isle Brewery Systems Theory Imperial Stout - 440mL - United Kingdom
10208 Wolf of Glen Moray Port Cask - 330mL - United Kingdom
12334 Dupont Moinette Blonde - 330mL - Belgium
10505 Rodenbach Alexander - 750mL - Belgium
10506 Cigar City Brewing Maduro Brown Ale - 4 x 355mL - USA
11614 Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA - 6 x 355mL - USA
11615 Oskar Blues Death by Coconut Irish Porter - 4 x 355mL - USA
10507 Boss Black - 500mL - United Kingdom
11616 Troubadour Westkust - 330 mL - Belgium
13332 Bohemian Black Lager - 500mL - Czech Republic

PUMPKIN CRAFT BEER RELEASE

518720 St-Ambroise Pumpkin Ale - 473mL - Canada
538850 Flying Monkeys Paranormal Imperial Pumpkin Ale - 473mL
479485 Big Rig Pumpkin Porter - 473mL
11920 Great Lakes Pumpkin Ale - 500mL
480012 Lake of Bays Pumpkin Ale - 473mL
533679 Grand River HIghballer Pumpkin Ale - 473mL

[beerstodiscover]

As usual the import list is most exciting as the best Ontario brewers do little business with the LCBO.

i am loving the number/variety of dark beers and lack of inevitably stale hoppy beers.

I'm most excited for Oskar Blues Death by Coconut and Dupont Moinette Blonde.

[seangm]

Uerige Alt, you've made my day; I'm getting an entire case this time around. Pohjala, Cigar City, Dogfish Head, Oskar Blues... the import list is definitely pretty solid this year. Ontario list I agree, not as exciting but there are some decent ones in there. Elora Borealis is great, so I'm looking forward to trying Australis. Clifford Porter is my favourite Ontario porter, so that's always a welcome return as well.

[Belgian]

Great list.

[dale cannon]

Great list!

Thanks for sharing.

[JaseWescott]

I will try and get the Christmas Pack list in October but the LCBO can be finicky about it.

GLB Pumpkin Ale in new 500 ml bottle, down from a 650 ml bottle and no Saison DuPump on that list or Amsterdam Wet Hop or Muskoka Harvest Ale or anything from Collective Arts but labels for IPA No. 11 and 12 have already been approved so they will be in store. Wild Bog sounds like a new Beau's Gruit or it's the Cranberry Sour by Whitewater. Boston Beer Company and Dogfish Head just merged and already distributing 90 Minute IPA.

I'm looking forward to trying Blood of Cthulhu by Sawdust City, Death By Coconut by Oskar Blues (Death by Chocolate reference?), Wolf of Glen Moray Port Cask by Windswept and Systems Theory by Black Isle

[S. St. Jeb]

From my perspective of a long-time beer can collector, I looking forward to the Fergie Jenkins Classic Pilsner. Pilsner also is a favourite style of mine - prefer them with some residual bitterness.

Do you know which brewery will be making this?

[S. St. Jeb]

12338 Lake of Bays Flight Plan Double IPA - 473mL

The name sounds more like a Barnstormer offering than Lake of Bays.

[BeerIsGood]

The imported list looks very interesting.

[spinrsx]

finally some nice new beers

I remember when DFH had to pull the 60minute out of Ontario because they couldn't keep up with the demand in the USA

[midlife crisis]

Uerige Alt, you've made my day; I'm getting an entire case this time around. Pohjala, Cigar City, Dogfish Head, Oskar Blues... the import list is definitely pretty solid this year. Ontario list I agree, not as exciting but there are some decent ones in there. Elora Borealis is great, so I'm looking forward to trying Australis. Clifford Porter is my favourite Ontario porter, so that's always a welcome return as well.

I note FWIW that Clifford Porter seems to be available more or less all the time at Loblaws (at the least the one I frequent).

[sofakingdrunk]

Uerige Alt, you've made my day; I'm getting an entire case this time around. Pohjala, Cigar City, Dogfish Head, Oskar Blues... the import list is definitely pretty solid this year. Ontario list I agree, not as exciting but there are some decent ones in there. Elora Borealis is great, so I'm looking forward to trying Australis. Clifford Porter is my favourite Ontario porter, so that's always a welcome return as well.

I note FWIW that Clifford Porter seems to be available more or less all the time at Loblaws (at the least the one I frequent).

Same here. Clifford Porter seems to always be at Zehrs(loblaws)by my place

[JaseWescott]

2019 Muskoka Harvest Ale now available at the LCBO

Hops: VQH Farms (Eden) & Pleasant Valley Hops - Ontario Grown (Hillier)
Specialty Malts: Barn Owl Malt (Belleville)
Base Malt: Canada Malting (Thunder Bay)
Yeast: Escarpment Laboratories (Guelph)

https://www.lcbo.com/webapp/wcs/stores/ ... ctId=62412

[seangm]

Uerige Alt, you've made my day; I'm getting an entire case this time around. Pohjala, Cigar City, Dogfish Head, Oskar Blues... the import list is definitely pretty solid this year. Ontario list I agree, not as exciting but there are some decent ones in there. Elora Borealis is great, so I'm looking forward to trying Australis. Clifford Porter is my favourite Ontario porter, so that's always a welcome return as well.

I note FWIW that Clifford Porter seems to be available more or less all the time at Loblaws (at the least the one I frequent).

Funny you mention that, I just came across it at my local Superstore and grabbed a can. I find I've been getting my beer at the Superstore or other grocery stores as of late, they seem to have a number of options that the LCBOs near me don't carry.

[midlife crisis]

It's probably the best beer at Loblaws. That is an interesting question, actually -- what is the best beer commonly on the shelf at Loblaws?

Other contenders: CA Life in the Clouds, Omnipollo Zodiak, BtP Aromatherapy. (I would have included Side Launch Mountain Lager, but it is extinct of course).

Any other nominations? Put another way, what beer do you tend to buy at Loblaws (i.e. "I'm here anyway, this is good enough")?