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LCBO Mixed Summer Packs

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LCBO Mixed Summer Packs

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The following packs will be available starting in summer 2010, as part of LCBO's increase in mixed packs.


Ontario Craft Brewers Discovery Pack
A brand new pack will be available for summer 2010, and also for the holiday season


Mill Street Mini Brewpub
Will be available again, this time, containing two beers not normally available in stores.


Taste of Belgium Six Pack
A mix of different Belgian beers


Muskoka Craft Pack
A five pack of single serve cans from this craft brewer


European Sampler Pack
Peroni, Pilsner Urquell and Grolsch


Polish Beer Sample Pack

Lech, Tyskie, Zubr


Paulaner Oktoberfest Pack
A 1 litre can with traditional stein as is served in Munich




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Thanks for the update. Any idea which beers will be in Ontario Craft Brewers Discovery Pack, Mill Street Mini Brewpub or Taste of Belgium Six Pack?

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Paulaner Oktoberfest pack? Please tell me it's NOT a hefeweiss bier. I'm dying for a good Marzen or 'Fester. Hefeweiss biers are VERY good but they just don't agree with me and I love the Marzens. That's just me.

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Peter Collins wrote:Paulaner Oktoberfest pack? Please tell me it's NOT a hefeweiss bier. I'm dying for a good Marzen or 'Fester. Hefeweiss biers are VERY good but they just don't agree with me and I love the Marzens. That's just me.
I'm pretty sure it is an Oktoberfest Lager.
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SteelbackGuy wrote:Ontario Craft Brewers Discovery Pack
A brand new pack will be available for summer 2010, and also for the holiday season

Mill Street Mini Brewpub
Will be available again, this time, containing two beers not normally available in stores.
Optimistic about these two, depending on what the feature beers are. Nice to see Mill St. expanding to two seasonals in their mixed pack. Stout? Please? Please?

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The new Mill St. pack, for the summer, includes their new Lemon Tea and Pilsner. The rest include Tankhouse, Organic, Stock, and Wit.

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Post by Bobsy »

Thanks for the post, Len!

I believe the lemon tea is also going to be canned and available at the LCBO from June onwards as a new general listing (as per their facebook page). However, I expect it will probably still be bottled as part of the upcoming mixed six.

I wonder whether the Taste of Belgium pack is going to be the one that we see at Christmas with Gulden Draak, etc. in it? Anyone know?

Paulaner oktoberfest should be amazing. The genre never seems to get a lot of praise, but this one is in BA's top 10 for its style: http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/124/386

I'm most excited about the Polish beer sampler.
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Bobsy wrote: I wonder whether the Taste of Belgium pack is going to be the one that we see at Christmas with Gulden Draak, etc. in it? Anyone know?
Not likely, though the old "Taste of Belgium" pack on LCBO's website was a 3-pack with glassware.

http://lcbo.ca/lcbo-ear/lcbo/product/de ... ber=676494

TASTE OF BELGIUM
LCBO 676494 | 3x330 mL bottle
PRODUCT DISCONTINUED*

Price: $ 19.95
Beer, Ale/Lager
5.6% Alcohol/Vol.


Made in: Belgium, Belgium
By: N.V.Interbrew Belgium


Tasting Note
A special selection of Belgian brands including: Stella Artois, Hoegaarden and Leffe Blonde and their signature glassware, representing the finest of the Belgian brewing tradition.

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Post by Derek »

Taste of Belgium Six Pack
A mix of different Belgian beers
I think this is the one Bobsy was thinking of:
http://lcbo.ca/lcbo-ear/lcbo/product/de ... ber=562397

The Christmas 6 pack would be weird, but a summer equivalent could be cool... couple of blondes, couple of wits, couple of fruit lambics?

Paulaner Oktoberfest Pack
A 1 litre can with traditional stein as is served in Munich
NICE!

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Derek wrote:
Taste of Belgium Six Pack
A mix of different Belgian beers
I think this is the one Bobsy was thinking of:
http://lcbo.ca/lcbo-ear/lcbo/product/de ... ber=562397

The Christmas 6 pack would be weird, but a summer equivalent could be cool... couple of blondes, couple of wits, couple of fruit lambics?

Paulaner Oktoberfest Pack
A 1 litre can with traditional stein as is served in Munich
NICE!

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I am glad to see the number of mixed packs increasing. One of the things I like about buying beer anytime I get down to Ogdensburg or Watertown NY is that pretty much every small to medium sized brewery has a mixed or variety pack. It is a nice way to get a bunch of different stuff without taking the risk of buying 12 of something you might really hate.

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SteelbackGuy wrote:Paulaner Oktoberfest Pack
A 1 litre can with traditional stein as is served in Munich
That's not a "mixed pack", Len. What the hell kind of scam are you trying to pull here??!?!!???!! :evil:

Seriously, though - good to see the 'BO offering these sort of things outside of the holiday season. Hope it encourages more breweries/importers to offer mixed packs. I'd love to see some of the US mixed packs up here, like the Sam Adams ones.

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Bobsy wrote:Paulaner oktoberfest should be amazing. The genre never seems to get a lot of praise, but this one is in BA's top 10 for its style: http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/124/386
Well rated on RB as well - in 95th percentile for the style, and 82nd percentile overall (which is pretty good for a lager on that site...):

http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/paulaner-oktoberfest/646/

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Based on the description, I have to assume its the same pack I picked up at the airport in Munich on the way home from Oktoberfest 2008. It was a box with the Paulaner 1 litre (mass) stein and a 1 litre can of their Oktoberfest beer inserted into the stein. I still have the empty can at home. Great to see it coming to the lcbo later this year!

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GregClow wrote:
SteelbackGuy wrote:Paulaner Oktoberfest Pack
A 1 litre can with traditional stein as is served in Munich
That's not a "mixed pack", Len. What the hell kind of scam are you trying to pull here??!?!!???!! :evil:

I know it isn't a mixed pack, but I'm just forwarding info from our internal magazine. I just typed out the info word for word.
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