LCBO Garrison Brewery feature

Stroonze · Post by **Stroonze** » Wed Nov 02, 2011 10:41 am

Just received this from Garrison. Something to look forward to.

We are sending five winter seasonals to Ontario this winter. They are as follows: Spruce Beer, PiLs, Winter Warmer, Black IPA and Grand Baltic Porter. Find out more about them here: http://garrisonbrewing.com/specialty.html If you want to find out which beers are available where, simply visit the LCBO website and do a product search. They are not in the system yet, but will be in a few months’ time.

If you have any other questions, just let me know.

Cheers,

Meg

phirleh · Post by **phirleh** » Wed Nov 02, 2011 10:53 am

Awesome, I've tried all except the Pils. The spruce beer is quite interesting, and delicious!

TheSevenDuffs · Post by **TheSevenDuffs** » Wed Nov 02, 2011 10:55 am

Next brewery in feature in February I guess?

Torontoblue · Post by **Torontoblue** » Wed Nov 02, 2011 11:29 am

I had the Grand Baltic Porter last week, and this year it's very very sweet and bordering on a barley wine.

cfrancis · Post by **cfrancis** » Wed Nov 02, 2011 3:05 pm

sweet

maple99 · Post by **maple99** » Wed Nov 02, 2011 3:36 pm

I definitely want to try spruce beer, as this was an epic fail in my ill-fated home brewing experiment. Think floor cleaner.
And based on their web site, it is actually a beer with spruce in it, not a Quebec style spruce beer, which is actually pop, basically 7Up mixed with floor cleaner.

Ukie · Post by **Ukie** » Wed Nov 02, 2011 7:13 pm

maple99 wrote: not a Quebec style spruce beer, which is actually pop, basically 7Up mixed with floor cleaner.

I remember Expo 67 and drinking that at my cousins in St. Leonard, that stuff was nasty, I cant believe they still make it.

I would say more like 7 Up and Buckleys, which is OK if you are sick.

JeffPorter · Post by **JeffPorter** » Wed Nov 02, 2011 10:11 pm

I remember hearing about this months ago...

I was kind of hoping the baltic porter and the ol fog burner would both be on the list, but it's still pretty exciting. Two great Baltics sitting on our shelves...pretty great!

Belgian · Post by **Belgian** » Thu Nov 03, 2011 11:16 pm

I like spruce beer. It does taste like conifer trees, and as such it has a terpene quality to it as well (as you would find in terpentine.) How can you hop heads with your pine-tree-resin fetish be such wusses?

These are all-natural flavors.

I drank a lot of it in Oka, summer of '85.

toweringpine · Post by **toweringpine** » Fri Nov 04, 2011 10:23 pm

I make spruce tree tea every spring when the new shoots come out. When the new needles are soft and still delicate the flavour is mild and lemony.

I've never tried spruce beer but I am certainly keen to check it out!

NRman · Post by **NRman** » Sat Nov 05, 2011 9:07 am

Well done Garrison!
Yards in Philadelphia makes a great Spruce beer.
I am sad there are only 3 more in my cellar.
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/450/26892

Lamber · Post by **Lamber** » Mon Nov 07, 2011 8:51 am

Can't wait for this! The only one of these beers I've tried is the Black IPA. Hopefully they show up in Aurora.

Cass · Post by **Cass** » Wed Nov 16, 2011 7:28 pm

This is definitely happening, glad it's after this all these insane new beers at the LCBO!

Will have more details in a bit. Will be a great release.

JeffPorter · Post by **JeffPorter** » Sun Nov 27, 2011 9:27 pm

any idea when this might be starting? I'd like to try me some spruce moose beer...

And then get some Baltic Porter...Nom!!! We're getting some awesome beers up in here...

Stroonze · Post by **Stroonze** » Sun Nov 27, 2011 10:09 pm

February