New Arrivals at LCBO & TBS

Ceecee · Post by **Ceecee** » Wed Nov 05, 2014 8:27 am

Holy crap. $13.95??!

MILL STREET BARLEY WINE
LCBO 70359 | 500 mL bottle

Price $ 13.95

Made in: Ontario, Canada

El Pinguino · Post by **El Pinguino** » Wed Nov 05, 2014 8:36 am

Ceecee wrote:LA RESOLUTION
LCBO 401166 | 750 mL bottle

Price $ 8.95

Made in: Quebec, Canada

Finally. Had a pint at Beer Bistro recently...really enjoyed it. It is a bit sweet and not as big a bold "Unibroue" profile as some of their beers.

distr0 · Post by **distr0** » Wed Nov 05, 2014 9:11 am

Ceecee wrote:LA RESOLUTION
LCBO 401166 | 750 mL bottle

Price $ 8.95

Made in: Quebec, Canada

damnit, i just bought some in quebec

spinrsx · Post by **spinrsx** » Wed Nov 05, 2014 9:29 am

and it was more expensive there? confused about the 'damn it'

distr0 wrote:
Ceecee wrote:LA RESOLUTION
LCBO 401166 | 750 mL bottle

Price $ 8.95

Made in: Quebec, Canada

damnit, i just bought some in quebec

spinrsx · Post by **spinrsx** » Wed Nov 05, 2014 9:30 am

new:

MILL STREET WINTER SAMPLER**
Canada | Trillium Beverage Inc.
LCBO 397059 | 6x362 mL | $ 13.85

ROGUE YELLOW SNOW 5L PARTY KEG**
USA | Rogue Ales Brewery
LCBO 385427 | 5000 mL | N/A

and this is back?? (not supposed to be)

ST. AMBROISE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL STOUT
LCBO 171413 | 341 mL bottle
Price: $ 6.00

and the vintage vertical pack is listed again.

grub · Post by **grub** » Wed Nov 05, 2014 11:22 am

Ceecee wrote:Holy crap. $13.95??!

MILL STREET BARLEY WINE
LCBO 70359 | 500 mL bottle

Price $ 13.95

Made in: Ontario, Canada

i think that's been the standard price on that one since they switched from stubby's to ceramic. the sad part is the stubby's were around $5-6 if i remember right... so you're paying aaaaall that extra just for the ceramic bottle. barely worth the original $5-6 cost and certainly not worth the artificially inflated ceramic one.

cfrancis · Post by **cfrancis** » Wed Nov 05, 2014 11:27 am

I believe Mill Street is barrel aging their barley wine now as well. Started last year if memory serves.

distr0 · Post by **distr0** » Wed Nov 05, 2014 12:34 pm

spinrsx wrote:and it was more expensive there? confused about the 'damn it'

distr0 wrote:
Ceecee wrote:LA RESOLUTION
LCBO 401166 | 750 mL bottle

Price $ 8.95

Made in: Quebec, Canada

damnit, i just bought some in quebec

haha, it just seems like every time i get something from outside ontario, the LCBO gets it in 2 weeks later

grub · Post by **grub** » Wed Nov 05, 2014 1:16 pm

cfrancis wrote:I believe Mill Street is barrel aging their barley wine now as well. Started last year if memory serves.

all of it or just a selection for special events? don't recall hearing anything about the bottles being BA, but i may have forgotten...based on my past experience and the price tag, that's still not enough to make me buy it.

instantkamera · Post by **instantkamera** » Wed Nov 05, 2014 6:13 pm

cfrancis wrote:I believe Mill Street is barrel aging their barley wine now as well. Started last year if memory serves.

You mean this:

Not sure how long they have been "careful[ly] aging in whiskey barrels", but that same copypasta is on all the 2012-13 bottles I can find.

Not that it does any good, this is a piss-poor example of a barley wine IMO, let alone a "barrel aged" one.

darmokandjalad · Post by **darmokandjalad** » Wed Nov 05, 2014 9:45 pm

There was two whole flats of last year's Mill Street barleywine batch sitting on the shelves of my local LCBO for at least 6-8 months. Pretty much untouched. They vanished overnight sometime in the early summer; maybe someone spontaneously decided to buy 24 bottles of the stuff, but I have a feeling management just wanted to free up the shelf space and foisted them off on other stores.

Barrel aged or not, $14 for a half-litre of beer that has received lukewarm reviews (at best) is outside of my price range, and I don't think I'm a minority as far as that sentiment goes. Mill Street should strongly consider ditching the ceramic bottles because as it stands the price point is way too god damned high.

Belgian · Post by **Belgian** » Wed Nov 05, 2014 10:12 pm

grub wrote:i think that's been the standard price on that one since they switched from stubby's to ceramic. the sad part is the stubby's were around $5-6 if i remember right... so you're paying aaaaall that extra just for the ceramic bottle. barely worth the original $5-6 cost and certainly not worth the artificially inflated ceramic one.

Stubby's were about 330ml to the Ceramic's 500ml. Still it's like they are now charging equivalent to 9.25 bucks for a stubby so over 50% price increase by volume. And you're right it (IME used to be) drinkable but no great shakes as a BW.

I think I had bottle number 98 of the '02 or '04, it was small runs in the beginning. Mill Street were this funny, cult-y little brewery back in the day (pre-sports bar) and it was fun to go there. Now I feel like I'd need to tap my line of credit to go dining in the Distillerahhh....

kevinlater · Post by **kevinlater** » Wed Nov 05, 2014 11:47 pm

great lakes lake effect is on the shelves at the clarkson lcbo

spinrsx · Post by **spinrsx** » Thu Nov 06, 2014 11:04 am

tempest showing stock now

cratez · Post by **cratez** » Thu Nov 06, 2014 11:11 am

spinrsx wrote: ROGUE YELLOW SNOW 5L PARTY KEG**
USA | Rogue Ales Brewery
LCBO 385427 | 5000 mL | N/A

Well, I know what I'll be guzzling over the holidays. Can't wait for this one.