New Arrivals at LCBO & TBS

[Belgian]

Winey showing stock already, picked up a few at KingSpadina

Love to hear how this year's tastes guys, is it winey enough / can you taste the barrel oak?

[Belgian]

Now that is a fair if you ask me for a 6 pack of the Twice as Mad Tom. Beats the 4 packs. And the new bottles like fantastic.

Gotta love mobile devices making us post like we have the ADHD app turned on...

[JeffPorter]

Winey showing stock already, picked up a few at KingSpadina

Love to hear how this year's tastes guys, is it winey enough / can you taste the barrel oak?

Not sure about this year's yet, but I know as of a few weeks ago, they still had 2013 bottles at the brewery. The barrels are different, and the 2013 bottles are bottle conditioned, not sure about this year's...

Interesting to do a side-by-side.

[walz22]

Peche is showing stock today... Hopefully this means a larger roll out is coming very soon.

[spinrsx]

new:

Beaus Gigantic La Formidable
419747
$5.25

This stuff is excellent

[sofakingdrunk]

new:

Beaus Gigantic La Formidable
419747
$5.25

This stuff is excellent

I've drank two of these over the last two days, i wouldn't call it excellent(IMHO) but I agree that it's a damn tasty beer.

[midlife crisis]

new:

Beaus Gigantic La Formidable
419747
$5.25

This stuff is excellent

I've drank two of these over the last two days, i wouldn't call it excellent(IMHO) but I agree that it's a damn tasty beer.

What makes it not excellent then?

[liamt07]

This stuff is excellent

I've drank two of these over the last two days, i wouldn't call it excellent(IMHO) but I agree that it's a damn tasty beer.

What makes it not excellent then?

I've had this beer as well, and I would also say that while it's not excellent, it's pretty good.

To be excellent, it has to be as good as/better than the best beers in that style.

It's tough to find Belgian IPAs better than Houblon Chouffe, Dominus Vobiscum Lupulus and De Ranke XX. Hell, even Anchorage's Bitter Monk for that matter.

[cratez]

I've had this beer as well, and I would also say that while it's not excellent, it's pretty good.

To be excellent, it has to be as good as/better than the best beers in that style.

It's tough to find Belgian IPAs better than Houblon Chouffe, Dominus Vobiscum Lupulus and De Ranke XX. Hell, even Anchorage's Bitter Monk for that matter.

But that doesn't neatly fit in with the narrative/myth that most Ontario brewers are "as good, maybe better" than the best breweries in the world!

*throws hat on ground and stomps out of forum*

[midlife crisis]

I've drank two of these over the last two days, i wouldn't call it excellent(IMHO) but I agree that it's a damn tasty beer.

What makes it not excellent then?

I've had this beer as well, and I would also say that while it's not excellent, it's pretty good.

To be excellent, it has to be as good as/better than the best beers in that style.

It's tough to find Belgian IPAs better than Houblon Chouffe, Dominus Vobiscum Lupulus and De Ranke XX. Hell, even Anchorage's Bitter Monk for that matter.

Haven't had all of those, but it is at least the equal of, if not better than Houblon Chouffe. All a matter of personal taste of course. But following your logic, Stone IPA is not excellent because it is not better than Heady Topper?

[midlife crisis]

I've had this beer as well, and I would also say that while it's not excellent, it's pretty good.

To be excellent, it has to be as good as/better than the best beers in that style.

It's tough to find Belgian IPAs better than Houblon Chouffe, Dominus Vobiscum Lupulus and De Ranke XX. Hell, even Anchorage's Bitter Monk for that matter.

But that doesn't neatly fit in with the narrative/myth that most Ontario brewers are "as good, maybe better" than the best breweries in the world!

*throws hat on ground and stomps out of forum*

Perhaps you prefer "anything with the name Beau's on it is crap and therefore doesn't need to be tasted".

[biegaman]

But that doesn't neatly fit in with the narrative/myth that most Ontario brewers are "as good, maybe better" than the best breweries in the world!

True story: when asked why VQA wines were so expensive, one local winemaker said that because Niagara is on about the same longitude as Bordeaux that they therefore had the potential to make just as good wines and therefore could charge just as much.

It also sometimes bothers me that there's many at the LCBO for whom their idea of "craft beer" is not only synonymous with "OCB" but often confined to it.

[sofakingdrunk]

This stuff is excellent

I've drank two of these over the last two days, i wouldn't call it excellent(IMHO) but I agree that it's a damn tasty beer.

What makes it not excellent then?

It was tasty and enjoyable, but just doesn't give me that "holy shit" moment. I will be enjoying more of it, as I find it to be a pretty good deal

[atomeyes]

Haven't had all of those, but it is at least the equal of, if not better than Houblon Chouffe. All a matter of personal taste of course. But following your logic, Stone IPA is not excellent because it is not better than Heady Topper?

if one's a 8.5 out of 10 and one's a 9.5 out of 10, then yes, that is correct.

if Liam's saying it's a pretty good beer, but don't lose your shit and drink cans of it every day because it's life changing, then i'd listen to him (because i'd normally expect him to tell me that Beau's is crap)

[midlife crisis]

if one's a 8.5 out of 10 and one's a 9.5 out of 10, then yes, that is correct.

In that case I would call the first one excellent and the second "outstanding", "superlative" or "world class" then. But it's just semantics I suppose.

if Liam's saying it's a pretty good beer, but don't lose your shit and drink cans of it every day because it's life changing, then i'd listen to him (because i'd normally expect him to tell me that Beau's is crap)

Think he said "damn tasty", which to me is better than pretty good.