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S M A wrote:The BB Quad is great, but I was referring to the Saison Brett, which is a whopping $19. I got one and really liked it, but the price made me wait for a sale...
Ah so you mean the OTHER beer with the non Boulevard listing on the LCBO SITE. Great! Nice to know it exists... wow.
alsiem wrote:The Smutty Nose Robust Porter is still at the beer store. Website claims that only 10 stores in Toronto are carrying it so perhaps that's on the way out too. I may actually try to seek that out for the fall before it slips away.
The Robust Porter at TBS Finchdale is over a year past the best before date.
spinrsx wrote:[DISCONTINUED] Smuttynose FinestKind IPA (473 mL can) was discontinued
wonder what happened here
weak sales #s
a lot of SKUs on the shelves these days. Geeks buy a few (or one) and move on the the next new thing. Regular drinkers are most likely consuming Corona/heineken/bud/etc
(just a guess)
I'm not sure if this has been mentioned elsewhere, but if I'm reading this right there seems to be a bunch of Hitachino stuff at Highway 7 and Woodbine. They have the amber, espresso stout, lager and nipponia.
Bobsy wrote:I'm not sure if this has been mentioned elsewhere, but if I'm reading this right there seems to be a bunch of Hitachino stuff at Highway 7 and Woodbine. They have the amber, espresso stout, lager and nipponia.
Them have their beers at some ping pong bar at East Beaver Creek there. Maybe they bring them into that store for the bar. They charge like $13 a bottle or something at the bar. I almost shit myself.
Bobsy wrote:I'm not sure if this has been mentioned elsewhere, but if I'm reading this right there seems to be a bunch of Hitachino stuff at Highway 7 and Woodbine. They have the amber, espresso stout, lager and nipponia.
As in, available for single bottle purchase? The LCBO site is only showing online/full case availability. That store's a bit too far out for me anyway, but may try somehow since I want to try the Nipponia one and the stout.
Bobsy wrote:I'm not sure if this has been mentioned elsewhere, but if I'm reading this right there seems to be a bunch of Hitachino stuff at Highway 7 and Woodbine. They have the amber, espresso stout, lager and nipponia.
As in, available for single bottle purchase? The LCBO site is only showing online/full case availability. That store's a bit too far out for me anyway, but may try somehow since I want to try the Nipponia one and the stout.
They were all single bottle purchase, and there were a few cases there. The only other store that is currently listing stick (I use Drinkvine to do my searches) is Steeles and Markham.
Had the stout last night for the first time in ages. Nice, strong coffee flavour!
midlife crisis wrote:I'd be interested in your review of the Harvest Ale once you have cracked it. My recollection is that I've really enjoyed it some years and others not so much.
Sadly I've got to echo the disappointment that a lot of others here have found. One word for this iteration: bubblegum. Very strange fruity sweetness in this version, some tropical fruitiness and this persisting bubblegum flavour reminiscent of a hefeweizen. I'm pretty disappointed by the drastic profile change, enough that I'll probably send my feedback to Muskoka since they've changed an old favourite so drastically that it's not the Harvest Ale in my eyes.
