Hello,
In terms of the Brasserie Dupont case quantities they are as follows:
Moinette Brune 200 cs
Monk's Stout 200 cs
Cervesia 400 cs
Biere de Mel Bio 200 cs
Cooper St. is showing lots of stock of all of these except for the Cervesia which is not yet on shelves. We hope to see more stock on shelves tomorrow!
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LCBO Brasserie Dupont Brewery Feature - March 2013
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Ukie wrote:Havent seen a store list.Roland + Russell wrote:As of this morning stock of all the Brasserie Dupont brewery feature beers is showing as available at Cooper Street....pick some up for the weekend! Hopefully, other stores will soon release too.
Cheers,
Any chance of these being available in the Burlington-Hamilton area?
So no......
Pretty much.Ukie wrote:Ukie wrote:Havent seen a store list.Roland + Russell wrote:As of this morning stock of all the Brasserie Dupont brewery feature beers is showing as available at Cooper Street....pick some up for the weekend! Hopefully, other stores will soon release too.
Cheers,
Any chance of these being available in the Burlington-Hamilton area?
So no......
This past year or so has been terrible for Hamilton. I've missed more Seasonals/Other one-offs more in the past year than ever before. There's definitely an established "Fuck Hamilton" attitude at the 'BO that only seems to be getting worse. There's no excuse for not having a Brewery Feature store here - I feel even worse for people in the Niagara area. I guess they'd rather have the beer sit on the shelf in other towns than let us lowlifes get a chance at it
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atomeyes wrote:anyone else find it funny that we're a few days away from April, yet the March release isn't in stores?
typical LCBO
While it is not our place nor job to address sentiments like these, an insider might wish to add to delays are sometimes caused on the production side (in this case there was a facility upgrade) and shipping issues (DHL's delay in picking up the order as per schedule).
As far as the store allocation is concerned, this release will be available in Oakville (sorry, we know it is not quite Hamilton or Burlington but perhaps it beats driving to Toronto). We will push to have all four on shelves closer to our Hamilton/Burlington customers.
Cheers and have a Happy Easter,
Cale wrote:
Pretty much.
This past year or so has been terrible for Hamilton. I've missed more Seasonals/Other one-offs more in the past year than ever before. There's definitely an established "Fuck Hamilton" attitude at the 'BO that only seems to be getting worse. There's no excuse for not having a Brewery Feature store here - I feel even worse for people in the Niagara area. I guess they'd rather have the beer sit on the shelf in other towns than let us lowlifes get a chance at it
Couldnt agree with you more. Its like they are doing it to piss us off!
Almost every release is last in to Hamilton. They tell me TO gets theirs from the TO warehouse and Hamilton comes from London. Well why do London stores have it and we dont? No answer.
For example 93 stores have Founders and yet none ever did in Hamilton, as far as I know. Asked at a Burlington store and the beer guy said no they werent getting any, looking today guess what, they did.
I think the demographics of Ancaster is dragging us down.
With these "Features" at 2 dozen stores or so, the bottom store should be dropped and a store with high volumes should be added. Promoted and relegated just like in soccer.
I know others in other areas can say the same thing so I sympathize, but Hamilton is over 1 million people, come on.
Ok I'm done.
Cale wrote:This past year or so has been terrible for Hamilton. I've missed more Seasonals/Other one-offs more in the past year than ever before. There's definitely an established "Fuck Hamilton" attitude at the 'BO that only seems to be getting worse. There's no excuse for not having a Brewery Feature store here - I feel even worse for people in the Niagara area. I guess they'd rather have the beer sit on the shelf in other towns than let us lowlifes get a chance at it
Hope I'm not pushing this thread too far off track but I agree with Cale.
LCBO, setting aside its virtual monopoly, is a successful retailer. It carefully ties its product distribution with market demographics. I'm sure Hamilton is seen as largely down-market, especially in the "lower-city" (below the escarpment). Too few people with incomes high enough to justify the distribution of the seasonals, one-offs, and many other craft beer listings.
The Centre Mall LBCO has a massive walk-in fridge and could easily stock everything we would like to buy. No dice. The only store where one can get anything close to a location like, say, King/Spadina is the one on Dundurn. Why? Because that location is close to higher-income earners in west Hamilton.
By contrast, the Cornwall/Trafalgar outlet in Oakville is smack in the middle of a wealthy area which in turn is surrounded by many middle-class neighbourhoods.
There's a reason why LCBO asks for your postal code on a regular basis.
Why don't you guys get together and do some orders and get with an LCBO manager in order to press them to get more stuff in.
The guy in Orleans here in Ottawa has turned that LCBO into a top 3 in the city. They are getting everything and it's sort of in my hood which makes it great. I've also talked to them about bringing in some stuff this summer that only gets released in Toronto.
The guy in Orleans here in Ottawa has turned that LCBO into a top 3 in the city. They are getting everything and it's sort of in my hood which makes it great. I've also talked to them about bringing in some stuff this summer that only gets released in Toronto.
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Because they're right next to the warehouse that you're talking about? Sounds like it would make more sense if the Hamilton stores got their stuff from T.O.Ukie wrote: Almost every release is last in to Hamilton. They tell me TO gets theirs from the TO warehouse and Hamilton comes from London. Well why do London stores have it and we don't?
This is patently untrue. The city proper is ~520,000 and the metro is ~720,000. That said, there's no way an urban market of that size can't support features, seasonals, and one-time releases.Ukie wrote: Hamilton is over 1 million people, come on.
Agreed. Somewhere along the line assumptions have been made about whether or not the city will snatch up special releases, and I'm willing to bet those assumptions are wrong. Just by sheer size, heterogeneity and the fact that it's a characteristically urban market, I think Hamilton would support features etc. as strongly as any other large centre. Also, I'm not sure the idea that predominantly blue collar towns don't like craft beer is correct; otherwise places like Buffalo would be beer wastelands.zane9 wrote: It carefully ties its product distribution with market demographics. I'm sure Hamilton is seen as largely down-market, especially in the "lower-city" (below the escarpment).
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Any A store manager should want to bring in these beers. But it is not up to a manager to carry brewery features. Those stares are allocated by Head Office. They have some sort of magical formula that allows them to have carnal knowledge about demographics that us mindless pleabs could never understand. That formula is calculated like this.......zane9 wrote:Ok Team Hamilton. Time for a meet-up! Steelbackguy can help us find the most user-friendly store manager (I hope).cfrancis wrote:Why don't you guys get together and do some orders and get with an LCBO manager in order to press them to get more stuff in...
A+B=C
In this case A=Centre of the universe
and B = Mindless LCBO head office types that are Toronto centric
C= the results we typically see which is Toronthole getting most of the beers.
Not that it matters to me as I rarely drink alcohol anymore, but it doesn`t change the facts.
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No good beer.Cale wrote:There's definitely an established "Fuck Hamilton" attitude at the 'BO that only seems to be getting worse.
No NHL team.
No clean air.
No nothin'.
Hamilton has been getting the shaft since day one.
That's the way she goes. Sometimes she goes, sometimes it doesn't. She didn't go. That's the way she goes.