LCBO 2013 Winter Craft Beer Release

sprague11 · Post by **sprague11** » Fri Jan 31, 2014 9:27 pm

Drinking a Buxton now. Pretty good!

JoeMcPhee · Post by **JoeMcPhee** » Fri Jan 31, 2014 9:35 pm

Just finished drinking a Buxton now - insanely good.

liamt07 · Post by **liamt07** » Sun Feb 02, 2014 11:46 am

JoeMcPhee wrote:Just finished drinking a Buxton now - insanely good.

Really? These bottles are dated August 8, 2013 - almost 6 months old by this point...

nickelass · Post by **nickelass** » Sun Feb 02, 2014 11:54 am

They are still pretty solid for being old.

Belgian · Post by **Belgian** » Sun Feb 02, 2014 1:56 pm

nickelass wrote:They are still pretty solid for being old.

I guess we're spoiled - while the LC fails at getting us some IPAs nearly as fresh as we'd like, at least we rarely find years-old stock lurking on the shelves here as we can in some USA retail shops.

Black IPA especially might need time to 'knit together' and not my favorite style grouping, a really inconsistent category.

spinrsx · Post by **spinrsx** » Wed Feb 05, 2014 8:45 pm

Just had my first Buxton. I'm a big Black IPA fan, and this is pretty solid.

spinrsx · Post by **spinrsx** » Wed Feb 05, 2014 8:46 pm

there's a bottle date on these? I only see a best before

liamt07 wrote:
JoeMcPhee wrote:Just finished drinking a Buxton now - insanely good.
Really? These bottles are dated August 8, 2013 - almost 6 months old by this point...

liamt07 · Post by **liamt07** » Wed Feb 05, 2014 11:15 pm

spinrsx wrote:there's a bottle date on these? I only see a best before

liamt07 wrote:
JoeMcPhee wrote:Just finished drinking a Buxton now - insanely good.
Really? These bottles are dated August 8, 2013 - almost 6 months old by this point...

Bottles at Dufferin and Wilson are still in the case, which has the production date printed on them.

Belgian · Post by **Belgian** » Thu Feb 06, 2014 1:54 am

spinrsx wrote:Just had my first Buxton. I'm a big Black IPA fan, and this is pretty solid.

Well I'm of mixed ethnicity, and the Buxton sounds worth trying so I'll grab one.

kafercrazy · Post by **kafercrazy** » Thu Feb 20, 2014 10:46 am

so, if 72 bottles of Gulden Draak 9000 show up on LCBO.com & drinkvine.com and are gone by the time I get to the store does that mean that they got picked up by a local restaurant?

biegaman · Post by **biegaman** » Thu Feb 20, 2014 11:11 am

kafercrazy wrote:so, if 72 bottles of Gulden Draak 9000 show up on LCBO.com & drinkvine.com and are gone by the time I get to the store does that mean that they got picked up by a local restaurant?

Could be in the back. When I when to Laird they were showing 96 but none of the shelf. Make sure to ask! (especially in this case as 72 is an even 3 cases)

kafercrazy · Post by **kafercrazy** » Thu Feb 20, 2014 11:27 am

biegaman wrote:
kafercrazy wrote:so, if 72 bottles of Gulden Draak 9000 show up on LCBO.com & drinkvine.com and are gone by the time I get to the store does that mean that they got picked up by a local restaurant?
Could be in the back. When I when to Laird they were showing 96 but none of the shelf. Make sure to ask! (especially in this case as 72 is an even 3 cases)

I asked. And it they couldn't find it on the computer at the register.

biegaman · Post by **biegaman** » Fri Feb 21, 2014 11:38 am

kafercrazy wrote:I asked. And it they couldn't find it on the computer at the register.

Odd. I remember someone on here posting before that sometimes if the stock is in the warehouse but already been allocated to the store, it can show up as if the store already has it. Maybe it's on its way? Can anyone else speak to this?

spinrsx · Post by **spinrsx** » Fri Feb 21, 2014 12:46 pm

draak had a weird distribution. Only 2 stores in the ottawa area ever received it. Even the founders feature went to more stores

BakaGaijin · Post by **BakaGaijin** » Fri Feb 21, 2014 7:30 pm

spinrsx wrote:draak had a weird distribution. Only 2 stores in the ottawa area ever received it. Even the founders feature went to more stores

Oakville never received any, so I called the Flagship store on Cornwall and asked them to order some from the London warehouse (which had stock).......and then they did.

Sometimes you just need to ask the person responsible for ordering at each store to bring in certain products.

Certain stores order from certain warehouses.........so sometimes it can be difficult to get certain products. For example......Oakville orders from London warehouse, not Toronto. This is why they couldn't get any Rochefort 10. It was in the Toronto warehouse.