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sofakingdrunk wrote:Has anybody ever thought any of the Renaissance stuff is worth the price? I've tried 3 or 4 of them and thought they're all average at best. I supposed someone must be buying them as they keep popping up.
I've had the same impression. Though a lot of the stuff we've gotten is hoppy and I have serious doubts about the LCBO's ability to get hoppy beers from New Zealand on the shelves while they're still fresh.
Just found out that the dragons milk will be in the Winter lcbo release, so there is still hope. The Anderson Valley Wild Turkey will be coming in 2015.
spinrsx wrote:I was hoping for new holland dragons milk (it had been rumoured to be coming)
Not a great ticker release, but to be honest, I care about being able to recommend things that are a good value to a blue collar readership that periodically tries new stuff. Smuttynose and Anchor gone do just fine.
Does anyone know if there is a way to just search 'all stores' on the new website? I hate having to look up postal codes of LCBOs that I'd be willing to go to just to see if they have the beer. Sometimes things are best the way they are, and I fucking hate the new LCBO website.
Also, the 'find similar' function couldn't be more useless. Seriously, what a piece of shit website. That is not user friendly in the least... it's the enemy of the user... unless I'm just using it wrong or something.
Blasphomet wrote:Does anyone know if there is a way to just search 'all stores' on the new website? I hate having to look up postal codes of LCBOs that I'd be willing to go to just to see if they have the beer. Sometimes things are best the way they are, and I fucking hate the new LCBO website.
Also, the 'find similar' function couldn't be more useless. Seriously, what a piece of shit website. That is not user friendly in the least... it's the enemy of the user... unless I'm just using it wrong or something.
what sucks is that the 2 sites have different information.. Amager Bryghus Extra Strong Imperial Stout isn't on foodanddrink and it IS on lcbo.com
Beer'n'gin wrote:
Blasphomet wrote:Does anyone know if there is a way to just search 'all stores' on the new website? I hate having to look up postal codes of LCBOs that I'd be willing to go to just to see if they have the beer. Sometimes things are best the way they are, and I fucking hate the new LCBO website.
Also, the 'find similar' function couldn't be more useless. Seriously, what a piece of shit website. That is not user friendly in the least... it's the enemy of the user... unless I'm just using it wrong or something.
spinrsx wrote:what sucks is that the 2 sites have different information.. Amager Bryghus Extra Strong Imperial Stout isn't on foodanddrink and it IS on lcbo.com
Crap, two different databases. I hope the LCBO has some sort of late night database copy that puts the lcbo.com DB onto foodanddrink.ca/vintages.com.
But it wouldn't surprise me if there's someone manually updating both.
(it had been rumoured to be coming)
