CBC Piece on the LCBO Lab

BakaGaijin · Post by **BakaGaijin** » Mon Sep 29, 2014 9:49 pm

3 days!?!.....is that legit?!?

spinrsx · Post by **spinrsx** » Mon Sep 29, 2014 10:02 pm

Can see the st bernardus xmas and the bernardus mixed pack in there... and a bunch of evil twin! Imperial stouts, barleywine, pilsner. Next brewery feature?!?!

This combined with the winter release and the mikkeller release; Christmas is shaping up to be epic at the lcbo

instantkamera · Post by **instantkamera** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 8:36 am

spinrsx wrote:Can see the st bernardus xmas and the bernardus mixed pack in there... and a bunch of evil twin! Imperial stouts, barleywine, pilsner. Next brewery feature?!?!

This combined with the winter release and the mikkeller release; Christmas is shaping up to be epic at the lcbo

Saw that too. Puff piece aside, that's promising.

rfrf · Post by **rfrf** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 8:56 am

spinrsx wrote:Can see the st bernardus xmas and the bernardus mixed pack in there... and a bunch of evil twin! Imperial stouts, barleywine, pilsner. Next brewery feature?!?!

This combined with the winter release and the mikkeller release; Christmas is shaping up to be epic at the lcbo

Evil Twin is in a ton of local bars now though and they test everything that comes into Ontario, not just going to the LCBO, right? Here's hoping.. !

instantkamera · Post by **instantkamera** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 9:06 am

rfrf wrote:
spinrsx wrote:Can see the st bernardus xmas and the bernardus mixed pack in there... and a bunch of evil twin! Imperial stouts, barleywine, pilsner. Next brewery feature?!?!

This combined with the winter release and the mikkeller release; Christmas is shaping up to be epic at the lcbo
Evil Twin is in a ton of local bars now though and they test everything that comes into Ontario, not just going to the LCBO, right? Here's hoping.. !

Yeah never even thought of that, but that's correct. I've had Yin/Yang and it had extra stickers on it, presumably from the LCBO.

spinrsx · Post by **spinrsx** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 9:18 am

Ya, I didn't think of that either. There was only 4 evil twin beers there as well, I assume a feature would be 5-6 different brews.

this was the bernardus mixed pack in the video

northyorksammy · Post by **northyorksammy** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 9:28 am

Didn't LCBO make Evil Twin take off the word evil from the bottles owing to it making fun of people with a disability?

Craig · Post by **Craig** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 9:46 am

northyorksammy wrote:Didn't LCBO make Evil Twin take off the word evil from the bottles owing to it making fun of people with a disability?

I'm trying to decide which would be more offensive, the LCBO thinking people would in any way associate twins with being evil or the LCBO assuming being a twin is a disability.

spinrsx · Post by **spinrsx** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 12:07 pm

wondering how much that bernardus mixed pack is going to cost. It's $25.99 in the states

ercousin · Post by **ercousin** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 1:59 pm

You can tell by watching how much he prefers wine over beer, no wonder it takes months for beer to get tested. I bet the time time for wine is much less than that...

3 days for testing, weeks sitting in the warehouse waiting to start testing...

Belgian · Post by **Belgian** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 7:22 pm

It's like a US border crossing with one guard booth open, except wines get a NEXUS pass.

DarcyK · Post by **DarcyK** » Mon Oct 20, 2014 11:39 am

I think chances are good of the St Bernardus mix pack being released at the LCBO, given the Abt 12 on the shelf right now. Those bottles of Evil Twin could have been for Keep6. I remember Ralph saying that every beer they import privately still has to be tested by the LGBO, even if it never lands on an LCBO shelf. That might explain why many of us have seen them at bars, but not in the LCBO.

napoleon · Post by **napoleon** » Wed Oct 22, 2014 1:02 pm

An interesting question would be how often the LCBO finds something that's actually contaminated. To my knowledge, no state in the US puts this level of testing into things, and yet you never hear of any wine or beer poisonings there.

I'm sure this process is pretty expensive in terms of equipment and labor. I'd rather see it drastically reduced in favour of lower prices for me, additional revenue for the province, or both.

spinrsx · Post by **spinrsx** » Wed Dec 03, 2014 2:02 pm

figured out where some of those evil twin beers in the video ended up

skootles · Post by **skootles** » Fri Dec 05, 2014 2:20 pm

And some more made it to Thirsty: