The Bar Towel

I was excited to see this at my local LCBO. I've seen it spoken of very well on the forums, and have wanted to try it for awhile now. I really don't get why though. I loved the lemon and bread flavours, and the creamy mouthfeel. Unfortunately, I didn't like that note of overcooked boiled vegetables. I was reminded of Nickel Brook Organic towards the end, though it's nowhere near as bad.

Maybe it's just a sub-par batch. It's not terrible, but I really see no need to buy it again. It would have be a lot better than what it is at that price point.

I thought the Lug Tread was tasty enough. I didn't find any boiled vegetables in my bottle but I agree that it wasn't special enough to justify the price. The fancy bottles may be good to get people to try it at the first time but I think they probably add so much to the price that they will keep people from buying lots of it.

There's no reason to pay a few extra dollars to get that beer in ceramic. It's not an Imperial Stout that will age for a year or two. It isn't a monster hoppy deluxe IPA that one might want to shield from light damage. The expense of the bottle is not recoverable in any way.

But it is a pretty good everyday beer. I wish them luck with the product esp on draught.

I had a growler of lug tread a few months ago and I noted a vegetableness to it.. which is strange because they are normally great and being a growler I thought it would have been about as good a shape as I could get it in. Since then my lug treads have all been rock solid though, so give it another shot. You'll likely find its better.

toweringpine wrote:The fancy bottles may be good to get people to try it at the first time but I think they probably add so much to the price that they will keep people from buying lots of it.

I expect that we will start seeing this in different bottles soon, which should help bring the price down by a couple of dollars.

As I understand it, they were looking for a unique bottle for their beer in order for it to stand out. But I don't think that they knew exactly what they were getting into with the amount of labour involved in servicing those ceramic bottles.

It's no doubt that they are cool but a more efficient packaging is on it's way as above.

Hmmmm, I've had numerous of the ceramic bottles, and found them to be excellent. We're now running it on our rotating tap at Castro's Lounge in the Beach; our first 30 was done in 4 days. We'll have it for the rest of February, if anybody is around and interested in having it on tap.

cfrancis wrote:As I understand it, they were looking for a unique bottle for their beer in order for it to stand out. But I don't think that they knew exactly what they were getting into with the amount of labour involved in servicing those ceramic bottles.

It's no doubt that they are cool but a more efficient packaging is on it's way as above.

Yea the amount of work it takes to fill those bottles is insane. I went on a tour of Beau's last summer, and basically they keg everything straight from the tanks. Then there is a guy working non stop loading bottles two at a time from one pallet into a machine, then pressing a button to fill them from a keg, then he seals the caps and moves them onto another pallet.