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If you could persuade an importer...
If you could persuade an importer...
So, I was thinking about some of the great breweries available at the LCBO, and the brews that we have in to represent them. Then I began to think about some of the great beers these breweries bottled that were not available at the LCBO and I got a little sad. If you could persuade our friendly beer importers to bring in other offerings from breweries we already have available to us (which is a damn sight more realistic than hoping for Stone and Lost Abbey) what would you ask for?
Off the top of my head I'd like to see Southern Tier Winter Ale or Harvest Ale, Sam Smith's Taddy Porter and the Schneider-Brooklyner Hopfen-weisse. Also mentioning Brooklyn...how about the entire portfolio and ditto for Dogfish Head?
So what would everyone else love to see from the breweries already on the LCBO books?
Off the top of my head I'd like to see Southern Tier Winter Ale or Harvest Ale, Sam Smith's Taddy Porter and the Schneider-Brooklyner Hopfen-weisse. Also mentioning Brooklyn...how about the entire portfolio and ditto for Dogfish Head?
So what would everyone else love to see from the breweries already on the LCBO books?
I'd like to see Hop Devil and Storm King back at the LCBO.
Or Moretti La Rossa for that matter. Nothing comparable currently on the shelves anywhere near.
I second Dogfish tho... wouldnt mind going into a local pub one day and be surprised by a fresh 1/6 keg of 120 min IPA after a hockey game. At 12$ a pitcher
Or Moretti La Rossa for that matter. Nothing comparable currently on the shelves anywhere near.
I second Dogfish tho... wouldnt mind going into a local pub one day and be surprised by a fresh 1/6 keg of 120 min IPA after a hockey game. At 12$ a pitcher
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Do you mean beers you'd like to see the importers bring in as special orders or beers you'd like them to have listed at the LCBO? Obviously the importers often pitch beers from their client breweries other than the ones currently available at the LCBO but they don't get picked by the selection committee. However, unless the brewery is unwilling to supply a given product, you can usually get a private order of anything from a brewery who is already shipping product here. That's how out ST private orders were facilitated.
Regardless, if I stick to only breweries who are already shipping to the LCBO and have beers listed regularly I'd vote for Fuller's Golden Pride & ESB, Dogfish 90 & 120 IPA, Anchor Old Foghorn and Porter, The Rogue XS trio, Independence Hop Ale, Yellow Snow & Captain Sig's, Southern Tier (all the imperials)...for a start.
you want to get really crazy, I'd want kegs of any/all of that stuff to make it here and into the bar/restaurant supply. But that's like wishing for Bells, Alesmith, Stone, Hair of the Dog, Lost Abbey etc, etc...
Regardless, if I stick to only breweries who are already shipping to the LCBO and have beers listed regularly I'd vote for Fuller's Golden Pride & ESB, Dogfish 90 & 120 IPA, Anchor Old Foghorn and Porter, The Rogue XS trio, Independence Hop Ale, Yellow Snow & Captain Sig's, Southern Tier (all the imperials)...for a start.
you want to get really crazy, I'd want kegs of any/all of that stuff to make it here and into the bar/restaurant supply. But that's like wishing for Bells, Alesmith, Stone, Hair of the Dog, Lost Abbey etc, etc...
I don't always piss in a bottle but when I do...I prefer to call it Dos Equis.
Hi Jon, I mean beers that I would like to see at the LCBO from brewers that are already stocked at the LCBO - potential things from the portfolios of all the various beer importers that you would like to see end up on the general list.Jon Walker wrote:Do you mean beers you'd like to see the importers bring in as special orders or beers you'd like them to have listed at the LCBO?
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I picked up some BarBar honey a few weeks ago. I drive through New Liskeard everyday so i'm very close to the Quebec border. Anyone who lives close to quebec can go to the SAQ and get a nice Lefebvre gift pack with 8 of their beers. BarBar, Triple, Dubbel, Blonde, Prima Melior, Kriek, Apple, and Blanche de Bruxelle.
Oh, and if i could persuade an importer, i would love to get some quality Oktoberfests!!!!
Oh, and if i could persuade an importer, i would love to get some quality Oktoberfests!!!!
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Anchor Porter as a seasonal.
I'm very surprised Dogfish 90 Minute has not surfaced here as a seasonal. Enough people are buying the 60.
Ditto southern tier Unearthly, which is probably a liquid with year-round appeal (have not had this particular liquid beer yet.)
I bet if our French split from Canada, the Ontario labeling laws would allow much more hassle-free USA imports. Au revoir, Québec!!!
I'm very surprised Dogfish 90 Minute has not surfaced here as a seasonal. Enough people are buying the 60.
Ditto southern tier Unearthly, which is probably a liquid with year-round appeal (have not had this particular liquid beer yet.)
I bet if our French split from Canada, the Ontario labeling laws would allow much more hassle-free USA imports. Au revoir, Québec!!!
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