Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 3:11 pm
plus the 2 denisons IMOmidlife crisis wrote:Which ones? Welly RIS and Hop Head would be two of them, I'm guessing?
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plus the 2 denisons IMOmidlife crisis wrote:Which ones? Welly RIS and Hop Head would be two of them, I'm guessing?
A lot of the best Great Lakes one offs haven't got the 10 ratings necessary to make that list. The weighting system on RB brings down the score vs. the avg for beers < 10 ratings.midlife crisis wrote:
It may be in part a "recency effect", but GL Harry Porter, for instance, would easily be within my personal top ten Ontario beers. And one of the sours, too.
Not sure I understand this phenomenon, assuming a beer is shipped to Ontario fresh - packages I've had shipped to me take < 3 days to get here from Halifax. What has changed within the beer that allows it to 'lose something'?Bobbyok wrote:Woo, blast from the past thread. Email notification reminded me I haven't been here in a while.
I suspect the RB numbers are heavily influenced by whether or not the beer makes it beyond Ontario. Quite a few of those just aren't quite as good once they've travelled a bit. I see the same effect with beers from the Maritimes that rate highly here but lose something once they get shipped.
I'm thinking more the ones that get wider distribution vs trading. Anything from here going to Ontario gets to sit in a warehouse for a while before it gets sold, same with Ontario to here. The wider the distribution, the more ratings it gets that may be outside of optimal conditions.liamt07 wrote:Not sure I understand this phenomenon, assuming a beer is shipped to Ontario fresh - packages I've had shipped to me take < 3 days to get here from Halifax. What has changed within the beer that allows it to 'lose something'?Bobbyok wrote:Woo, blast from the past thread. Email notification reminded me I haven't been here in a while.
I suspect the RB numbers are heavily influenced by whether or not the beer makes it beyond Ontario. Quite a few of those just aren't quite as good once they've travelled a bit. I see the same effect with beers from the Maritimes that rate highly here but lose something once they get shipped.
i've bought a couple that were pedestrian at best.mintjellie wrote:Smashbomb is hit-or-miss? I've never bought a bad sixer of it.
It is. A lot of people have reported inconsistencies with the bottled version.mintjellie wrote:Smashbomb is hit-or-miss? I've never bought a bad sixer of it.
A solid list that we can certainly be proud of, and I would gladly recommend any of those beers to folks from out of province. Also, given current brewing trends and the rapidly improving state of Ontario beer, I wouldn't be surprised if we see one or two sours crack the Top 10 over the next few years.Cass wrote:Ben tweeted out this thread as a "blast from the past." Out of curiosity I checked the list now, and here it is:
1. Flying Monkeys BNL Imperial Chocolate Stout
2. Great Lakes Brewing Karma Citra
3. Great Lakes Brewing 25th Anniversary Imperial Black IPA
4. Bellwoods Witchshark Imperial IPA
5. Black Oak 10 Bitter Years
6. Bellwoods 3 Minutes to Midnight
7. Great Lakes Brewing 25th Anniversary Bourbon Barrel Aged Russian Imperial Stout
8. Flying Monkeys The Chocolate Manifesto
9. Great Lakes Brewing Lake Effect IPA
10. Amsterdam Tempest Imperial Stout
Quite something to see 10BY holding in the top 10 (#3 vs. #5). Everyone else from the old top 10 dropped out.
I agree, but Thrust still tops the list.sofakingdrunk wrote:anyone else think that Lake Effect was quite a bit better than Karma Citra....or just me?