Which LCBO Beers Do You Miss The Most?

sofakingdrunk · Post by **sofakingdrunk** » Mon Oct 06, 2014 3:55 pm

Forgot to mention Deschutes Black Butte. Loved that

austin · Post by **austin** » Mon Oct 06, 2014 8:39 pm

Fuller's 1845

dale cannon · Post by **dale cannon** » Tue Oct 07, 2014 5:00 pm

there will always be places in my heart for..

fullers 1845
okocim porter
unibroue terrible
founders backwoods bastard
southern tier gemini, unearthly and 2xipa
westmalle dubbel
la chouffe

<sniff, sniff>

matt7215 · Post by **matt7215** » Tue Oct 07, 2014 6:49 pm

dale cannon wrote:there will always be places in my heart for..

okocim porter

<sniff, sniff>

Forgot about that gem! It was great.

Belgian · Post by **Belgian** » Tue Oct 07, 2014 9:11 pm

^ I had almost mentioned Okocim. Actually the original Okocim Pils was a nice strong-tasting polish lager, it was later replaced with something called 'export' which I found gross. But the baltic porter, yes!

Westmalle Dubbel is coming back, briefly... I might squirrel away half a case since it ages really well for years, and stands up respectably to some to the more vaunted Trappists (same yeast strain as Westvleteren's brewery now uses, I just remembered.)

ercousin · Post by **ercousin** » Tue Oct 07, 2014 11:19 pm

Belgian wrote:^ I had almost mentioned Okocim. Actually the original Okocim Pils was a nice strong-tasting polish lager, it was later replaced with something called 'export' which I found gross. But the baltic porter, yes!

Westmalle Dubbel is coming back, briefly... I might squirrel away half a case since it ages really well for years, and stands up respectably to some to the more vaunted Trappists (same yeast strain as Westvleteren's brewery now uses, I just remembered.)

I recently had some Westmalle Tripel and Dubbel that were about a year or two old each and they were terribly oxidized. Perhaps they used to cellar well but the new stuff seems to have quality problems.

dale cannon · Post by **dale cannon** » Wed Oct 08, 2014 11:18 am

Oh dear!

I neglected to mention the saison DuPont, specifically in the tiny bottles with the butterfly on the label...circa 2006?

JeffPorter · Post by **JeffPorter** » Wed Oct 08, 2014 11:09 pm

dale cannon wrote:Oh dear!

I neglected to mention the saison DuPont, specifically in the tiny bottles with the butterfly on the label...circa 2006?

Oh, man...yeah...If I remember correctly, were they, like, 250ml?

Inkling · Post by **Inkling** » Thu Oct 09, 2014 12:29 am

spinrsx wrote:Prima pils and dfh 60min

+1 for the Prima Pils. I always buy it when travelling now, after having discovered it when it was at the LCBO.

mintjellie · Post by **mintjellie** » Thu Oct 09, 2014 10:36 am

Inkling wrote:
spinrsx wrote:Prima pils and dfh 60min
+1 for the Prima Pils. I always buy it when travelling now, after having discovered it when it was at the LCBO.

Make that a +2. I loved that beer.

I also miss Christoffel Blonde and Christoffel Nobel.

Sam Adams Latitude 48 as well.

Aventinus Weizen-Eisbock.
Weltenberger Kloster-Assam Bock.
Ayinger Celebrator.
Paulaner Salvator
Fullers 1845
Adnams Broadside
Belhaven Scottish Stout

spinrsx · Post by **spinrsx** » Thu Oct 09, 2014 11:53 am

aren't these all at the lcbo right now?

mintjellie wrote: I also miss

Sam Adams Latitude 48
Aventinus Weizen-Eisbock.
Belhaven Scottish Stout

toweringpine · Post by **toweringpine** » Thu Oct 09, 2014 12:34 pm

Bellhaven Twisted Thistle.

It was available years ago as singles and made a reappearance in the mixed pack from last Christmas' release. The ones last year were not nearly as good as when it was available as singles.

Wheatsheaf · Post by **Wheatsheaf** » Thu Oct 09, 2014 12:58 pm

JeffPorter wrote:
dale cannon wrote:Oh dear!

I neglected to mention the saison DuPont, specifically in the tiny bottles with the butterfly on the label...circa 2006?
Oh, man...yeah...If I remember correctly, were they, like, 250ml?

What do you guys like about the 250ml bottles? The smaller format? The cute label? I have had a lot of both and I feel pretty strongly that the smaller bottles are inferior. If 250ml is stereo, 750ml is glorious surround sound. So much of what makes Saison Dupont great is the yeast, and I just don't think the dynamics scale down well. (Incidentally, I just had a 10 1/2 year-old Saison Dupont, a 750, a few days ago--amazingly good, one of the best beers I've had all year.)

lister · Post by **lister** » Thu Oct 09, 2014 1:12 pm

Wheatsheaf wrote:What do you guys like about the 250ml bottles? The smaller format? The cute label? I have had a lot of both and I feel pretty strongly that the smaller bottles are inferior. If 250ml is stereo, 750ml is glorious surround sound. So much of what makes Saison Dupont great is the yeast, and I just don't think the dynamics scale down well. (Incidentally, I just had a 10 1/2 year-old Saison Dupont, a 750, a few days ago--amazingly good, one of the best beers I've had all year.)

I don't like the small or large sizes. The various 333ml through 500ml sizes work best for me, cans preferred.

dale cannon · Post by **dale cannon** » Thu Oct 09, 2014 1:43 pm

toweringpine wrote:Bellhaven Twisted Thistle.

It was available years ago as singles and made a reappearance in the mixed pack from last Christmas' release. The ones last year were not nearly as good as when it was available as singles.

I felt precisely the same. The one in the mixed pack was a watered down shell of it's former self. The one in singles had a potent and delicious hop profile, beautifully balanced. I will add the singles version of it to my memory lane list.

Wheatsheaf wrote:What do you guys like about the 250ml bottles? The smaller format? The cute label? I have had a lot of both and I feel pretty strongly that the smaller bottles are inferior. If 250ml is stereo, 750ml is glorious surround sound. So much of what makes Saison Dupont great is the yeast, and I just don't think the dynamics scale down well. (Incidentally, I just had a 10 1/2 year-old Saison Dupont, a 750, a few days ago--amazingly good, one of the best beers I've had all year.)

The butterfly effect.