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New Arrivals at LCBO & TBS
- El Pinguino
- Seasoned Drinker
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new:
MILL STREET WINTER SAMPLER**
Canada | Trillium Beverage Inc.
LCBO 397059 | 6x362 mL | $ 13.85
ROGUE YELLOW SNOW 5L PARTY KEG**
USA | Rogue Ales Brewery
LCBO 385427 | 5000 mL | N/A
and this is back?? (not supposed to be)
ST. AMBROISE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL STOUT
LCBO 171413 | 341 mL bottle
Price: $ 6.00
and the vintage vertical pack is listed again.
MILL STREET WINTER SAMPLER**
Canada | Trillium Beverage Inc.
LCBO 397059 | 6x362 mL | $ 13.85
ROGUE YELLOW SNOW 5L PARTY KEG**
USA | Rogue Ales Brewery
LCBO 385427 | 5000 mL | N/A
and this is back?? (not supposed to be)
ST. AMBROISE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL STOUT
LCBO 171413 | 341 mL bottle
Price: $ 6.00
and the vintage vertical pack is listed again.
- grub
- Seasoned Drinker
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- Joined: Fri Sep 15, 2006 3:16 pm
- Location: Biergötter Homebrew Club, Brantford
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i think that's been the standard price on that one since they switched from stubby's to ceramic. the sad part is the stubby's were around $5-6 if i remember right... so you're paying aaaaall that extra just for the ceramic bottle. barely worth the original $5-6 cost and certainly not worth the artificially inflated ceramic one.Ceecee wrote:Holy crap. $13.95??!
MILL STREET BARLEY WINE
LCBO 70359 | 500 mL bottle
Price $ 13.95
Made in: Ontario, Canada
@grubextrapolate // @biergotter // http://biergotter.org/
haha, it just seems like every time i get something from outside ontario, the LCBO gets it in 2 weeks laterspinrsx wrote:and it was more expensive there? confused about the 'damn it'
distr0 wrote:Ceecee wrote:LA RESOLUTION
LCBO 401166 | 750 mL bottle
Price $ 8.95
Made in: Quebec, Canada
damnit, i just bought some in quebec
- grub
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all of it or just a selection for special events? don't recall hearing anything about the bottles being BA, but i may have forgotten...based on my past experience and the price tag, that's still not enough to make me buy it.cfrancis wrote:I believe Mill Street is barrel aging their barley wine now as well. Started last year if memory serves.
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You mean this:cfrancis wrote:I believe Mill Street is barrel aging their barley wine now as well. Started last year if memory serves.
Not sure how long they have been "careful[ly] aging in whiskey barrels", but that same copypasta is on all the 2012-13 bottles I can find.
Not that it does any good, this is a piss-poor example of a barley wine IMO, let alone a "barrel aged" one.
- darmokandjalad
- Posts: 262
- Joined: Fri Jan 11, 2013 8:04 pm
- Location: Ridgetown, ON
There was two whole flats of last year's Mill Street barleywine batch sitting on the shelves of my local LCBO for at least 6-8 months. Pretty much untouched. They vanished overnight sometime in the early summer; maybe someone spontaneously decided to buy 24 bottles of the stuff, but I have a feeling management just wanted to free up the shelf space and foisted them off on other stores.
Barrel aged or not, $14 for a half-litre of beer that has received lukewarm reviews (at best) is outside of my price range, and I don't think I'm a minority as far as that sentiment goes. Mill Street should strongly consider ditching the ceramic bottles because as it stands the price point is way too god damned high.
Barrel aged or not, $14 for a half-litre of beer that has received lukewarm reviews (at best) is outside of my price range, and I don't think I'm a minority as far as that sentiment goes. Mill Street should strongly consider ditching the ceramic bottles because as it stands the price point is way too god damned high.
Stubby's were about 330ml to the Ceramic's 500ml. Still it's like they are now charging equivalent to 9.25 bucks for a stubby so over 50% price increase by volume. And you're right it (IME used to be) drinkable but no great shakes as a BW.grub wrote:i think that's been the standard price on that one since they switched from stubby's to ceramic. the sad part is the stubby's were around $5-6 if i remember right... so you're paying aaaaall that extra just for the ceramic bottle. barely worth the original $5-6 cost and certainly not worth the artificially inflated ceramic one.
I think I had bottle number 98 of the '02 or '04, it was small runs in the beginning. Mill Street were this funny, cult-y little brewery back in the day (pre-sports bar) and it was fun to go there. Now I feel like I'd need to tap my line of credit to go dining in the Distillerahhh....
In Beerum Veritas
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