LCBO Giftpacks/Holiday Ales 2010

Ukie · Post by **Ukie** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 7:59 pm

Greg, any hints on whats coming in the way of giftpacks and dont say Guinness?

Other than the ST and Brooklyn Pumpkins' I've pretty much got the Autumn releases covered.

TheSevenDuffs · Post by **TheSevenDuffs** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 8:14 pm

This is from Beer Advocate (posted by another user):

Hirschbrau 3 bottle gift pack with Mug
Bavarian Alps 3 Collector bottle gift
la Chouffe Golden Ale
Duvel gift box with Tulip
Samuel Smith Winter Welcome Ale
Chimay gift pack with glass
Exclusive Belgian Ales
Biere Du Boucanier mixed pack
St.Peter's Twinpack with glass
Fullers Vintage Ale
Samuel Smith Selection with glass
St.Peters Winter Ale
Erdinger gift pack with glass
Innis And Gunn Oak collection with glass
Baltika gift pack with glass

SteelbackGuy · Post by **SteelbackGuy** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 8:26 pm

TheSevenDuffs wrote:This is from Beer Advocate (posted by another user):

Baltika gift pack with glass

The sleeper hit of the season.

GregClow · Post by **GregClow** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 9:12 pm

Damn, my LCBO contact must be holding out on me if the gift packs list is already out there elsewhere!

I'll see if I can find out more details about those, and whether or not the Winter release has been firmed up yet.

mintjellie · Post by **mintjellie** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 11:43 pm

SteelbackGuy wrote:
TheSevenDuffs wrote:This is from Beer Advocate (posted by another user):

Baltika gift pack with glass

The sleeper hit of the season.

I like the porter. I wish they would just bring the porter in as a single.

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 11:57 pm

The Hirschbrau and Bavarian Alps Collector could be interesting.

northyorksammy · Post by **northyorksammy** » Tue Oct 05, 2010 8:16 am

[quote="Derek"]The Hirschbrau and Bavarian Alps Collector could be interesting.[/quote]

curious to know which bottles, and in the latter which brewery

mintjellie · Post by **mintjellie** » Tue Oct 05, 2010 8:45 am

Hirschbrau make a Weihnachts-Bier. Could we be getting a christmas beer for the christmas season?

cannondale · Post by **cannondale** » Tue Oct 05, 2010 10:03 am

TheSevenDuffs wrote:la Chouffe Golden Ale

Here's hoping that this inclusion somehow leads to a general listing. It would certainly fill a hole.

icemachine · Post by **icemachine** » Tue Oct 05, 2010 10:34 am

Really interested in the Hirschbrau - their swingtops are great for homebrew

Ukie · Post by **Ukie** » Tue Oct 05, 2010 1:41 pm

icemachine wrote:Really interested in the Hirschbrau - their swingtops are great for homebrew

Picked up some Muskoka Harvest and as Greg mentioned in another post, they have swingtops.

Belgian · Post by **Belgian** » Tue Oct 05, 2010 5:34 pm

What a cut-and-paste release, huh? Even La Chouffe has been here, many years before. Glad they put all their teams to work on it!

Maybe Maredsous will show again, what a great glass.

And do all you home brewers collect swing top bottles?

phirleh · Post by **phirleh** » Tue Oct 05, 2010 6:21 pm

Belgian wrote:And do all you home brewers collect swing top bottles?

Yes, you can buy new rubber gaskets and makes capping way easier.

JerCraigs · Post by **JerCraigs** » Tue Oct 05, 2010 6:25 pm

phirleh wrote:
Belgian wrote:And do all you home brewers collect swing top bottles?
Yes, you can buy new rubber gaskets and makes capping way easier.

Indeed! I will happily take any leftover Muskoka Harvest bottles people might have kicking around!

icemachine · Post by **icemachine** » Tue Oct 05, 2010 9:11 pm

Yeah, I like the hirschbrau ones because they are a slimmer design (same diameter as a regular Euro bottle (500 ml) which means they back well in boxes