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Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 2:08 pm
by midlife crisis
Sorry, haven't checked the thread in a few days.
In case anyone cares, the speculation about how I got some Hophead at Cooper Street on Saturday afternoon is exactly right. Drinkvine (god bless 'em) told me that there were 44 (not 14) bottles in stock. So I went. The first employee I spoke to claimed to have no idea (standard LCBO employee response, sadly) and was no help whatsoever. I was about to leave but then I remembered that there is a very good beer guy (Bill) at this store if you are lucky enough to be there when he is working. I hung around for about 10 minutes and sure enough he appeared from somewhere. After waiting forever while he helped some idiot procure five cases of 24 cans of Lakeport (I am not making this up) I asked him about the Hophead and he very promptly found it in the back for me. I bought half a dozen so there should have been 38 left at that point (about 1 p.m. Saturday).
I have a feeling it never did make it to the shelves.
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 5:20 pm
by velovampire
midlife crisis wrote:Sorry, haven't checked the thread in a few days.
In case anyone cares, the speculation about how I got some Hophead at Cooper Street on Saturday afternoon is exactly right. Drinkvine (god bless 'em) told me that there were 44 (not 14) bottles in stock. So I went. The first employee I spoke to claimed to have no idea (standard LCBO employee response, sadly) and was no help whatsoever. I was about to leave but then I remembered that there is a very good beer guy (Bill) at this store if you are lucky enough to be there when he is working. I hung around for about 10 minutes and sure enough he appeared from somewhere. After waiting forever while he helped some idiot procure five cases of 24 cans of Lakeport (I am not making this up) I asked him about the Hophead and he very promptly found it in the back for me. I bought half a dozen so there should have been 38 left at that point (about 1 p.m. Saturday).
I have a feeling it never did make it to the shelves.
I stopped in Sat. around 6:30 and there were 15-20 bottles on display. I bought 2. I was also tipped off by Drinkvine.
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 7:31 pm
by sprague11
A ton of Hopsinjoor up here, but as of yet no sign of the hophead.
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 2:10 pm
by heebes
Looks like Grand Rivers Curmudgeon is hitting shelves. Bottled yesterday.
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 2:39 pm
by matt7215
heebes wrote:Looks like Grand Rivers Curmudgeon is hitting shelves. Bottled yesterday.
the Curmudgeon will role out over the next few weeks. im off from Grand River until March 14th dealing with other un-related life complications but once im back there will be a big push of Curmudgeon into the province.
to those that pm'd me about the Curmudgeon, i wont be able to follow up until after the 14th.
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 3:36 pm
by Gedge
Just picked up two bottles of Curmudgeon at the LCBO near Union both with a bottling date of March 1!
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 3:51 pm
by icemachine
Panil not showing a number yet in the system...
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 4:46 pm
by heebes
matt7215 wrote:heebes wrote:Looks like Grand Rivers Curmudgeon is hitting shelves. Bottled yesterday.
the Curmudgeon will role out over the next few weeks. im off from Grand River until March 14th dealing with other un-related life complications but once im back there will be a big push of Curmudgeon into the province.
to those that pm'd me about the Curmudgeon, i wont be able to follow up until after the 14th.
no worries matt. we can wait. looking forward to being able to pick up someting decent at my local.
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 4:47 pm
by SteelbackGuy
icemachine wrote:Panil not showing a number yet in the system...
Its in warehouses, on bond. Should be any day now.
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 4:48 pm
by icemachine
SteelbackGuy wrote:icemachine wrote:Panil not showing a number yet in the system...
Its in warehouses, on bond. Should be any day now.
Awesome
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 4:57 pm
by TheSevenDuffs
icemachine wrote:Panil not showing a number yet in the system...
Same with the Gemini.
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 5:05 pm
by SteelbackGuy
TheSevenDuffs wrote:icemachine wrote:Panil not showing a number yet in the system...
Same with the Gemini.
Its in the warehouse too, on bond. I think every warehouse has a good supply of Panil and Gemini.
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 5:15 pm
by TheSevenDuffs
SteelbackGuy wrote:TheSevenDuffs wrote:icemachine wrote:Panil not showing a number yet in the system...
Same with the Gemini.
Its in the warehouse too, on bond. I think every warehouse has a good supply of Panil and Gemini.
Thanks for the info.
Dumd question: what does it mean for something to be "on bond" in a warehouse?
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 5:20 pm
by SteelbackGuy
TheSevenDuffs wrote:SteelbackGuy wrote:TheSevenDuffs wrote:Same with the Gemini.
Its in the warehouse too, on bond. I think every warehouse has a good supply of Panil and Gemini.
Thanks for the info.
Dumd question: what does it mean for something to be "on bond" in a warehouse?
Its not a dumb question at all.
My understanding is that the on bond message I can see from my work means that the product is still awaiting clearance/customs approval.
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 5:28 pm
by phat matt
My mouth is watering thinking of the panil. I dont have much experience with sours, so I cant wait to dive into them. Its a great price too. Thats is perhaps the one good thing about the lcbo. The imports are dirt cheap when you compare them to prices in the states.