The Bar Towel

ercousin wrote:

spinrsx wrote:as much as I'm loving the founders brewery feature.. do we know who the next brewer to be featured is?

Here's hoping for Stone...

Well Stone's a lot farther away - love the brews they make though. Insane good. Stone may not be looking for this wide of a distribution, let alone red tape and jumping through hoops.

Stone would be a total waste of a feature IMO.

PeenSteen wrote:Stone would be a total waste of a feature IMO.

From my point of view it would be a waste as well. But that's because I've been down to the US and traded to much over the past few years that I've tried everything in Stone's portfolio 10X over.

That said, for every person like you or I in Ontario, there are 20 that would drool over a Stone feature. Same would go for Sierra Nevada, New Belgium, or any of the other larger craft breweries state side.

Have you even purchased much or any of the Founders feature?

this info must be out there somewhere.. the brewery feature is every quarter and the next brewer must have received an order from the lcbo by now.. (I would assume)

TheSevenDuffs wrote: Have you even purchased much or any of the Founders feature?

Two 4-packs of Breakfast Stout and one 4-pack Backwoods

How would Stone be a waste of a feature? I'd love to get some Ruination, Arrogant Bastard, Double Bastard, IRS, Smoked Porter, Old Guardian, Enjoy By...

Is it just that they're fairly common in the states? I've had maybe half of those before, but I'd certainly be happy to pick them up again if I could. Dang, it's been too long since I've had a Ruination.

Is there a list somewhere of all the past brewery features?

I don't think there is a master list, but you can search this site for answers for sure

The ones I remember:

Nogne 0
Renaissance
Dieu Du Ciel
Fullers
Dupont
Tree
Rogue
Garrison
Norrebro Bryghus

BlackRedGold wrote:Is there a list somewhere of all the past brewery features?

They did a generic Quebec feature recently too.

squeaky wrote:How would Stone be a waste of a feature? I'd love to get some Ruination, Arrogant Bastard, Double Bastard, IRS, Smoked Porter, Old Guardian, Enjoy By...

Is it just that they're fairly common in the states? I've had maybe half of those before, but I'd certainly be happy to pick them up again if I could. Dang, it's been too long since I've had a Ruination.

Yeah, they are fairly common when traveling in the states and I have had them many times over. So again IMO it is a waste of a feature. Also, do you think for a second if Ontario were to get Enjoy By that it would get to retail before the Enjoy By date?

PeenSteen wrote:

squeaky wrote:How would Stone be a waste of a feature? I'd love to get some Ruination, Arrogant Bastard, Double Bastard, IRS, Smoked Porter, Old Guardian, Enjoy By...

Is it just that they're fairly common in the states? I've had maybe half of those before, but I'd certainly be happy to pick them up again if I could. Dang, it's been too long since I've had a Ruination.

Yeah, they are fairly common when traveling in the states and I have had them many times over. So again IMO it is a waste of a feature. Also, do you think for a second if Ontario were to get Enjoy By that it would get to retail before the Enjoy By date?

Lol it's sadly true. I wonder why they can't just get a few bottles for lab tests then make the big order once lab testing is passed?

Found some Backwoods Bastard hidden at the LCBO on Laird. the fridge was empty, but a few packs were on an end along with another Founders beer. very hard to find.
no porter there. don't recall if Breakfast Stout is still there.

For anyone in/near Brantford, DB and BB are both available at Market/Icomm, in very limited quantity.

PeenSteen wrote:

squeaky wrote:How would Stone be a waste of a feature? I'd love to get some Ruination, Arrogant Bastard, Double Bastard, IRS, Smoked Porter, Old Guardian, Enjoy By...

Is it just that they're fairly common in the states? I've had maybe half of those before, but I'd certainly be happy to pick them up again if I could. Dang, it's been too long since I've had a Ruination.

Yeah, they are fairly common when traveling in the states and I have had them many times over. So again IMO it is a waste of a feature. Also, do you think for a second if Ontario were to get Enjoy By that it would get to retail before the Enjoy By date?

The humour in them missing the date is enough to make it a win-win.

squeaky wrote:How would Stone be a waste of a feature?

Because all of the hoppy stuff would be faded as heck years before it got here.