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atomeyes wrote:the Westy 12 is all sitting in the LCBO warehouse. daytime highs in the high 20s, nighttime lows in the mid-teens. Repeat x 2 months.
If that were the case, everything in the warehouse would go to crap (not to mention freezing in the winter). They'd need to keep the temps at least semi-stable. Plus just being in a space that big isolates it to temp swings to a large degree.
i've heard that their warehouse doesn't have AC. heat? of course. AC? apparently not.
like you've never had skunky beer from the lcbo before
atomeyes wrote:i've heard that their warehouse doesn't have AC. heat? of course. AC? apparently not.
if there was no AC, you wouldn't be talking about temps in the "high 20s", you'd have temps in the 40s easy. it's a giant tin can. heat would be damaging to everything else too, not just beer. you really think folks paying top dollar on wine (which sells for much more) would tolerate it going through that? not to mention that all the trafalgar products would explode in the warehouse before they even got sent out...
atomeyes wrote:like you've never had skunky beer from the lcbo before
skunking is caused by uv light interacting with hop compounds - which can easily happen at any temperature. the two are unrelated. The only time i've had skunky beer from the LCBO was in clear bottles, which is obviously the source of the problem and not the temperature (samuel smith products were night and day when they switched to brown bottles).
atomeyes wrote:the Westy 12 is all sitting in the LCBO warehouse. daytime highs in the high 20s, nighttime lows in the mid-teens. Repeat x 2 months.
If that were the case, everything in the warehouse would go to crap (not to mention freezing in the winter). They'd need to keep the temps at least semi-stable...
... or better still if they had an Evil Secret Underground Lair...
But I think the LCBO are not quite evil enough...
Picked up my two this afternoon. I was under the impression from one of the sites that there was going to be 2 blondes 2 8's and 2 12's. Nope 6 12's. And the sample glasses. Got them down in the cellar plan on having on side by side with a 2010 later tonight.
markaberrant wrote:Trust me, there is no hurry. Choked down 1/3 of a bottle on Wednesday night. These babies are nowhere near ready to drink.
I actually agree with you on this one. Had a bottle about a month ago at Bellwoods and the flavours haven't quite managed to mesh yet. Was a touch boozy.
If you can't wait for it to hit Ontario, or if this release gets eternally lost in the LCBO ether, and you will be passing through Calgary, Zyn has tons of it in stock and will likely continue to for the forseeable future. My wife was talking with one of their beers guys and he told her that they bought up all the remaining gift packs in Alberta after all the stores that wanted them got their shipments (hundreds of girft packs left over).
boney wrote:If you can't wait for it to hit Ontario, or if this release gets eternally lost in the LCBO ether, and you will be passing through Calgary, Zyn has tons of it in stock and will likely continue to for the forseeable future. My wife was talking with one of their beers guys and he told her that they bought up all the remaining gift packs in Alberta after all the stores that wanted them got their shipments (hundreds of girft packs left over).
They told me that too when I talked to them. Supply does not seem to be a problem in AB.
