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...was at my local LCBO today. Don't remember hearing anything about this coming to the Board, but I grabbed a few bottles and I'm very happy to see it available in stores now. One of the best, most sessionable, hop-forward ales in the province, if you ask me. Thanks for listing this, Rob & Bob!

cratez wrote:...was at my local LCBO today. Don't remember hearing anything about this coming to the Board, but I grabbed a few bottles and I'm very happy to see it available in stores now. One of the best, most sessionable, hop-forward ales in the province, if you ask me. Thanks for listing this, Rob & Bob!

Matt mentioned it here: http://www.bartowel.com/board/viewtopic ... 6270#76270 , and yesterday GRB announced on their FB page that Plowman's had been shipped out to stores. It's showing up on Drinkvine as well. Really looking forward to this, one of my all-time fave session ales.

Looking forward to trying this one.

I like this beer. One of my faves.
I will drink it and as a result, plow people out of my way including customers on busy nights.

SteelbackGuy wrote:I like this beer. One of my faves.
I will drink it and as a result, plow people out of my way including customers on busy nights.

That really doesn't sound very Socially Responsible...

I may have to report you to the Ontario Culture Gestapo. You're an LCBO employee, what kind of example are you setting!??!?

cratez wrote:One of the best, most sessionable, hop-forward ales in the province, if you ask me.

Agreed. I hope it makes it out this way—it's one of my favourites from this brewery, and I'll happily pick up a bunch if it does.

Any idea on when this might hit Hamilton? Trying to plan my beer purchases for the weekend

Will Matt be deliving this stuff personally as well?

Delivered in Toronto today. no more anywhere till next week.

At the risk of sounding like an idiot, what defines a "sessionable" ale?

And did I miss out by not grabbing any of the Russian Gun?

IPA_Lover wrote: At the risk of sounding like an idiot, what defines a "sessionable" ale?

You can drink several or even many of them in a single sitting without getting wasted.

matt7215 wrote:Delivered in Toronto today. no more anywhere till next week.

Picked up 6 Plowman's (and some Knife) yesterday at my local LCBO, and it's supremely fresh and delish. Haven't had it in about a year (last time I was out at the brewery), and I'd forgotten how good this beer is. Thanks for working to get this into the Brock St. store Matt!

cratez wrote:

IPA_Lover wrote: At the risk of sounding like an idiot, what defines a "sessionable" ale?

You can drink several or even many of them in a single sitting without getting wasted.

Well, depends really. You can session stuff that'll get you wasted . To me a sessionable beer just means something that makes you want to drink multiple times in a row.

JesseM wrote:

cratez wrote:

IPA_Lover wrote: At the risk of sounding like an idiot, what defines a "sessionable" ale?

You can drink several or even many of them in a single sitting without getting wasted.

Well, depends really. You can session stuff that'll get you wasted . To me a sessionable beer just means something that makes you want to drink multiple times in a row.

Traditionally it means the former, but I tend to use it as the latter.

JesseM wrote:

cratez wrote:

IPA_Lover wrote: At the risk of sounding like an idiot, what defines a "sessionable" ale?

You can drink several or even many of them in a single sitting without getting wasted.

Well, depends really. You can session stuff that'll get you wasted . To me a sessionable beer just means something that makes you want to drink multiple times in a row.

You're referring to the qualities of the beer itself that make you want to drink more of it; I was referring to the low alcohol content (generally, below 5% ABV, though many Brits insist a session beer 'must' be below 4%). Both of these characteristics - high drinkability and low ABV - define a session beer.

Yes I believe "Session Ale" means a lower-abv & drinkable pint - usually something vaguely in the Bitter family (Bitters include Pales etc.) Great Britain reportedly has a tradition of beers that are meant to be enjoyed in quantity, and an obvious cop to that in Ontario would be Scotch-Irish Stuart's Session Ale, an Ordinary Bitter. I can drink GALLONS of Stuart's.

And "Sessionable" can I think simply mean "highly drinkable even if I should stop now." Drinking a six-pack of Sinha Stout or Trois Pistoles would be possible, but these stronger beers are not "session ales."