The Bar Towel

Article is in french but the main idea is they have reached capacity with their current brewhouse and are looking into a production facility. They haven't decided where but are looking seriously at the other side of the river in Ottawa so that they can reach an entirely different market and the LCBO.

They will actually be meeting with the LCBO to clarify the points that need to be reached for them to be listed in the LCBO

http://www.lapresse.ca/le-droit/economi ... imple-.php

This is good news, Dom makes great beer that needs to be shared to many!

That would be pretty smart!

This would be tremendous news indeed. Those guys make seriously good beer. It would be even more awesome if they did locate around St Laurent and found a way to attach a pub to the facility!!!

rejtable wrote:This would be tremendous news indeed. Those guys make seriously good beer. It would be even more awesome if they did locate around St Laurent and found a way to attach a pub to the facility!!!

You and I would see more of each other I would guess.

Haha, yes indeed!

I wonder if they'd stick with the same name if they opened up shop here. Trying to order an Ambrée de la Chaudière last night at Bluesfest was an adventure. When even your staff can't understand French words, you have to wonder how the general public would tolerate the name.

I know we get all kinds of difficult to pronounce import names, but for a company looking to possibly become a reasonable player in the province, would their name be an issue?

I would think they would anglisize them.

Imagine people in Toronto ordering Le Bouillon de la Chaudiere

cfrancis wrote:I would think they would anglisize them.

Imagine people in Toronto ordering Le Bouillon de la Chaudiere

Yeah but I don't know how well "The Broth of the Boil" would sell either

icemachine wrote:

cfrancis wrote:I would think they would anglisize them.

Imagine people in Toronto ordering Le Bouillon de la Chaudiere

Yeah but I don't know how well "The Broth of the Boil" would sell either

Not sure if Dumduminator would translate well either.

Oh, and that would be more like Kettle's Broth or something. Chaudiere is kettle.

rejtable wrote:I wonder if they'd stick with the same name if they opened up shop here. Trying to order an Ambrée de la Chaudière last night at Bluesfest was an adventure.

... proving that in North America, linguisticlally most people have the imagination of a shoe. I mean, just TRY to hear, to visualize how French words look and sound, it really isn't so bad that people can't take a fair shot at it and be understood.

We're spoiled and lazy about non-English languages when we are compared to Europeans.

Om-BRAY deh la Show-d'YARE, is that close at all, Frenchy Bartowelers? I was a cretin in French class and it's never stopped me from ordering the right beer in Mtl.

tyler90 wrote:

icemachine wrote:

cfrancis wrote:I would think they would anglisize them.

Imagine people in Toronto ordering Le Bouillon de la Chaudiere

Yeah but I don't know how well "The Broth of the Boil" would sell either

Not sure if Dumduminator would translate well either.

Oh, and that would be more like Kettle's Broth or something. Chaudiere is kettle.

Well its been about a 15 years since I finished with my last French Immersion courses so you'll have to excuse the rust

Belgian wrote:
Om-BRAY deh la Show-d'YARE, is that close at all, Frenchy Bartowelers? I was a cretin in French class and it's never stopped me from ordering the right beer in Mtl.

Yes, that's pretty good. I'm terrible at the phonetic-writing. The last part should sound more like "air", so the last part would be like "Y-air".

I was willing to give the fair lady the benefit of the doubt with loud Tiesto beats in the background combined with my likely slurred-speech at that point in the night. On the other hand, it sounds nothing like the rest of the beers on their menu. Hard to confuse Chaudière with "pilsner" or "cobblestone stout". Ah well.

rejtable wrote:Hard to confuse Chaudière with "pilsner" or "cobblestone stout".

Not when people are wilfully retarded. When they simply refuse to switch on their thinking brains to process new, unexpected information - instead acting deer-in-headlights stunned and, in a nutshell, stupidly provincial Anglo-Ontarian.