Keep6 is now importing 3 Fonteinin

atomeyes · Post by **atomeyes** » Mon Jun 24, 2013 4:12 pm

very good news for Ontario.
as per twitter, looks like we're getting 2 skus:

Schaerbeekse Kriek
Intense Red

I've had the former. Really nice. The latter has even more cherry in it than their normal kriek, so not my thing.

Private sales will be posted.

Cass · Post by **Cass** » Mon Jun 24, 2013 4:14 pm

The more lambics in Ontario, the better. One of the last great styles that hasn't really seen the light of day much in the province.

Kekumba · Post by **Kekumba** » Mon Jun 24, 2013 4:25 pm

Excellent news.

mixedup · Post by **mixedup** » Mon Jun 24, 2013 7:04 pm

Bound to be pricey....but that Schaerbeekse Kriek is so good!

atomeyes · Post by **atomeyes** » Mon Jun 24, 2013 9:29 pm

mixedup wrote:Bound to be pricey....but that Schaerbeekse Kriek is so good!

i figure $15/bottle.
just don't recall if they were bombers or not

matt7215 · Post by **matt7215** » Mon Jun 24, 2013 9:34 pm

atomeyes wrote:
mixedup wrote:Bound to be pricey....but that Schaerbeekse Kriek is so good!
i figure $15/bottle.
just don't recall if they were bombers or not

Why would they be 22oz brown glass crown capped bottles?

Pretty sure they will be either 375ml or 750ml bottles, neither of which is a bomber

mixedup · Post by **mixedup** » Mon Jun 24, 2013 10:00 pm

If they're $15/bottle, I'm guessing 375ml....

ritzkiss · Post by **ritzkiss** » Mon Jun 24, 2013 10:46 pm

I remember buying a 750ml bottle of the Schaerbeekse Kriek in Buffalo, back when things like that were available there, for around $35 - I imagine that this would be about right for what we would see here. So, to echo I guess, if it's $15 it's likely the 375ml.

Regardless, great news! I love the geuze in particular & pretty much anything else they do, one of the best in the world.

sprague11 · Post by **sprague11** » Tue Jun 25, 2013 11:20 am

I'll be happy to do an order for 1 or both when they get posted on the keep6 site.

JerCraigs · Post by **JerCraigs** » Tue Jun 25, 2013 1:26 pm

They were talking maybe $50/bottle out west on RB. Hopefully its less than that here!

boney · Post by **boney** » Tue Jun 25, 2013 2:45 pm

JerCraigs wrote:They were talking maybe $50/bottle out west on RB. Hopefully its less than that here!

Others know more about the pricing than do I, but I was in Calgary last week and my old local told me that both 3F Krieks in the west will be 750's, with the addition of Armand Herfst, also 750. It will only be the Armand that will be pushing $50 and Ontario will have cheaper prices even at comparible volumes.

JeffPorter · Post by **JeffPorter** » Tue Jun 25, 2013 9:12 pm

matt7215 wrote:
Pretty sure they will be either 375ml or 750ml bottles, neither of which is a bomber

I clearly just learned something - up until now, I've been calling 650ml AND 750ml bottles "bombers". Are only 650 ml considered bombers?

GregClow · Post by **GregClow** » Tue Jun 25, 2013 9:28 pm

JeffPorter wrote:Are only 650 ml considered bombers?

Technically, yeah.

I'm not sure if the 750 ml size has a nickname. I've heard them referred to as "wine-style bottles" and "dinner bottles" - and depending on the shape, "champagne-style bottles" - but none as consistently as 650s are called bombers.

atomeyes · Post by **atomeyes** » Wed Jun 26, 2013 7:12 pm

GregClow wrote:
JeffPorter wrote:Are only 650 ml considered bombers?
Technically, yeah.

I'm not sure if the 750 ml size has a nickname. I've heard them referred to as "wine-style bottles" and "dinner bottles" - and depending on the shape, "champagne-style bottles" - but none as consistently as 650s are called bombers.

if people are nit-picking, then i guess that the 100 mL difference would define a 750 mL bottle as a bomber.

in canada (and europe, i think), we use 750 mL bottles. Bombers are called bombers because they're roughly double the size of a regular bottle. i think it's perfectly acceptable to call large bottles bombers. i've read reviews that call 500 mL bottles bombers as well. erroneous? sure. but who cares. we all know that we're talking about big bottles.

matt7215 · Post by **matt7215** » Wed Jun 26, 2013 8:20 pm

atomeyes wrote:
GregClow wrote:
JeffPorter wrote:Are only 650 ml considered bombers?
Technically, yeah.

I'm not sure if the 750 ml size has a nickname. I've heard them referred to as "wine-style bottles" and "dinner bottles" - and depending on the shape, "champagne-style bottles" - but none as consistently as 650s are called bombers.
Bombers are called bombers because they're roughly double the size of a regular bottle.

thats not why they are called bombers