The Bar Towel

midlife crisis wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 9:05 pm I believe I still have a TK or two at the very back of the cellar. They have long since gone "off" though, unfortunately.

Probably a wonderful rhapsody of flavour compared to my sole surviving Sam Adams Triple Bock.

In addition to missing Rouge, I miss Southern Tier too. That was a fun time. I miss doing the private orders. My favourite was ordering cases of Great Divide Titan and Hercules. Those beers blew me away back then. A certain highly respected Eastern Ontario brewer dealing out of his trunk at Toronto...

Speaking of old favourites, the Péché Mortel is hitting the shelves again.

https://www.lcbo.com/en/dieu-du-ciel-peche-mortel-30661

I was quite surprised how Rogue pretty much vanished from the Ontario market; we used to have access to a number of decent releases -- Shakespeare Stout/Wild Irish, Chocolate Stout, Dead Guy, Imperial Stout, Old Crustacean, Hazelnut Brown, Brutal Bitter -- and then it went downhill quickly, with onl...

Puttered around the cellar and pulled out a Rochefort 8, bottled on Sept. 14, 2005. More of a 10 person, so I'll have to hunt for my oldest bottle of that to see how they compare. At the moment, I'm under the impression I would've been happier cracking this open a couple of years ago, but it's stil...

Omnipollo Prodromus. For some reason I was expecting much sweeter, but there is a bitterness here that I find very appealing. My recollection of this is that is was very sweet, matching the desert flavour description on the can. My measure of a very sweet beer is that I would have been happier pour...

Puttered around the cellar and pulled out a Rochefort 8, bottled on Sept. 14, 2005. More of a 10 person, so I'll have to hunt for my oldest bottle of that to see how they compare. At the moment, I'm under the impression I would've been happier cracking this open a couple of years ago, but it's still...

Thanks for the suggestions; hope to be hitting GLB & BB this week. Will probably hit the 'BO too for the Honey Habanero, even though honeyed beers aren't my fave.

Beers with peppers have always been scarce in these parts, and I'm not in touch with the local scene as much as I used to be: what's going 'round these days besides Bandit's Cake Monster (choco porter with habanero)? And is there anything looming on the horizon that I ought be on the lookout for?

This is currently on shelves at the 'BO. If you thought the old art for Naughty Neighbour was sexist....

I need to sell my early access ticket for session 1 (Fri. Afternoon) due to work commitments - PM if interested.

JaseWescott wrote: also The Beer Store has a new website.

With a ghastly search engine.

For some reason, I can't help but think of Douglas Adams and the Shoe Event Horizon.

Just as a heads-up, the Beer Store now has Unibroue's Winter Collection, which has two each of Blonde De L'Enfer, Maudite, Don De Dieu, Blonde De Chambly, Trois Pistoles, and La Fin Du Monde.

Would that Trois Pistoles be more regularly available here...

Has the Fuller's Russian Imperial Stout come & gone already? The LCBO listing gives it a release date of September 18th, and there seems to be none in the system.