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by Cass
Fri Feb 07, 2025 9:46 am
Forum: LCBO, Beer Stores, Grocery & Indie Stores
Topic: LCBO & the Trade Wars
Replies: 15
Views: 5265

Re: LCBO & the Trade Wars

Interview with Mark & Mandie from Left Field by Josh in the Star about the tariff issues:

https://www.thestar.com/business/trump- ... c6f22.html
by Cass
Thu Feb 06, 2025 12:01 pm
Forum: LCBO, Beer Stores, Grocery & Indie Stores
Topic: LCBO & the Trade Wars
Replies: 15
Views: 5265

Re: LCBO & the Trade Wars

anthony9 wrote: Thu Feb 06, 2025 11:49 am I think you're right, but I believe any conversation involving beer and provincial borders is a good and helpful one.
Definitely - any awareness to the issue is a good thing to educate folks.
by Cass
Thu Feb 06, 2025 11:25 am
Forum: LCBO, Beer Stores, Grocery & Indie Stores
Topic: LCBO & the Trade Wars
Replies: 15
Views: 5265

Re: LCBO & the Trade Wars

There was that case from Quebec/New Brunswick that seemed to be in the news for a while and got a lot of coverage because of the legal challenge. Funnily called "free the beer". I always felt that was kind of like a "populist" beer story because it was some old man who wanted to...
by Cass
Thu Feb 06, 2025 9:13 am
Forum: Breweries, Tied Houses & Taprooms
Topic: Furnace Room Brewery - Georgetown
Replies: 0
Views: 498

Furnace Room Brewery - Georgetown

Rumours have it that the Furnace Room Brewery in Georgetown has been sold to the Keenan’s Irish Pub chain. They have never had in-house food service at the brewery so I would think that this will lead to Keenan’s serving food there, and brewing beer to be served in the pubs. In recent months Furnac...
by Cass
Thu Feb 06, 2025 8:51 am
Forum: LCBO, Beer Stores, Grocery & Indie Stores
Topic: LCBO & the Trade Wars
Replies: 15
Views: 5265

Re: LCBO & the Trade Wars

I've always wondered how my brother regularly orders wine from Blasted Church in BC to Ontario, but no breweries outside of Ontario will ship here. I've seen some breweries (a couple in the east IIRC) that will ship to Ontario through their web stores. I don't think it's technically legal, as beer ...
by Cass
Mon Feb 03, 2025 9:19 am
Forum: LCBO, Beer Stores, Grocery & Indie Stores
Topic: LCBO & the Trade Wars
Replies: 15
Views: 5265

Re: LCBO & the Trade Wars

Hoping the inter provincial trade barriers come down as a result of this nonsense. I'd love to see some Quebec and BC stuff in that shelf space opening up. Hope so indeed. Covid brought about all the take out stuff, hopefully this can spark that. There was an article recently (I think in the Globe)...
by Cass
Sun Feb 02, 2025 9:51 am
Forum: LCBO, Beer Stores, Grocery & Indie Stores
Topic: LCBO & the Trade Wars
Replies: 15
Views: 5265

LCBO & the Trade Wars

Hope everyone's stocks of bourbon are good. Buy local! https://x.com/fordnation/status/1886044429212926331 Every year, LCBO sells nearly $1 billion worth of American wine, beer, spirits and seltzers. Not anymore. Starting Tuesday, we’re removing American products from LCBO shelves. As the only whole...
by Cass
Fri Jan 31, 2025 9:29 am
Forum: Breweries, Tied Houses & Taprooms
Topic: Breweries closing and/or restructuring and/or bought out
Replies: 129
Views: 201219

Re: Breweries closing and/or restructuring and/or bought out

Shillow in Ottawa closing up this weekend.

by Cass
Thu Jan 30, 2025 10:13 am
Forum: General Beer Discussion & Random Talk
Topic: Something in the Water on Dragon's Den
Replies: 3
Views: 981

Re: Something in the Water on Dragon's Den

Some clips from Ben on IG for those who don't want to watch the ads on CBC's site. The brewery pipes in to respond to the snark.

by Cass
Thu Jan 30, 2025 9:47 am
Forum: General Beer Discussion & Random Talk
Topic: Something in the Water on Dragon's Den
Replies: 3
Views: 981

Something in the Water on Dragon's Den

The guys behind Something in the Water brewery made it onto Dragon's Den and pitched a "brewery franchise" concept. Some positivity for their beer but some struggles around the business and the dragons opted out. A funny story around this: my wife has a small business and pursued an appear...
by Cass
Mon Jan 27, 2025 9:49 am
Forum: Outside of Ontario Beer Travel, Local Beer/Brewery Guides and Talk
Topic: Lansing & East Lansing, MI
Replies: 8
Views: 13908

Re: Lansing & East Lansing, MI

A while back I visited Lansing, MI for A Quick Beer and I finally got the episode edited. A nice little city with a handful of breweries and nice bars & taverns. I really enjoyed Sleepwalker and had a good chat with the owner who was a fan of Toronto. Certainly when paired with East Lansing, the...
by Cass
Sun Jan 26, 2025 8:52 am
Forum: Outside of Ontario Beer Travel, Local Beer/Brewery Guides and Talk
Topic: San Francisco
Replies: 46
Views: 72234

Re: San Francisco

https://www.eddies-list.com/p/toronado-craft-beer-bar-listed-for-sale Toronado Craft Beer, San Francisco Listed For Sale I've heard the service was crappy and they were intolerant of lots of people. Hopefully it gets replaced by something better. I'd been to Toronado a couple of times over the year...
by Cass
Sun Jan 26, 2025 8:40 am
Forum: Breweries, Tied Houses & Taprooms
Topic: Breweries closing and/or restructuring and/or bought out
Replies: 129
Views: 201219

Re: Breweries closing and/or restructuring and/or bought out

Official news on Big Rock Liberty Village:

by Cass
Wed Jan 22, 2025 8:00 pm
Forum: General Beer Discussion & Random Talk
Topic: Best Ontario Beer to Stockpile?
Replies: 16
Views: 3437

Re: Best Ontario Beer to Stockpile?

2-4s of Boneshaker on sale for $64.20 + deposit is a pretty banger deal at TBS

https://www.thebeerstore.ca/beers/amste ... Can-473-ml
by Cass
Wed Jan 22, 2025 7:57 pm
Forum: General Beer Discussion & Random Talk
Topic: Best Ontario Beer to Stockpile?
Replies: 16
Views: 3437

Re: Best Ontario Beer to Stockpile?

Not Ontario (forgive me) but I loaded up on some St. Ambroise Oatmeal Stout which is on sale for $2.45 per can until Feb 2 and Jolly Pumpkin Oro which is on clearance for $3.45 per can. I'll be curious to see what the LCBO puts on sale Feb 3. Yeah, I should have just said "beer" vs. Ontar...