The Bar Towel

Long before the pandemic, when going to the Rex could involve sitting shoulder to shoulder with other patrons crowded along one of their long tables, a stranger sidled up between my wife and I and said, "You do know you're sitting next to Gord Downie, don't you?". I had to confess I did n...

I saw this on Blogto and thought about a fun pub encounter I had many years ago. https://www.blogto.com/eat_drink/2023/03/mike-myers-surprised-staff-toronto-pub/ I was once working on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon at my office at Yonge & Bloor. I went with a colleague down to the old Duke of Gl...

seangm wrote: ↑Mon Mar 20, 2023 12:21 pm What great news to start the week, Peche is still one of my all time favourite Canadian beers. I can't even remember the last time it showed up in the LCBO, it's got to have been years.

LCBO listing says 473ml can for Peche - that's a big one!

Thanks for posting these 2 lists Cass. With some of the recent reminiscing on here it's nice to see some good old seasonal release lists as well as some throwback beers. Thanks for the kind words! Now that I know the LCBO will provide upon request, I’ll ask for them every season and try and get the...

I miss doing the private orders. My favourite was ordering cases of Great Divide Titan and Hercules. Those beers blew me away back then. 2006 - seems like ancient history: https://www.bartowel.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=18110 Feels like we were all way more excited about the possibility of beery thi...

And here's the summer 2023 beer release at the LCBO! Always love to see Boon back! SKU # Product name Size 31346 Wildbrau Helles 500 19429 Armand & Gaston Oude Geuze 375 31364 Good Robot Thembot Guava Blackberry Sour 473 322529 Hofbrau Hefe Weizen 500 mL 500 31366 ST. BERNARDUS WIT 1320 31367 LA...

The LCBO seemed to stop publishing the seasonal releases, but I reached out they provided the spring and summer 2023 ones. Here's spring 2023! SKU # Product name Size 30629 Jaipur IPA 440 31065 Harviestoun Bitter & Twisted 330 29598 Adnams Ghost Ship Pale Ale 440 29599 Einbecker 1378 330 492041 ...

I dropped in there sometime late in the fall. I'm thinking it was close to the holidays. I also see their beers at the LCBO, but I haven't thought to check if it is old stock. Could they have closed the location and are producing elsewhere? They have a Vaughan location (the old Lake Wilcox brewery ...

Anyone know if Kensington Brewing is still going? Stopped by their downtown location yesterday and all locked up, even though hours posted on door said it should be open. No Instagram posts on their account since November ‘22.

Was wandering around downtown today and stopped into Trinity Common for the first time in a long time and it still seems to be going strong. Good business on a Saturday afternoon with the bar full and lots of folks at the tables. 30+ tap list, with all kinds of stuff - very wide range of styles. And...

Wheatsheaf wrote: ↑Sat Mar 11, 2023 1:34 pm Sam Smith's Winter Welcome...

Miss that one big time! Not sure if it’s a function of getting older, but I definitely yearn for good “simpler” beers instead of crazy stuff. Although I still like a good hazy, I’d welcome nice British and U.S. ales & traditional IPAs around.

Stopped in to the new brewery today. A nice space and cool use of the older building. Perhaps I didn’t really read the posts closely, but it is just a brewery and bottle shop, no taproom or tasting area. Maybe it was a way to get open quicker as don’t have to deal with everything that comes with set...

New brewery for Burdock open in Kensington:



Looks cool, might go check it out today.

Anyone 'member when they brought in some Dogfish Head 60? It was the greatest summer our lives... I think that may have been the first ‘beer frenzy’ in Ontario. Everyone running around searching for it and posting up on BT the locations they found…good times! This led to the frenzy of Westy 12, and...

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 on...