The Bar Towel

It's kinda crazy seeing stores have to delist 40 craft SKUs to make up more shelf space for larger format non-craft. It feels like going back in time! This was very noticeable, in a depressing way, at a Sobey's near me. They used to have a big shelf unit of singles, lots of craft options. It was co...

In my experience in the US, the big beer halls are generally dead. Like ghost town. The exception being the Yard House chain. I haven't travelled much since pre-covid, so maybe this is a trend everywhere and not just Toronto. I think it's a fairly accepted fact that large multi-taps are fading away...

Finally made it to True History and it is a really cool spot. Cozy & woody, kinda ‘Euro’ and (thankfully) without the modern industrial feel of many taprooms nowadays. Had the Weizen & Dunkel, no complaints at all & very tasty. I wish I was still living in the neighbourhood! (A reminder ...

Also posted in the Bar Hop 2 thread, but their Peter St. location is closing on Jan 18th.

Bar Hop 2 closing on Saturday: https://www.instagram.com/p/DExww83yXJs/ Friends… It is with mixed emotions that we have made the difficult decision to permanently close the 137 Peter Street Bar Hop location, with our last day on Saturday January 18th . Since the onset of the pandemic, which changed ...

anthony9 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 12, 2025 7:03 pm Five posts over 14 years is a reasonable amount of advertising.

Lurking in the shadows to hit us with that organic ad after 14 years!

Pretty sure I had a few pints here and there if the other choices were Keith's, Stella, Bud and Bud Light. The AB InBev lineup really is awful. At least a Molson pub will have Guinness or Creemore, usually. I’ve seen Hop Valley and even Trou du Diable L’Apocalypso at Molson pubs in the ‘burbs. They...

JerCraigs wrote: ↑Fri Jan 10, 2025 7:51 pm Sounds like an amazing trip! What are you taking photos with? I assume an SLR?

Yep, we had a couple of DSLRs with good zoom lenses. The photos enhance it, but we did get surprisingly close to lots of the animals.

I feel similar things about the Goose Island Toronto location. I never wish ill on anyone, but GI Toronto feels like their Instagram closing post could be anytime now. Whenever I've been it's always dead, and the Bier Markt side doesn't seem to have any of the corporate business that it enjoyed pre...

The company I work for has for a long time sourced their beer kegs from Big Rock in Liberty Village. I just got a message that Big Rock will be closing operations in Liberty Village in February. Consequently, our taps will be from Leftfield in the future. I always thought the core lineup from BR wa...

S. St. Jeb wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 10:19 am AWESOME photos!!!

Thank you @S. St. Jeb! It was soooo cool to see all those animals up close.

And just for fun, here's some pics of the animals!

Back from the great Kenya adventure, and what an adventure it was! We did 2 nights in Nairobi (Karen Blixen Cottages), 2 nights in Amboselli NP (Tawi Lodge), 3 nights in Maasai Mara NP (Emboo Camp) and 2 nights in Diani Beach (Maji Hotel) which is down the coast from Mombasa. The safari stuff was ab...

distr0 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2025 9:29 pm My order never made it to the store, they are calling it lost now and refunded me. Anyone else have issues?

Man, that's a bummer. I was able to get mine just before Christmas, not that's any help to hear.

groulxsome wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2025 5:21 pm

Cass wrote: ↑Wed Jun 05, 2024 5:55 pm Chris was a BarTowel participant back in the day, perhaps I can convince him to come back and visit

I am both back on BarTowel and working/living in Ontario now. You never know when you will end up, I guess!

Welcome back, @groulxsome!