Oh man, I don't think I've had a growler since COVID lockdown days. I used to get Greenwood growlers from Beertown. Can't remember the last time I had one from a brewery.
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- Wed Feb 12, 2025 1:05 pm
- Forum: General Beer Discussion & Random Talk
- Topic: Can prices going up due to tariffs
- Replies: 12
- Views: 549
Re: Can prices going up due to tariffs
- Wed Feb 12, 2025 11:00 am
- Forum: General Beer Discussion & Random Talk
- Topic: Can prices going up due to tariffs
- Replies: 12
- Views: 549
Re: Can prices going up due to tariffs
Time to bring back bottles! I thought about this very thing! Perhaps it helps breweries that may still bottle, but the move in retail away from bottles to cans will be so hard to change. I wonder if any small breweries kept their bottling lines. Maybe it would be an option for at-brewery sales to s...
- Mon Feb 10, 2025 11:06 am
- Forum: LCBO, Beer Stores, Grocery & Indie Stores
- Topic: 2025 Spring Import/Quebec/Ontario/BC LCBO Release
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3077
Re: 2025 Spring Import/Quebec/Ontario/BC LCBO Release
Would still like R+R to change their tactics to get some Boon geuze in stores. I wonder how R&R are doing nowadays. Haven't seen them around the forum for a while. I wonder if the LCBO beer team still does the "you're either in or out" with no explanation of why, when it comes to the ...
- Mon Feb 10, 2025 11:02 am
- Forum: Breweries, Tied Houses & Taprooms
- Topic: Breweries closing and/or restructuring and/or bought out
- Replies: 134
- Views: 221850
- Sun Feb 09, 2025 2:13 pm
- Forum: LCBO, Beer Stores, Grocery & Indie Stores
- Topic: 2025 Spring Import/Quebec/Ontario/BC LCBO Release
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3077
Re: 2025 Spring Import/Quebec/Ontario/BC LCBO Release
Thanks for sharing! Some nice ones here.
- Sun Feb 09, 2025 2:12 pm
- Forum: Breweries, Tied Houses & Taprooms
- Topic: 46 North (Sudbury)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1531
Re: 46 North (Sudbury)
I see that I had them on OBDI, so I must have learned about them at the time. But yeah, other than that, never heard of them either 

- Fri Feb 07, 2025 9:46 am
- Forum: LCBO, Beer Stores, Grocery & Indie Stores
- Topic: LCBO & the Trade Wars
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8096
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
https://www.thestar.com/business/trump- ... c6f22.html
- Thu Feb 06, 2025 12:01 pm
- Forum: LCBO, Beer Stores, Grocery & Indie Stores
- Topic: LCBO & the Trade Wars
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8096
- Thu Feb 06, 2025 11:25 am
- Forum: LCBO, Beer Stores, Grocery & Indie Stores
- Topic: LCBO & the Trade Wars
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8096
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...
- Thu Feb 06, 2025 9:13 am
- Forum: Breweries, Tied Houses & Taprooms
- Topic: Furnace Room Brewery - Georgetown
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1268
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...
- Thu Feb 06, 2025 8:51 am
- Forum: LCBO, Beer Stores, Grocery & Indie Stores
- Topic: LCBO & the Trade Wars
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8096
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 ...
- Mon Feb 03, 2025 9:19 am
- Forum: LCBO, Beer Stores, Grocery & Indie Stores
- Topic: LCBO & the Trade Wars
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8096
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)...
- Sun Feb 02, 2025 9:51 am
- Forum: LCBO, Beer Stores, Grocery & Indie Stores
- Topic: LCBO & the Trade Wars
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8096
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...
- Fri Jan 31, 2025 9:29 am
- Forum: Breweries, Tied Houses & Taprooms
- Topic: Breweries closing and/or restructuring and/or bought out
- Replies: 134
- Views: 221850
Re: Breweries closing and/or restructuring and/or bought out
Shillow in Ottawa closing up this weekend.
- 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: 1323
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.