The Bar Towel

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! I missed that! Five bucks is a pretty solid deal for a ...

Throwing this one out there to some of you folks who are probably more knowledgeable than me about tequila/mezcal. I’m looking for a decent bottle to gift to someone who has just recently started drinking tequila. I’m looking for something that will be good value, and not break the bank. Any insigh...

as a relative newcomer (~6yrs) I'd hate to see this go to the wasteland of hate that is Facebook!

as far as I'm concerned, nothing wrong with the site - other than perhaps low level of activity (which isn't always a bad thing).

I prefer quality over quantity of posts

Craig wrote:Probably referring more to the racial discrimination issues the brewery faced than the beer itself.

Correct
good tasting beer
TERRIBLE owners ... I'll NEVER buy another of their offerings for that reason

dale cannon wrote:https://www.lcbo.com/webapp/wcs/stores/ ... Un-xvlKg2w

good riddance
hope this one sits on shelves for years

Nice touch to have guest beers! Many Ontario breweries now have "guest" beers in their tap rooms that they sell to walk in (or curbside pick-up) sales but none that I know of are shipping. Could be because they don't have the bag of chips to include as the "food" to comply with ...

How do you lose money .... instead of improving their business model. The business model was set up to distribute beer for the brewer/owners (currently 2 primary owners: AB Inbev & Molson Coors, and to a smaller extent Sapporo). As Jordan has written many times elsewhere, its meant to be a &quo...

So I heard through the grapevine that Orval has shown up in the LCBO warehouse, but it's not listed yet. I haven't seen any news regarding the LCBO bringing it back, so curious if anyone else has heard anything about this? There's apparently 20k bottles, which seems like a lot for a private order. ...

... but perhaps that's how they justify charging $23... I suspect it's either a marketing strategy to create hype around the GI brand or perhaps corporate half-assery. Both of these are true, however, the fact the beer is 14.6% ABV does not help. If I remember correctly, in ON beer over 12% is cons...

... but perhaps that's how they justify charging $23... I suspect it's either a marketing strategy to create hype around the GI brand or perhaps corporate half-assery. Both of these are true, however, the fact the beer is 14.6% ABV does not help. If I remember correctly, in ON beer over 12% is cons...

S. St. Jeb wrote:Steamwhistle is shutting this down.

Harder than they thought to do more than one thing well

...Don't know what the overall sales are but it might well be healthy? I suspect that they must be to have attracted the investment. A business being able to attract investment, and being an attractive investment aren't necessarily the same thing. see Constellation Brands buying Ballast Point for $...

Belgian wrote:Also the excellent Cigar City Marshal Zhukov BARIS is just $15 at Spadina and Front store.
I guess they've given up selling this beast for $20-30?

the peeps are saving up for the goose that laid the $23 golden egg

Origin of Darkness 2020 Series released: https://www.canadianbeernews.com/2020/10/07/collective-arts-brewing-releases-origin-of-darkness-series-beers-for-2020/ Four beers, each one in collaboration with a different brewery, including a Cognac barrel-aged Baltic Porter with Põhjala(!) ... AND at onl...

matt7215 wrote: anyone with a tied house licence can sell packaged beer from their restaurant

correct, but notice that the breweries doing this have to include some food (same for bars/restaurants)*
i.e. a bag of chips with the beer from another brewery and you're good to go