The Bar Towel

I believe that was Michael Hancock of Denison's organizing a petition to allow brewpubs to serve their beers at the festival. I hope he was successful. It would be great to have the beers from Denison's, the Granite Brewery, and others at the festival. BTW, my favourite moment at last year's festiva...

I had been thinking about some sort of petition/publicity stunt at the next Toronto Beer Festival. I don't think these things have a good history of effectiveness, but I'm certainly willing to sign on the dotted line.

I too was dreaming that it would be nice to have a local premium beer store, either under the auspices of the LCBO, the Beer Store, or some semi-private venture controlled by the LCBO. And, while I appreciate that we get imported beer at a good price, it seems to me that when under threat of privati...

I saw a show where they went on and on about an inter-Interbrew bartending competition. Lots of nonsense about dipping the glass the requisite number of times in a sink full of water, holding the glass up for inspection, pouring the beer, scraping the head off with a knife, setting the beer down, et...

I hope nobody minds me expressing a few cherished memories of a long gone pub, Foster's, which sort of went mams-up about a half-decade ago. The Foster's of which I glowingly remember was situate on a street directly behind Toronto's City Hall, and served the most wonderful cask-condition ale that I...

In 1999 I did the beer pilgrimage to the Premier Gourmet in Buffalo. Two of the beers I bought were subsequently released by the LCBO. And yet in comparison it was like night and day. First off, Cooper’s Sparkling Ale. The Premier Gourmet version was everything Michael Jackson described it as: fruit...

Thanks for your reply.

I can't find the beer listed at http://www.lcbo.com. Are you suggesting that the beer could be at another store and yet not on the web list?

I visit the 2 Cooper Street LCBO on a fairly regular basis. There was a long period of time where everytime I strolled in I would see tons of Celebrator Doppelbock, with a light dusting indicating no new bottles were being put on the shelf. I'd buy a bottle now and then, mistakenly thinking that I w...

IMHO, there's too much bitterness for the style (and I believe the bitterness is coming largely from the malt, not the hops). However, it is much better than previous years, and I'm happy with the six I have.

Josh Oates wrote: "Of course, the LCBO should be forthcoming about upcoming releases, being that they are in the business of SELLING beer!" I had a conversation with a pleasantly knowledgeable LCBO employee at the 2 Cooper Street store, and asked him why it is that I can't get a peep out o...