The Bar Towel

Another trip to cottage country yielded a new brewery visit- Calabogie Brewing. Never had their beers, let alone been to the area before but I came away impressed. Calabogie Brown Cow Nitro Milk Stout - I love nitro, I love milk stouts. This was excellent with lots of rich chocolate, roasted malt an...

St. Ambroise Pale Ale (bottle) – a perennial favourite of mine, this old school, defiantly clear pale hasn't lost an ounce of charm, and still drinks exactly like it did ten years ago. A true Canadian classic IMO. Returned some empties to TBS this weekend and grabbed the St. Ambroise mix-pack. Look...

Uerige Alt, you've made my day; I'm getting an entire case this time around. Pohjala, Cigar City, Dogfish Head, Oskar Blues... the import list is definitely pretty solid this year. Ontario list I agree, not as exciting but there are some decent ones in there. Elora Borealis is great, so I'm looking...

Uerige Alt, you've made my day; I'm getting an entire case this time around. Pohjala, Cigar City, Dogfish Head, Oskar Blues... the import list is definitely pretty solid this year. Ontario list I agree, not as exciting but there are some decent ones in there. Elora Borealis is great, so I'm looking ...

Lokal Dusseldorf Altbier. Don't do it, it was just plain bad. Too sweet, thin, metallic and it had a very off-putting sour/barnyard aroma going on. A little digging suggests it's a separately branded Old Tomorrow offshoot. It's too bad, took a chance since I love altbier and no one has one regularl...

Lokal Dusseldorf Altbier. Don't do it, it was just plain bad. Too sweet, thin, metallic and it had a very off-putting sour/barnyard aroma going on. A little digging suggests it's a separately branded Old Tomorrow offshoot. It's too bad, took a chance since I love altbier and no one has one regularly...

Beau's Summer Mix Pack 2019 now in cans https://www.lcbo.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/en/lcbo/taster-pack-16118296124-1/beaus-summer-mix-2019-142026?fbclid=IwAR3W6616tirnKKt0XMdwN4IlCLHNL-o5BdysayPh8U9oxeSbE4_cP8Xsvek#.XJuJD_ZFyUl Holy shit.....surely that’s a mistake. Reasonable pricing from Beau...

For sure. I did cave to get Tempest in that Amsterdam pack though, sometimes I can't resist. I bought 5 of those Amsterdam mix packs. there were so many left over from the Holiday season. it was cheaper to buy the pack then the beers inside it separately. That was a fairly easy one to 'cave' on; se...

But the Rhubarb Saison and Raked Over IPA are new to LCBO distribution. I'm sure it saves them a lot of cost to include two core brands, but trying 4 unique beers was the whole reason I bought the previous packs. Yes. Others have done this too. It makes one pause to evaluate whether trying the new ...

Wellington Mix Pack Volume 6 is now in cans. unfortunately none of the beers in the pack are new. But the Rhubarb Saison and Raked Over IPA are new to LCBO distribution. Rhubarb Saison was in one of their past Welly Rebooted mix packs though, so it's really only one new beer for the LCBO. It's too ...

midlife crisis wrote:Pretty sure it's because they are brewed there. Same as Omnipollo.

I picked up some Weihenstephaner Dunkel a while back and they told me it's not brewed there, but is from the brewery in Germany. I'm not sure what arrangement they have but they're definitely selling imported bottles.

20-20 hindsight not to cellar most beers I agree most beers are better of fresh, but I find there are a lot of apologists for infected beers. I see it all over, "keep the beer in the fridge" and "open it extremely carefully" so it doesn't gush all over your kitchen, etc. What ab...

Once in a while two sours... the Cascade Manhattan was $29.95 and is now selling for $21 while the Cascade Apricot that was $26 is now $16...both 750 ml bottles and apparently being discontinued I picked up a Cascade Apricot for $16 at the Vic Park/Ellesmere LCBO, figured why not for 10 bucks off. ...

hipster sour fad ends? Hasn't sour beer been a thing since like... the 1800s? (or maybe earlier?) Even earlier, intentionally sour styles like Gose go back to the 13th century. Further to that it's likely that all beer was somewhat sour prior to modern brewing methods that allowed for tighter micro...

So,the two takeaways I got from this article is that Fullers would prefer to be a hospitality brand (because they can't find a way to do all that well in brewing) and that Asahi now also owns Pilsner Urquell, which was a surprise to me. I can't say I'm all that sentimental about this. Sure your bre...