The Bar Towel

Craig wrote:
They also had bottles of DDC and a few Hopfenstark's, so I guess that's the impression Parisiens have of Canadian craft.

Hopfenstark was also the only Canadian brewer represented at Amsterdam's Beer Temple (American microbrew specialist bar) back in December.

Cameron's Cream Ale is refreshing without being challenging to "normies". As others have said Muskoka beers. Their Craft Lager isn't particularly good but it's drinkable from what I remember - ie no corn aftertaste or general nastiness like Heineken - ditto Amsterdam's seasonal Starke Pils...

spinrsx wrote:new new beers at the LCBO

Maclean's Farmhouse Blonde
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That one's been available at TBS for some time.

Speaking of TBS Smuttynose Finestkind doesn't seem to be widely distributed.

Have 7 month old triplets this year, so not able to drink nearly as much as usual. Still managed to have a few drinks though. Apple cider with gran marnier Baileys Royal city hibiscus saison Wychwood bah humbug Unibroue ephemere(cranberry) St bernardus Xmas ale Bud light :o Keith's Great Lakes Canu...

Christmas can be fun for adults too.
Last night it was Saison Julie from Aschaffenburg, Germany and Delirium Tremens Nocturnum.
Tonight it'll be Samuel Adams Imperial Stout.

Bottle shop: De Bierkoning. it begins and ends here. best bottle shop i've seen. lots of Struise offerings, some 3 Floyds (??), lots of lambic, lots of everything. If you still need some bottles on your last day there is a shop at Schiphol Airport called Food Village. They have a decent selection o...

It feels like a sports bar that actually has lots of great beer, which was a rarity (maybe even non-existent) when I used to go to bars on a regular basis. I enjoyed the Sunlight Park Saison and the Dieu du Ciel vanilla stout. The young woman who served me at the bar sounded knowledgeable enough abo...

Found this commentary entertaining. http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2015/09/08/lagunitas_founder_sells_half_his_beloved_craft_brewery_to_heineken_explains.html Slate article ends with: Anyway, you'll probably be able to get a decent IPA in Amsterdam soon. That's really the news here. That proba...

The brewery tour in Plzen isn't bad. You get to taste some of it in unfiltered in the lagering cellar. When I was there they were canning Kozel. (I don't think they brew Kozel there but I could be wrong). Unlike the Budvar/Czechvar brewery, where I think you need to book in advance or show up at a s...

Well, at Queen and Coxwell LCBO there's a big display of Mikkeller beers sitting like a boat anchor. Nobody.… is... buying it. That should've been on discount weeks ago IMO. it's not getting any younger. Same story in the two Guelph stores that have it. Lots of stock of everything,besides the black...

Exactly the same. I was at the Royal Oak here in Ottawa which is the usual Kilkenney, Boddintons, Guinness, etc. Then I see Honkers and Fullers on tap. I rotated back and forth. They also had Honkers (I think, I guess it could've been IPA) at Connor's on Bank Street when I was there a couple of wee...

Just checked the Double Trouble Brewing website. Hop & Robbers, Prison Break Pilsner, and a rye pale ale are profiled but there is no mention at all of FPVS. So maybe Double Trouble stopped making it.

FP Vanilla Stout has been my go-to stout all winter. It gets the vanilla taste and the carbonation just right. Anyway, it doesn't matter because its been discontinued by the LCBO.

So the convenience stores have been lobbying for this for decades but when it finally happens they are excluded in favour of the big grocery chains.

Yes, the Guinness thing is based on a misconception, I presume, that originated from the horrible bottled version of Guinness that was ( is? ) brewed under licence by Labatt. Still is. I was looking at it a few months back at my local TBS. All the usual cities you see listed on a Labatt Blue are on...