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Brakspear at Smokeless
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esprit
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Anybody downtown this weekend who is into fine English ale should drop in to see Smokeless for some more Canadian exclusives we've supplied...these are from Brakspears in Henley-on-Thames....Coniston Bluebird Bitter (former CAMRA Grand Champion), Vintage Henley, Natural Organic and Henley Strong Ale....enjoy!!!
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esprit
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Unfortunately, the LCBO has a very prohibitive laboratory fee of $135 per product if you bring in more than 5 cases of any product in a one year period. As Smokeless Joe orders the full 5 cases of each product and since demand in Ottawa would be small, the price of these beers would go through the roof if we were to bring in 10 or 15 cases. We are more than willing to bring in these products but the demand is not there.
We don't do business with the Arrow and Loon because, as far as I know, they don't carry super-premium imported bottled beers...if they do, let me know and we'll call on them.
In regards to Pub Italia, Joe has a great selection of beers but his volumes are quite small so he wouldn't be likely to want more than a case of each at a time and it just isn't worthwhile.
We would gladly love to see 5 or 10 bars around the province carrying some of these beers but, unfortunately, few are interested in carrying high-end, hard to find beers.
FYI, in regards to Brakspears,the LCBO Pale Ales and Bitters promotion in March will include their Bitter and the autumn Ales, Stouts and Porters promotion will include their Ted & Ben's Organic Beer.
We don't do business with the Arrow and Loon because, as far as I know, they don't carry super-premium imported bottled beers...if they do, let me know and we'll call on them.
In regards to Pub Italia, Joe has a great selection of beers but his volumes are quite small so he wouldn't be likely to want more than a case of each at a time and it just isn't worthwhile.
We would gladly love to see 5 or 10 bars around the province carrying some of these beers but, unfortunately, few are interested in carrying high-end, hard to find beers.
FYI, in regards to Brakspears,the LCBO Pale Ales and Bitters promotion in March will include their Bitter and the autumn Ales, Stouts and Porters promotion will include their Ted & Ben's Organic Beer.
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esprit
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It applies only if more than 5 cases in total have been ordered in a one year period. If we order 5 cases, there is no lab fee. If afterwards we order one more case, we are charged the lab fee. To be fair, I would not want to charge any one customer for the lab fee so when we know that we're going to bring in more than 5, we'll spread the fee over the total number of cases we're going to bring in.
As far as consumers are concerned, there is a lab waiver which, to my knowledge, is still in effect which means a consumer can choose the waive laboratory testing, however, I hear that they may be considering cancelling this option. I did recently place some orders for consumers from UK and US breweries where we excercised this option.
As far as consumers are concerned, there is a lab waiver which, to my knowledge, is still in effect which means a consumer can choose the waive laboratory testing, however, I hear that they may be considering cancelling this option. I did recently place some orders for consumers from UK and US breweries where we excercised this option.
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Josh Oakes
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I was at Smokeless Joe's from 8 till 10pm this evening and at about 9 Joe was receiving
the Brakespear beers he was trying to find room in his fridge for the cases and will start selling them tommorrow. I will have to stop by tommorrow and defintly try Coniston Bluebird bitter, I tried the draught cask conditioned version at the brewery tap in the Lake District of England in the fall of 2000 and am excited to try the Brakspear version. It is 4.2 vs 3.6 in the Real Ale version
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the Brakespear beers he was trying to find room in his fridge for the cases and will start selling them tommorrow. I will have to stop by tommorrow and defintly try Coniston Bluebird bitter, I tried the draught cask conditioned version at the brewery tap in the Lake District of England in the fall of 2000 and am excited to try the Brakspear version. It is 4.2 vs 3.6 in the Real Ale version
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esprit
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Sorry about the late delivery of Brakspear on Friday night...not only did I beat the shit out of the delivery guy on Saturday, afterwards I fired him! In all seriousness, the product should have been there earlier on Friday but my guy had a bunch of deliveries to do and was late getting there. With all due respect to Josh, we have always delivered when we said we were going to and Brakspear is available this "weekend" at Smokeless but my apologies nonetheless. I can appreciate that if you've got you're mind set on wrapping your lips around some hard to get good English Ale, it's disappointing when it's not there when you are.