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Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2002 9:12 pm
by Josh Oakes
Esprit,
Will any of this be coming to Toronto by chance (like to Joe I mean, as I know the LCBO would take about a year to get it on the shelves even if they wanted to).
Or are we stuck until (if) another Ommegang beer makes the LCBO list?
Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2002 10:42 am
by esprit
At this point, the LCBO has not ordered any Ommegang product so you will not see any in the LCBO during 2002. Hennepin, which was released last fall, didn't set the world on fire so, as is always the case, the LCBO surmises that the buying public is not interested in U.S. interpretations of Belgian beers. The bottom line is that if it does not sell well, the LCBO sees no reason to re-order and, frankly, who can blame them. When they only bring in 200 cases for a population of 11,000,000 people and it takes 4 or 5 months to sell those 200 cases, one can only conclude that there is very little interest in this type of product.
The problem this creates is that we can only do a Private Order and that would entail an LCBO lab fee of $135 per product plus what would amount to astronomical freight charges since the trucking company would be picking up a small quantity of cases. Without an LCBO order on which we could piggyback a Private Order, it becomes impractical to bring in small quantities of Ommegang...so, sad to say, it may be a year or more before we see anything from Ommegang.