The Bar Towel

Cass, do you know what the complete LCBO release for January is ?

Haven't heard yet. I'll see what I can find.

OK, here is the upcoming Stouts & Porters promotion, coming out on January 8, 2003:

407981 Samuel Smith’s Oatmeal Stout 550 ml-B
457663 Marston’s Oyster Stout 500 ml-B
532275 Old Growler 500 ml-B
601187 Propeller London Style Porter 650 ml-B
907444 Smuttynose Robust Porter 355 ml-B
926162 Burton Porter 500 ml-B
926170 St. Peter’s Cream Stout 500 ml-B
926188 Rogue Chocolate Stout 650 ml-B

I've never had the burton, and I'm looking forward to the rogue too(they do no wrong). also, it's nice to see a new canadian porter coming to the lcbo, if anyone hasn't had the propeller, it's very good.

kp

Well, nothing new in that release for me, but Burton, Smutty and Sam Smith's are all worthy of my attention. It's about time Propeller got some beer in the LCBO. They've been selling in BC for a few months now, and I've seen the Propeller Root Beer floating around as well. John Allen seems to be pretty aggressive with the cross-Canada selling, and hopefully we'll see his Pale and ESB here soon - it's been a while for me.

The Rogue Chocolate Stout is really something if I do say so myself...Rogue actually uses Swiss chocolate to make this stuff. I trust that every one of you stout lovers will pick up a bottle at least...if not a case or two to show the LCBO that this kind of product is appreciated.

Man-o-man. Sheryl and I are both stout sluts, so we can't WAIT for January to come.

And as an advance teaser - our Xmas box from her family in Halifax arrived today, and it included a big bottle of the Propeller Porter. Mmmmmmm...


Greg

The Rogue Chocolate Stout is indeed a great beer. A little trivia - it was originally brewed for sale in Japan. However, for some reason the name doesn't translate well, so the Japanese name of the beer roughly translates as "Teddy Bear Beer". The Japanese bottles have a picture of a little stuffed bear holding a heart.
On the North American bottles, there is a picture of Sebbie Buhler - who lives in PA and is one of the best advocates of great beer in the biz (and a fantastically nice person to boot)!

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I was down at Queens Quay this morning and they had some Oyster Stout and Rogue Shakespeare Stout on the shelf. Couldn't resist the rogue so I picked up a couple of bottles.

Here is the description of Burton Bridge Porter from the CAMRA Good Bottled Beer Guide Ingredients: Pale Malt,crystal malt, choclate malt Callenger and Target hops

A dark red, almost black porter with a aroma of fruit and choclate. Dry roast malt in the taste is backed by gentle, sweet malt, with dryness roast malt and bitterness coming through to dominate the finish

On 2002-12-14 12:46, SirIsm wrote:
I was down at Queens Quay this morning and they had some Oyster Stout and Rogue Shakespeare Stout on the shelf.

I was down there this afternoon, and in addition to the ones mentioned above, they also had the Samuel Smith’s Oatmeal Stout on the shelf.

Greg

Forgot to mention that the QQ LCBO also has a bunch of McAuslan Vintage Ale 2000 on the shelf, in case anyone is looking to stock up.

Greg

I was at the Queen's Quay LCBO today, and they have the Nethergate Old Growler.

Good Hunting, Doug

I found one at Baywiev ...

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