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How much do you drink a day? (Equivalent of 12 oz / 341 ml bottles)
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Bodensatz |
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2008.07.13 @ 07:55 |
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 I see a lot of chat on the local Ottawa blogs about the new bottle return policy forced upon Beau's Brewery of Vankleek Hill, Ontario. Some of the finer details of the following report may be off, but the gist is still there.
Beau's recently started selling their Lugtread beer in ceramic swing-top bottles. The deposit was $2 per bottle, redeemable only at the brewery. I'll also add as an aside that both the 750ml ceramic swing-top bottles, as well as the 2L (3L?) growlers are collected by homebrewers for their beer.
Anyway, It didn't take any time at all before they had the 750ml bottles for sale in the LCBO, and this created a strange situation where if you brought the bottles back to the Beer Store like anything else bought at the LCBO, you got 20 cents back for your deposit. But if you brought it back to the brewery, you got $2. That's quite a difference!
Then the LCBO declared that Beau's could not offer a $2 return deposit at their brewery - they had to offer the same 20 cent return deposit as the LCBO. And so a lot of customers went into an uproar over it.
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Bodensatz |
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2008.05.09 @ 20:07 |
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| Canadians out there will probably know the TV commercials with David Suzuki coming into people's homes informing them about energy efficiency. There's the one where he takes a sawzall and cuts a hole in their wall and tosses a basketball through it, and then sticks his head through and tells people that tiny air leaks throughout the house can add up to a hole the size of a basketball.
Then there is the one about the beer fridge, and how replacing that old one would give you lots more money to buy more beer. But is it true?
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Bodensatz |
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2008.02.18 @ 05:23 |
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| By now we've all heard about the hop shortage, and how some micro brewers are scrambling for supply. A friend just pointed me to the following page on the Sam Adams website which says that they are overstocked with hops and will therefore sell off 20,000 lbs to other micro brewers who are in need!
Wow!
I have to say, these guys are a real class act!
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Bodensatz |
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2007.12.09 @ 10:19 |
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| If you are on facebook, please sign in and join the group called Let Ontario Craft Brewers Open Their Own Retail Stores. Just click that link to go through to it - but you must be registered and signed into facebook to join.
Please help spread the word!
This site's search feature brings up about a dozen related articles giving some detail on the pain The Beer Store can inflict on small breweries when it really wants to.
Here is the group's manifesto :
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Beerleib07 |
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2007.06.19 @ 18:14 |
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| Would you spend more than US$10 per liter (about two pints) for foaming suds at the world-famous Mecca for beer drinkers, Germany’s annual Octoberfest? You will, if you are a dedicated beer drinker, tourist, or if the price of barley continues to rise. As German farmers shift from the staple crop of German beer to other, less expensive grains, the price of beer will inevitably continue to rise. Alternative crops to barley, such as corn, will be used in making ethanol to help fuel Germans’ other passion, driving. The erstwhile barley grower will no doubt profit.
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2005.08.09 @ 16:11 |
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| Kidsbeer, a nonalcoholic brew aimed at children, is catching on with young drinkers and is posting monthly shipments of 75,000 bottles, according to maker Tomomasu Co.
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2005.06.28 @ 17:01 |
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| Survey finds many British pubs serving cask ale too warm
Industry efforts to set aside the notion that British "real ale" should be served warm and flat apparently have fallen on deaf ears. A survey of pubs across England found that 44% of pints exceed the suggested serving temperature of 55 degrees Fahrenheit (13 C).
Publicans in London, Essex, Middlesex, Cambridgeshire and the West Midlands all pulled pints measuring between 79 and 81 degrees F, and one in Kent served beer at 95 F !!
Inspectors made unannounced visits to pubs to check quality of beer served as cask ale (aka real ale). The findings were part of the organization's campaign to raise awareness of ale temperature.
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awsmm |
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2005.06.20 @ 14:03 |
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| "ALBANY — If you like beer, you might have something to look forward to under the "I Love New York Beer" proposal brewing in the state Legislature.
The Senate has passed and the Assembly is considering a bill creating the Empire State Brewery Trail to promote tourism among beer lovers and boost the brewery businesses in the state.
Assemblyman Joe Lentol, a Brooklyn Democrat, said he expects the bill to move out of the Assembly Tourism Committee today.
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Bodensatz |
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2005.04.22 @ 17:05 |
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Someone sent a message to the club mailing list this morning that Creemore, from down in the Burlington area of Ontario, was bought by Molson for an undisclosed amount of money. Molson CEO Kevin Boyce is quoted on canada.com as saying "Molson's intention is for Creemore to continue operating as a distinct organization benefiting from its own people, knowledge, recipes and marketing methods." As far as the beer-drinker goes, that would of course be ideal.
Although most local beerophiles that I know agree that Creemore has slowly gone downhill anyway in the last 10 years. I only arrived here some 8 years ago so I don't even remember the original beer before it was first dumbed-down, but it was a pretty snappy Pale Ale or even IPA with a wonderful bouquet in the finish. Who knows, perhaps this deal may even hold Creemore from having to lower its standards even further and dumbing-down the beer even more for the bottom line.
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nicolas |
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2004.11.12 @ 15:12 |
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| Molson has announced that it will be building a new brewery in Moncton, New Brunswick. It will be smaller than it's other breweries, and will cost $35 million to build. Molson plans to have it operational by January of 2007.
Molson said the brewery will employ at least 35 people, bringing Molson's regional workforce up to 160. The New Brunswick government is providing a $3.5 million forgivable loan, provided that Molson creates at least 40 new jobs in the new brewery.
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