The things I do for beer. Yet by doing so, the stash grows.
Yesterday, I drove down to Ithaca New York to hit Finger Lake Beverages and hit it hard with all that good sponsorship funding the good people to the left forwarded recently. I hope that the direct relationship between that and this makes sense. Anyway, I fought through the lake effect to get this done and in the end was gone from about 8:30 am to 7:15 pm including lunch with our correspondent Gary. And as ever the staff and prices and handling at FLB were top-notch.
It was highly successful with $77.00 paid in GST, PST, excise and LCBO mark-up, many a good snag for future posts here and some duplicates for Christmas merriment. A real bonus was picking up the latest issue of Great Lakes Brewing News as I have an article in it about quirks of Canadian regulation of micro-brewing, my first papery beer article.
Comments
gr - December 9, 2006 1:47 PM
The shelves in your beer cellar appear satisfyingly full. Me, my teddy bear, my cot and sleeping bag would like to move into your cellar.
Nico - December 10, 2006 9:46 AM
Hi Alan! It should be nice if you could give us the highlitghts resulting from your mission. You know, the envy factor...
Alan - December 10, 2006 10:20 AM
Hey Nico,
I am not a Spanish speaker but that looks like an Ecuadorian beer blog you have there. Good work!
So what did I find? Mainly US micros and Belgians this run. The particulars include a Fantome Brise-BonBon. I was hoping to pick you another Pissenlit by them but there was none. I also snabbed a large Poperings Hommel ale which I reviewed last May. The Ithaca Beer Company had a good winter mixed 12 which included my favorite arugula flavoured beer Flower Power, Winterizer, Gorges Smoked Porter and a stout. Last night I had a Anderson Valley Porter that was fantastic - I have another to do a "Week of Porter" with about ten porters to go head to head. I also picked up Anderson Valley's IPA to test against a few other big US IPAs like an Avery "The Maharaja" Imperial IPA and Weyerbacher Eleven Triple IPA. Among the new to me English ales I picked up are Morehouse Pendle Witches Brew and Monkman's Slaughter. So plenty to review through the coming winter months here at eastern Lake Ontario.