Posts Tagged: Beer Stores and Beer Shopping
Day 23+7: Which Means The Contest Ended Last Weekend
Posted by on Sunday, December 18, 2011 in - 4 comments
I feel a bit bad as three good beer boys and girls have entered photos for the contest but days after it has closed. I hope I was not unclear in some way. But I have to be firm and, really, it was in the rules - photos had to be in a week ago. So... sorry. • I don't feel really really bad …
Shipping Beer May Save US Constitutional Provision!
Posted by on Tuesday, December 13, 2011 in - leave a comment
Change is tough. The toothbrush that is always and ratty blue suddenly is new and green. Throws me off. So much more disruptive is the shock of the new information and communications technologies. And no one knows that better than the US Postal Service - but a bipartisan set of US Senators are to …
Beer Shopping Ethics - How Many Do You Buy?
Posted by on Monday, November 14, 2011 in - 18 comments
Finally! An ethical question that is not about the ethics of beer writing. I ask because, as I mentioned, Fuller's XX Strong Ale came to town on Saturday. Bought three, had two, gave away one. Then I noticed I was out. So I went back today. I had noticed 17 bottles were listed on the LCBO web site …
Stuff Delivered By Mail, By Email, By Courier And By Hand
Posted by on Wednesday, October 26, 2011 in - 3 comments
It's been mad. Mad as in nutty crazy, not angry. Well, a bit of anger. And saucy retorts. How did it come to be that mild mannered beer fans had all this pent up emotion. I had no idea. Me, I'm not so much like that. Evan has it right. I'm just all about the whimsy. But its been busy and, you know …
How Many Forms Of A Beer Leave It Still One Beer?
Posted by on Tuesday, October 18, 2011 in - 7 comments
Josh Rubin wrote a great review of Les Trois Mousquetaires Porter Baltique in the Toronto Star today. It's a beer I love, having had my first in May 2010 after a beer run to La Belle Province. But I noticed something on the bottle that accompanied Josh' article. The bottle said "Automne 2010" and …
When There Is Too Much Going On Even For A Beer...
Posted by on Sunday, October 16, 2011 in - 9 comments
Between have a cold, having five kids and helping out with the fledgling North American Beer Writers Guild reincarnation... in addition to thinking about next year's Oktoberfest speakers series... in addition to the bright idea to start a web based concordance to The Oxford Companion to Beer …
Some Beery Links For The Dog Days Of Summer
Posted by on Thursday, August 18, 2011 in - 6 comments
Notice there isn't much going on? I know I have. It is slow. Then I realized it's because everyone is on vacation. I am just back and, I have to admit, my brain is still in patio "yes, I will have some more" mode. I blame waiters. And waitresses. They bring you stuff you want and all they want in …
Canada: Get A Bit Here, Another Bit There And A Bit More...
Posted by on Thursday, August 11, 2011 in - 1 comment
About 600 km farther westward later now. I have driven from an area of Canada first settled in the 1640s by Baroque explorers to one that came under the Victorian British plow around two hundred years later. When I was at the museum that sits on the spot where the French founded Montreal, standing …
I Knew I Was In Montreal When I Saw Port From 1963...
Posted by on Monday, August 8, 2011 in - 8 comments
One sign that you are someplace is when you see a wine from the year you were born on a shelf in a retail store. Not like I was going to buy it at over $500 a bottle (oddly, compare) but I was happy to contemplate one of the younger bottles from one of my kids' years of birth even as the Earth's …
OK, But If We Call It A "Listing Fee" I Bet They'll Pay!!!
Posted by on Tuesday, July 26, 2011 in - 11 comments
You can hear the giggles in the accounts receivable department management meetings at Ontario's dynamically named "Beer Store," can't you. Imagine having someone pay you to make a profit off of their product. As Josh Rubin explains in the Toronto Star that is how things work when craft brewers … read more »
