Beer Thread V2?3?4?

[woob]

Originally Posted by Komskies

Not quite what you're asking but I believe Cactus Club sells bottles of the Longboard Lager.

Well that works for when I get a hankering for some. Thanks!

[woob]

So my dad, for some reason, decided to keep 6 bottles of Pilsner for an unknown period of time. I don't have a year for these, but figure they must be from the 60-70s, maybe? Anyways, any collectors out there want them or have a suggestion on what I should do with them? Part of me just wants to toss them but then I feel bad since he kept them so long.

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[nixon45]

Originally Posted by woob

So my dad, for some reason, decided to keep 6 bottles of Pilsner for an unknown period of time. I don't have a year for these, but figure they must be from the 60-70s, maybe? Anyways, any collectors out there want them or have a suggestion on what I should do with them? Part of me just wants to toss them but then I feel bad since he kept them so long.

I uploaded pictures to an Imgur album. Click here.

Paging Saskatchewan

[19Yzerman19]

Originally Posted by nik-

Yeah, good luck.

They used to have it at KWM but not for a while. Other HB products show up from time to time but usually their other ones. That's my favourite beer!

[nik-]

Originally Posted by 19Yzerman19

They used to have it at KWM but not for a while. Other HB products show up from time to time but usually their other ones. That's my favourite beer!

I love Imperial's and I've wanted to try that for a while now, I've never seen it anywhere on Liquor Connect. Granted I only periodically check.

I least I have Peche Mortel.

[nik-]

This thread and the other beer thread made me thirsty, drinking one of these.

[Barnes]

Originally Posted by woob

So my dad, for some reason, decided to keep 6 bottles of Pilsner for an unknown period of time. I don't have a year for these, but figure they must be from the 60-70s, maybe? Anyways, any collectors out there want them or have a suggestion on what I should do with them? Part of me just wants to toss them but then I feel bad since he kept them so long.

I uploaded pictures to an Imgur album. Click here.

I would say '80s. '60s-'70s would probably be stubby's and long necks came to Canada in the '80s. Molson closed the brewery in Lethbridge in 1989.

[RedHot25]

Anyone know where to get any of these in AB? (any of their beers). Not having much luck...
http://www.boreale.com/en

[jofillips]

been enjoying Big Rocks (!) new Ale - Fowl Mouth.
On tap in Banffs St James's Gate, but on sale in many places now.

[Flash Walken]

Originally Posted by nik-

This thread and the other beer thread made me thirsty, drinking one of these.

I am very 'meh' on this beer.

I keep trying it, hoping to find out what other people are raving about but I just don't get it.

[19Yzerman19]

Originally Posted by jofillips

been enjoying Big Rocks (!) new Ale - Fowl Mouth. On tap in Banffs St James's Gate, but on sale in many places now.

Seriously? I had it out of a bottle last week and found it one of the deadest beers I'd ever had. Nothing discernibly interesting about it at all. Was super disappointed. The GF was drinking Deschutes Jubelale and I was jealous.

[Flash Walken]

Originally Posted by 19Yzerman19

Seriously? I had it out of a bottle last week and found it one of the deadest beers I'd ever had. Nothing discernibly interesting about it at all. Was super disappointed. The GF was drinking Deschutes Jubelale and I was jealous.

Like a boring trad. Thinner with slightly more hops.

Big Rock is a big miss lately.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Flash Walken

Like a boring trad. Thinner with slightly more hops.

Big Rock is a big miss lately.

This is great to see:

http://www2.canada.com/calgaryherald...f-9efea9e6bd36

Big Rock Brewery is returning to its roots as a craft beer company with a renewed focus and refreshed look.
President and CEO Bob Sartor said the repackaging of its core products is just one aspect of an overall renewal strategy the Calgary brewery will undertake this year.
"The message we are sending to consumers is after a period of, I'm going to call it stasis, or slumber, the brand has re-awakened and rediscovered its roots," said Sartor. "If you look at the roots of this brewery, the roots on which it was founded by Ed McNally, it was real simple. It's just to brew outstanding, quality craft beer."

Thank god:

Sartor, who took over from the retiring McNally in March 2012, said he felt "compromise" had begun to creep into the business. He puts the decision to brew a lime beer in that category.
"That was a me-too beer following the big boys," he said. "When we brewed Gopher, that was a me-too beer trying to capture the Molson Canadian market. We had no business doing that stuff. We are a craft brewer and we needed to behave like a craft brewer and we are now."

[Blaster86]

Big Rock Lime and Gopher were two of the worst beers we've ever seen come through our doors. Our rep had just changed and the new guy's job was to push these. If he wasn't close with the old rep, whom we had a great relationship with, we likely never would have gone back to Big Rock.

Upside to the Gopher was getting the dancing Gopher who sings "I'm Alright" and does the Caddyshack dance. Love that Gopher.

Big Rock is smartly getting back to actual "Micro" roots, atleast in BC. They've just broken ground on a new brewery out here in Vancouver with the aim being almost all craft bombers. I am not sure if any of it is for the Alberta Market though.

[19Yzerman19]

The Big Rock lumberjack pack is actually a collection of three very good beers... Only thing they've done I've liked, but I liked it a lot. I actually didn't end up giving a thumbs up to the Spruce Goose (beer with spruce flavouring) but I give them huge props for trying it, and it isn't bad, just not a home run for me though others I was with loved it so that may just be preference.



Wild Rose still crushes everything else in this province though.

[getbak]

Originally Posted by woob

So my dad, for some reason, decided to keep 6 bottles of Pilsner for an unknown period of time. I don't have a year for these, but figure they must be from the 60-70s, maybe? Anyways, any collectors out there want them or have a suggestion on what I should do with them? Part of me just wants to toss them but then I feel bad since he kept them so long.

I uploaded pictures to an Imgur album. Click here.

The label doesn't have metric measurements on it:


That likely means it was produced prior to the mid-70s when metric labelling became mandatory.

A Google image search shows that they definitely sold Pil in stubbies with metric labels, so these must be from a time before they used stubbies. I have no idea when that would have been. The Galt Museum in Lethbridge might have someone who would know.

[Blaster86]

Originally Posted by 19Yzerman19

The Big Rock lumberjack pack is actually a collection of three very good beers... Only thing they've done I've liked, but I liked it a lot. I actually didn't end up giving a thumbs up to the Spruce Goose (beer with spruce flavouring) but I give them huge props for trying it, and it isn't bad, just not a home run for me though others I was with loved it so that may just be preference.

Paul's Angels was a better collection pack last year, but I agree. Lumberjack pack sold really well, with the only one not getting wild reviews being the Spruce.

[Barnes]

Originally Posted by Blaster86

Big Rock Lime and Gopher were two of the worst beers we've ever seen come through our doors. Our rep had just changed and the new guy's job was to push these. If he wasn't close with the old rep, whom we had a great relationship with, we likely never would have gone back to Big Rock.

Upside to the Gopher was getting the dancing Gopher who sings "I'm Alright" and does the Caddyshack dance. Love that Gopher.

Big Rock is smartly getting back to actual "Micro" roots, atleast in BC. They've just broken ground on a new brewery out here in Vancouver with the aim being almost all craft bombers. I am not sure if any of it is for the Alberta Market though.

I just had the Monkey Fist IPA and the Marzen and they were pretty good. Getting back to their micro roots is good but let's not forget they still brew Superstore house brand, Co-Op house brand, Hudson's, Moxies, and OJ's house beers, as well as only tolerable by shotgunning Bow Valley Lager and AGD.

[Mark]

I just tried the Whistler Brewing Valley Trail Chestnut Ale. It's similar to the Granville Island Winter, but even more caramel flavor. Definitely check it out if you like that taste.

[nik-]

Originally Posted by Flash Walken

Like a boring trad. Thinner with slightly more hops.

Big Rock is a big miss lately.

Actually I just tried their Saaz pilsner, which I had been avoiding as I feel the same way in general about Big Rock lately, at the recommendation of a Czech coworker. It was surprisingly good.