How Fucked-up is the LCBO?

@Astroke Happy to see you got your bucket list whiskey. CONGRADULATIONS!!!

@fiddich1980 thanks Tony, I believe it's time to slow down on buying for a while.

@Astroke congratulations! You plan to drink it, right?

@Astroke Congratulations on your stroke of good luck! That one is supposed to be a gem.

@Astroke A Great White Whale

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@Victor Yes, not looking for a bucket list bar trophy :)

@Astroke, I am overjoyed to learn of your good fortune. I can now leave your sample in my open bottle. WIN-WIN!!

So I thought I would leave my first review on the LCBO website. Of course it was rejected. I mean I did review it :)

@Astroke I also had a review rejected. It was for Bumbu Deluxe or whatever their higher priced offering is called. Not sure why it was rejected....the title of my review was “Fraud In A Bottle”.

Sounds like the LCBO will accept only compliments. Apparently honesty is not allowed. What is the point of soliciting reviews when all you want is positive propaganda? The LCBO might as well just write all the reviews itself,..sort of like Scotch producers putting tasting notes on whisky boxes and tubes, telling you what they experienced and suggesting that you are supposed to taste the same things that they did.

@Victor I think they might screen for keywords. My negative review of Bacardi’s bottom shelf white rum was accepted but it also contained recommendations for other lower priced white rums that actually have a taste (Havana Club 3 and Plantation 3 Stars).

@Astroke @OdysseusUnbound Maybe you guys should start a site where people can post honest reviews of the LCBO offerings. Maybe they would eventually get the message - yeah, probably not...

@TracerBullet you mean like ..... Connosr?

@Victor - 'Apparently honesty is not allowed.'

A lot of that going around these days ...

@Nozinan Does the LCBO monitor Connosr?

I just got my "You get nothing, loser" email from the KGBO. The oh-fer streak continues. No Stagg Jr, no Blanton's Gold, no EHT.

@OdysseusUnbound you’re in good company….

@OdysseusUnbound Same...

@OdysseusUnbound That’s the trifecta of suck.

When you are the only game in town, positive and non positive reviews don'tmatter to them.

Looks like the LCBO is about to discontinue Speyside Scallwag 10 year. There is a price drop of 15$. It was priced today at 58$. Can't think of any other reason for the price drop

@PeterG7 that's a more than decent price for a 10yr old blended malt, what's that a few bucks more than a bottle of JW black no?

@PeterG7 The price on LCBO website still $73.55 Therefore, looks like you found a LOCAL store manager's markdown. Store managers have the ability to discount items up to 30% - usually for stuff that isn't selling at a particular location and the manager wants to "make shelf space" for something else.

I noticed that the LCBO has dropped the price of Elijah Craig Barrel Proof from $140 and change to $127.95. This was the second price drop for a bottle that has not been available for at least 2 years. I thought I would ask the knowledgeable folks at the LCBO if they were planning to get some in based on the price drop.

They of course said there was none coming to Ontario. Their ineptitude has no limit. In a couple years it will be priced at MSRP but the drawback is there will be none for sale.

I’m not sure where else to post this, but can someone explain to me how the new “Cask Strength” Forty Creek is only 48.5% abv despite only being 5 years old? Are the angels that greedy in Stoney Creek/Grimsby? Is the barrel entry proof really low?

@OdysseusUnbound, redistilled whisky that was reported to be very much older than 5 years. Clock is reset. Entry proof was in the 60s, not traditional 70+% entry proof. Whisky weekend has all kinds of good intel.

@Astroke I'm still waiting for that entire pallet of Elmer T Lee 93rd Birthday Edition, 600+ bottles that were listed as inventory at the warehouse level. Not a single bottle made it to store shelves. Strange how the last time we saw Four Roses Ltd. Ed release was in 2013, the 2012 release 125th Anniversary....could I be mistaken? Was FR Ltd. Ed offered on allocation? I don't recall this happening.

@paddockjudge I have participated in every LCBO lottery since 2015 and the amount of non Buffalo Trace allocations or limited releases at the LCBO can be counted on 1 hand. Now you have triggered an LCBO rant :)

Nowhere on this planet is there more Jim Beam white label bottles than the LCBO (14K bottles), yet no KC 12, KC 15, Russell's Reserve of any kind, for example. What if the buyers at the LCBO said to Beam, "we will have to cut our Beam White and Black label, Devils Cut, Honey, etc purchases in half unless we can get some of your other products that seem to be available in every F'ng gas station and mom and pop store in the US".

@Astroke, LCBO is a freight forwarder. All sales are guaranteed by suppliers. A captive audience, yet no upselling. Where is the merchandise? How about some glassware?!..a cocktail shaker?! Would it be such a bad idea to have a picnic basket in inventory?...a cooler? a fucking simple hard-sided cooler, with or without wheels. An ice machine?! ...Ice bucket?!... could go on for days. Gas stations have more product diversity.

From the department of “WTF are they smoking and can I have some?”