Comments on: Beer of the Week – PC Blanche http://www.tasteto.com/2007/05/15/beer-of-the-week-pc-blanche/ Food & Drink In Toronto Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:38:26 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: peter stock http://www.tasteto.com/2007/05/15/beer-of-the-week-pc-blanche/comment-page-1/#comment-1488 peter stock Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:17:44 +0000 http://www.tasteto.com/2007/05/15/beer-of-the-week-pc-blanche/#comment-1488 I was so impressed by the PC Pilsener that I scurried back to try their other offerings. I passed on their low cal version. Ditto the Red (the idea of drinking -- or making for that matter -- a beer just for it's colour scares me. Guiness doesn't label theirs Black do they? It is black because it's Guiness.) and grabbed a 12 pack of their Lager and their Wheat Beer. After the first bottle of each, I immediately wondered what the Beer Store's return policy was. The Lager tasted sluggish--not at all as pleasant as that crisp Pilsener-- and the Wheat beer just tasted ... weird. And when your brain is thinking Wheat, it's not nice to abuse it with Weird. (It reminded me a lot of some Ontario winemakers attempts at certain varietals like Gewurztraminer and Pinot Noir which technically might be such, but which just taste so far off the French gold standards as to to ridiculous and a waste of time and money.) And so, for discount summer swilling, I am back to just one choice - PC Pilsener. Peter Stock PS. does anyone actually know the Beer Stores return policy? is it as liberal as the LCBO's no-questions-asked approach? I was so impressed by the PC Pilsener that I scurried back to try their other offerings. I passed on their low cal version. Ditto the Red (the idea of drinking -- or making for that matter -- a beer just for it's colour scares me. Guiness doesn't label theirs Black do they? It is black because it's Guiness.) and grabbed a 12 pack of their Lager and their Wheat Beer.

After the first bottle of each, I immediately wondered what the Beer Store's return policy was. The Lager tasted sluggish--not at all as pleasant as that crisp Pilsener-- and the Wheat beer just tasted ... weird. And when your brain is thinking Wheat, it's not nice to abuse it with Weird. (It reminded me a lot of some Ontario winemakers attempts at certain varietals like Gewurztraminer and Pinot Noir which technically might be such, but which just taste so far off the French gold standards as to to ridiculous and a waste of time and money.)

And so, for discount summer swilling, I am back to just one choice - PC Pilsener.

Peter Stock

PS. does anyone actually know the Beer Stores return policy? is it as liberal as the LCBO's no-questions-asked approach?

]]> By: shafik http://www.tasteto.com/2007/05/15/beer-of-the-week-pc-blanche/comment-page-1/#comment-1177 shafik Mon, 19 May 2008 17:30:22 +0000 http://www.tasteto.com/2007/05/15/beer-of-the-week-pc-blanche/#comment-1177 Excellent review Greg Clow!!! Good job. Excellent review Greg Clow!!! Good job.

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