A Big thank you to everyone who attended our Holiday Party at the Great Lakes Tasting Room! It was such a wonderful night. Congratulations to our big winners of the night. Shawn Riley for winning the Lifetime Achievement Award and Shawn, Maria Carr and Nicholas Miller on winning the Transaction of the Year Award.
Last night we hosted our annual CE & wine tasting in conjunction with PuroClean of Western Reserve & Debonné Vineyards! 🍷
Thank you to all of the agents that joined us! 😁
I performed an experiment tonight!
I tried these four Aldi UK beers, all imitations of branded Beers available in the UK.
What did I discover?
All performed well, I have my favorites and honestly do not find the branded ones worth the extra money!
I personally rate them :-
1. Rossini
2. Birra Mapelli
3. Pilsner
4.RheinBacher
Results will be subjective, yet I can say it is worth giving them a try for yourselves.
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Refreshing to see a CEO and Co-Founder praise their end-to-end team. We see far too little of this when listings, awards, and accolades are announced, with the glory often going to SLT. Arguably, for most brewers, the folks on the bottling/canning line are the most crucial to the success of the business.
I've known Pillars for many years, and have judged beer competitions at their Walthamstow brewery several times since 2019. Their unwavering passion for, and commitment to producing world class lager beers is unmatched in UK brewing. While most brewers pursue the lofty commercial heights of hazy fad pales and market-trend stouts, Pillars Brewery only brew lager.
The liquid has come on leaps and bounds in the last couple of years, after significant investment in horizontal lagering tanks (hit me up in the comments if you're interested in more detail on how this works - it's fascinating!), and a brand new bottling line to achieve record low levels of dissolved oxygen in pack; vital to ensuring preservation of flavour in such a delicate family of beers.
The cherry-on-top of all of the above is that their core Pilsner is Gluten Free, a crucial USP for a restaurant group like Côte Restaurants which prides itself on being able to cater for guests with different dietary requirements.
From a personal perspective, when so many (properly matured) lagers are so low in gluten anyway, going the extra mile to certify these beers as such makes them imminently more accessible to a wider consumer base, and makes a value statement to the consumer that you care about making sure your beers can be enjoyed by anyone and everyone.
Pilsner for the people. 🍻
Today we launch nationally into all 82 Cote restaurants.
Big shoutout to our team at Pillars – from production to marketing to sales, you've all made this happen.
A huge thank you to Paddy Gardiner, Brand Drinks Manager @ Cote, for recognising our quality. Paddy is one of only 173 Advanced Cicerones worldwide, essentially a top 200 global beer expert, so his approval is a significant accolade for us.
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8moCongrats Shawn! and the McDonald Hopkins team.