legacy liquor store

new and exciting beers at legacy liquor store:

Coal Harbour Brewing Black Sunshine Blackberry Weizen

Refreshment exploding on your tongue like the rays from the summer sun. True taste: Refermented with blackberries for a subtle tart fruit flavour.

Granville Island Limited Release Ginger Beer

Spiced with the blog flavour of hawaiian ginger. This sessionable ale combines water, malt, hops and yeast. Big kahuna ginger creates a refreshing taste with a spicy kick.

Urthel Hop-It Special Blond

Through the use of large quantities of aroma hops, the hoppy character and bitterness of Urthel Hop-it are unequaled. Hops, water, malts, hops, sugar and yeast.

there is also a free tasting on saturday:

STANLEY PARK BEER TASTING
2:00 to 6:00 PM Aug 11, 2012

pat’s pub

12 craft taps at pat’s pub?
anti-hipster heaven!

well, i’m not sure the 12 taps really all qualify as craft
but i’m not going to quibble with a place that’s trying to reinvent itself through craft beer
they’re trying!

and, you know, they do brew and can their own lager on-site
and its pretty good
no really, it is
try it, you’ll like it!
dude, its $3.50 a pint, $13 a pitcher and only $12 for a six-pack to go

i’m not going to lie to you
it was a couple of weeks ago that i stopped in at pat’s pub on a tuesday night around 9
there was no one else there
which just meant the bartender gave us lots of attention and back story on the lager
but…
it also means that i do not have total recall of what’s on those 12 taps…
thank goodness they list them on the website!!

cannery:  ipa and blackberry porter
r & b:  red devil pale ale
russell:  cream ale, wee angry scotch
tree brewing:  cut-throat pale ale
big rock:  traditional ale, grasshopper wheat, rock creek cider
pat’s pub:  lager
molson:  canadian
and a rotating tap

ooh, and they do off-sales too
of all the big rock line
and the cannery ipa, anarchist amber and naramata brown

cask night

Tonight is Rail Ale Tuesday at The Railway Club. They will be tapping a cask of Bumbleberry East Side Bitter, from R & B Brewung. Here’s what the folks at R&B have to say about it: A mix of blueberries, blackberries and raspberries stuffed into a a cask full of ESB that has been dry hopped in the conditioning tank and again with the berries in the cask. Tapped @ 5pm

and facebook suggests i have a beer at 5:00 for jack layton
sounds like a plan is born
 
i had the r&b pale ale cask at the whip on sunday afternoon
dry-hopped with czech hops
it tasted kinda like iced tea
which on a hot and muggy afternoon was a very good thing!
just had the one pint though