Category: chinook

legacy

fabulous beers now available at legacy liquor store in vancouver:

Le Trou du Diable Shawinigan Handshake – $10.05

A reflection of the sharp sense of humour held by our former premier, Jean Chrétien, and a comical event in Canadian political history, this rich, hazy gold Quebecois beer boasts aromas of orchard fruit, Belgian yeast and a sprinkling of malt. Orchard fruits pull through on the palate too in combination with grassy, citrusy hops (Chinook to be specific) with a dry spruce finish. This tasty brew is perfect for any political science geek or beer lover.

Evan Doan | Beer Team | Legacy Liquor Store

Hacker-Pschorr Münchner Kellerbier – $3.70

A classic German style beer from the heart of Germany, Munich, this naturtrüb (naturally cloudy) beer has all sorts of sweet grains and earthy hops on the nose, aromas that follow through on the palate with grains and earthy hops playing primary roles together with an almost bread-like characteristic. This classic German Kellerbier hits the nail on the head.

Chris Bonnallie | Beer Supervisor | Legacy Liquor Store

Howe Sound Woolly Bugger – $8.75

Established in 1996, Howe Sound has been turning out award-winning beers for years, and their Woolly Bugger is no different. A beautiful shade of brown highlighted with orange and ruby in the glass, it has all sorts of caramel, toffee and dark fruit jumping out of it. More caramel, toffee and dark fruit find themselves on the palate, joined with notes of almond, roasted marshmallow and bitter chocolate. In combination with a full, rich and robust body, this little beer makes a big entry in the realm of Barley Wines.

Joel Wilson | Beer Team | Legacy Liquor Store

legacy liquor store

new and exciting beers at legacy liquor store in vancouver:

Brooklyn Black Ops – $37.25
A robust stout aged in bourbon barrels for four months, bottled flat, and re-fermented with champagne yeast. This beer has chocolate and coffee notes, with highlights of vanilla-like oak notes.
HUB Abominable Winter Ale – $9.75
Brewed with Cascade, Centennial and Chinook hops and six organic malts. This winter ale has a complex floral, spicy and citrus hoppiness backed by the right amount of sweetness from the malt.
Delirium Nocturnum – $4.45
A dark brown beer with an aroma consisting of caramel, mocha, coriander and liquorice. These aromas follow through in the flavour of the beer in addition to the traditional flavours you would find in a dark belgian beer.

seattle

i had a lovely weekend in seattle
a weekend is never long enough
so there wasn’t a whole lot of beer tourism on my part
but i got in as much as i could!

saturday:
pike brewing:
i was looking for breakfast at 11:00
but they just have a lunch and dinner menu
so i made do with a pretzel and xxxxx stout mustard, with a cup of their crab chowder
which were quite delightful – yay oyster crackers!
(deschutes’ pretzel is better though…)

i started with the seasonal space needle ipa
pike beat out the competition to win the rights to brew the beer for the space needle’s 50th anniversary
dry-hopped to heck, it features centennial, cascade, columbus, chinook and summit

shockingly enough for seattle the sun disappeared and it started to torentially downpour
what else to do but stay and have a few more beers??

next up, the imperial ipa
which at 8% is served in a 12oz pour

the space needle ipa is supposed to be golden, but i didn’t really see a colour difference between it and the imperial ipa
both are hop monsters, the space needle coming out a little more floral and the imperial a little more citrusy

i then went backwards and had the regular ipa
i would love to tell you more about it
but frankly i was feeling my beers by that point and had kinda wrecked my palate
so let’s just go with i was a happy camper!

meanwhile, back at the ranch, jack was drinking a gluten-free beer
poor sucker…
it was a tripel, so i just had me a little sip
you know what?  it wasn’t half bad – for a belgian!

pike brewing is not somewhere i would suggest going if you’re prone to headaches
there is just so much going on there
every surface is covered in beer-related paraphenalia
and it can get quite loud when its busy
(not to mention annoying children kicking their table legs…)

the decor all keeps to their red and black colour theme
so it is pleasing to the eye rather than a mish-mash
and gives you lots to look at/think about

i spent a lovely couple of hours at pike brewing
until the sun came back out and i moved on to other activities
which involved red hook ipa, boundary bay ipa and ninkasi total domination

i’m ba-ack!

i’m back, i’m tanned
and i’m off to a superbowl party!

found a great craft beer spot in playa del carmen
plenty more to come about that
and all the beers i got to try
but not today…

all i have for you today is this from elysian about their upcoming ipa offerings:

MANIC IPA SPECIALTY SERIES 
We are Hopping into 2012 with an Exciting New Line-up of IPAs
So many IPAs, so little time…Idiot Sauvin bottle

Elysian Brewing Company is kicking it’s Manic IPA Series in February of 2012 with Idiot Sauvin, an IPA both fiercely fruity and floral, made with New Zealand Nelson Sauvin hops. The beer has appeared before only at Elysian’s pubs, and will be issued in both 22 oz bottles and draft. 

Then in June will come Prometheus, anaggressively aromatic blend of Northwest classic Chinook, Cascade, Centennial and Amarillo hops fondly familiar to Elysian regulars.  
Rounding out the year will be Valhalla, a reddish fall-into-holiday IPA using Sorachi Ace and Citra hops, scheduled for release in October. Too many IPAs?  Bah, humbug!   
 – Dick Cantwell  
Manic Release Summary:
Idiot Sauvin :: FEB – APR
Prometheus :: MAY – AUG
Valhalla :: SEPT – DEC

r&b hoppelganger

oh the r & b hoppelganger
what a lovely local ipa
and a great way to get my hop fix

i was reminded of my love for this brew at wild rice the other night
i was there for a wedding reception
and the host bar offered keiths or sleemans honey
so that’s what i drank until they ran out
once i was on my own, i very happily switched to the ipa
nothing makes me happier than an ipa
especially an aggressively hopped ipa
my night ended well!

so well in fact that i decided to have another hoppelganger the other afternoon
sitting outside on the deck in the october sunshine in a tank top sipping hoppelganger with a good friend
what a great way to spend a couple of hours!

from the bottle: “rick and barry (r&b) invite you to try our hoppelganger india pale ale.  we created our ipa for beer lovers who appreciate an assertively hopped brew.  well-balanced with a skillful combination of five hop varieties and premium english malt, hoppelganger has the generous flavour and clean finish you have come to expect from our local vancouver microbrewery.  at more than 45 ibus, this beer has a mild, hoppy aroma followed with aggressive hop bitterness… and is not for the faint of tongue.  enjoy this superior mystical brew at 10 – 12 degrees c.”  6%

from the website:  “R&B’s Hoppelganger IPA is a Northwest style India Pale Ale, created for the true beer connoisseur. An assertive blend of Crystal, Columbus, Chinook, Mt. Hood, and Cascade Hops, is added to premium English, French-Belgian, and Canadian malts to create a fresh floral aroma and generous malt flavour, so emblematic of true Northwest-style I.P.A.s. Hoppelganger’s clean and slightly sweet finish is followed by an aggressive hop bitterness. At 45 IBU’s, this beer is definitely…NOT FOR THE FAINT OF TONGUE!!!”

southern tier iniquity black ale

and now for “the antithesis of unearthly“
from southern tier, its the imperial iniquity black ale

pours up thick and black with a compact creamy head
malty, malty, malty
definitely some hops
definitely different than an ipa
a taste bridget is happy to acquire!
and i like it too

much like (and yet totally not even similar at all to) the snakebite i made with ipa and worried that it would be too clashy, this is a pairing that could be disastrous, but instead ends up complimentary and supportive
its like therapy in a glass!
hops and de-bittered chocolatey malts are a match made in heaven!

9%
21 degrees plato
2 row pale malt, debittered black malt
kettle hops:  chinook, cascade
hop back:  willamette
dry hops:  cascade, centennial
serve chilled in a southern tier tulip glass

from the bottle:  “The hexagram talisman has been used around the world for centuries to invoke magic and good luck.  The six-point star is also the customary symbol of brewing, representing the essential pure ingredients of the craft:  water, hops, grain, malt, yeast, and of course, the brewer.  Wishes of good fortune often collaborate with the brewer’s creativity to yield dramatic results.  We carefully chose the name for this imperial IBA, Iniquity – a word opposing goodness.  Why?  This beer is contrary to what one may expect from an IPA; this is an ale as black as night.  It is the antithesis of Unearthly.  Some may consider it an immoral act to blacken an ale.  We suggest they don’t rely on conventional standards.  Allow the darkness to consume you.  Cheers!”

fun glassware southern tier has on offer:

rogue news

NEWPORT, OR., September 1, 2010 – Rogue Ales’ Santa’s Private Reserve comes equipped with built in nightlights -glistening snowflakes that GLOW-IN-THE-DARK. Dedicated to the Chris Kringle in each of us, Santa’s Private Reserve is brewed in small batches, and available nationwide for the holiday season in serigraphed 22oz bottles and 12oz six packs.

Forget the fruit cake, ties and socks…give your loved ones something they really want for Christmas, like the Santa’s gift set. This pre-packaged holiday gift set includes a 22oz bottle and a stemmed serigraphed glass inside a collectible gift box. Gift set available by calling the Rogue Brewery at 541-867-3660 or at http://www.rogue.com/.

A 2009 World Beer Championship Gold Medal winner, Santa’s Private Reserve is a double-hopped red ale and is a reddish-copper color with a roasty, malt flavor and a well balanced, spruce finish. This holiday elixir is brewed with 10 Ingredients: Carastan 30-37 & 13-17, Crystal 70-80 & Rogue Micro Barley Farm Dare™ & Risk™ Malts; Chinook & Rogue Farm Revolution & Freedom Hops; Free Range Coastal Water and Pacman Yeast.

In the making of Santa’s Private Reserve, Rogue Ales uses hops and barley from our company farms. Rogue’s 42-acre micro hopyard is located in Oregon’s Wigrich Appellation and the Rogue GYO barley farm is located in Oregon’s Tygh Valley Appellation. Rogue remains committed to saving the terroir of Oregon hops and barley, one acre at a time, by growing our own.

pike ipa

pike brewing’s pike ipa is next up for a tasting
i love a tasting!

fairly leapt out of the bottle when i popped the top
but the head settled quite quickly into a manageable half inch of creaminess
cloudy on the vigourous pour
not a lot of nose
60 ibus
6.3%
first sip is very malty
so is the second
and the aftertaste

the bottle says nothing…

the website says:
og 1.062
malt varieties:  pale, crystal, munich, carapils
hops varieties:  columbus, willamette, chinook, goldings, amarillo
color:  amber
yeast:  english ale
flavor profile:  powerful malt backbone is balanced with aromatic herbal hop character
history:  highly hopped to retain freshness on the voyages from england to india

(not so impressed by their website actually…)

definitely a more malty brew than i’ve been craving lately
but the further i get into it, the more i’m enjoying the maltiness contrasting with the hoppiness
not gonna become my favourite, but i’m not gonna never have it again either!
quite sedimenty at the bottom of the glass

mikkeller’s stateside ipa

in my glass today is mikkeller’s stateside ipa

pours with an insanely abundant head (on a vigourous pour), which remains all lacey and creamy on the sides of my glass as i prepare for the first sip
i dig the green striped label and the hoppy aromas wafting toward me
first sip is bitter
like a little too bitter
second sip is better, i’m adjusting to the bitter

7%, water, malt (pilsner, munich and caramunich), flaked oats, hops (chinook, cascade and centennial) and ale yeast
bet its the flaked oats that provided the creamy head!

the bottle says:  “Our love of American microbrews inspired us to make this IPA.  It’s brewed with generous amounts of aromatic American hops to provide significant freshness and bitterness with lot of citrus notes, which are nicely balanced by the sweetness of caramel malt.”

still tasting more bitter than i am sweetness of caramel malt
but finding it more drinkable the further down the glass i get!

the website is in danish, but a handy translator thinks it says this:
“Mikkellers success is the result of the brewerys focus on making boundary pushing beer, where quality always comes before quantity. In other words, uncompromising beer, where alcohol content, hop volumes and bitterness does not exist.
On this site you have a list of the beers released in bottles and kegs. Some of them are made in collaboration with some of the best breweries in the world.
Besides the ones on this side we have released a number of specialty beers and limited releases at beer festivals in Denmark etc.”

really, the further i get down the glass, the more i am loving this ipa
bitter, schmitter, its delightful!

these are the people who have teamed with brewdog to make the i hardcore you ipa, mixing mikkeller ipa with brewdog ipa – brilliant idea.  i’m hopeful one day i’ll get to try it!

mikkeller has this to say about the collaboration:  “Today it finally arrived – the long awaited I Hardcore You IPA, a collaboration-brew between Mikkeller and BrewDog. This beer is a blend of BrewDog’s Hardcore IPA and Mikkeller’s I Beat yoU. 
This is possibly one of the best IPA’s you ever get to taste. 
Cheers.”


and brewdog says: “Question: What do you get if you blend Hardcore IPA and I Beat You together and then add even more dry hops?




Answer: I Hardcore You. Introducing a new type of collaboration. Coming Soon from Mikkeller www.mikkeller.dk and BrewDog. Oh and a completely new type of collaboration too!
I Hardcore You is a 9.5% Imperial India Pale Ale, an international collaborative effort between 2 of Europe’s most rock ‘n roll brewers. This beer is a blend of BrewDog’s Hardcore IPA and Mikkeller’s I Beat You (2 of my favourite beers). After the blending, the beer was then dry hopped a further twice. Making I Hardcore You a beer which has been dry hopped four times, or maybe even six times. We kinda lost count.
As far as we are aware this is the first collaboration of this type anywhere in the world. The first time a collaboration beer has been made by blending beers from the respective brewers together.  This is a one off brew with a small amount available for a limited time only. You can buy yours here:http://www.brewdog.com/product.php?id=58