yaletown brewpub’s cask festival was good times
so many good beers
so many fun people to drink with
my favourite beer of the afternoon?
pretty hard to choose as there were so many good ones
but since you’re making me choose, i’ll go with the central city collaboration cask with gigantic, parallel 49 and ninkasi
imperial ipa – some matured in cognac barrels, some matured in bourbon barrels, then blended and dry-hopped
so very, very, very, very delicious
(see how i did that four verys there?)
Thursday May 29th: 4pm: Pale ale krausened with hefeweizen infused with Citrus
Thursday June 5th: 4pm: IPA dry hopped with Galaxy
Friday June 6th: 4pm: Cherry Wheat
Saturday June 7th: 11:30am IPA dry hopped with Summer
just when i had gotten my beer stash down to a manageable level
(thank you bottle-share friends!!)
they come out with the dry-hopped saison dupont cuvée
(and you know if i go in to buy just that, i will leave with a full basket)
my life is hard
newly stocked fabulous beers at legacy liquor store in vancouver:
Saison Dupont Cuvée Dry Hopping (1.5L) – $31.35
The gold standard for Saisons just stepped up their game with a dry hopped cuvée for 2013. Hazy gold in colour with superior head retention and defining aromas of pepper, orange rind and a bit of Belgian funk, on the palate of this brew can be found a near perfect marriage of rustic earth and Belgian funk, highlighted with distinct citrus rind (lemon and orange), floral notes and a touch of bready malt. This is what a textbook saison should taste like when the dial is cranked up to 10.
Evan Doan | Beer Team | Legacy Liquor Store
Sound Brewery Ursus Spelæus- $11.15
Take a short 241km drive down to Poulsbo, Washington and you’ll find a little bit of Belgium tucked inside Sound Brewery. This deep dark beer, not surprisingly, teeters on an abyss-like blackness accompanied by deep notes of roasted malt, smokiness, licorice, dark chocolate and spice. All these aromas pull through on the palate with roasted malt in the lead and a supporting cast of sugar, spice and everything nice. Get your hands on this brew and warm yourself up from the inside out.
Chris Bonnallie | Beer Supervisor | Legacy Liquor Store
Driftwood Brewery Blackstone Porter – $6.95
Boasting dangerous quaffability thanks to its low ABV, this London style porter from Victoria is brewed to impress. Dark brown in colour, with a lovely tan head, its combination of rich roasted malts, dark chocolate, nut and a touch of coffee round out the aroma, while caramel, coffee and mocha all work together to flesh out the palate. This low carbonation, medium body, low ABV offering hits the nail on the head and delivers an extremely enjoyable beer for those in need of their roasted winter malts.
Joel Wilson | Beer Team | Legacy Liquor Store
powell street brewing to expand beyond its nano size
which would have been necessary even before they won beer of the year
review of dead frog’s new seasonal
antidisestablishmentarianism amber ale
a beer to memorialize colin jack
want some help faking being a beer geek?
the la times provides four words that will make you sound knowledgeable about craft beer
dry-hopped, cask, mosaic and gueuze
public invited to help bc liquor laws get with the 20th century
(expecting the 21st may be a little too much)
and the province weighs in on the possible new liquor laws
“Buying locally brewed beer at a farmers’ market? Sipping a glass of wine at the spa? Or enjoying lunch at your favourite pub with your teens?”
those all sound like reasonable changes to me
listen to paddy treavor on bc almanac oncbc radio last week
bacon and beer in sf on august 25th
enjoy them both along with the beer wench and a who’s who of san francisco brewers and chefs
it is one of my cbc radio tuesdays!
i will be on radio one with stephen quinn at 5:50 today talking about craft beer and #IPAday
on the coast
then i will be going to the railway club to avail myself of the cask of driftwood naughty hildegard esb with mosaic hops
if that sounds like fun to you, you could go in time to listen to the show
my fan club (aka beer geek friends) have a listening party in the back room
join them! so long as they have craft beer in front of them, they do not bite
(the cask at tap and barrel also sounds good… might have to try to hit both places!
tree brewing blend of 2/3 hophead ipa and 1/3 black ipa)
i will be on cbc radio one’s on the coast with stephen quinn at 5:50 today
talking about summer beers!
tune in!
88.1 fm
690 am
then i’ll be hitting the railway as per usual
for a pint of cask
this week its central city ipa with dry-hopped with amarillo
what a week in beer!
monday night cask at st. augustine’s – red truck’s esb
tuesday night cask at railway club – parallel 49 dry-hopped gypsy tears
wednesday night sour beer pairing dinner at biercraft cambie
thursday night cask at yaletown brewpub – pale ale with thyme
all of the above were damned tasty and much fun
so, what should i drink tonight???
the cask at the yaletown brewpub last night was stellar!
brown ale done with raspberries
the raspberries were subtle and not sweet
and they put such wonderful flavour into that delicious brown ale
definite win!
the cask at the railway on tuesday was also a good one
central city’s amber ale dry-hopped with simcoe
so satisfying!
the cask last night at the railway club was central city’s simcoe dry-hopped ipa
damn that simcoe is a tasty hop!
tonight’s cask at the yaletown brewpub is the brick and beam ipa with citra
this is an awesome beer and i’m sad i’ll be missing it
(not sad that i’ll be at the pne with olp though!)
i did very much enjoy the cask at the railway club on tuesday night
it was r&b’s dry-hopped esb
very nicely balanced
and hopped up like i like ’em!!
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