Category: hopscotch festival

legacy liquor store

new and exciting beers at legacy liquor store in vancouver:

American Brewing American Blonde Ale – $7.55
This Blonde Ale is a golden straw color. It has delicate hop notes and a citrusy aroma; a crisp and dry palate with a touch of sweetness and low bitterness. Higher carbonation adds to the overall experience, light in body and very refreshing, a real thirst quenching beer. There is enough full-bodied flavor to satisfy those who want a well balanced blonde ale. This blonde is a real beauty!
American Brewing Caboose Oatmeal Stout – $7.55
This Oatmeal Stout is dark brown to almost black in color with a rich cream colored head. It has a pleasant, full-bodied, smooth profile with an aromatic blend of coffee, oats, and roasted malts. Savor the long, rich finish that tempts you with just a subtle hint of dark chocolate. This oatmeal stout is something great to behold, enjoy!
Diamond Knot Brewing Co. India Pale Ale – $8.15
Their flagship beer, the one for which they are known throughout Puget Sound. Columbus hops impart intense bitterness with flavors of grapefruit & a hint of cedar. 6.2% ABV; 40 IBUs

the above beers are brought to you by the new distributor on the block, modern malt!
check them out, follow them on twitter (@ModernMalt) etc.!

whisky month at legacy:

Our featured event is the Whisky Brunch Fundraiser, held at Legacy on November 18th at 10am. This event will consist of five stations of award winning food paired with single casks of malt whisky imported especially for this event. The food will be prepared by world-class competition winners from the Junior Culinary Team of Canada – so it is sure to impress and amaze.
The whiskies being poured are Mortlach 20yr. sherry cask, Royal Lochnagar 9yr., Laphroaig 10yr. cask strength, Craigellachie 8yr.sherry cask and Bunnahabhain 19yr. Again, some of these are limited to 400 bottles world-wide so they are very limited bottlings.
For tickets to all Hopscotch events, please jump onto the HopScotch website here.
If you aren’t already, please follow us on Twitter and Facebook for the latest news on all of our weekly tastings!

hopscotch

this is the hopscotch event that i won tickets to at the #yvrbeertweetup on tuesday night:

VanSteenberge Belguim Brews

With Jef Versele!
Gulden Draak, one of the most successful beers in North America recently got a new sibling – Gulden Draak 9000 Quadruple and Jef Versele from Brouwerij VanSteenberge will be here for its Canadian debut. Join him as he guides you on a tour to taste and compare VanSteenberge’s offerings. Be the first to try Gulden Draak 9000!
Jef is a 6th generation brewer at the van steenberge brewery. He creates all the new products for the brewery and oversees all the brews. Grandson of mister jozef Van Steenberge, he has been working at the VanSteenberge brewery since he was 22! What a treat to have him here for the festival.
The Hopscotch Festival will purchase $5 gift cards (to Legacy Liquor Store) for each person who attends a master class. Gift card is for use on products tasted within master class and must be used within 30 minutes of master class ending.
All attendees of Hopscotch Festival Master Classes will be given a $20 Gift Card from Uber Car Service towards their first ride with them!
*The value of this ticket is for the event only. Gift cards are considered a bonus value.
6:00-6:45pm
Monday, November 12, 2012
Legacy Liquor Store
1633 Manitoba St.
$20
 
and then on the friday night i will be at the grand tasting hall at the pne forum
good times!

#yvrbeertweetup

instead of going home after my cbc gig last night
like i should have done and been a responsible human
i went to smiley’s pub and had me some wonderful cask ale
like an interesting and beer-engaged human

#yvrbeertweetup was having a hopscotch festival precursor
there were five casks on offer, all with whisk(e)y in them
that is a recipe for an intoxicating evening!

two casks were pumpkin ales, two were stouts
the fifth was an ipa
i know we’re all very shocked here, but i went with the ipa!
lighthouse provided a marmalade imperial whiskey ipa
using quince and citrus and i can’t remember what all else fruits
and a whole 26er of whiskey,
that 9% fruity ipa went down far too easily
delicious!
i coulda drunk that all night
but fortunately for my head this morning, it ran out pretty quickly!

they’re doing the whole thing over again tonight
with different casks
at the bimini in kits
i have my regular beernesday group tonight so i won’t be making it out
but it is definitely worth considering if you’re not joining me at st. augustine’s!

i even won a prize!
which if you know me in person is probably shocking the hell out of you right now
yup, me the luddite and worst tweeter on earth actually managed to tweet the answer to a question first and win two tickets to a hopscotch event
pigs did not fly, but i definitely looked around to make sure they weren’t!

hopscotch

i really enjoy hopscotch (the event, not the chalk game, although i do like that too)
but i will not be attending this year
not because i have anything else on my calendar
or because i can’t afford it

nope, i won’t be attending because the tasting hall is being held at the rocky mountaineer station
where it has been held in the past
the difference this year is that rocky mountaineer has locked-out its workers
i will NOT cross a picket line to attend an event
if you feel similarly, drop hopscotch a line won’t you?
beg them to change venues!
and support the workers who have been locked out for over 100 days now

things i learned from deschutes

one last post about hopscotch 2010!

i was lucky enough to be given a ticket to attend an invite only seminar on “history of deschutes and what the future holds” which involved getting several tasters of jubilale and hop trip while listening to the very entertaining lance mitchell, marketing manager for deschutes

some of the high points:

the jubilale was intended to run out between christmas and new year’s
but its so popular that it will be sold out by around december 6th
so if you want some for christmas, you’d best be picking it up now!

deschutes was founded in 1988 in bend, oregon
by gary fish, who wanted to serve local foods and local beers to the locals

it wasn’t an easy road getting to where they are today
21 years ago all the beer got contaminated and they had to pour all of it out on christmas day and start over

their new brew system is german
it is 28 feet wide
the road to bend is only 30 feet wide, so they got a police escort

deschutes is one of only two breweries in north america to use whole flower hops (sierra nevada is the other)
using the whole flower hop provides increased aromatics, bitterness, smoothness and balance
they have a climate controlled hop room in which bales of hops wait to be used
this is also known as hop heaven – i wold love to get my sniffer in that room!

deschutes is now the 6th largest brewery in the US
and they aren’t even in all the states yet

they are dedicated to quality beer
they have a sensory room for quality control
anyone who works at deschutes can sign up to be quality control, and one of their most reliable tasters is part of the janitorial staff

the black butte porter is their flagship beer

the cascade ale is going through a change, they’re taking down the alcohol percentage in order to make it a sessionable beer

the jubilale is a winter seasonal that features new artwork each year
(anchor steam’s christmas ale also does this)
the artwork includes labels, packaging and tap handles
they’re new each year, featuring a local artist’s work

deschutes has a brewpub in portland (in the pearl district)
its a 22 barrel system
they have no budget restrictions on research and development
they tried 39 batches of hop in the dark before settling on the recipe
and they used the portland brew pub regulars as the guinea pigs on those batches

much like howe sound, deschutes tries to lower its waste by offering its spent grain to farmers and using some in pizza crusts

coming out in december will be “the abyss”
its a 2x of their obsidian, featuring licorice notes
its 11% and aged in whiskey barrels
the bottle are hand-dipped in wax for a classy look for this seasonal

they have also brewed the “dissident”
12 barrels of sour brown, featuring wild yeast
(good luck finding that anywhere around here!!)

it was a great talk
mitch is incredibly entertaining
and it never hurts to attend a seminar that gives you free samples!
xoxo
the recipe changes yearly too