Category: imperial

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upcoming dead frog casks around vancouver:

October 1, 6:00pm
Rogue Broadway (@RogueBroadway)
Imperial Red Ale
Malts: Pale Malt, Cara Amber, Munich 30, Cara 20, Special B
Hops: Citra, dry-hopped with Simcoe
IBU: 46
ABV: 8%
A bolder version of an Irish Red Ale combining a moderate malt and light buttery aroma with citrus hops for a medium-bodied ale that begins with sweet caramel and hints of milk chocolate, then finishes with a lingering dryness.

October 21, 5:00pm
Tap and Barrel Convention Centre (@TAPconvention)
Bucking Sheep Buckwheat IPA with Pineapple & Sweet Orange Peel
Malts: Pilsner, Buckwheat, White Wheat, Cara 8
Hops: Citra, Centennial
IBU: 35
ABV: 6.5%
Float amongst clouds of Citra hops with this golden IPA brewed using buckwheat. A crisp malt base is complimented by a magnificent tropical fruit flavour and aroma with a hint of bitterness.

Tap and Barrel Olympic Village (@TAPvillage)
Bucking Black Sheep Buckwheat IPA with CocoaNibs & Coffee
Malts: Prairie 2-Row, Buckwheat, MidnightWheat, Cara 20, Carafa II, Chocolate
Hops: Galaxy, Centennial
IBU: 41
ABV: 6.5%
A one-of-a-kind brew featuring a hop-forward tropical fruit aroma and flavour combined with a rich roasted malt base. Midnight wheat and buckwheat give the beer its unique colour and an irresistible finish with flavours of chocolate and espresso.

and another new beer from phillips:

Introducing a new India Red Ale 6 pack!

 
September 29th, 2014: Scared of clowns? Us too, but it’s time to face our fears.

Coulrophobia is a brand new India Red Ale that juggles fresh pine bitterness with hints of citrus fruit. Pouring deep reddish-copper colour with a marshmallow white head, its fresh, full aroma may just change your mind about big noses.  Delicately balanced with a hearty malt base, you’ll smile at the amount of body we squeezed into this flavour vehicle; no creepy face paint required.

Coulrophobia IRA is available now from private craft-beer focused liquor stores.  If you would like to try Coulrophobia on draft, join us at the brewery on Wednesday October 1st from 4-6 for a free tasting. No tricks, just finely crafted beer.

legacy liquor store

new beers at legacy liquor store in vancouver:

New Belgium Accumulation White IPA – $17.55

Winter has settled in, and with all this cold weather come the winter beers. This New Belgium beauty is pale blonde in colour with a big hop bomb of a nose, with predominantly grapefruit, pine and other citrus fruits backing it up. Much like the nose, the palate is all about the hop, with grapefruit, pine, citrus and just a touch of sweet malt pulling through on the finish. Grab this Colorado brew and cuddle up next to the fireplace when it’s too cold to venture out.

Evan Doan | Beer Team | Legacy Liquor Store

R&B Brewing Auld-Nick – $7.80

From our friends located in the historic Brewery Creek district comes a significantly darker shade of beer that will warm you up all the same. A stunning shade of mahogany bursting with aromas of banana bread and buttery caramel that pull through on the palate accompanied by bitter licorice, molasses and dark fruit. A medium body and a lingering finish wrap this beer up as nicely as any present under your Christmas tree.

Chris Bonnallie | Beer Supervisor | Legacy Liquor Store

Parallel 49 Toques of Hazzard – $7.55

Bold and delicious by all means, this Imperial White IPA from our friends at Parallel 49 will definitely warm you up. This hazy amber-coloured beer is a sight to behold with a rich nose of tropical fruits (think pineapple, for instance) that gets you excited for the first sip. All those tropical fruits come into play again on the palate with a lovely mouthfeel that can be attributed to the flaked wheat. This brew will definitely make dreams of sugarplums dance in your head.

Joel Wilson | Beer Team | Legacy Liquor Store

legacy

its all about the 8 wired at legacy this week
new beers available at the vancouver liquor store:

8 Wired Brewing – Fresh Hopwired IPA – $10.55
Straight from the southern hemisphere brewed with three hop varieties (Pacific Jade, Motueka and Nelson Sauvin) fresh off the vine, this beer pours hazy amber in the glass with pine and herbal aromas on the nose. A silky body paired with slight sweetness and a vibrant finish help finish this fine brew off.

Chris Bonnaillie | Beer Supervisor | Legacy Liquor Store

Muskoka Brewery – Summer Weiss (6-Pack) – $15.70

Hark! Craft Beer from the vibrant province of Ontario, brewed to capture the essence of summer in a bottle. Pale yellow and hazy when poured from the bottle, this one hits all the right notes when it comes to Hefe: cloves, banana and citrus on the nose with more cloves, bright citrus and spicy yeast on the palate.

Conor Marshall | Beer Team | Legacy Liquor Store

8 Wired Brewing – Mighty Imperial Ale – $10.55

Another fabulous craft beer from the gorgeously green islands of New Zealand, this smoked and oaked Imperial Ale is a dark clear amber colour with an aroma of spruce, caramel, wood and raisins. On the palate, smoke and oak intermingle on a backdrop of burnt sugar to help finish it off.

Joel Wilson | Beer Team | Legacy Liquor Store

phillips

Cabin Fever Imperial Black IPA
March 4th, 2013: Poised between the ominous darkness of winter and the new life-giving brightness of spring, stands this Imperial Black IPA. Brewed to celebrate the changing season, Cabin Fever is loaded with midnight roasted malt, pouring a deep black colour and paying homage to those dark days behind, while buckets of big floral hops infuse a mind-warping hop kick big enough to boot you out the door from your self-imposed exile. Hibernation is over. Celebrate with this balanced beer for the unbalanced mind.

Cabin Fever is available at finer craft-focused cold beer and wine stores for a limited time only. If you find yourself in Victoria on Thursday March 7th, join us at the brewery from 4-6 for a special draught tasting of this special seasonal celebration 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

rogue brutal bitter

i do love me some rogue
and the brutal bitter is no exception

do i have tasting notes?
nope, can’t find them
quite possibly didn’t make any
so why am i posting about the brutal bitter without notes?
because i happened to do a tasting of it the other night and took a photo
don’t want to waste a perfectly good photo…  that would be tragic
so i’m gonna just say that it was yummy and i’ll for sure have it again
maybe you’ll get notes then
maybe not

from the website:
Style: Bitter       Food Pairing: Beef, Seafood

Tasting Notes:

An Imperial bitter with exotic traditional floor malts, citrusy, hoppy flavor, stupendous hop aroma.
6 Ingredients:

Malts: 100% Floor-malted Maris Otter, Cara Vienna, Cara Wheat.
Hops: Crystal.
Yeast & Water: Rogue’s Pacman Yeast & Free Range Coastal Water.
HISTORY
Dedicated to Justin Fisch, the Shade Man, and the official beer of the Rogue Nation. Brutal combines Oregon hops with English Malts. The Oregon grown Crystal hop is a triploid variety developed from the German Hallertau aroma hop variety with contributions from Cascade, Brewers Gold, and Early Green. Crystal is the only hop used in brewing Brutal and it provides a massive amount of aroma without dry-hopping.

brewdog news

We are delighted to announce the release of the third beer in our Abstrakt series: AB:03.

Imperial Ale Aged over 2 years in whisky casks with raspberries and strawberries

10.5%

3192 bottles

This is an imperial ale brewed back in 2007, aged in Invergordon whisky casks from the 1960s with over 25 kilos of strawberries and raspberries per cask.
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We have 3192 numbered bottles, 1200 of which are available online for a limited time only.
You can buy from the BrewDog site here:http://www.brewdog.com/product.php?id=66
And from the abstrakt site here: http://www.abstrakt.com/product/ab03
We also have a tiny amount of AB:02 available for those who missed ithttp://www.brewdog.com/product.php?id=66 
And our new glassware is here too: http://www.brewdog.com/product.php?id=65 
More information on our Abstrakt series at www.abstrakt.com

moylans hopsickle imperial ale

next up is moylan‘s hopsickle imperial ale
its triple hopped!
so i’m very much looking forward to some incredible hoppy goodness!

not an ipa, it is quite balanced between the intense hops and its malts
quite the big head on a vigourous pour
hoppy nose
dark caramel colour
9.2% (yay!)

the bottle and the website say:
“This is a “Hop” tribute, worthy of a King’s Imperial Court! Enjoy the blast of fresh Tomahawk, Cascade and Centennial Hops as they stimulate the taste buds in a truly imperial fashion. Pucker Up!”

““Prohibition in this country ended our brewing tradition,” Moylan explained. “Budweiser and a few others moved in fast and captured many of the larger markets. Now we’re entering into a new phase of beer brewing. I think you’ll see it continue to grow.” In fact the craft brewing market share grew by 7% in 2004.”