link love

just a wee one this week as i’m on vacation!

beer flavoured jelly bellies?

craft beer by the number?
is it really the way you should choose which beer to order?

five perfect pints in vancouver
nothing you didn’t already know in this one
but it’s nice to see non-beer specific publications espousing craft beer

not a link
just some news from spinnakers:
“Not long now until you can get your Spinnakers fill at the Victoria airport. You’ll find us just past security in the departure hall. We’ll be the ones with 12 taps of Spinnakers beer, a locally focused wine and spirits menu and a full menu infused with our signature Spinnakers’ style, as well as Grab and Go items to take on board.”

beer geekery

never did learn the periodic table in high school due to having to drop science over that whole dissecting animals thing
but always enjoyed the concept of it
and riffs on it
(like the sexiodic table t-shirt i 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