more tap takeover

Commons & Breakside Takeover Portland Craft! Sept 18th – 6pm – No Tickets Required Join our team as we hang out at Portland Craft for the night with our Portland Pals! Jacob and Fred from Breakside will be here as will Josh from The Commons! We’ve got 5 beers from each brewery on tap, including some very rare or never before seen beers.

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10 stark truths (and we’re not talking game of thrones here) about dating a beer nerd

breakside brewery liquid nitrogen frozen fresh hop beers
and a reminder that breakside and the commons are having a tap takeover at portland craft on september 18th (aka thursday)

a sneak peek at steel toad

the strait loves stateside craft

also, a very happy birthday to one of my oldest friends today
oldest in time known, not age!
not that she reads my blog, but whatever, happy birthday goog!

stateside craft

quietly opening on commercial drive last week, stateside craft is the newest craft beer bar in the city
portland craft’s younger, over-achieving sister will officially open on july 4th
but until then, they are soft launching and you can stop in for some wonderful brews
and yummy food

located in the former avanti’s pub in il mercato mall at gravely and commercial
it is a whole lot prettier inside than the former pub
the female-identified bathroom is 8 million times nicer (thank dog!)
bright (or as bright as a place with only a couple of windows can be), polished, open and airy
this ain’t avanti’s, that’s for sure
and i couldn’t be happier
now, don’t get me wrong, avanti’s did me right for many years
but their refusal to get any craft beer on tap led me to move my commercial drive beer drinking to st. augustine’s as soon as that alternative presented itself
now that st. a’s has line-ups all the time, i’ve been jonesing for another craft beer pub on the drive
(there are many restaurants with craft beer on the menu, but sometimes you just wanna be in a pub, you know?)

and there’s skee-ball!
(instead of darts)
plus two game machines
(don’t ask me what they are, i was too busy squealing over skee-ball to pay attention)

the tasting paddles haven’t arrived yet, so they’re not doing flights at this time, but they’re coming
and with 40 rotating taps, that’s a darned good thing!

stop in
be nice to the servers as they learn their product list
try some awesome beer
eat a pound of prawns
but make sure you don’t tell everyone about this place
i want to ensure that there’s always a seat available for me because i already know this is going to be my regular haunt!

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a beer beginner’s guide to hops

peaches and cream ale pie recipe
(is it wrong that when i read misused words i picture the author doing what they actually said?  in this example i am picturing her hurdling her way through her days until summer.  it is probably a very good workout… maybe even burning off all those pie calories)

vancouver bars that offer food as good as the craft beers
i agree with her on portland craft and biercraft
but craft beer market?  insipid food with no flavour was my review of my one visit there
the beer didn’t wow me either, so i never bothered to go back again
several people i have talked to have had the same experience… so i’m still not tempted to go back
not when there are so many other incredible places in town to get my craft beer and yummy food fix!

uses for spent grain

go east van brewers, go!

all about yeast

Nonna’s Sweet Spring Finish

Campagnolo Restaurant Lines Up Tuesday Night Homestyle Suppers

Vancouver B.C., May 29, 2014 – The month of June marks the end of spring and the beginning of summer, providing just a hint of the incredible bounty still to come. Chef

Nathan Lowey of Campagnolo Restaurant is determined to end the season with a sweet finish by bringing back the popular supper series: Just Like Dinner at Nonna’s. Every Tuesday night in June, Campagnolo Restaurant will serve up a hearty, classic Italian meal paired with a R&B Brewing Co. draught beer for the easy-to-swallow price of $22. Each dish is lovingly prepared with seasonal ingredients sourced from local farmers and purveyors.

 

Nonna’s 2014 Spring Calendar

 

June 3

Classic Spaghetti and Pork Meatballs

garlic cheese toast

 

June 10

Veal Parmesan

Glorious Greens salad, mustard vinaigrette

June 17

Roasted Local Free Range Chicken

warba nugget potato agro dolce, braised hearty greens

 

June 24

Smoked and Roasted Pork Coppa

soft polenta, rapini, radishes, pan juices

 

Just Like Dinner at Nonna’s Details:

Dates: June 3, June 10, June 17 and June 24

Time: Dinner is served at 6PM Sharp

Price: $22

Address: 1020 Main Street, Vancouver, BC

Website: campagnolorestaurant.ca

Reserve: Reservations* must be made in advance by calling 604.484.6018

*a credit card is required at the time of booking

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cannery’s press release about the pink mountainhops

the science of perfect food and beer pairings

portland craft’s chef gets a write-up in the straight, and gives you the beer to pair with his steelhead trout recipe

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a little 24 hour love for portland craft

after enjoying the heck out of all the sours on the alibi room’s 400th beer list, this is a timely set of food and beer pairings for me:  craftbeer.com on the wild side of pairing

deschutes gives you some repurposing ideas for expired beer
(which happens to beer lovers you know)

growler from crate & barrel

beer, delicious beer

i have been back on the ambrosia for six days now
and i have yet to extol its virtues here
bad, bad beer geek!

let’s work backwards through my past six days
last night was beernesday at st. augustine’s
where i enjoyed a taster flight of howe sound total eclipse of the hops (love this citrusy imperial), hoyne’s devil’s dream ipa (love this too!), moon under water’s victorious weizenbock (cloudy, not too sure about chocolate and wheat together, the banana notes were interesting, and i really enjoyed the new zealand hops) and creepy uncle dunkel (whose vanilla notes were subtle enough for me to enjoy this lovely lager), plus pints of ninkasi total domination ipa (by far the maltiest of my ipas of the evening) and driftwood’s fat tug (always a nice way to end an evening)

clicky clicky for jan zeschky’s review of the hoyne devil’s dream

tuesday night was cask night at the railway club
where i had a lovely jameson-infused stout by central city
not too whiskeyey for me, it was smooth and rich and most enjoyable

monday night was the ninkasi brewing tap take-over at portland craft
where i enjoyed a sampler of all the hoppy goodness:  believer double red ale, total domination ipa, tricerahops double ipa and renewale esb

sunday was the superbowl where i imbibed in beer and football and junk food – yay!
– moon under water’s potts pils, which i found to be outstanding!  so imminently drinkably delicious.  i must get more of this! unfiltered, it wasn’t sedimenty, just a little cloudy.  at 38 ibus enough hops to please me, but not enough to offend lager drinkers.  i want one right now!
– epic brewing’s armageddon ipa, which is a damned fine ipa.  worth the $10 price tag.  i look forward to trying the hop zombie soon too. 

saturday was the vanbrewers agm
and tasting afterwards
we also made it out to the princeton pub and drank them out of parallel 49 gypsy tears
and the wise club, who we also drank out of gypsy tears
and that’s all i’m going to say on that subject

friday was my official first day back to drinking
(i caved and had fat tug on thursday night – i am a baaaaaad girl, sue me)
i had a couple of central city ipas at work
followed by the american brewing tasting at legacy liquor store where i sampled the delightful blonde ale, the delicious breakaway ipa and the surprisingly smokey stout
followed by a visit to tap & barrel for more red racer and fat tug
rounded out with a stop at st. augustine’s for deschutes hop henge experimental ipa
a very nice way to start back into beer drinking!

i really love beer!

portland craft

whatcha doing on february 4th?
want a suggestion of what do do?
attend the ninkasi brewing launch and tap takeover at portland craft?
that’s where i’ll be!

TAP TAKEOVER ALERT! On Monday February 4th, 2013 up to 7 of our taps will be taken over by Ninkasi Brewing in honour of Ninkasi’s entrance into the BC market. That night we will be featuring:

1) Total Domination IPA – CONFIRMED!
2) Tricerahops Double IPA – CONFIRMED!
3) Believer Double Red Ale – CONFIRMED!
4) Oatis Oatmeal Stout – CONFIRMED!

With possibly three more to be announced in the coming weeks.

We will also have a some door prizes and other fun stuff going on thanks to their agency Copper & Theory. Not a bad way to shake off that Superbowl hangover!

thursday

tomorrow evening i will be at portland craft for the modern malt ipa mingler
which is a sold out event…
but for the rest of you, don’t fret, you can still get your american beer on by going to the new oxford for the deschutes/phillips tap takeover anniversary party:

The New Oxford Two Year Anniversary Party
Thursday December 6th – 5pm – late

Two years, two breweries taking over.

Join us on Thursday for complimentary canapes & drink samplings as we host you alongside representatives from Deschutes & Phillips breweries to celebrate two years in Yaletown.

Both breweries will be taking over six taps and will feature notable and rare craft beer selections all evening.

$5.15 featured craft beer sleeves.

Please RSVP to ts@donnellygroup.ca

The New Oxford Public House
1144 Homer St., Yaletown
604.609.0901
www.donnellygroup.ca/new-oxford

on the coast leftovers

my beer selections for this week’s beer column on cbc radio’s on the coast:

american brewing company’s breakaway ipa and caboose oatmeal stout

lazy boy brewing’s oktoberfest and ipa

diamond knot brewing’s brown ale and industrial ipa

all three are available in bottles at hastings, legacy and brewery creek liquor stores
the lazy boy and diamond knot are also available on rotating taps at the usual suspects like st. augustine’s, the alibi room and portland craft.  in fact, i had the industrial ipa at st. augustine’s last night!  they are also being poured at rogue waterfront, queen’s cross pub, fets bar & grill, biercraft and tangent cafe, among other places

like modern malt on facebook and you can keep up to date on where these fine beers are available!