Category: samuel adams

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new and exciting beers at legacy liquor store in vancouver:

Samuel Adams Octoberfest – $16.35
Straight from the east coast, Massachusetts to be exact, comes a distinct and delicious Octoberfest seasonal brew. Rich in colour, with accents of amber and caramel, this beer packs a punch with notes of malt, spice, caramel and maple on the nose. Meanwhile, sugar, spice and everything nice, in addition to excellent malt characteristic, embody autumn on the palate. Simply fantastic.

Evan Doan | Beer Team | Legacy Liquor Store

Sierra Nevada Narhwhal Imperial Stout- $16.85

Brewed in honour of the majestic Narwhal Whale, this imperial stout pours as black as the depths of the Arctic Ocean accompanied with aromas of dark fruit, prune, baker’s chocolate and espresso. All about chocolate accented with coffee, the palate of this robust and perfectly balanced brew has a mile-long finish. Bravo!

Chris Bonnallie | Beer Supervisor | Legacy Liquor Store

Phillips Brewing Crookeder Tooth – $7.25

Crooked Tooth’s older brother is here to show us what barrel-aged pumpkin beer ought to be. This brew is amber in colour, with huge notes of vanilla and bourbon on the nose. Meanwhile, on the palate, bourbon and vanilla are once again the primary characters, with pumpkin and autumn spices backing them up. Drinking this beer is like being wrapped in a warm blanket.

Joel Wilson | Beer Team | Legacy Liquor Store

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not a well-written article from a beer perspective, cbc reports on new brunswick’s beer lottery for samuel adams’ utopias

70 songs about beer

phillips brewing spearheads a canadian craft beer collaboration brew

arguably the 10 best beer menus in vancouver 

a hard to follow article in the sun on storm brewing and james walton

for a limited time only, a free streaming of a homebrewing video

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what goes into lighthouse’s switchback ipa?
jan zeschky asks the brewer, dean mcleod

tree brewing is going pink for breast cancer
now packaging their beach blonde lager in pink cans

are shrinkwrap labels on beer cans actually green?
women enjoying beer wants you, and brewers, to step up to using sustainable beer packaging

and last, but probably the most fun, sam adams beer hoisting contest
how long can you hold a beer stein full of beer?

the perfect beer glass

samuel adams believes they’ve created the perfect beer glass
i like the theory behind it, sure
but i gotta get me one before i jump right in and believe all the hype!

“the sole focus of this glass is to maximize the flavor of samuel adams boston lager.”
jim koch, brewer and founder

for the specs, click here.

i could have picked one up when i was at the beer festival
but i didn’t want to have to carry it around with me
and its not like i drink the boston lager a lot
maybe if it was the perfect ipa glass i would have made the sacrifice

ipas i must try

adding to my ever-growing list of ipas i must try:

samuel adams latitude 48  (5.8%)

eel river ipa (7.2%)

uinta brewing co.’s detour double ipa (9.5%)

shipyard brewing co.’s xxxx ipa (9.25%)

upslope brewing co.’s ipa (7.2%)

hopworks urban brewery’s ace of spades (9.2%)

midtfyns bryghus’s ipa (7.3%)

deschutes‘ hop in the dark (india dark ale) (6.5%)

and other styles:

strangford lough brewing co.’s st. patrick’s best ale (english bitter) (4.2%)

sweetwater brewing co.’s happy ending (imperial stout) (9%)

yakima craft brewing co.’s stout (6.3%)

boulevard brewing co.’s dark truth stout (9.7%)

craft brewed – take one

and now for the low-down on the beers i sampled at the canada cup of beer:

we began with the steamwhistle pilsner, which was a hit with everyone.  perfect beer for a hot day.  and darned friendly servers to boot.  we can see why they’ve taken ontario by storm.  (cindy thinks you could mix this with lemonade for even more refreshment)

next up was samuel adams.  on offer was the summer ale and the boston lager.  the lager was a lovely dark lager, quite tasty.  i found the summer ale to be much like russell’s lemon, which i like for its lack of yeasty cloudiness, so i was a fan of this as well.  everyone else loves the fruity beers, so they very much enjoyed the summer ale.

on to natureland, the first organic brewers in canada, who just got themselves a genuine german brewmaster (who’s the same guy responsible for cariboo’s honey).  the nice server let us try all three of his available brews (in smaller pours) for a single token – fabulous way to get us to try all three!  only 2,000 flats of the hefeweisen were brewed, so if you wanna try it, you’d better find it fast!  it’s bottle conditioned so its mighty cloudy and yeasty.  it was refreshing, as were the lager and the amber.  they’re just so effervescent.  not my favourites, but everybody enjoyed them.

next up was vancouver island brewing where we sampled the honey brown, the dark lager, the pale ale and the amber ale.  i tried sips of everyone else’s choices.  i particularly enjoy the dark lager which is pretty much a refreshing stout.