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

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new and exciting beers at legacy vancouver:

Whistler Brewing Pineapple Express Wheat Ale A perfect excuse to kick back and enjoy a few. This golden beauty’s just the ticket. This one’s as fresh as a warm breeze – straight from the shores of Maui.

Russell 626 Anniversary Scotch Ale This strong, dark ale was brewed with Scottish specialty peated malts for a slightly smoky character, then skillfully aged in Bourbon barrels – a beer to celebrate Russell’s 17th Anniversary!

Hofstettner Granit Bock 2011 The Granit Bock is brewed in large granite open troughs. The granite stones are then heated to be white hot and added to the wort. This causes the sugars in the malt to caramelize around the stones and gives the beer lovely caramel and roasted flavors. It also gives the Granit Bock a unique smoked flavor.

yard work

the poor beleagured hops we’re growing in bridget’s back yard got moved again!
these poor little troopers have been moved three times now
(rhizomes culled from an east van garden, planted at bridget’s by the fence a week before the neighbours tell her they’re going to put in a new fence, moved to the garden patch where they spent a year before being moved to their current home in the new raised bed)

the hops had a hard time growing last year – crappy soil, not enough sun
so a major work party happened this weekend to fix that situation!

woo hoo, i got to drill!

we built a raised garden bed and filled it with 2 yards of stinky soil
(i used power tools!! bridget and the viking did the heavy work)

the garden frame

filled to the brim with stinky soil

the hops in their new home

and what did we drink while doing all this yard work?
central city ipa and pale ale
it does a body good!

what did we drink after doing all the yard work and resting on our laurels?

brooklyn’s local 1

smoky beer ryan brought back from paris

third beer of the apocalypse that i brought back from portland

railway cask night

hahaha, so the r&b cask of smoky pineapple goodness that was supposed to be tapped at the railway last night apparently blew up!
mon dieu!

so r&b delivered up their esb instead.
and it was quite lovely, if a touch young…
and really, who likes pineapple anyway?

st. patrick’s day

yay for avoiding green beer last night!
and double yay for the wonderful cask at the whip!
r& b’s smokey jameson stout did not disappoint

smokey jameson stout

the bottom of the cask was a bit toooooo yeasty for us