Category: UK

on the coast

if you missed last week’s cbc radio beer column
fear not!  you haven’t missed out
follow the link, choose july 23 and either listen to the whole broadcast or fast forward to the last 10 minutes to listen to me, me, me talking about craft beer and #IPAday

and, as a preview to next week’s beer column about gluten-free beers
here are the beers i have been sampling:

harvester brewing ipa (portland)
harvester brewing pale ale
brasseurs sans gluten brewing’s glutenberg 8 (montreal)
estrella damm’s daura (barcelona)
world top’s against the grain (uk)
green’s dubbel dark ale (belgium)

trouble brewing in uk

camra (the uk version) and brewdog are squaring off about the great britain beer festival and who should be allowed to attend

brewdog accuses camra of dirty dealings in contract reneging
camra cancels brewdog’s bar at gbbf alleging failure to pay and follow contract

who wins?  no one who likes craft beer
who loses?  camra loses the younger generation as potential members, brewdog loses a marketing opportunity, gbbf ticket holders lose the chance to enjoy brewdog brews

why can’t we all just love beer and each other?

cask night

the cask at the yaletown last thursday was iain hill’s brick and beam ipa
dry-hopped with uk goldings
and it was delicious
i may or may not have had far too many pints of it
but really, it wasn’t my fault
i blame rob, who was in town from onterrible
yeah, it was his fault
or maybe it was the rum drinks they gave us to sample…

kristy, rob and laura

stacy, me and anne

the crazy appelton rum drinks they gave us to sample

mmmmm pizza!

high school buddies a couple of years later!

as always, good times at the yaletown that made my friday morning a little painful

camra

poor beleagured camra uk gets blasted by brew dog
read the brewdog blog post to hear what they have to say about camra uk’s president vilifying beer bloggers
makes me extra happy that camra bc and camra vancouver love beer bloggers and regularly support us by listing us all on their websites and in newsletters!
and further yay for the local camra chapters accepting kegs as perfectly good vessels of beer distribution, not just casks
that my friends, is support of REAL ale!

molson coors

seems to me that if you want to revive a dying beer market in the uk, making better beer might be the first step
thanks molson coors for taking over small craft breweries and making them water down their beers
cuz surely that’s not at all what’s wrong with beer these days
or causing flagging sales…

for the actual article, click here.

brewdog news

“UK supermarket adds iconic craft beers to its shelves as brewery also signs  big deals with retailers in Denmark, the Netherlands and Australia

We now have three of our craft beers available in Morrisons stores! The new deal, which sees three BrewDog brands on Morrisons shelves nationwide, strikes another blow for the brewer’s ‘craft beer revolution’ in  the UK and follows national listings with Tesco and Sainsbury’s supermarkets. Outside the UK, BrewDog has also expanded its off-trade presence in Denmark, the Netherlands and Australia this month.”
for the full story, click here.