head to head

-
i feel the need to state that i love both st. augustine's and rogue
and the alibi room
and pivo
hell, i even enjoy the cambie from time to time!

there are not enough words of praise in the world for me to lavish upon the establishments of this fair city (and everywhere i'm lucky enough to travel) who serve the craft beer, who offer up the choice of flavours and diversity beyond the big brewers (or evil empires, your choice).

my "reviews" are simply meant to be informative (and opinionated) and offer up potentially undiscovered gems to all y'all
but sometimes i can't help doing a little head to head comparison of my chosen watering holes!

rogue vs. st. augustine's
gastown vs. commercial drive
4 oz samplers vs. 6 oz samplers

rogue is close to my current office
st. augustine's is close to my house
tie

rogue has very nice women's bathrooms
st. augustine's are passable
rogue

rogue has fabulous food
st. augustine's has lovely food
tie

rogue is fancy schmancy
st. augustine's is not, but they have a clarifying tank!
tie

rogue has several taps
st. augustine's has 40+ taps
st. augustine's

rogue is an all around restaurant bar
st. augustine's will serve you other things, but their passion is beer
st. augustine's

rogue makes you smoke outside the station, among the panhandlers
st. augustine's lets you smoke out front, where only sometimes panhandlers roam and you can still see your table (and any beer you haven't yet drunk)
(smoking is bad for you - don't smoke!)
st. augustine's

rogue has lots of big-screen televisions
st. augustine's has lots of big-screen televisions
tie

rogue sometimes has special taps
st. augustine's always has rotating taps as well as more permanent fixtures
st. augustine's

rogue does not have casks (that i am aware of)
st. augustine's has monday night cask nights
st. augustine's

my ex frequents st. augustine's
my ex does not go to rogue
rogue

i would not wear my sports uniforms to rogue
i do wear my sports uniforms to st. augustine's
tie

final tally?
like barbie says, math is hard!

what it really comes down to for me is that sometimes i feel like a nut
sometimes i don't






Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

brewing up gender parity

-
Image
My article on gender parity is on the Growler website! BREWING UP GENDER PARITY: THE QUEST FOR BEERQUALITY REBECCA WHYMAN •  JUNE 13, 2019 Women are markedly underrepresented in craft beer. This is not news to anyone. But have you ruminated on just how large the gender gap is?  A 2018 survey by Nielsen-Harris  found American craft beer drinkers are 68.5 per cent male and 31.5 per cent female. Closer to home,  BeerMeBC’s 2018 survey  had those numbers at 71 and 29 per cent, with 0.32 per cent identifying as “other.” For those not so strong in the math department, that means that there are only three women drinking craft beer for every seven men. If you were a straight man looking for a date, you wouldn’t like those odds at all. And I can tell you, as one of those three women, it’s not much fun being outnumbered everywhere I go to enjoy my beloved craft beer, delightful as those seven men may be. Drinking craft beer is the easy part—when we move into the sections of craft
Read more

zywiec polish beer

-
Image
and now for something completely different a polish beer! zywiec - and i have no idea how to pronounce that! its poland's #1 premium beer (according to the bottle) it has a thermometer label when you can see the name in colour, its the right temperature to drink sounds a bit too much like those darned mountains that turn blue when the piss-poor mass market beer is cold enough to not give you any indication of its stinky nose but i digress... pours wonderfully clear light caramel colour nice head on the vigourous pour 5.5% this is a lager i can get into! crisp and mildly hopped its everything a pilsner should be and its delicious a great session beer on the bottle:  "since 1856 this premium beer has been brewed according to the original zywiec brewer's recipe from the best natural ingredients.  contains finest malted barley, choicest hops and pure mountain water." no clue what the website says as its in polish but wikipedia has this little histor
Read more

label of love

-
Image
LABEL OF LOVE: THE CREATIVE WORLD OF MODERN BEER CAN ART REBECCA WHYMAN •  OCTOBER 15, 2018 Clockwise from top left: Electric Bicycle Brewing Co.; Mikkeller’s Hallo Ich Bin Berliner Weisee; the beer label artwork of Vancouver artist Patrick Wong; Superflux’s Superfluousness. Contributed/file photos You can’t help it, I can’t help it—we all judge beers by their labels, maybe as much as we judge the beer itself. Beer labels have been around for ages: 83 years on cans, and much longer than that on bottles. It appears we’ve been loving beer labels for that whole time—just check out all the vintage labels you can buy on eBay! Doesn’t it seem, though, that we’re loving beer labels extra hard right now? Maybe it’s that size matters. Beer cans, especially those tall boys, offer lots of real estate for labelling. Large-format bottles provide a sizeable canvas as well. Maybe it’s as simple as habituation. Humans aren’t that different from crows; we’re attracted to bright, shiny obje
Read more