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#IPA Day is only two days away!!! to help you celebrate appropriately, here is the beer wench herself telling you everything you need to know about #IPADay (except that vancouver's celebration will take place at portland craft at 7:00!!)

looking for a patio in vancouver on which to sip your beer? never fear, the province has you covered (or in this case, uncovered!) #IPADay approacheth - what to pair with your ipa ? how about oysters!? need something to do in vancouver on september 21st? how about beerlesque II ?

because i like the green flash graphics:

songs about beer! the guardian calls out for your top songs about beer and the resulting playlist La Bière – Jacques Brel Six Pack – Black Flag House of the Gods – The Pogues More Tea, More Beer – The Herbaliser feat Jean Grae The Man Who Loved Beer – Lambchop I Heart Beer – The Physics Sunny Afternoon – The Kinks Bubbles in my Beer – George Jones Sky Phenomenon – Jens Lekman Oh Good Ale – The Copper Family (Bob and Ron) Blackout – British Sea Power Cold Bear – The Gaturs

a new seasonal release from phillips in victoria: July 30th 2012: While history may trumpet Captain James Cook as a brave explorer, master navigator and meticulous cartographer, we believe his greatest achievement lies in guiding his men to be the first Europeans to brew beer in BC! In March of 1778, Cook limped his ships, Discovery and Resolution , into Nootka Sound and, upon landing, went about repairing their masts and brewing a spruce beer from a mixture of molasses and fresh Sitka needles. Our Evergreen Ale is crafted as an homage to Cook and BC brewing history. Just like the explorers of old, we set out on our own little conquest to gather fresh spruce for the brew but what started as a simple harvesting mission quickly turned into a full-blown backwoods adventure when things didn't go exactly as planned...(Check the video on Vimeo or YouTube ) The story does have a happy ending though, in a beer endowed with a citrus-pine taste that might inspire you to become a histor

more from the good folks at kronenbourg 1664 (aka the carlsberg group): Potato Crusted Halibut with Kronenbourg Blanc Pea butter Sauce Serves 4  Ingredients: - 1 pint of heirloom cherry tomatoes - 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil - Salt and pepper to taste - 2 peeled Yukon gold potatoes - 4 pieces (6oz each) of halibut - 1 bottle Kronenbourg 1664 Blanc, using half and drinking the other half - 1/2 pound butter, chopped into small pieces - 1 cup frozen green peas - 2 slices of prosciutto, cut into thin strips - 1 shallot, chopped - 1 whole lemon, julienned - 1 bag baby spinach Preparation: For the Tomatoes: - Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place tomatoes into an oven‐proof sauté pan and toss with 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil, salt and pepper. Quickly roast until soft, about 20 minutes. Remove from heat and cool. For the Fish and the Sauce: - With the side of a cheese grater that creates the large shredded cheese, gra

last night's cask at the yaletown brewpub was nagila pale ale dry-hopped with citra it wasn't very carbonated but damn, citra hops are delicious! the brick and beam ipa currently on tap is half centennial and half citra i filled my growler...

fox news takes time away from making up stories about celebrities and gives us their top ten summer beers , including 21st amendment's hell or high watermelon and pyramid apricot ale toronto beer festival, take 18 the toronto star says its finally growing up from frat-boy drunk fest into a caskapalooza craft beer event worthy of beer geek attendance imperial pilsners the wall street journal thinks you should try including odell double pilsner i do love me a pilsner! r&b in collaboration with the pride society of vancouver has brewed a special beer for vancouver pride check out toast vancouver's preview of the g'ale  golden ale and the vancouver courier reports on the three new beer spots coming to mount pleasant nigel and conrad's brassneck brewery mark james group's new brewery restaurant and brewery for main street pilsner

new beers at legacy liquor store in vancouver: Adnams Gunhill Brewery of the Year 2011 - A traditional dark ruby ale, delivering full flavour at just 4% abv. Full aromatic barley malts and an exquisite blend of hops combined to create a wonderful balace. Adnams Tally-Ho Traditional Dark Ale Tally Ho is a limited edition barley wine style beer. Dark mahogany red with a rich, fruity aroma and a heart warming sweet raisin and biscuit palate. Brewed and bottled only once a year, it can be laid down like a fine wine. Mactarnahan's Spine Tingler Golden Belgian-Style Triple A surprisingly sublime Belgian-style triple offering an electrifying blend of spicy aromatics balanced with a lively malt palate that is so good it's scary. also at legacy, a tasting of r&b's pride ale: R&B BREWING G'ALE TASTING 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM     Tuesday, Jul 31, 2012

getting very excited for #IPADay next week! portland craft at 7:00!

portland's gigantic brewing is now available in vancouver! drink beer that "embiggens" Taste The Awesome! Gigantic Brewing has arrived in BC! Greetings! Gigantic Brewing can now be found on the shelves of your favourite private liquor stores (LRS)!!!! Stay tuned for info on Gigantic's Collaboration with 3 Floyd's Brewing which will hit shelves later, in August! -RainCity Brands GIGANTIC IPA True to its name. Cascade, Centennial, Crystal and Simcoe create a citrusy hop confluence that continuously embiggens with each drink. The embodiment of our brewing philosophy to "Never Give An Inch". 16.5 Plato   7.3% ABV   85 IBU

happy birthday to howe sound brewing in squamish! from howe sound's facebook page: Happy Birthday Howe Sound! 16 years of brewing great, quirky, whimsical, artisan & local ales! best wishes for more great brewin!

rogue kitchen and wetbar's second location on broadway at ash in vancouver opens today... at 4:58 p.m. with their famous "pay what you think its worth" menu 602 West Broadway Phone: 604.568.9400 www.roguewetbar.com

the cask at the railway club last night was r&b's hoppelganger ipa it was a hazy brew, but really nicely citrusy hopped i had more than one...

just before i head out to the railway club for cask night (and the delightful chan's birthday) bridge brewing is open in north vancouver!!

apparently there's a whole schwack of american craft beer in england methinks canada should have gotten some brews over there to cash in on the olympic hype

brought to you by the good folks at kronenbourg 1664: Clams, Bacon, Beer with Smoked Blue Cheese Toast Serves 4 Ingredients: - 3 tablespoons butter - 3 tablespoons flour - 1 bottle Kronenbourg 1664 - 1 1/2 cups 35% cream - 1 cup grated smoked blue cheese - 2 egg yolks - 1 baguette - 4 1/2 inch strips double smoked bacon, cut into cubes - 1 large shallot, chopped - 2 pounds clams, soaked in water - 1 bulb garlic, chopped - 1/2 bunch flat parsley, roughly chopped - 1 scallion, chopped Preparation: For the Smoked Blue Cheese Toast: - Melt butter and flour together to create a roux. Cook for 2 minutes on low heat, being careful not to let the roux brown. - Slowly add half a bottle of Kronenbourg 1664 and cream alternately until thickened, remove from heat and whisk in grated cheese and egg yolks. - Slice baguette in half and lightly toast under broiler. Remove, spread cheese sauce and return to broiler until browned. For

not beer related, but i love it!! here, this will make it beer-related... i bought one of these when i was in seattle last month:

a take on east van's brewery district by thebeergeek a blog all about pairing sandwiches and beer and those scamps over at brewdog offer an anti-food pairing blog post listing some of the foods that even craft beer can't improve

new brews at legacy liquor store in vancouver: Howe Sound La Brew Ha! Ha! A strong, Blegian-style Ale, with fruity and spicy flavours supported by a soft malt character. Brewed with a unique Belian-stytle Ale yeast in celebration of the annual 'Fete de la St.-Jean-Baptiste in Squamish'. 8 Wired Brewing Hopwired IPA 1 of 3 new beers from 8 Wired. This IPA is made using unique New Zealand hops giving off aromas like a 'Tropical Punchbowl'. 8 Wired Tall Poppy India Red Ale A second beer from this group, it has an intense, sharp and fruity hoppiness that is backed by its complex caramel-like malty structure.

muskoka mojito recipe (from strategic objectives and sombersby apple cider) What you’ll need: - 1 tall glass - 1 martini shaker (optional) - 1 oz homemade Ontario Strawberry Coulis (recipe below) or store-bought strawberry margarita mix - 1 can Somersby Apple Cider - Fresh mint, ripped - Ice cubes - Optional: Red gummy berries To make the Strawberry Coulis: - Take one quart of fresh Ontario Strawberries, remove the stems and quarter them. - Pour one cup of sugar over the berries and mix together. - Let the berries sweat for at least one hour until the sugar has dissolved. This can be done the night before and put in the fridge. - Put the berries into a blender and add one cup of warm water and blend thoroughly. - To remove the seeds strain the mixture through a sieve (optional). To make the Somersby Muskoka Mojito: - If you have a martini shaker, mix the cocktail in that and transfer to a glass,

i managed to spend a little time on my vancouver folk fest weekend in the beer garden serving up only big rock products, its not my favourite beer garden but if that's what's on offer and i get a mighty thirst i'm gonna find a way to make it work! for me, the way to make it work again this year was to go the route of the snake-bite even though snake bites were actually on the menu this year i still had to throw a spanner into the works and get my snake-bites with the traditional ale instead of the grasshopper wheat judging by the fact that they ran out of cider by 4:00 on sunday afternoon, i'd have to say the cider and snake-bite options were popular!  mimi enjoys the balmy weather on sunday with a big rock grasshopper chip off the old block double-fists it with traditional ale

from camra vancouver: Our Kits Cask Carouse in April was so awesome, we've decided to do it again, Gastown-style. Join us on a four-stop cask crawl around Gastown on August 25th! We'll be visiting The Alibi Room, The Lamplighter, Steamworks and Bitter Tasting Room. Each stop will feature a unique cask-conditioned ale, as well as paired appetizers and a special guest speaker. Your ticket price includes a sleeve and appy at each stop (with additional sleeves available for purchase). Tickets on sale August 1st - join the Facebook event page to keep in the loop!

last night's central city white tea and orange peel ale cask at the railway club was fabulous! i wasn't getting the usual bitterness of orange peel, but it was definitely citrusy and the white tea gave it a fuller flavour spectrum than just malts and hops there was a whole lot going on in that beer yup, it was a winner! last thursday's cask at the yaletown was their nagila pale ale dry-hopped with spalt it was very drinkable i couldn't get over the colour of it though - so yellow! i was assured by both iain and nick that it was the same colour as the regular nagila pale ale, but i remain sceptical (of course i could have ordered a pale ale and done colour comparison, but i had other beers to try, you know!) see what i mean??? that ain't a pale ale - that's yellow! the seasonal at the yaletown is currently the raspberry wheat i am not the biggest wheat ale fan... but i love this one so fruity and pink and deliciously refreshing! and last,

dying to know which beers mens journal thinks are the top 25 ? can't say that i consider them to be experts... but you know what?  they seem to have done alright as far as i'm concerned: russian river, dogfish head, sierra nevada, 21st amendment, dieu du ciel, hopworks, ninkasi, hitachino, mikkeller, nogne (my list would have a couple more canadian brews on there though...)

from parallel 49: Our store front is officially open! Come down to grab some cold six packs or to fill your growler with delicious P49 draft beer! (graham says he'll be there tonight and growler fills are $10) and from the soon-to-be-opened second rogue wetbar location: Because we love craft beer so much we put in 30 taps at the new Rogue Kitchen & Wetbar Broadway! i'll be at the railway for cask tonight no idea what tonight's is (the power of facebook and twitter is failing me right now...) UPDATE:  its cental city's white tea and orange peel pale ale but last week's r&b red devil pale ale was delish!

in four more days the seventh beer of the apocalypse will be released by elysian torrent pale beet bock

and my latest covetous desire: hops tshirt

quickly, a few lovely newsy items for y'all: cbc radio's on the coast is going to have a beer segment! currently there is a biweekly wine column... which will soon be alternating with a beer column i'm not sure when the beer segment will begin, but as soon as i do, i'll post it here #ipaday has a venue! woohoo! more on this later, but we'll be upstairs at portland craft on august 2nd from 7:00 p.m. onwards thanks chris for making this happen! pivo's third anniversary approacheth check it out on august 17th and also, they offer 25% off food if you bring in your movie ticket stub from cineplex upstairs (for the nights you aren't just having popcorn for dinner)

stolen from up north

ooooh, a stylish cooler bag ? yes please! (i think it would look even more stylish with craft beer inside it!)

want to pair beer with doughnuts? stltoday.com has three suggested pairings for you!

p.s. plans are in the works for #ipa day in vancouver looking to be at a single venue for the night instead of a pub crawl this year

just in time for the vancouver folk music festival, here are brewdog's music festival survival tips note that lack of craft beer is a problem at most music festivals oh folkfest, why you gotta serve us big rock?

endless simmer provides their top ten reasons to drink craft beer me, i think some of the best top reasons are:  r&b red devil pale ale cask at railway club - look how pretty it is!!! taster of nine beers at burnside brewing in portland you can brew your own! central city iced tea ipa cask at the railway club - omg, do you even know how tasty this is?? look how good the craft beer bottles look in a handknit cozy!

deschutes' twilight summer ale is delicious and refreshing and apparently i'm not alone in thinking so not just everyone i know agrees, but so does the world according to the brewing news! how did i celebrate the first hot sunny weekend of summer 2012 in vancouver? by drinking a few of these bad boys!

we should start seeing more rogue beers around vancouver beer thirst just signed on to represent them in british columbia   We are very pleased to announce that Beerthirst has been appointed British Columbia Agents of ROGUE beers with immediate effect. Based in Newport, ROGUE produces a wide range of critically acclaimed craft beers and spirits, packaged in some of the best branded bottles on the market. Beerthirst will be re-launching the brand in BC with a very strategic marketing and promotions plan. Expect to receive an immense amount of support from us in the form of staff training, in-store tastings, signage, social media, events, and promotional campaigns as we work with you to maximize our collective success with ROGUE products. In addition, we have submitted price reductions on the products (packaged and kegs) in order to position it appropriately amongst your other quality brands. We expect to receive our first shipment late in July, and we will communicate produ

yummmmm, beer chocolate!

beer vs. ice cream

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.

my long weekend in portland was fabulous! (even if the weather was less than stellar) this time around i managed to make it to deschutes, hopworks, gigantic, burnside, cascade, and old town breweries, plus a couple of other drinking establishments offering the lovely craft beer i took bolt bus to get there and back and definitely got my $68 worth its not totally dreamy though... the seats may have a little extra leg room, but they're leather so you spend the whole ride trying not to slide off the seat the wifi connection isn't very fast, apparently only works well at the front of the bus and until they change the routers, does not work at all while you're in canada we were not called by group as they say on the website, so even though we were there when the driver had told us to be, he had already loaded everyone else and we had trouble finding seats together - so be early, even earlier than the driver tells you to be! the departure and arrival times were not idea