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More than just another IPA 4 Hands / Bale Breaker / Stone Sorry Not Sorry IPA For our latest collaboration, we ventured into uncharted territory with 4 Hands Brewing Co. and Bale Breaker Brewing Company—two rising stars of American craft brewing. Brewed with experimental hops HBC 342 and HBC 344, along with beloved varietals Simcoe and Mosaic, this imperial IPA's stone fruit, pine, tropical fruit, berry and citrus notes are amplified by a dose of puréed peaches. So, yeah, we made (more than just) another IPA: #SorryNotSorry. Read more about this unapologetically  delicious beer on The Stone Blog. For those of you who are thinking, "Is this beer coming to my area and, if so, when?" we have created our  new, exclusive "beer tracker." This great tool, located on the beer's official web page, will serve as a  handy companion to the Stone Beer Finder for getting your hands on 4 Hands / Bale Breaker / Stone Sorry Not Sorry IPA. From Phillips Brewing: Pucker up and play the sour note! Thorny Horn Raspberry Brown Ale, our latest seasonal beer, is brewed intentionally sour.  Born as a medium bodied brown ale, it is infused with raspberries  and augmented with lively Lactobacillus bacteria, the magical secret to sour.  (**tasty fun-fact:  our 'lacto' strain was actually cultured in-house from our own spent grain) Pouring a deep ruby red colour topped by a frothy bubblegum-pink head, a tangy berry nose leads  to a rich, slightlysharp raspberry tartness through the body that finishes puckeringly dry.  This  sour brew is proof that sometimes the best notes fall outside of traditional scales! Thorny Horn is only available from private craft-focused liquor stores for a limited time!   EAST VAN ORIGINAL Announcing another great beer release from the original East Van brewery. It's been said that 'necessity is the mother of invention', an old English  proverb meaning that difficult or impossible scenarios prompt inventions that attempt to ease that difficulty.  It is with this pioneering and gritty attitude  that two great innovations came to be. The need for BEER and the need for a HOME have long been the most basic to  human existence...  The Vancouver Special IPA celebrates both inventions that overcame the difficulty and have become the defining expressions of R&B Brewing  Co.'s newest brew. THE STORY BEHIND THE BEER: In the early 1700's troops and 'ex-pat' citizens living in India did not have access to  good British ale because it was too hot to brew in India. When they tried to ship it  over the gruelling 6 month long journey it would spoil. In 1780, a London brewer  named Hodgson created a strong, heavily hopped beer that would normally be  aged before drinking.  He called it October Ale, and when it was shipped to India,  it not only survived the journey but the taste improved dramatically.  This was  the first IPA. When refridgeration came about, proper IPA began to die out, until  around 1976 American craft brewers started a new love affair with forgotten beer  styles including IPA. THE STORY BEHIND THE NAME: As with all good inventions, the development of the Vancouver Special home  design was a solution to a problem. In the late 60's then Prime Minister Pierre  Trudeau made major changes to the immigration laws which became the catalyst  to an influx of migrant families from India and China. Property on the east side  of Vancouver was relatively inexpensive, and there was need for an affordable  house design for builders to suit these buyers of the time. The Vancouver  Special design was born. Massively reproduced  in that era, they were without question the  most successful mass-market housing model Vancouver has ever experienced.  There  were more of these  homes built in Vancouver than any other style to  date. The design is an  ideal layout with massive floor area, adaptability  and affordability.  The reasons why these older homes are having a resurgence of popularity, as our East  side neighbourhood is being renovated by new families populating and re-energizing it. R&B BREWING CO.'S LATEST RELEASE - THE VANCOUVER SPECIAL IPA This hop-dominant IPA featuring Pacific Northwest  hops is named for the box-like houses built in East Vancouver between 1965 and 1985. With moderate bitterness, it has floral citrus-like flavours -- copper-coloured ale with full hoppy aroma it has mid level maltiness which gives it a medium body. The Vancouver Special is true to it's name -- the  perfect 'house party' beer. Bring it home in growlers or bottles to go with anything fatty or spicy! Crackers  and cheese, potato chips, nachos, poutine and chicken wings. Like the homes it was named after -- it's Big and  Sturdy. The Vancouver Special is truly an iconic  East Van original. IBU: 75  SRM: 10   ABV: 6% Available in 20 and 50L kegs, and 650ml bottles.