beernesday

new and exciting beers at legacy liquor store in vancouver: Hopworks “Organic” Ace of Spades Imperial IPA- $13.35 This hopped out beast has Amarillo, Cascade and Centennial hops added at every point – mash tun, first wort, kettle and dry hop – and all this green goodness results in a beer with a huge citrus hop aroma, flavour and deep clean bitterness. Evan Doan | Beer Team | Legacy Liquor Store Anderson Valley “Wild Turkey” Bourbon Barrel Stout- $12.85 Complexity. Aged for three months in Wild Turkey Bourbon barrels, this luxurious stout has a deep ebony hue and a beautiful mahogany head. The woody, vanilla-like notes imparted by the barrels mingle with aromas of fresh baked bread, toffee and espresso, enveloping the rich chocolate and roasted barley flavours with a fine bourbon character. Chris Bonnallie | Beer Supervisor | Legacy Liquor Store Powell Street/Four Winds DunkelWeizen Collaboration - $7.55 When two breweries come together magic can happen, and this fun collaborati...

i know ipa day was last week but i'm a bit slow on the photo upload, okay?! here is the fabulous ryan and myself in the shirts we made for our pub crawl adorable aren't we? first stop of the crawl was yaletown brewpub where we enjoyed iain hill's dry-hopped with simcoe cask of brick & beam ipa yaletown hosts a cask night every thursday, tapping at 4  yaletown brewpub we also had the extra treats made for us by lundy and ryan lundy made ipa bread with deschutes inversion ryan made his now famous ipa peanut brittle, this batch with hopworks ace of spades lundy and the ipa bread ryan and the ipa peanut brittle second stop was the railway club where they had specials on bottles of howe sound devil's elbow ipa, russell ip'eh and r&b hoppelganger... and phillips hop circle on tap i had the hop circle the railway also celebrated international beer day on august 5th with bands and many beer specials and has a weekly cask nigh...

stacy picked us up some hopworks' ace of spades the other day she was worried that at $15 a bottle the store wouldn't want to bring many bottles in and if they didn't sell that we'd be stuck having to buy them all never fear! this is the good stuff - people like it and people will buy it!! in fact, they have to order more now because they sold all the previous stock what did she think of it when she finally tasted it? " let me tell ya, it was a like a back hand to the mouth, make my molars quiver in delight... sock it to me kind of heaven... worth every penny!" photo credit:  stacy buster ace of spades is an imperial ipa, 21.5 og, 9.5% abv and over 100 ibus oh yeah, and its organic!

i got stuck at work late last night (gotta pay for the beer somehow!) and so didn't make it over to the drill hall until 6:00 which was a full two hours after the doors opened fortunately the first person i saw inside was cowboy dan who quickly pointed me in the direction of the last bottle of hopworks' ace of spades then and only then did i check my coat and start reading the program! hopworks brewmaster ben danny also steered me over to ska's milk stout, which he suggested could be a blog post all on its own oh to have that kind of time on my hands and his way with beer description! he was right, its a thing of beauty and a joy to imbibe and i told two friends and they told two friends and so on and so on... i also very much enjoyed their modus hoperandi ipa and special esb shipyard was dan's other suggestion as not to be missed i had the xxxx ipa and as at hopscotch, i'm just not a big fan i guess i really am a northwest hops kinda gal m...