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Central City’s Red Racer Comes to Beatty Street New Restaurant Serves Up Smokehouse BBQ and Award Winning Craft Beers Vancouver, BC – Central City Brewers + Distillers is pleased to announce the upcoming grand opening of their brand new  Red Racer Restaurant  on Beatty Street in downtown Vancouver. The new restaurant will feature an authentic smoked barbecue inspired menu specializing in build-your-own-burgers unique to Central City, and 40 draught taps offering Central City craft beers as well as from other BC craft brewers. The highly anticipated public grand opening is slated for  Friday, July 24  and is Central City’s first venture outside of their home base of Surrey, B.C. where their current Central City Brew Pub and state-of-the-art brewery are headquartered. “We’re excited to add a downtown Vancouver presence so we can offer a one-of-a-kind casual dining experience, our award-winni...

how west coast ipas took over the world and america still obsessed with ipas warpigs brewpub in copenhagen 170 year old beer and three from the georgia straight: david eby vs. suzanne anton golden plates winners new breweries just keep popping up bill tieleman on the impending liquor price changes bc mag's ultimate vancouver craft beer guide bc place now serves more beer: Vancouver , BC- BC Place and Vancouver Whitecaps FC are excited to announce significant enhancements to the food and beverage menus at BC Place for the upcoming Major League Soccer season and all upcoming events in 2015. Featuring a new menu designed by Centerplate’s award-winning local Chef, Will Tse, an enhanced partnership with Vancouver’s own Vij’s Restaurant and an all-new specialty beer concession with more than 20 different brews from Vancouver and around the world, Whitecaps FC fans and all guests at BC Place are sure to have an experience like no other when they visit Vancouver’...

if you missed me on cbc radio's on the coast last week never fear! you can still catch my chat with kirk williams about beer in vancouver stadiums follow the link to on the coast past episodes click on august 19 and fast-forward to about 10 minutes before the end and hopefully you'll be able to tune in next tuesday (september 2) at 5:50 p.m. for my next beer column

my notes from yesterday's beer column on cbc's on the coast wherein i extolled the virtues of craft beer in vancouver stadiums and patted the pne and pacific coliseum on the back for being the first in the city to go craft: The PNE opened on Saturday. There are new food vendors this year, new exhibits... and new beer on tap!  And it's local craft beer! Craft beer at the PNE? Is this the beginning of a whole new era for the City?  Oh yes, please!   People have been lobbying the stadiums for the past couple of years to start carrying craft beer and the PNE / Pacific Coliseum is the first to make the switch. Parallel 49 signed a three year deal with the fair. You can get Gypsy Tears ale at the fair, which should pair very nicely with the mini donuts! And the Pacific Coliseum will be carrying Gypsy Tears as well as several other Parallel 49 offerings at all their events, including the Giants games. There will be a Gypsy Tears tap at every concession stand in the c...

petition to get craft beer into local stadiums totally a topic i have been looking into myself double trouble and the royal york fairmont partner on an 85th anniversary brew 1929 cream ale i'm not a big fan of cream ales, but i suppose i'll try this when i'm in toronto at the end of june people seem to think this is a good idea me, i don't wanna see most of you naked, so i'll skip this beer fest thanks! an update to jan zeschky's new bc microbreweries list for 2014 an older article by joe wiebe in bc living mapping vancouver's hoppiest neighbourhoods beer lollipops vancouver's craft beer scene explodes a loveletter from a washington state writer don't want the tv on while you drink beer?  these vancouver craft beer spots have no tv i have also mentioned several non-tv bars in my column in the bc craft beer news ooooh, pretty!  a ceramic beer sleeve that is every bit as slick and stylin' as my new stainless steel innate sa...

eat! vancouver is coming up it will be on the same weekend as vancouver craft beer week, but i am sure that i can fit both in i just won't sleep much... 12th annual EAT! Vancouver Food + Cooking Festival Friday May 30 - 2-9pm ; Saturday May 31 - 10am-9pm ; Sunday June 1 - 10am -5pm BC Place Stadium, 777 Pacific Boulevard, Vancouver BC V6B 4Y8 Info and tickets: www.eat-vancouver.com Tickets: Adults $17 ($14 online), Seniors $15 ($14 online), Youth aged 13-16 $9, Free for children 12 & under.   Facebook: Facebook.com/eat. van couver Twitter @EAT_Vancouver Instagram: Instagram.com/ eatva ncouver Pinterest: Pinterest.com/ eatva ncouver Hashtag: #eatbuzz

i will be spending a fair bit of time this weekend at bc place tonight to watch the lions beat the pants off the roughriders sunday to watch the whitecaps and timbers battle it out it will be delightful but but what the heck am i going to drink? there is no good beer at bc place there is not even half decent beer at bc place there is no good cider at bc place there is passably drinkable cider at bc place maybe i will watch the games sober it has been suggested that i bring hop oil with me and make an ipl out of what's available to me maybe... but i am not gonna drink from the taps no way, no how - gross! file this under first world beer geek problems

caveat:  i have received a media pass from eat vancouver but hey, why not?  i have paid to get in for years and blogged about it, so this year they're gonna let me in for free go me! so i may be influenced to give them a bit more presence on my blog but i'm not going to be swayed in my opinions - okay?! here's their latest press release me, i'm going saturday the 25th, you know, in case you wanted to have a beer and a nibble with me The 11th annual  EAT! Vancouver Food + Cooking Festival:  May 24-26  at BC Place Stadium. Global BC & ET Canada's Erin Cebula hosts the 2nd  Celebrity Chef Throwdown , where Chef  Rob Feenie ,  Anna Olson , and  Top Chef Canada  Season Two finalist  Trevor Bird  will compete to make a seasonal entree in 20 minutes, using a secret ingredient. Check out the competition action at  7:00pm PT  on  Friday, May 24  on the Food Network Celebrity Stage. Recent news ...

put the following into your calendar: 11th annual EAT! Vancouver Food + Cooking Festival Friday May 24 - 2-9pm Saturday May 25 - 10am-9pm Sunday May 26 - 10am-5pm BC Place Stadium, 777 Pacific Boulevard, Vancouver BC V6B 4Y8 Info and tickets: www.eat-vancouver.com Tickets: Adults $16 ($14 online), Seniors $14, Youth 13-16 $9, Free for kids 12 & under   Facebook Page: Facebook.com/eat. vancouver Twitter @EAT_Vancouver , #eatbuzz

oh, if only the stadiums in vancouver would catch on to the craft beer wave! i know you can get stanley park amber at rogers arena but there's pretty much only bud, bud or bud at b.c. place why??? if you want me to pay $8 or more for a beer, it had better be a good one huffington post on american baseball stadiums serving craft beer

stupid bc place signed a five year exclusive deal with budweiser maybe its time to not drink at football games?? in the meantime however, at empire stadium they have those crazy quick bottom filling beer thingies you know the ones, surely you've seen the youtube videos ... i too have video, but don't know how to embed it here... must research that anyway, there are two budweiser stands at empire, one outside of each end zone where you can get a 24oz budweiser poured for you from the bottom in seconds flat there's a magnet in the bottom of the glass to keep the beer in the darned cup but as bridget demonstrates, it is not fool-proof if you push on the bottom of your cup, beer will fall out i was very excited to get my bottom-filled beer novelty is fun however, i discovered how quickly that novelty wears off when you now have a $12 24oz budweiser to drink blech!

i'll be spending my hallowe'en afternoon at empire stadium enjoying the last bc lions' home game of 2010 and the last game in the outdoor stadium i've enjoyed the stadium i'll admit to being quite apprehensive at first about sitting outside in vancouver weather but it has been mostly very enjoyable good choice to be all nostalgic this year while bc place is under destruction/construction/obstruction but the beer you just knew i was gonna have to bitch about the beer! what's with horribly insipid beer at outrageously inflated prices? blech! next year, in the newly improved bc place, i would very much like to see some craft beer even a return to russell's horrid bc lions lager would be an improvement over the bud and bud light lime! but what if we got good beer? c'mon howe sound, c'mon r & b, c'mon dead frog, c'mon storm someone get the contract for the stadium and give us good beer for our overpriced enjoyment!!

empire stadium - the tradition continues that's the motto for the newly resurrected football stadium i very much enjoyed the first lions game to be played outdoors since 1982, even if the leos did fall to edmonton in the dying seconds of the game - bah! its only exhibition! the outdoor stadium is only about half the size of BC Place, but that just meant that it was full for a pre-season game, and my seats are half the distance from the field at Empire than they are at BC Place - that's a big plus!  i shouldn't suffer too much if i forget my darned glasses this season! the minuses:  its gonna be wet and cold sitting outside!  my seats are not covered by the roof, so it might get miserable later in the season. most tragically, the only beer on offer is budweiser.  never my favourite beer, i did go through a period of drinking it regularly when we had two players on our softball team allergic to wheat, making rice-based bud the beer everyone could dr...