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Super Cooper Anniversary Ale August 17th, 2015: It's our birthday, and we're celebrating with a very special gorilla-sized barrel aged brew! Super Cooper was aged in freshly emptied bourbon barrels for a full year before dry-hopping. Soft malt sweetness and warm oak character from the barrel is paired with the bright kick of American hops.  It's our first Anniversary Ale with an anniversary of its own! Bottles are limited and available at private craft-focused liquor stores for a short time only. We would also like to invite you to celebrate with us at a couple of Super Cooper tasting events: IN VICTORIA: Enjoy a taster and say cheers to another year of beer along with us at the brewery on Wednesday August 19th from 4-6 .  Our friends at Meat and Bread will be on-hand serving up Porchetta sandwiches with a citra hop verde sauce! IN VANCOUVER: We'll be at Bitter Tasting Room on...

my notes from last night's on the coast beer column: the perfect pour: there really is a right way to pour beer!   first of all, the basics. drink out of a glass, not a bottle or a can and make sure the glass is clean - hand-washing and air drying are recommended (hand-washing to avoid soap or food residue from the dishwasher - also keeps any branding on the glass fresh longer - and air drying so you don't get lint or grease from a dishtowel in the glass) the quick answer to why drinking out of a glass is better than a bottle or a can is that you get to appreciate the appearance of the beer as well as the flavour and aromas. also handy is the ability to control the amount of settled yeast sediment from a bottle-conditioned beer that ends up in your mouth - some styles of beer are all about including the yeast (like a hefeweisen), if you pour from the bottle into the glass you'll mix the yeast in nicely. if you don't like yeast, or are drinking a style...

tap and barrel in olympic village in vancouver is not officially open yet but they have been soft-opening for over a week now which is kinda cool - you get to tell them what you think of everything and the servers are all very willing to go and find out the answers to all of your questions and believe me, i asked a whole lotta questions! tap and barrel features all local bc products food, beer and wine the beer and the wine are on tap yes, you read that correctly - wine on tap ! peanut butter and bacon jelly make several appearances on the current menu apparently they believe that peanut butter is a great way to show off locally sourced food why not? i began with the pretzel, because i love a pretzel normally only served with one sauce (your choice of mustard, beer & cheese or pb and bacon jelly) i got them to give me a second sauce because i need cheese and mustard to properly enjoy a pretzel the beer and cheese sauce is amazing!  the mustard is must...

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!

new to vancouver? want to visit vancouver? live in vancouver but don't get out much? there is a beer and tasting tour you can take through gastown, which includes the new clough club check out b.c. beer blog for the skinny

from camra vancouver's newsletter: Upcoming Events February 24 @ 7pm Pumphouse Longtable Dinner featuring Anderson Valley Join Anderson Valley owner Trey White for this 5 course meal paired with 5 beers from the brewery. In addition to being named as one of the top ten breweries in America, Anderson Valley recently claimed several gold medals in California. Don't miss this dinner and tap takeover event! Tickets are $40. February 25 Central City Bacon Explosion Dinner To launch their new seasonal, a Bamberg style Rauchbier, Central City will feature a Bacon Explosion Dinner. Bacon, wrapped in sausage, wrapped in bacon, served with spicy slaw, mashed potatoes and beer onion gravy. $14.95, and only $3 more to add a sleeve of the rauchbier. Also, a pin of dry hopped Red Racer Pale Ale will be tapped. Cask tapped at 4pm, dinner can be ordered from then onwards. February 27 @ 7pm Eat Local/Drink Local Darby's Pub will host their 3rd Eat local / Drink local craft di...

vancouver's newest craft beer establishment is still in the works but bitter tasting room must be opening soon as they've put out a call for servers... servers who eat sleep and breathe beer this is a very good sign!