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Cheers! Some of you may be familiar with Australian-born, Canada-based rapper Cee , who in August 2014 connected with Phoenix, AZ based craft beer merch company BrewHeads to release what we believe is the world's first 100% dedicated craft beer anthem (' BrewHeads '), along with a super limited edition merch collab . His off-kilter blog, Beer & Other Sh!t , has been around since early 2011 and documents his craft beer journey through reviews paired with ridiculous selfies. Cee recently took his passion for beer a step further and teamed with good friend Scott Cole for Beer & Other Shhh: The Podcast , and now the pair roped in Montreal sound engineer /comedian Joey Two-Wolves for Beer & Other Shhh TV ! Since they had already tapped into the blog and podcast worlds, it was only a matter of time until they took their love of hops, malt, water and yeast to the (not-so) big screen. Expect a live version of the podcast - crude, honest, straightforward...

friends, abject apologies for my absence of late i am in the midst of having a website made (check out the progress ) and there have been some issues with integration with the blog which locked me out of the blog for a time (and there were the holidaze and all that jazz in there mucking stuff up too, i can't blame the website for my whole absence...) hopefully it's all back to normal from here on out oh, except for the fact that i'll be going away for a couple of weeks in a couple of weeks but more about that later in the meantime, here are some lovely beers that have been arriving at legacy liquor store in vancouver over the past few weeks: Phillips Brewing Black Jackal Imperial Coffee Stout - $6.95 This sweet little collaboration between Phillips Brewing Co. and 2% Jazz Coffee Co. is as dark as the underworld Anubis himself guards. Rich and roasty on the nose with intense aromas of espresso bean and dark malt, on the palate even more roasty espresso and of cou...

i hate when i get super busy at work putting in over-time, skipping lunches (the time off, not the food!) and the blog suffers (as does my sleep and my social life) luckily for me (but again, not for the blog) i am off to america this weekend canadian thanksgiving spent in america where they extol the virtues of a mass murderer with a civic holiday... sure, why not? they have good beer there! and i aim to drink a bunch of it while not thinking about work once i am headed to seaside, oregon with a stop in seattle and astoria and cannon beach and anywhere else we find along the way for beer drinking! i just have to get through the work day tomorrow unscathed...

well hello there 2013! welcome! new year, new direction i will be doing away with some of the things i've been doing on this blog those things that seem to just be taking up space, like the beer geekery posts i put up on weekends they were fun, but i'm feeling like they cluttered up the blog - made it harder to scroll through to find actual content so they have been discontinued, buh-bye, gone i will probably be posting less frequently as well but the plan is that when i post it will be ever so informative and brilliant and you'll be riveted by my every word in the meantime... its january that means i'm doing my annual cleanse yup, a whole month without beer (and many, many other tasty substances) day three... i haven't yelled at or hit anyone yet, so there's hope for us all... i even went out with people who were drinking really good beer last night and didn't buckle i am ever so virtuous aren't you impressed?

i am curious by nature aren't most humans? and i love getting the behind the scenes stories on things like the 12 beers of the apocalypse from elysian ROBIN HOOD'S BARN Dick's Last Blog Now that the end is in sight-of the world of course, but also of the pretty substantial undertaking that has been the 12 Beers of the Apocalypse-it's probably safe to spill a little of how a lot of it has come together. Some of the beers have been reinterpretations of beers we've done in the past-Nibiru not so unlike Toro Oro, another Belgian-style golden ale infused with yerba mate; not actually so unlike New Belgium's Jonny's Voodoo Ale, for anyone who remembers that delicious and innovative beer; Doom itself a hop, skip and a jump from Sextacula, the beer we brewed for our fifteenth anniversary, which itself was a bigger version of Triacula, crafted originally for an Iron Brewer competition at the Beveridge Place. There is truly nothing new, in case you haven...

gcbf has come and gone for another year i'm a bit slow on the posting of my reviews and photos so in the meantime, here's what another blogger had to say about it: victoria beers

i would never have thought to combine all three of beer, zombies and running now i can't imagine why i didn't

the beer wench weighs in on the whole black ipa vs cda name debate

lazy blogger resorts to reposting of witty sayings:

bc brews blog looks back over the craft beer revolution of the recent past

i love the beer wench's new addition to her blog "for the win" or ftw where she posts photos of awesome beer accessories and paraphernalia beer neckties from etsy - check them out! again, craft meets craft i love that!

i want there to be a physical ipaday event in vancouver i'm working on making one happen and why not - it is a blogger's dream event for a social media neophyte, it is something i want to jump on! in the meantime here are some links to more information about #IPADay: from the originator of the event, the beer wench herself, some FAQs about #IPADay announcement from the european host brewery about #IPADay

august 4th is ipa day!! Greetings Craft Beer Drinkers! Welcome to International #IPADay -- the world's largest celebration of craft beer. International #IPADay is a grassroots movement created to unite the voices of craft beer enthusiasts, bloggers, and brewers worldwide, using social media as the common arena for connecting the conversation together. On Thursday August 4th, craft beer drinkers across the social sphere and across the globe will raise pints in a collective toast to one of craft beer’s most iconic styles: the India Pale Ale. This celebrated style represents the pinnacle of brewing innovation with its broad spectrum of diverse brands, subcategories, and regional flavor variations – making it the perfect style to galvanize the craft beer’s social voice. To participate, share your photos, videos, blog posts, tasting notes, recipes, thoughts with the world on Twitter Facebook, YouTube, WordPress, RateBeer, Foursquare, Gowalla, Yelp, Untappd or any other social m...

update #1: the centennial hops have been moved to their new new home three of the rhizomes are now in bridget's vegetable garden with tomato wires protecting them from the curious cats the fourth is in a container on my balcony they were looking so perky... hopefully being moved before they managed to put down many roots and right before a rainy night will treat them well enough for us to get some tasty hops in the fall! update #2 dead frog got back to me about hosting a bloggers tour and tasting unfortunately the brewers are only there on weekdays too many of the beer bloggers have pesky day jobs during the week and the whole thing has just fallen apart sadness update #3 go canucks go!

poor beleagured camra uk gets blasted by brew dog read the brewdog blog post  to hear what they have to say about camra uk's president vilifying beer bloggers makes me extra happy that camra bc and camra vancouver love beer bloggers and regularly support us by listing us all on their websites and in newsletters! and further yay for the local camra chapters accepting kegs as perfectly good vessels of beer distribution, not just casks that my friends, is support of REAL ale!

oh the disappointment! i heard back from five vancouver beer bloggers who are interested in doing a field trip to dead frog which is lovely and wonderful but i haven't had a response from dead frog i emailed the ceo last week and then their general info email yesterday nothing zip zilch nada i'm getting the feeling that they just aren't that into me which is sad, because sam the brewmaster really seemed pleased with himself for coming up with the idea i will not give up yet but i gotta tell ya, it ain't looking good

there are more hops in a dead frog nothing goes down like a cold dead frog such great catchphrases! emails are sent blogs have been commented on the first steps towards putting together a vancouver beer blogger's field trip to dead frog in aldergrove have been taken i'm excited to make this happen!! i hope the rest of the bloggers feel the same way even if they don't... (for whatever unfathomable to me reason) it was a great excuse for me to see just how many local beer bloggers there are out there and begin to fantasize about possible meet-ups and outreach and all around community building and i wonder after checking out all of their blogs if they know each other already because most of them link to each other i need to get in on that! i have links to several of them, but will be putting some time into linking to the rest gotta support my local beer geeks!

a few other blogs about vancouver craft beer week events: flavoured beer blog tackles women in beer and hoppapalooza II edible vancouver blog was at the biercraft phillips dinner the sloppy gourmand goes behind the scenes at vcbw judging

dead frog brewery, when i was talking to the brewer and owner at the brewery creek bc beer festival asked if i thought i could get the vancouver area beer bloggers together for a tour of the brewery and tasting of their brews with live blogging i said i thought it sounded great and now i'm following up with the vancouver area beer bloggers i know of... i hope they're all interested too and that i don't leave anyone out who shouldn't be left out... not that i know them all, but it shouldn't be too hard to find them all, right? i love a field trip!

my head is spinning with so much going on! i'm kicking off my vancouver craft beer week in an hour with the dead famous pub crawl then i have beers to pour at a softball event workshop sunday morning followed by hopapalooza sunday afternoon i am very much looking forward to all the vcbw mayhem but i'm not sure how i'm going to fit everything else in! had to do laundry this morning and cook for next week as i'm not sure when i'll have more than sleeping time at home between now and next sunday on top of that, i met an s.e.o. expert last night who has my head spinning with all the things i could be doing (or doing differently) on this blog to get more traffic its heady stuff! and i don't want to lose any of it between now and when i have time to implement it... but when am i going to find the time to implement it? i'm not even sure when i'm going to find the time to blog about vcbw! how lucky am i that these are my only laments? gotta go g...