beernesday

the state of craft beer in bc are you making these "mistakes" when you buy craft beer ? a list of, like, allll the winter beers in bc private liquor stores say new laws leave them tapped out boundary bay brewing teams up with chuckanut bay distillery for barrel aged brews straight to the pint's interview with gary lohin

mark it in your calendars: whistler village beer festival 2014 mike's craft beer on serving sizes upcoming beer fest in hamilton on alas, i will miss it by a mere ten days... joe wiebe's piece on victoria's first craft beer week iain hill's new brewery has a name but they need help choosing a logo boundary bay brewing is expanding a new hop is coming ! from the breeders of citra and mosaic, two of my faves!! this is better than christmas!

i had a lovely weekend in seattle a weekend is never long enough so there wasn't a whole lot of beer tourism on my part but i got in as much as i could! saturday: pike brewing: i was looking for breakfast at 11:00 but they just have a lunch and dinner menu so i made do with a pretzel and xxxxx stout mustard, with a cup of their crab chowder which were quite delightful - yay oyster crackers! (deschutes' pretzel is better though...) i started with the seasonal space needle ipa pike beat out the competition to win the rights to brew the beer for the space needle's 50th anniversary dry-hopped to heck, it features centennial, cascade, columbus, chinook and summit shockingly enough for seattle the sun disappeared and it started to torentially downpour what else to do but stay and have a few more beers?? next up, the imperial ipa which at 8% is served in a 12oz pour the space needle ipa is supposed to be golden, but i didn't really see a colour...

i didn't realize that there were themed nights for the three 300 beer list celebration nights at the alibi room its true! monday night was "sour, belgian and european style, cider & experimental" tuesday night was "stouts, porters & wee heavys" tonight will be "hop forward ales, barley wines and winter ales" fortunately for me, when i attended last night's festivities, there was still some of the central city chipotle ipa left in the cask.  so i had me some! and it was delicious! not as peppery as the rogue chipotle ale, but just as smokey, and in my humble beer opinion, ipa is the perfect conduit for chipotle smelled amazing!  tasted great! of tuesday's casks i managed to taste tariq's imperial stout and vern's imperial stout 300 i had vern's early on when i still had taste buds tasted like a session beer, but lord, its an imperial - beware i couldn't really taste the cocoa nibs and curacao orange peel it...

so many beers, so little time to write about them! i had lofty intentions of posting this week but i have failed oh well, one day i'll tell ya all about the stout day beer pairing dinner at rogue, my mini-bellingham-pub-crawl to chuckanut and boundary bay, and all the beernesdays and other tastings i've been doing in the meantime i bid you adieu for a few days i'm taking a wee vacation in disneyland! hello mickey mouse! hello nobel ale works and anaheim brewing hello out of the park pizza and j.t. schmid's hello california sunshine and warmth!! catch ya late next week!

boundary bay brewing pairs craft with craft beer and art craft beer and local art a match made in heaven!