beernesday

from yaletown: Cask Night! At 4pm we tap a cask of our Brick and Beam IPA with grapefruit! DRINK FRESH BEER

the cask at the yaletown brewpub last night was cocoa ipa it was a bitter little beer to swallow so of course i loved it! a bit sedimenty with cocoa at the bottom, but what do you expect from a cask? i also ventured to bitter for their sour flight for $18 i got to try three sour beers the upright 4 is not really a sour beer if you ask me it is just a slightly sour saison, you know? so, not my favourite... the jolly pumpkin grand cru - luciernaga the firefly was starting to get sour still, i can see why it calls itself a belgian pale ale tasty for sure but not quite sour enough for me would i have it again?  sure! the verhaghe vichte duchesse de bourgoyne was sour not mouth puckeringly so, but enough that it pleased my sourpuss tastebuds iain hill described it to me before i had tried it as balsamic vinegar and he was right!  totally got that flavour from it my favourite of the three and one i would happy have again

tonight's cask at the yaletown brewpub is the brick and beam ipa with citra this is an awesome beer and i'm sad i'll be missing it (not sad that i'll be at the pne with olp though!) i did very much enjoy the cask at the railway club on tuesday night it was r&b's dry-hopped esb very nicely balanced and hopped up like i like 'em!!

tuesday's cask at the railway club was r&b hoppelganger dry-hopped with cascade and it was a thing of beauty and a joy to imbibe! such wonderful hoppy goodness! thursday's cask at the yaletown brewpub was their stout all dry-hopped up and it too was a thing of beauty and a joy to imbibe! not too stouty for a hot summer's day because it was hopped up like crazy! and it made for a lovely black and tan with the brick and beam ipa

last night's cask at the yaletown brewpub was nagila pale ale dry-hopped with citra it wasn't very carbonated but damn, citra hops are delicious! the brick and beam ipa currently on tap is half centennial and half citra i filled my growler...

my softball schedule is wreaking havoc on making it to my usual cask nights but i'm still getting out there when i can! last night's cask at the yaletown brewpub was an unadulterated brick and beam ipa after a hectic day at work lemme tell ya, that stuff went down very easily! beernesday (a special off-season edition) this week offered me these delicious brews: pint of klickitat pale ale pint of el torero organic ipa pint of brooklyn sorachi ace sampler of vancouver island brewing beachcomber summer ale sampler of whistler brewing paradise valley grapefruit ale sampler of paddock wood 606 india pale ale sampler of elysian brewing the wise esb

from camra vancouver: Tonight is Sunset Grill's first weekly cask! They've got a cask of Driftwood Brewery Blackstone Porter. 6pm. Thursday means Yaletown Brewing is Making It Real (Ale). They will tap a cask of BRick and Beam IPA with Columbus hops, 4pm. me, i'll be at the yaletown as usual! but that blackstone porter in the cask is very delicious stuff - try some if you have the chance! and a party tomorrow: Pivo's Christmas Party is tomorrow at 6pm. Come down for free snacks & Whistler lager plus enter to win Canucks tickets!

oh how the time flies! its been a whole week since i made it out to the yaletown brew pub for cask night and it was a gooder! cascadian dark ale (aka black ipa) tasty, tasty stuff! look how much i was enjoying it! i was at a work holiday party so the details of the entire late afternoon, evening and late night are pretty hazy i know there was lots of wine with lunch followed by two cascadian dark casks followed by countless shots and pints of the brick and beam ipa with not much at all to eat since lunch i know i made new friends and even remember a couple of their names but probably will not be calling them for fear that i embarassed myself in front of them!