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Got a beer lover or two on your gift list? Lucky you! They're so easy to shop for! But if you're stumped, here are some ideas: Best Default Gifts for Beer Lovers : Gift packs from breweries! Most local breweries have swag and gift certificates available. Some also have gift packs – such as: Central City’s Thor’s Hammer Barley Wine Gift Pack, a combo-pack that includes a 2014 bottle-conditioned Thor’s Hammer, which won Gold at this year’s 2016 BC Beer Awards, and a 2014 Bourbon barrel-aged Thor’s Hammer, which won Bronze. Four Winds has a gift pack of Pomona and Pequeno Cabo, with 2 branded crystal Spiegelau beer tulips (to drink them out of, natch) and gift cards, all in a beautiful wooden box.  $75.  Please grab one of these for me! Strange Fellows has a gift pack of a bottle of Krampus, and a glass to drink it from. Moody Ales has a build your own gift pack – with prices ranging from $25 to $110, you start with a gift card and then add in additional swag. ...

me again ! Distillers and brewers sharing barrels in new trend Beer columnist Rebecca Whyman says new trend could take off locally By On The Coast,  CBC News   Posted: Jan 19, 2016 7:17 PM PT  Last Updated: Jan 19, 2016 7:54 PM PT Right now these barrels hold delicious whiskey, but who knows? Maybe they could soon be filled with delicious beer. (Tim Moffatt/Flickr) Tried liquor-flavoured beer? Get ready for beer-flavoured liquor  7:37 19 shares Facebook Twitter Reddit Google Share Email Related Stories B.C. craft beer scene set to grow in 2016, says beer columnist Beer columnist says 2015 was the year of the sour Craft beer variety at B.C. Liquor Stores set to grow next week For some time now, craft brewers have been aging and conditioning their beer with whiskey and bourbon liquor barrels to add another dimens...

managed to make it out to the railway club for the cask again last night central city's oaked esb which for the most part i really enjoyed but there was an odd flavour that came out as it warmed up not unpleasant per se, but definitely odd anyway, the camra cask meet ups seem to be going well some of the usual suspects were there and a couple of unusual suspects joined in too i hope it continues, it is nice to socialize with other beer geeks at a relaxed drop in event and the railway club has a new menu not a whole lot of veggie options (and a couple of spelling errors/typos - yes, i am THAT guy) but people were saying they liked what they tried last night (which were the thai coconut rice bowl and the flank "stake" tacos)  

freshly stocked beers at legacy liquor store in vancouver: Central City Brewers Thor’s Hammer - $15.75 In Old Norse Mythology Thor and his hammer Mjölnir represented thunder, lightning, storms, oak trees and anything else manly you can think of. Central City has managed to capture this idea, brew it and bottle it. Cloudy and copper in colour with a nose of caramelized malt, cereal and a touch of alcohol. Caramelized malt is the star on the palate alongside a big full body and of course more warming alcohol. A legendary brew good enough for any Norse god, Skâl! Joel Wilson | Beer Team | Legacy Liquor Store New Belgium Brewing Co. Rampant Imperial IPA - $8.15 We love the hop and our craving for it drives us to search for some serious brews, thankfully New Belgium has answered our call with their Rampant Imperial IPA. A beautiful light straw colour when its in the glass, this brew pumps out aromas of resinous pine, citrus, spice and a little floral bouquet of hop. On the palate more ...

the cask last night at the railway club was central city's simcoe dry-hopped ipa damn that simcoe is a tasty hop!

the cask last night at the railway club was central city's pumpkin ale it was quite a nice pumpkin ale is it too early in the season to be over the pumpkin? and speaking of the lovely railway club, if you ever frequented that joint you would have been served by the fabulous natasha well, she has retired from slinging beer at the railway and there's a party in her honour on sunday at 5 come out and hoist a glass to this wonderful woman bc beer blog reports that a few victoria beers are ready for release including hoyne's wolf vine ipa and driftwood's sartori harvest ipa, both wet-hopped a couple of pieces of gossip as well: there will be a new beer and vodka distributor in town official announcement coming shortly, but i can tell you oregon beers will be featured this bit of news is unsubstantiated... steamworks is opening a new brewery i would assume to brew their bottled beers and restaurant beers currently being brewed off-site makes sense to me ...

so many beers, so little time... tuesday's cask at the railway club was central city's hoppy apple pie esb and it was really quite delicious their amazing extra special bitter amped up with some apple and nutmeg notes it really worked! (now i just need to find someone who can bake me a hoppy apple pie... ryan?) after the railway i went out with a friend to mahoney's pub by canada place i had no idea it even existed - really should get out more! for an irish pub they have a pretty darned good craft beer menu and the food was amazing! nice view of the water too and last night at st. augustine's i tried the anderson valley brewing bahl hornin' wee geech pale ale:  4.4% designed to satisfy the hop heads out there, while still offering a sessionable and balanced ale.  the aroma hops have a very piney, citrusy, and grassy element which we further emphasized by adding fresh cut lemongrass late in the kettle.  it also imparts a spicy ginger character. ...

it is a sunny day in vancouver but the vancouver sun i'm referring to is the newspaper, which currently has two articles about craft beer online: the insatiable taste for craft brews article quotes lundy dale and iain hill and the longer version of the article names names of lots of local drinking holes and breweries like crannog, tap and barrel, r&b, parallel 49, the alibi room, central city, all the soon-to-be-opened new vancouver establishments and goes into nano-breweries like bridge brewing

oh alibi room! why do you have so many more beers than i can drink in a night? i began with a cask last night central city's red racer dry-hopped with simcoe and it was fantastic could have been a little more carbonated but otherwise a stellar ipa! next up i decided to double my hops pleasure with the lost coast limited release double trouble ipa and holy hops batman, was it ever a citrusy bitter little number delicious! why i didn't just have small pours of the above two, i don't know but there were still too many beers i wanted to try on the menu that i had to go with a frat bat! from left to right: conrad's marris otter cascade hopped session ale tofino hop cretin ipa tariq's wrath of khan ipa red truck cherry lemonade cask loved the first three, did not at all care for the cherry lemonade at 3.8% i can see drinking the session ale on a summer patio for hours! and the other two?  gosh darnit, i love me an ipa colour me happy...

endless simmer provides their top ten reasons to drink craft beer me, i think some of the best top reasons are:  r&b red devil pale ale cask at railway club - look how pretty it is!!! taster of nine beers at burnside brewing in portland you can brew your own! central city iced tea ipa cask at the railway club - omg, do you even know how tasty this is?? look how good the craft beer bottles look in a handknit cozy!