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fabulous beers now available at legacy liquor store in vancouver: Le Trou du Diable Shawinigan Handshake - $10.05 A reflection of the sharp sense of humour held by our former premier, Jean Chrétien, and a comical event in Canadian political history, this rich, hazy gold Quebecois beer boasts aromas of orchard fruit, Belgian yeast and a sprinkling of malt. Orchard fruits pull through on the palate too in combination with grassy, citrusy hops (Chinook to be specific) with a dry spruce finish. This tasty brew is perfect for any political science geek or beer lover. Evan Doan | Beer Team | Legacy Liquor Store Hacker-Pschorr Münchner Kellerbier - $3.70 A classic German style beer from the heart of Germany, Munich, this naturtrüb (naturally cloudy) beer has all sorts of sweet grains and earthy hops on the nose, aromas that follow through on the palate with grains and earthy hops playing primary roles together with an almost bread-like characteristic. This classic German Kellerbier hits ...

new and exciting beers at legacy liquor store in vancouver: Brooklyn Black Ops - $37.25 A robust stout aged in bourbon barrels for four months, bottled flat, and re-fermented with champagne yeast. This beer has chocolate and coffee notes, with highlights of vanilla-like oak notes. HUB Abominable Winter Ale - $9.75 Brewed with Cascade, Centennial and Chinook hops and six organic malts. This winter ale has a complex floral, spicy and citrus hoppiness backed by the right amount of sweetness from the malt. Delirium Nocturnum - $4.45 A dark brown beer with an aroma consisting of caramel, mocha, coriander and liquorice. These aromas follow through in the flavour of the beer in addition to the traditional flavours you would find in a dark belgian beer.

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'm back, i'm tanned and i'm off to a superbowl party! found a great craft beer spot in playa del carmen plenty more to come about that and all the beers i got to try but not today... all i have for you today is this from elysian about their upcoming ipa offerings: MANIC IPA SPECIALTY SERIES  We are Hopping into 2012 with an Exciting New Line-up of IPAs So many IPAs, so little time... Elysian Brewing Company is kicking it's Manic IPA Series in February of 2012 with Idiot Sauvin, an IPA both fiercely fruity and floral, made with New Zealand Nelson Sauvin hops. The beer has appeared before only at Elysian's pubs, and will be issued in both 22 oz bottles and draft.  Then in June will come Prometheus, anaggressively aromatic blend of Northwest classic Chinook, Cascade, Centennial and Amarillo hops fondly familiar to Elysian regulars.   Rounding out the year will be Valhalla, a reddish fall-into-holiday IPA using Sorachi Ace and Citra hops, scheduled for re...

i know this is no surprise to anyone but i love hops! so pretty, so bitter, so good for me so delicious! want to know more about hops? craftbeer.com will let you in on the secret life of hops citra, chinook, cascade, centennial the "c" hops might just be my favourites...

oh the r & b hoppelganger what a lovely local ipa and a great way to get my hop fix i was reminded of my love for this brew at wild rice the other night i was there for a wedding reception and the host bar offered keiths or sleemans honey so that's what i drank until they ran out once i was on my own, i very happily switched to the ipa nothing makes me happier than an ipa especially an aggressively hopped ipa my night ended well! so well in fact that i decided to have another hoppelganger the other afternoon sitting outside on the deck in the october sunshine in a tank top sipping hoppelganger with a good friend what a great way to spend a couple of hours! from the bottle: "rick and barry (r&b) invite you to try our hoppelganger india pale ale.  we created our ipa for beer lovers who appreciate an assertively hopped brew.  well-balanced with a skillful combination of five hop varieties and premium english malt, hoppelganger has the generous flavour a...

and now for "the antithesis of unearthly " from southern tier , its the imperial iniquity black ale pours up thick and black with a compact creamy head malty, malty, malty definitely some hops definitely different than an ipa a taste bridget is happy to acquire! and i like it too much like (and yet totally not even similar at all to) the snakebite i made with ipa and worried that it would be too clashy, this is a pairing that could be disastrous, but instead ends up complimentary and supportive its like therapy in a glass! hops and de-bittered chocolatey malts are a match made in heaven! 9% 21 degrees plato 2 row pale malt, debittered black malt kettle hops:  chinook, cascade hop back:  willamette dry hops:  cascade, centennial serve chilled in a southern tier tulip glass from the bottle:  "The hexagram talisman has been used around the world for centuries to invoke magic and good luck.  The six-point star is also the customary symbol of b...

NEWPORT, OR., September 1, 2010 - Rogue Ales' Santa's Private Reserve comes equipped with built in nightlights -glistening snowflakes that GLOW-IN-THE-DARK. Dedicated to the Chris Kringle in each of us, Santa's Private Reserve is brewed in small batches, and available nationwide for the holiday season in serigraphed 22oz bottles and 12oz six packs. Forget the fruit cake, ties and socks...give your loved ones something they really want for Christmas, like the Santa's gift set. This pre-packaged holiday gift set includes a 22oz bottle and a stemmed serigraphed glass inside a collectible gift box. Gift set available by calling the Rogue Brewery at 541-867-3660 or at http://www.rogue.com/ . A 2009 World Beer Championship Gold Medal winner, Santa's Private Reserve is a double-hopped red ale and is a reddish-copper color with a roasty, malt flavor and a well balanced, spruce finish. This holiday elixir is brewed with 10 Ingredients: Carastan 30-37 & 13-17, Crystal...

pike brewing's pike ipa is next up for a tasting i love a tasting! fairly leapt out of the bottle when i popped the top but the head settled quite quickly into a manageable half inch of creaminess cloudy on the vigourous pour not a lot of nose 60 ibus 6.3% first sip is very malty so is the second and the aftertaste the bottle says nothing... the website says: og 1.062 malt varieties:  pale, crystal, munich, carapils hops varieties:  columbus, willamette, chinook, goldings, amarillo color:  amber yeast:  english ale flavor profile:  powerful malt backbone is balanced with aromatic herbal hop character history:  highly hopped to retain freshness on the voyages from england to india (not so impressed by their website actually...) definitely a more malty brew than i've been craving lately but the further i get into it, the more i'm enjoying the maltiness contrasting with the hoppiness not gonna become my favourite, but i'm not gonn...

in my glass today is mikkelle r's stateside ipa pours with an insanely abundant head (on a vigourous pour), which remains all lacey and creamy on the sides of my glass as i prepare for the first sip i dig the green striped label and the hoppy aromas wafting toward me first sip is bitter like a little too bitter second sip is better, i'm adjusting to the bitter 7%, water, malt (pilsner, munich and caramunich), flaked oats, hops (chinook, cascade and centennial) and ale yeast bet its the flaked oats that provided the creamy head! the bottle says:  "Our love of American microbrews inspired us to make this IPA.  It's brewed with generous amounts of aromatic American hops to provide significant freshness and bitterness with lot of citrus notes, which are nicely balanced by the sweetness of caramel malt." still tasting more bitter than i am sweetness of caramel malt but finding it more drinkable the further down the glass i get! the website is in danish...

here for your reading pleasure is my real time reviews of Swans Extra IPA and Moylan's Hopsickle Imperial Ale. didn't have a great day today, so its a two beer review this time folks!  and two heavy hitters!  the extra ipa is 6.8% and the moylan's is 9.2%.  forget what ails you! swans was incredibly carbonated and heady.  unfiltered, so kinda cloudy.  had kind of a belgian lager taste to it to me... you know, on the sour yeasty side...  definitely not my favourite flavour... so not my new favourite ipa.  would i drink it again if you bought it for me?  for sure.  would i drink it instead of coors light - doubly for sure.  will i buy another big bottle for myself?  doubtful. i find the hopsickle a little on the malty side... drinkable for sure, but one the malty side for me.  good head, some lace remaining... live yeast, so its a bit sedimenty and cloudy.  the alcohol is nicely tempered though, it just feels a little...

ah the Southern Tier Unearthly 'tis one of my favourites - and offers "an uninhibited infusion of hops" which is good - i like hops! i'm not sure if its the 11%, the 23 degrees plato, the red wheat or the triple hopping with chinook & cascade hops in the kettle, styrian golding hops back, topped with cascade, centenial and chinook dry hops that makes it so darned tasty, but whatever it is, i'm quite the big fan!  (and don't tell anyone, but i like to put on my best jersey accent when i say that its from new york, not that i know whether lakewood is anywhere near jersey or not - why let trifles like that stand in the way of an accent opportunity?) this is a beer that i can have just one 650 mL bottle of over the course of an evening and feel perfectly satisfied on any old night, or require several rounds of to quench my hops hunger some other random night, but guaranteed i'll be a hoppy camper either way it turns out!  one night it will just be ea...

i'm currently swilling BrewDog's Hardcore IPA. at 9% i think i might have a lot of fun at the grocery store in half an hour. better write a list...  oops too late, better to have written that list earlier. label didn't grab me quite as much as the punk ipa, not enough contrast is hard for these old eyes to read - love the general brewdog label theme though, and not ashamed to admit label grab is a large part of my beer purchasing checklist called an explicit imperial ale, i'd argue its an imperious ale. definite toffee notes after the first sip, lovely aroma, still hazy after half an hour (again, what do you expect from a beer with no preservatives and no additives - a little haze ain't such a bad thing!), has me licking my chops and slavering for more. what the label says: "This imperial Indian Pale Ale Rocks... Hardcore! But don’t feel obliged to take our word for it, this little bottle has a grandiloquent story to tell. 2,204 malted Maris Otter g...