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gift idea #4 for the beer lovers in your life:   extreme beers book The book describes and rates more than 100 unusual beers from around the world. It’s the perfect gift for the craft-beer lover. About The Brewtal Truth Guide to Extreme Beers: ‘ A hugely entertaining read’ – The Vancouver Province The Brewtal Truth Guide to Extreme Beers describes and rates more than 100 unusual beers from around the world and draws parallels to the music scene, with profiles on craft-beer-loving metal musicians and extreme craft beer brewers. ‘Brewers these days are taking beer to extremes, and Tepedelen is just the writer to introduce drinkers to severe suds.’ – Minneapolis Star Tribune ‘A journey through beer that treads a narrow path between creativity and craziness.’ – The Vancouver Province ‘Definite classic potential.’ – Invisible Oranges About author Adem Tepedelen: Internationally recognized as an expert on the fast-growing craft beer movement, Adem Tepe...

gonna be in seattle april 26th? check this out: The event: The Brewtal Truth Guide to Extreme Beers book signing with award-winning author Adem Tepedelen and special guest, Mastodon drummer / beer enthusiast Brann Dailor. Dailor – featured in the book – will be signing copies and talking beer and music alongside craft beer / heavy metal expert Tepedelen. The date: Sunday, April 26, 5 to 6 pm The location: Schooner Exact Brewery, 3901 1st Ave S., Seattle, schoonerexact.com Details:   The event is free. Books available on site for $20. The book: The Brewtal Truth Guide to Extreme Beers is ‘ a hugely entertaining read’ (The Vancouver Province) that describes and rates more than 100 unusual beers from around the world and draws parallels to the music scene, with profiles on craft-beer-loving metal musicians and extreme craft beer brewers. ‘Brewers these days are taking beer to extremes, and Tepedelen is just the writer to introduce drinkers...

and finally, my notes from last week's on the coast beer column topic:  extreme beers Why do brewers keep trying to push the international bittering units (ibus) higher and higher? Beer is like any other segment of the world, it experiences its fads and its trends and people pushing envelopes. The hops wars were just another expression of that. Craft beer had taken off and people were falling in love with india pale ales and all the bitter hoppiness that they offer, and brewers wanted to get creative and see how far they could push the bitterness envelope before they brewed a beer that was just undrinkably bitter. Fortunately, unlike other wars there were no casualties and I don't think anyone spent their gross national product on the war, so really, everyone won. Well, except for all of the fried taste buds. And it wasn't a war so much as friendly competition.   Hops are added during the making of beer at several points in the process. Hops added in th...

notes to come, but for now... here's the link to yesterday's beer chat on the coast with stephen quinn if you just wanna hear me, i'm on at the 2:19 mark

i'll be on with stephen quinn at 5:50 today talking extreme beers and sipping on driftwood's gose-uh 690 am 88.1 fm

i'm back from my amazing week in tofino quickly: i spent an awful lot of time at tofino brewing filling my growlers with hoppin' cretin ipa and reign in blonde and tuff session (and then drinking them) on the way home we stopped overnight in victoria we stayed at swans , drank at garrick's head pub (10 new taps!!) where i had lighthouse 15th anniversary amber ale, elysian men's room red and driftwood fat tug next morning we got growler fills at lighthouse (switchback) and driftwood  (fat tug) (such incredibly friendly staff at both places), stopped in at spinnakers for a pint, and came home in time for me to not be on cbc radio on tuesday due to a mix-up it just didn't happen i apologize if you tuned in and were disappointed i was most disappointed not to talk extreme beers silver-lining, i have my topic all ready for september 3rd tuesday evening i attended camra vancouver's hops 101 class at steamworks and got to try the brand spanking n...

that's it, i'm off to tofino for a week!! fun in the sun and sand! and drinking lots of wonderful tofino brewing beers! i have pre-blogged a few items, so it won't be a total ghost-town around here for the week though! if you missed me on cbc radio last week talking about gluten-free beers you can still catch the show by following the link and clicking on august 6 i'm on at the end, so if you want to just hear me, fast forward to the last 10 minutes i'll be back on cbc radio on august 20th this time talking about extreme beers if you're in the vancouver area, tune in to on the coast with stephen quinn at 5:50 p.m. 690 am 88.1 fm