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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

most days it is pretty darned good to be me tuesday was no exception i got to attend the launch for central city brewing's red racer copper ale they beered us and appy'd us at joey's on broadway and gary lohin himself told us all about the copper ale then there were samples of the I-5 amarillo ale and swag bags to take home the copper ale is a beautiful copper colour - thank you munich malts! not as hop-forward as the rest of the red racer beers this is a much more malty offering based on a recipe gary used to brew at central city and hoping to capture the not-so-hop-loving segment of the population (can you say conversion beer?!) it fills a gap in the red racer line up oh, and it's a very tasty number! easy drinking with lots of malty goodness definitely a departure from the rest of the line-up, but still the quality beer we've come to expect from central city central city is also taking this opportunity to introduce a 500 ml can hoping to get mo...

the vancouver sun and province are all over craft beer these days so many articles, so little time... currently, they want you to know the brewers behind the beers you'll be drinking this labour day long weekend

the finger crossing worked my softball game got rained out last thursday however... i wasn't specific enough with the universe in my wishing i ended up having to work some overtime which meant i missed out on the basil esb cask at the yaletown afterall doh! i rescued my lousy evening by heading off to the alibi room for some tofino brewing spruce tip ipa cask and dave varga's taylor's crossing is dead ipa, and quality time with my personal viking i tell ya, everyone needs to get themselves a personal viking - they rock!! i found the spruce tip ipa cask a bit thin maybe it aged a little too long?  or too little? i dunno, i just recall the one at hoppapalooza being the nectar of the gods and this one wasn't quite there tofino brewing spruce tip ipa cask dave varga's taylor's crossing is dead, long live taylor's crossing ipa was delightful too bad taylor's crossing is dead and this brew isn't going to be a regular one taylor's...

some fabulous quotes in randy shore's vancouver sun article about the local craft beer scene yesterday for the full article, clicky clicky my favourite soundbites: "This is a world in which a single cask of beer is a happening, never to be repeated — like Woodstock, but smaller and drunker." "A typical keg of beer finishes fermenting in the brewery and is essentially inert when it gets shipped to the pub. Cask beer is a living thing, each as unique as a snowflake.  If that all sounds a bit poetic to describe a working-class beverage, welcome to the world of craft beer. Wine drinkers and scotch aficionados step aside; craft beer drinkers are the alternative music nerds of the drinking world." and for randy's article about gary lohin, click away ! Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Craft+beer+search+artisan+touch/4603574/story.html#ixzz1JRt0PtHc