beernesday

been wondering what the beers on offer at harvest haus will be? need to plan what to pair with your pretzel before you arrive and get overwhelmed with the choices? never fear! i have the low-down on what's on offer at harvest haus, starting tonight: "Some of these are quite new to the Vancouver market, especially the Icelandic Brio pilsner and German Crew Republic IPA." HARVEST HAUS BEER SELECTION Erdinger Weissbier - Germany Erdinger Dunkel Weissbier - Germany Krombacher Pils - Germany Krombacher Radler - Germany Krombacher Weizen - Germany Russell Märzen - Vancouver Russell White Rabbit Hoppy Hefeweizen - Vancouver Birra Moretti - Italy Murphy's Irish Stout - Ireland Strongbow Gold - UK Strongbow British Dry - UK Strongbow Elderflower - UK Newcastle Brown Ale - UK Steam Whistle - Toronto Samuel Adams Boston Lager - USA Samuel Adams Octoberfest - USA Leffe - Belgium Hoegaarden - Belgium Löwenbräu - Germany Goose Island - USA P...

oh no! germans, start returning your beer bottles otherwise they're gonna run out of beer at oktoberfest !

ever wanted to travel to germany to check out the beer? legacy liquor store has a seminar for you! GERMAN BEER AND TRAVEL SEMINAR Monday, 7 to 8 PM Jan 9, 2012 TICKETS: $25/head 36 seats available. This seminar, jointly hosted by our beer supervisor Christopher Bonnallie and Jonathan Doan (Project Coordinator for the Educational Travel Program at Langara College) will introduce the amazing cultural and historial points of interest of Germany, alongside a history of German beer making. Advice will be offered to people intrested in travelling to Germany and having a "German Beer Experience" while supplementing this with the odd non-beer-related site, as well as general travel advice. Reference will also be given to related foods traditionally eaten. Regions covered will include Bavaria, Rhineland region, and Berlin.

and for your reading pleasure today, a guest post by ryan: Rebecca has asked me to guest post for a little while now and last Thursday at Yaletown I agreed to write about my most recent beer tasting this past July long weekend. Back in March I came back from Europe with beers from Germany, France and the UK and finally had some people over to give them a try. These were the consensus picks of the day: Germany Ok, probably not the best start to a beer blog post but we poured a Erdinger alcohol free lager that tasted surprisingly good. My colleague bought it for me while i was there as an example of what well made beer can taste like, amazing! It went perfect with the goat cheese and Masala Vista Doro my guests brought, mmm. The Victory Prima Pils in the photo is not a German beer but a gift from the Half Pints brewer that we had to have as it was going bad. I've never had such a hoppy Pilsner before! It would have been even better fresh. I digress... Next up was was a...