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from camra vancouver's newsletter: Upcoming Events February 24 @ 7pm Pumphouse Longtable Dinner featuring Anderson Valley Join Anderson Valley owner Trey White for this 5 course meal paired with 5 beers from the brewery. In addition to being named as one of the top ten breweries in America, Anderson Valley recently claimed several gold medals in California. Don't miss this dinner and tap takeover event! Tickets are $40. February 25 Central City Bacon Explosion Dinner To launch their new seasonal, a Bamberg style Rauchbier, Central City will feature a Bacon Explosion Dinner. Bacon, wrapped in sausage, wrapped in bacon, served with spicy slaw, mashed potatoes and beer onion gravy. $14.95, and only $3 more to add a sleeve of the rauchbier. Also, a pin of dry hopped Red Racer Pale Ale will be tapped. Cask tapped at 4pm, dinner can be ordered from then onwards. February 27 @ 7pm Eat Local/Drink Local Darby's Pub will host their 3rd Eat local / Drink local craft di...

three cask nights for me this week! hit st. augustine's on monday for the granville island ginger according to my server the cask blew up real good there was ginger coating the ceiling definitely there was a whole lot of ginger pulp in my pint cloudy with a huge ginger nose much thinner ginger on the palate, but very definitely a ginger beer not bad... and then because it was actually sunny out we stayed for more see - it was sunny! amanda and i both ordered samplers bridget went straight for the backhand of god (followed by inversion ipa and fat tug ipa) we both went for the deschutes twilight summer ale, the john john juniper and red racer raspberry wheat ale i rounded mine out with elysian's perseus porter deschutes twilight summer ale, 5%:  a lighter, et full flavored, aromatic ale for the long days of summer so much body, yet so crisp and light oh deschutes how i love thee and they divine brews! rogue john john juniper, 5.2%:  a hint of ...

only two weeks late, its my review of the vcbw dead famous pub crawl! lord love a busy beer drinker! so, the theme of the pub crawl was dead famous as in dress up as a famous dead person (and the sponsor was the dead famous ad agency, who made us all lovely buttons of dead famous people) the first stop on the crawl was cinema, a donnelly group pub on granville street there we had our choice of a pint of driftwood's white bark or their farmhand ale woe be to me the non-wheat or belgian beer drinker in the crowd... i went with the white bark the food at this stop was cute little sliders with fries and chipotle aioli for me they put roasted veggies on a bun, and it was delicious!! (and hey, were the platters those ones from dragon's den that are all eco and stuff??) cute food is fun!! then we wandered our asses through the sunny streets of vancouver to the yaletown brew pub where we made everyone in costume pose (posers!) at the yaletown i started with the pil...

had many a beer with the regular suspects at st. augustine's the other night. still love how many taps they have, and all the delightful craft beers to choose from but... and you knew there had to be a but!  the service there is not up to snuff.  yes, we were a larger group, and there were several other large groups there, but i still feel that if you have the capacity to seat all of us, you should have the staff available to serve all of us in a timely fashion.  jackie's food came before her beer for crying out loud! there was a run on sampler glasses later in the night and this adversely affected how quickly the beers were coming.  but even before the glass shortage there was slow service on the beer front.  shame, really. will i go back?  of course i will!  i love the choice, the sampler option and the food. i just want faster service, that's all! i went with two samplers to try all the beers i hadn't yet tasted, and then switched to pints...