beernesday

so many beers, so little time... tuesday's cask at the railway club was central city's hoppy apple pie esb and it was really quite delicious their amazing extra special bitter amped up with some apple and nutmeg notes it really worked! (now i just need to find someone who can bake me a hoppy apple pie... ryan?) after the railway i went out with a friend to mahoney's pub by canada place i had no idea it even existed - really should get out more! for an irish pub they have a pretty darned good craft beer menu and the food was amazing! nice view of the water too and last night at st. augustine's i tried the anderson valley brewing bahl hornin' wee geech pale ale:  4.4% designed to satisfy the hop heads out there, while still offering a sessionable and balanced ale.  the aroma hops have a very piney, citrusy, and grassy element which we further emphasized by adding fresh cut lemongrass late in the kettle.  it also imparts a spicy ginger character. ...

managed to hit a couple of cask nights this week very much enjoyed the elysian idiot sauvin ipa at granville room on monday night methinks that it must have been a very potent brew as my coordination rapidly failed after just two pints but really, isn't coordination highly overrated? hoppy and delicious and apparently the first cask to do some blowing up real good upon tapping at the granville room the railway is not so lucky they get some good spray most days out of their casks including the r&b dry-hopped pale ale i had on tuesday night nice, but didn't tempt us to have a second instead we ran off to rogue wetbar because we knew the twitter code of the day to get a free drink woohoo, free tiki drink! in a fabulous tiki glass! wednesday saw me taking the night off from casking a girl has to do other things some times you know! last night yaletown had its nagila pale ale on cask, dry-hopped with sorachi ace i do love me the sorachi ace!