beernesday

new and exciting beers at legacy liquor store in vancouver: Lech Lager - $3.15 Lech Beer is has a golden colour, light aroma, soft, light texture, lightly sweet flavours with a gently bitter finish. Magners Pear Cider - $4.45 Magners Traditional Apple Cider has been such a big hit, we couldn't resist bringing in the delicious Pear Cider made by the very same Irish producer. Porterhouse Oyster Stout - $3.55 A superbly balanced brew, smooth and rounded without being bland. More sweetness derived from fresh oysters shucked into the conditioning tank, what a way to go! But of course not suitable for vegetarians.

i love lazy days with my beer husband! we watch good television, drink good beers and he makes delicious beer food i am a very lucky woman and he is going to make someone a wonderful real husband some day - until then, i will shamelessly enjoy him!! on deck for yesterday's good times: hoyne big bock three boys oyster stout driftwood singularity russian imperial stout and the piece de resistance:  beer stew! (kale, white beans, carrots, russett potatoes and russell black death porter)  (added bonus, an introduction to hoyne )

save the oysters! drink beer! Inside a hard, sometimes rough, exterior is a layer of soft tissue capable of producing gleaming white spheres desired around the world. Our newest release, Pearl Necklace Oyster Stout, is a tribute to the magical mollusks that not only cultivate gemstones, but are also crucial to the Chesapeake Bay's fragile ecosystem. Proceeds from Pearl Necklace, a dry stout brewed with local oysters, benefit the Oyster Recovery Project. Why is oyster recovery so important? •Disease, habitat loss, and overfishing have reduced the Chesapeake Bay's oyster population to a mere 1% of its historical peak. That's right, one percent! •Oysters are filter feeders. They used to be able to filter the entire Bay in a matter of days; now, it takes years. •A healthy oyster population provides a habitat for other (delicious) Bay creatures, like striped bass, perch, and blue crabs. •Even oyster shells are a limited natural resource. They are a natural habitat f...

why yes, apparently brewers do put oysters in beer! and i think i might just want to try some... provided to me by alison but actually from the huffington post "Brine in Your Brew: Sampling Oyster Stouts Sep 13 2010, 9:02 AM ET Though the Germans would like us to believe otherwise, beer has long been made with ingredients other than barley, hops, and water. Of course, there's a reason 16th-century German brewers were kept to such a strict recipe regimen—you can add a lot of nasty stuff to beer to make it more potent, to make it last longer, or to stretch ingredients. These days, though, brewers usually add extras to improve their beer, not degrade it: coffee, pumpkin, tea, spices; there's beer made with chilis, beer made with hemp, beer made with beet sugar (called, cleverly, the Kerouac), and even, according to a Seattle performance artist, beer made with her own ... well, yeah. With that in mind, is oyster beer really all that weird? Although it's a bit...