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Apparently I am over my seasonal denial and  willing to admit that it’s not summer any more.  So I guess it's time to talk about winter seasonal beers. As you may recall,  I’m not at all a fan of the heavy-handed use of vanilla in winter ales.  I find that cloying and annoying. Vanilla isn’t a traditional winter ale flavouring.  Spicing beers is fairly traditional – before the wide usage of hops to bitter beer it used to be herbs and spices and tree bark that were used.  It was a natural progression from there to add some spices to a nice winter ale, but these spices tended to be nutmeg, cinnamon, and allspice . Vanilla is a recent trend, and seems to have really caught on here in the Lower Mainland.  For those who, like me, aren’t big fans of the vanilla trend, there are more traditional winter ales, and other experimental ales around, in a variety of styles and flavours. One such beer is the Postmark Red Winter Ale.  The new bre...

Vancouver Island's Gladstone Brewing Co. makes its Vancouver Debut VANCOUVER, BC – After six months of serving up West-Coast and Belgian-inspired brews to Vancouver Island's Comox Valley, Gladstone Brewing Co. is headed to Vancouver for the first time to showcase its award winning beer with a tap takeover at Commercial Drive's Tangent Cafe on Wednesday August 26, 6pm. Gladstone Brewing Co. is one of Vancouver Island's newest breweries and is headed up by owner Daniel Sharratt and head brewer John Adair (formerly of Parallel 49 Brewing). Adair's Porter recently took home bronze at the Canadian Brewing Awards. The tap takeover at Tangent Cafe will include six Gladstone beers: Belgian Single, North American Porter, West Coast IPA, Pilsener, and two new, yet-to-be released seasonals – a Saison and a Kettle Sour. The 20,000 litre capacity brewery started out with just 4,000 litre production in January 2015, but has quickly grown in the first six months...

Dead Frog upcoming cask: Feb. 27, 5:00pm London Pub (@londonpubvan) Cask: Pale Ale with Citra hops Ingredients: water, malted barley, hops, yeast, Malts: 2-Row, Maris Otter, Cara 30, Melanoiden Hops: Magnum, East Kent Goldings, Cascade, dry-hopped with Citra ABV: 5.2% IBU: 31 A malty, sessionable Pale Ale with a hint of citrus flavour and earthy tones. New Release:   Today sees the long-awaited launch of our 2014 Prototype Challenge winner - Vagabond Pale Ale . Alongside this awesome gluten free pale ale, we have the return of a BrewDog favourite, reinvented as the first of our seasonal releases - Alice Porter . Vagabond Pale Ale - 4.5% A kick-ass, hop-forward pale ale, that just so happens to be gluten free. Vagabond Pale Ale melds citrus and tropical hop flavours with a light caramel malt base, backed up with a raucously resinous bitterness. Brewed using 100% malted barley, American ho...

from stone: Our Favorite Overseas-Inspired  IPA Returns! You may recall the herbaceous, bitingly hoppy fund-raising IPA we brewed four years ago to help provide relief for Japanese earthquake and tsunami victims. And if you do, we know you loved it every bit as much as we did. We originally brewed Baird/Ishii/Stone Japanese Green Tea IPA  with our friends Toshi Ishii, owner of Ishii Brewing Co. in Guam, and Bryan Baird of Japan's Baird Brewing Company , and we couldn't be happier to announce that it's back with the original crew on board. The recipe has been updated slightly, using a new Australian hop variety, Helga, in place of 2011's New Zealand Pacifica hops, but the 2015 version is still packed with all of the unique flavor combinations that you loved the first time around. This spectacular, tea-infused IPA will set sail beginning Monday, January 12. You can prepare for its arrival by watching the new video  and reading up on the tast...

from stone brewing: AN IPA THAT LIVES UP TO ITS NAME   We’ve brewed many India pale ales over the past 18 years, from double-down bitter bombs to piney session sippers. Whether it’s big IBUs or a precise ABV, there’s usually a target we’re shooting for. The same is true of this, our latest IPA, but we gave zero thought to any acronyms. This one was all about packing as much unique and delicious flavor into a glass as humanly possible, regardless of oomph or octane. This intensely citrusy, beautifully bitter beer is worthy of the simple-yet-lordly title of Stone Delicious IPA . Lemondrop and El Dorado hops combine to bring on a magnificent lemon candy-like flavor that's balanced by hop spice. It’s unlike anything we’ve ta...

  new from bomber brewing, the choqlette porter is the perfect fall beer deep, dark and delicious oh, and chocolatey!          BOMBER BREWING'S NEW SEASONAL IS A LOVE LETTER IN A BOTTLE CHOQLETTE PORTER: a beer lover pays homage to his wife by taking one of her favourite things - chocolate - and marrying it to one of his own.  And while the bottle's l label denotes cherished pets and personal mementos, his real gift to her is inside:  three chocolate additions - chocolate malt, cocoa powder in the mash, and cocoa nibs in the fermentor - make this roasty, easy-drinking porter über chocolatey. It's a declaration not only to her, but to chocolate aficionados and porter drinkers alike: prospective lovers, don't write poetry - bottle up your love ! About Choqlette Porter: ...