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Central City’s Red Racer Comes to Beatty Street New Restaurant Serves Up Smokehouse BBQ and Award Winning Craft Beers Vancouver, BC – Central City Brewers + Distillers is pleased to announce the upcoming grand opening of their brand new  Red Racer Restaurant  on Beatty Street in downtown Vancouver. The new restaurant will feature an authentic smoked barbecue inspired menu specializing in build-your-own-burgers unique to Central City, and 40 draught taps offering Central City craft beers as well as from other BC craft brewers. The highly anticipated public grand opening is slated for  Friday, July 24  and is Central City’s first venture outside of their home base of Surrey, B.C. where their current Central City Brew Pub and state-of-the-art brewery are headquartered. “We’re excited to add a downtown Vancouver presence so we can offer a one-of-a-kind casual dining experience, our award-winni...

as if drinking beer wasn't already a positive experience, central city is offering you a way to make it even more positive, for yourself and for others: Central City Champions Autism Research with Red Racer IPA Raises funds for SFU’s Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy research for children with autism Surrey, B.C. – April is Autism Awareness Month and Central City Brewers + Distillers has launched their annual IPA for Autism fundraising initiative for Simon Fraser University’s Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) and Magnetoencephalography (MEG) research for children with autism. Central City will donate $2 from every 6-pack of 355ml cans and $0.25 from every 473ml cans of specially marked Red Racer IPAs to autism research. In addition, $0.25 from every pint of IPA sold at participating BC restaurants and pubs will also be donated. Red Racer IPA is Central City’s best selling craft beer and is available in most Canadian provinces. Since 2012, Central City has raised a total of ...

my scant notes from yesterday's beer column on cbc radio one's on the coast with stephen quinn: Often released as a fall seasonal, Pumpkin Ales are quite varied. Some brewers opt to add hand-cut pumpkins and drop them in the mash, while others use puree or pumpkin flavouring. These beers also tend to be spiced with pumpkin pie spices, like: ground ginger, nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon, and allspice. Pumpkin Ales are typically mild, with little to no bitterness, a malty backbone, with some spice often taking the lead. I brought in 4 examples of local pumpkin ales, all currently available at government liquor stores in 650 ml bombers.   I served them at room temperature so that all of the spice and flavour came out. The beers we sampled were: #1 Phillips Crooked Tooth Plucked from the patch, this Phillips seasonal classic combines fresh pumpkin, ginger, cinnamon and nutmeg with a full-bodied ale. It's a witches brew packed full of fall harvest flavour that, like...

most days it is pretty darned good to be me tuesday was no exception i got to attend the launch for central city brewing's red racer copper ale they beered us and appy'd us at joey's on broadway and gary lohin himself told us all about the copper ale then there were samples of the I-5 amarillo ale and swag bags to take home the copper ale is a beautiful copper colour - thank you munich malts! not as hop-forward as the rest of the red racer beers this is a much more malty offering based on a recipe gary used to brew at central city and hoping to capture the not-so-hop-loving segment of the population (can you say conversion beer?!) it fills a gap in the red racer line up oh, and it's a very tasty number! easy drinking with lots of malty goodness definitely a departure from the rest of the line-up, but still the quality beer we've come to expect from central city central city is also taking this opportunity to introduce a 500 ml can hoping to get mo...

new and exciting beers at legacy liquor store in vancouver: Elysian Brewing Nightowl - $7.85 Straight from Seattle comes one of the finest pumpkin beers available on the market today. Hazy and tawny in colour when poured into a glass, accompanied by a myriad of spices associated with the season (allspice, ginger, clove, etc.), its caramel, starchy malt and of course pumpkin flavours all come together to produce a medium-bodied beer that is not only amazingly approachable, but also extremely quaffable. Don’t miss out on this fantastic beer. Evan Doan | Beer Team | Legacy Liquor Store Moon Under Water Year One - $12.55 Happy Anniversary, Moon Under Water! After one year under new ownership and a revitalization that has been truly remarkable, a single-batch Red Wheat Wine ale has been produced to mark the occasion. Hopped throughout with Citra, and fermented dry with three yeasts on yellow birch to create an outstanding beer to be enjoyed with friends, this one-of-a-kind offering is ...

my notes from last night's on the coast beer column: Defining craft beer is a little like defining art. There is a broad description of an easily graspable concept, but it defies a precise definition. And like art, the "craft" of beer is often in the eye of the beholder. Wikipedia acknowledges the hard-to-pin down quality of craft beer in its entry for "craft brewing": The definition is not entirely consistent, but it typically applies to relatively small, independently-owned commercial breweries that employ traditional brewing methods and emphasize flavor and quality. The term is usually reserved for breweries established since the 1970s, but may be used for older breweries with a similar focus. But who is defining "small", "independently owned" and "traditional"? Craftbeer.com is the website of the American Brewer's Association. The Brewers Association has defined "craft brewer" so the organization can provide statis...

not the end of the world, that has been and gone a dozen times already! no, i'm talking about the end of my cleanse and related dry month of january tomorrow tomorrow i drink! but here's the dilemma... what shall i drink? what will my first beer be? ipa, natch but which one? it will most likely be central city's red racer ipa since that's what's in the fridge at work and that's where i'll be headed at 4 tomorrow what will i follow it with? will i down them like water after my drought? will i be smart and ration myself? what will it taste like? will it be the best thing i ever tasted? or will it be too strong for my poor purified taste buds? i'll get back to you...

just in time for stout day and audition day for the red racer girl central city brewing comes out with stout in a re-designed can p.s.  break a gear at your audition, viking!!

central city brewing is looking for a red racer girl to promote its beers there has been a fair bit of press around their use of a burlesquey pin-up red head on a bicycle as their label icon me, i think she's awesome! yes, i worry a little bit that craft beer using a woman for sex appeal to sell their beers could be construed as pandering, and i don't love that they refer to her as a girl when she's obviously a fully-grown woman so i am very interested to see the direction central city goes in choosing their red racer girl i am sure that there will be a few cheerleader-types who audition for the role i hope that the judges choose a woman who knows and loves beer i think the last thing any self-respecting craft brewery needs is to choose an ambassador based soley on sex-appeal and ignore beer knowledge and i can't believe that i am the only person out there who thinks that way one of my friends applied for the job and frankly, they'd be lucky at central ci...

the cask last night at the railway club was central city's simcoe dry-hopped ipa damn that simcoe is a tasty hop!

the cask last night at the railway club was central city's very berry white and very berry it was the first few sips were all sweet raspberry as i got further into it though the wheat started to assert itself definitely a fruit lover's beer! i enjoyed one, but it isn't my preferred style so i moved on to fat tug for my second course

oh alibi room! why do you have so many more beers than i can drink in a night? i began with a cask last night central city's red racer dry-hopped with simcoe and it was fantastic could have been a little more carbonated but otherwise a stellar ipa! next up i decided to double my hops pleasure with the lost coast limited release double trouble ipa and holy hops batman, was it ever a citrusy bitter little number delicious! why i didn't just have small pours of the above two, i don't know but there were still too many beers i wanted to try on the menu that i had to go with a frat bat! from left to right: conrad's marris otter cascade hopped session ale tofino hop cretin ipa tariq's wrath of khan ipa red truck cherry lemonade cask loved the first three, did not at all care for the cherry lemonade at 3.8% i can see drinking the session ale on a summer patio for hours! and the other two?  gosh darnit, i love me an ipa colour me happy...

upcoming tastings at legacy liquor store in vancouver: VERMONT SPIRITS TASTING Thursday, 4 to 7 pm Mar 29, 2012 These vodkas are triple-distilled using only local spring water and receiving a very light charcoal filtration at the end of each cycle. MAGIC MOMENTS VODKA TASTING Friday, 4 to 7 pm Mar 30, 2012 Magic Moments Lemongrass and Ginger vodka promises everything that a great life should have - being young at heart. It also embodies an excitement in and for life. RED RACER BEER TASTING Saturday, 2 to 6 pm Mar 31, 2012 Red Racer Beer believes in pushing the boundaries of craft brewing. From the flagship India Pale Ale to the limited release Winter Ale, every one of their beers is designed to challenge and delight even the most discerning connoisseur. ZENATO WINE TASTING Sunday, 2 to 6 pm Apr 1, 2012 We will be sampling the Amarone, Ripasso and Trebbiano. URBAN DISTILLERIES "SPIRITED SAMPLES" Tuesday, 12:00 pm to 3:00 pm and again from 5:00 to 8:00 pm Apr...

8th anniversary beer pairing dinner for central city brewing its worth the ride to surrey!

vancouver winners of the golden plates awards beer-related spoilers: Best Pub Food 1.Irish Heather Gastropub, 210 Carrall 2.Yaletown Brewing Company, 1111 Mainland 3.Doolins Irish Pub, 654 Nelson Best Restaurant B.C. Beer Selection 1.Alibi Room, 157 Alexander 2.St. Augustine’s, 2360 Commercial 3.ensemble Tap, 990 Smithe 3.BierCraft Tap & Tapas Bar, Various locations Best Restaurant Imported Beer Selection 1.BierCraft Tap & Tapas Bar, Various locations 2.Alibi Room, 157 Alexander 3.Bitter Tasting Room, 16 W. Hastings Street Best Pub 1.Irish Heather Gastropub, 210 Carrall 2.Lamplighter Public House, 92 Water 3.Doolins Irish Pub, 654 Nelson Best Brewpub Restaurant 1.Yaletown Brewing Company, 1111 Mainland 2.Steamworks Brewing Company, 375 Water 3.Dockside Restaurant, 1253 Johnston, Granville Island 3.Central City Brewing Co., 13450 102 Avenue, Surrey Best Imported Beer 1.Heineken 2.Stella Artois 3.Guinness Best Microbrewery Local 1.Granv...

i'm not gonna lie to you, i am not a fan of snow it looks pretty on the mountains but i really prefer that it just stays there! one thing i am a fan of is the citra hop! deliciously tart and tangy and citrusy - oh my! the central city red racer esb cask, double dry-hopped with citra, did not disappoint last night at the railway club i wished i had more time so i coulda had another but really, just the one was delectable and delightful and knocked me on my ass a little bit!

i am very excited to try this cask in t-minus one hour!! It's Rail Ale Tuesday at the The Railway Club - they'll tap a cask of Red Racer Beer double dry-hopped ESB at 5pm! 5 1/2 weeks on Citra hops = yum.

i know its great beer you know its great beer and award givers know its great beer! Red Racer Beer Extremely honoured to have won two North West Brewing News medals on Sunday. Our ESB and Thor's Hammer Barley Wine won their respective categories in a field that included beers from Alaska, BC, Washington, Oregon, and Northern California! Thank you to everyone who voted...

great article about the rise of the ipa in the globe & mail and yay chris for being the poster boy of hops!

made it to cask night at the railway club on tuesday it was a dry-hopped with tomahawk pale ale by russell brewing i honestly have no idea how i feel about this cask definitely drinkable some haze, nice head, amazing nose tastes like a pale ale that has been dry-hopped you know, hoppy and malty but there's just something about it that i can't make up my mind about do i love it? do i hate it?  am i indifferent to it? i have no idea how's that for a review? that's what i'm here for folks - clarity and articulation yup, umm hmm but all was not lost i kept drinking i thought that was the best way to deal with my weird taste buds had a phillips hop circle at the railway then lagunitas ipa and acme ipa at malones followed by central city red racer at rogue (sounds a bit like the pub crawl for ipa day doesn't it? but nope, just any old tuesday night in vancouver...) my palate recalibrated itself and all was right in my world thank dog!