beernesday

new and exciting beers at legacy liquor store in vancouver: Kozel Premium Czech Lager - $3.25 Kozel Premium has a pleasant, balanced taste and a mildly malty and hoppy aroma. At 4.8% ABV, this perfectly sparkling pale lager alcohol regularly wins awards both at home and abroad. Parallel 49 Salty Scot Sea Salted Caramel Scotch Ale - $7.55 "We put the kettle on for a long boil and this Scottish wee heavy is what we got." A rich caramel is complemented by sea salt for a complex, intense flavour. How can you go wrong? You Can't. Deschutes Brewery Chasin' Freshies Fresh Hop IPA - $11.35 Like fresh powder, it's a seize the moment type thing. At harvest, we rush Goschie farms cascade hops fresh from bine to kettle. Not any cascades, mind you, but an heirloom strain, from a single field restored from the original rhizome. 

the freshly transplanted (yet again) hops are not doing very well one bine is dead the other has seen perkier days... at least the rest of the plants seem to be happy in their new home 

update #1: the centennial hops have been moved to their new new home three of the rhizomes are now in bridget's vegetable garden with tomato wires protecting them from the curious cats the fourth is in a container on my balcony they were looking so perky... hopefully being moved before they managed to put down many roots and right before a rainy night will treat them well enough for us to get some tasty hops in the fall! update #2 dead frog got back to me about hosting a bloggers tour and tasting unfortunately the brewers are only there on weekdays too many of the beer bloggers have pesky day jobs during the week and the whole thing has just fallen apart sadness update #3 go canucks go!

check out my hops! i was fortunate enough to get gifted with four rhizomes of centennial hops, and bridget has a garden in which to plant them!  yay! unfortunately i am going to have to move them very shortly - her neighbours just informed her that they are taking out the chainlink fence and replacing it with a cedar one.  pretty, but i fear they will step on my rhizomes while putting the fence up... and the cedar will be solid and block about half of the days worth of sun... dammit!