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    STEEL & OAK BREWING  CASK AT ROGUE BROADWAY!   All the way from New Westminster for April Fool's Day, we have an American blonde ale - Royal City Ale with oak chips. IBU: 20 ALC %: 5   Date: Wednesday 1st April  Time: 6pm Location: Rogue Broadway - Broadway & Ash   Make sure you come check out another one of Vancouver's favourite craft breweries!   Cheers, The Team at Rogue              ...

some upcoming cask nights in vancouver:   MOODY ALES CASK AT ROGUE BROADWAY!   It's Moody Ales' turn featuring a Black IPA with cold brewed 49th Parallel Roasters Espresso. 6.4% and 70IBU.   Date: Wednesday 4th Feb  Time: 6pm Location: Rogue Broadway - Broadway & Ash   Don't miss out, this one won't last long. Check out what one of PoMo's finest has to offer!   Cheers, The Team at Rogue       Join Our Social Networks!      Three Rogue Locations!   ...

due to a lack of space in the july/august edition of the bc craft beer news my lengthy article on the best craft beer patios in vancouver got truncated the whole article is available online but i'm also copying it here Summer time and the living is easy… not to mention best enjoyed on a patio! In a departure from my usual format and just in time for summer 2014, I bring you the very best patios in Vancouver for enjoying craft beer. The list starts with larger patios and beer menus and goes on down to smaller (but no less enjoyable) venues, with smaller beer menus. Only the heat and the hours available to you will limit your time on these patios, so there is no rating system in this round of reviews. Enjoy! Patio drinking tips: Look for session ales—those tasty lower alcohol beers that enable you to spend a long ‘session’ on a patio. Drink water! Go for a rinse cycle after every beer; your body will love you for it. Keep your drink out of the sunlight—no one likes a beer t...

chuck hallett (aka barley mowat ) compiled a list of 16 places to drink craft beer in vancouver for vancouvereater.com in advance of vancouver craft beer week i have shamelessy borrowed his list and provide you with links to my reviews of most of these places (which were published in the bc craft beer news over the past year) you know, just in case you haven't actually been to all of these places (which i would only find credible if you don't actually live in vancouver) and wanted to know allllll about them 33 Acres Brewing Company Imagine a sleek Scandinavian Coffee House selling solidly produced sessional ales and lagers and you might have pictured 33 Acres. A sleek white-and-concrete interior kept immaculately clean makes you wonder whether or not you've slipped into an art gallery by mistake, then you realize that you have... The beer is the art. Highlights include Merckx (Saison) and Sunshine (French Blanche).   Rogue Kitchen & Wetbar ...

my notes from last night's on the coast beer column: the perfect pour: there really is a right way to pour beer!   first of all, the basics. drink out of a glass, not a bottle or a can and make sure the glass is clean - hand-washing and air drying are recommended (hand-washing to avoid soap or food residue from the dishwasher - also keeps any branding on the glass fresh longer - and air drying so you don't get lint or grease from a dishtowel in the glass) the quick answer to why drinking out of a glass is better than a bottle or a can is that you get to appreciate the appearance of the beer as well as the flavour and aromas. also handy is the ability to control the amount of settled yeast sediment from a bottle-conditioned beer that ends up in your mouth - some styles of beer are all about including the yeast (like a hefeweisen), if you pour from the bottle into the glass you'll mix the yeast in nicely. if you don't like yeast, or are drinking a style...

my beer selections for this week's beer column on cbc radio's on the coast : american brewing company's breakaway ipa and caboose oatmeal stout lazy boy brewing's oktoberfest and ipa diamond knot brewing's brown ale and industrial ipa all three are available in bottles at hastings, legacy and brewery creek liquor stores the lazy boy and diamond knot are also available on rotating taps at the usual suspects like st. augustine's , the alibi room and portland craft .  in fact, i had the industrial ipa at st. augustine's last night!  they are also being poured at rogue waterfront , queen's cross pub , fets bar & grill , biercraft and tangent cafe , among other places like modern malt on facebook and you can keep up to date on where these fine beers are available!

its almost time for international stout day november 8th here's what the beer wench, the founder of #ipaday, has to say about it last year i asked marnie at rogue to do a beer pairing dinner featuring stouts and did she ever come through for me! this year... well... i haven't done a damn thing about stout day guess i'll just have to go with raising a glass of stout that day

its only the first week of craft beer week and maybe its because i'm getting over my man-cold but i feel like its been all beer all the time for me so far! monday i skipped the craziness of st. augustine's sartori cask night for the calm of monday night football at a friend's house, with me supplying the beers which included an ipa homebrewed by matt, rod and ryan's that was needing to be drunk before it lost all its hoppy goodness, a true northwest ipa that went down far too well! tuesday i went to two cask nights the railway club had a lovely r&b ipa cask very satisfyingly delicious rogue broadway had their very first cask night, also with an r&b cask blueberry cranberry esb, which their front office person, lundy dale, who is also the president of camra bc, helped to brew and was thrilled to unveil at the start of bc craft beer month wednesday was my usual beernesday club night at st. augustine's omg, the cheese stromboli currently on their...

from parallel 49: Our store front is officially open! Come down to grab some cold six packs or to fill your growler with delicious P49 draft beer! (graham says he'll be there tonight and growler fills are $10) and from the soon-to-be-opened second rogue wetbar location: Because we love craft beer so much we put in 30 taps at the new Rogue Kitchen & Wetbar Broadway! i'll be at the railway for cask tonight no idea what tonight's is (the power of facebook and twitter is failing me right now...) UPDATE:  its cental city's white tea and orange peel pale ale but last week's r&b red devil pale ale was delish!

on march 22nd i attended the pike brewing  dinner at rogue kitchen and wetbar. the menu was fabulous as ever, the company convivial and the beers delicious! the menu charlie finkel began the evening with a talk on the history of craft beer the highlight for me was when he compared the yellow beers of the big boys to spam, velveeta, wonderbread... and twinkies! from there he moved to a lesson in malts and brewing at first it was very interesting but then, as it kept on going through the first couple of courses it became just too much charles and rose ann finkel, steve case of pike naughty nellie golden artisan ale course one: the naughty nellie is crisp and refreshing with mild fruity esters and soft malt character it faired really nicely with the fruity and soft crab and apple the arugula emulsion was almost too overpowering, but the toasted brioche was buttery goodness! dungeness crab salad arugula emulsion, toasted brioche, green apple c...