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check out the cbc website about yesterday's beer column on on the coast! Check out these fresh picks for  fresh-hopped beer Beer columnist Rececca Whyman says now is the time to try B.C.'s  fresh-hopped brews CBC News   Posted: Oct 11, 2016 4:32 PM PT  Last Updated: Oct 11, 2016 4:32 PM PT On The Coast beer columnist Rebecca Whyman says most hops will be dried into pellets for use throughout the year but some will go straight into beers made in the fall. (B.C. Hops Company) Facebook Twitter Reddit Google Share Email Related Stories OTC beer and wine Prost! Oktoberfest events to check out on the Lower Mainland Summer season ending, but beer festival season just getting started Fall in B.C. usually brings wet weather with it and for beer lovers, it also brings "wet hopping,"  On The Coast  beer columnist Rebecca Whyman says. Wet hopping, ...

what i had to say a couple of weeks ago about the craft beer scene in onterrible vs. british columbia (or more accurately hamilton/toronto vs. vancouver) for the rest of my column, see below the cbc website piece Ontario's craft beer scene has grown up over the years, columnist says Plus, check out Rebecca Whyman's picks for this week CBC News   Posted: Jul 21, 2016 1:45 PM PT  Last Updated: Jul 21, 2016 1:45 PM PT On The coast beer columnist Rebecca Whyman says there's been a lot of improvement — especially when it comes to variety — in Ontario's craft beer scene. (Jaison Empson/CBC) 24 shares Facebook Twitter Reddit Google Share Email Related Stories OTC beer and wine Where everybody knows your name: columnist talks value of craft beer tasting rooms How to have your summer beer and eat it too On The Coast  beer columnist Rebecca Whyman usually keeps things ...

More than just another IPA 4 Hands / Bale Breaker / Stone Sorry Not Sorry IPA For our latest collaboration, we ventured into uncharted territory with 4 Hands Brewing Co. and Bale Breaker Brewing Company—two rising stars of American craft brewing. Brewed with experimental hops HBC 342 and HBC 344, along with beloved varietals Simcoe and Mosaic, this imperial IPA's stone fruit, pine, tropical fruit, berry and citrus notes are amplified by a dose of puréed peaches. So, yeah, we made (more than just) another IPA:  #SorryNotSorry . Read more about this unapologetically  delicious beer on The Stone Blog . For those of you who are thinking, "Is this beer coming to my area and, if so, when?" we have created our  new, exclusive "beer tracker." This great tool, located on the beer's official web page , will serve as a  handy companion to ...

well, a re-release actually... and they quote me! Dead Frog Brewery Re-Releases the Taste of BC: Big Stump Spruce Golden Ale Aldergrove, BC — Dead Frog Brewery is pleased to announce the re-release of its Big Stump Spruce Golden Ale. Inspired by forays into the old growth forests of British Columbia, this 6.5% golden ale incorporates Sitka spruce tips harvested a mere 10 minutes away from our brewery. Jan Zeschky of The Province mused, "It’d be pretty special if this beer style one day became an appellation and tourists came to the province to try spruce ale like wine purists flock to Burgundy." Considering the first beer made in BC was a spruce ale brewed by Captain Cook in Nootka Sound, we agree. Big Stump's rich sweetness from Cara and Maris Otter malts balances the bitterness of Simcoe and Northern Brewer hops whose pine notes are heightened by the spring growth of tender spruce tips for a truly unique pint. "I wanted to bring out a bit more of t...