beernesday

yikes, i've been back from vegas for over a week now and i haven't had a minute to sit down to write about the beer festival and all the other amazing beer places i found downtown (or write the couple of reviews i owe people...) and now i'm off to portland for the weekend (poor, poor me!) there will be beer drinking of course, and a trip to belmont station to find some fabulous beers to bring home with me, but beer is not actually the focus of my trip this time saturday is the launch party for cider riot - a kickstarter funded cidery and since we'll be in town anyway, sunday i'll be at the timbers game, sitting with the army! i am very much looking forward to taking to the streets, and pogoing the night away, not to mention getting my first taste of cider riot's ciders

i will be spending a fair bit of time this weekend at bc place tonight to watch the lions beat the pants off the roughriders sunday to watch the whitecaps and timbers battle it out it will be delightful but but what the heck am i going to drink? there is no good beer at bc place there is not even half decent beer at bc place there is no good cider at bc place there is passably drinkable cider at bc place maybe i will watch the games sober it has been suggested that i bring hop oil with me and make an ipl out of what's available to me maybe... but i am not gonna drink from the taps no way, no how - gross! file this under first world beer geek problems

get your say in now about bc liquor laws its time to get what you want, and the best way to do that is to speak up about it support your local brewers and breweries jan zeschky's updated new bc breweries of 2013 piece read up - there are so many new breweries opening up around the province! whistler beer festival was a success! 8 simple steps not to be a beer snob douchebag china joins in on the pandering to the idea that the way to woo women to beer is through low alcohol fruity beers with hello kitty beer.  yes, hello kitty beer i would be outraged, but frankly its just par for the course and i have bigger things to get worked up about (like the article equating using hello kitty to woo drinkers with the timbers army having its own beer) auto-brewery syndrome - making your own beer... in your gut sure, i buy this ever felt far too yeasty in your guts after a cask festival?  not a stretch from there! lynne, aka bg canary's latest article for the bc cr...

beer and wine hybrids?   there are several good ones out there! paddy's update on the city of vancouver's lack of cooperation with the new provincial liquor laws the portland timbers have their own beer - who's gonna brew vancouver whitecaps beer? save the growler in vancouver!   go to camra vancouver's website to find out how the gov't is screwing the beer enthusiast now - and sign the petition! and for fun, top 10 weirdest beer ingredients

no photos because i was a bonehead last week and kept forgetting my camera! tuesday night at the railway club featured granville island's belgian wit me, i don't like a belgian, so i just had a wee dram to taste very yeasty, very coriandery couldn't get past those to the orange that i am assured was underneath them! definitely a wit pleased the wit lovers in the crowd gave me an excuse to have the central city esb! thursday night at yaletown brewpub featured the seasonal esb dry-hopped with cascades i was coming down with a cold by this point in the week so can only be so reliable on taste and smell! but the hopes made it through my stuffed up head and danced on my palate which is bloody impressive - two thumbs up! saturday at the railway club featured a cask-off between esbs from central city and hopworks the portland timber's army were in town for some footie action and they brought the hub cask up with them i love me some hopworks, but found the ca...