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gift idea #37 for the beer lovers in your life:  beer week tickets buy the beer lovers in your life advanced tickets to beer festivals! both vancouver craft beer week and victoria beer week have advanced tix on sale now victoria beer week runs march 4-12, 2016 vancouver craft beer week  runs june 3-6, 2016 (for the tasting festival, which is the only event with pre-sale tickets)

tickets are on sale december 8th! ticket release party at butcher and bullock december 7th! Vancouver Craft Beer Week Announces Early Bird Tickets for 2016 VCBW Festival Beer lovers are able to purchase early bird tickets and celebrate launch of Vancouver Craft Beer Week at kick-off event Vancouver, BC – December 1st, 2015 – On Tuesday, December 8th , Vancouver Craft Beer Week is releasing early bird tickets, offering beer lovers the opportunity to get their VCBW festival passes and tickets at a reduced price.  The VCBW Festival Weekend Pass will be available for $85, along with standard Single Day Gate Crasher ($35) and Single Day General Admission tickets ($30).  In addition, this coming Monday, December 7th , Vancouver Craft Beer Week is hosting a party at Butcher & Bullock to celebrate the launch of VCBW Festival Early Bird tickets.  VCBW Early Bird tickets will be on sale from December 7th to April 5th , when the complete Vancouver Cr...

it's vancouver craft beer week, so there won't be much on the blog this week... but here's a link to what I did a couple of weeks ago: judged the homebrew entered in the samley cup and a new release: Two Phillips brews now in the tall can section of your local private liquor store! View this email in your browser Blue Buck & Short Wave West Coast Pale Ale Released in 473mL Tall Cans! June 1st, 2015 - Craft beer lovers can toast to summer with two new Phillips tall cans!  Blue Buck and a brand new brew called Short Wave West Coast Pale Ale are joining the Amnesiac King Can in the tall can section of your favourite private liquor store.  Blue Buck is a noble beast ...

i'll be on cbc radio one's on the coast this afternoon at 5:50 talking about summer beers and vancouver craft beer week with stephen quinn whilst sipping on parallel 49's sour white ale 88.1 fm 690 am

dead frog cask night: Friday, May 15 at 5:00pm B's Craft Beer Lounge ( @BsCraftLounge ) Cask: Obsidian Dagger with whiskey-soaked coffee beans & cocoa nibs Ingredients: water, malted barley, hops, yeast, coffee beans, cocoa nibs, whiskey Malts: Pale Ale, Cara 60, Biscuit, Chocolate, Carafa II, Special B, Roast Barley Hops: Centennial, Columbus, Galaxy ABV: 6.5% IBU: 50 Sparks fly when bold & beautiful tropical hops meet a brazen & daring roasted malt base. Their chemistry is undeniable and perfectly balances the hop flavours and aromas of a powerhouse IPA with the depth and intricacy of a complex dark ale. phillips brewing's hopoxia: The annual beer festival dedicated to hoppy beers is back! Featuring over 30 BC breweries. Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser .   ...

St. Patrick’s day is approaching.   Can I tempt you to drink something other than green beer? I mean hey, if you're really into green beer, then by all means, drink up.  I hear they'll be serving it at the Blarney Stone. For me though,  food colouring added to beer doesn’t enhance my drinking experience, especially as it is generally added to macro lagers.   I would rather drink flavourful beer!   I find the idea of “drowning the shamrock” for luck, where a clover is added to beer or whisky and the whole thing downed, shamrock and all, a lot more palatable way to put some green in my beer to celebrate the day. Afterall, g reen beer is not an Irish tradition.   So where did green beer come from?   Who thought that it would be a good idea to slip food colouring into beer?   T he earliest reference I found to the drinking of green beer is a newspaper articlefrom 1914 about a New York social club serving green beer at a St. Patrick’s...