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lucky me! i made it to the cbc website again ! Humble beer can celebrates 80 years On the Coast's beer columnist says beer cans have a lot of advantages over bottles By On the Coast, CBC News Posted: Feb 18, 2015 5:57 PM PT Last Updated: Feb 18, 2015 5:57 PM PT 2015 marks the 80th anniversary of the beer can (twothirstycats / Flickr) 80 years of beer cans 4:51   37 shares Facebook Twitter Reddit Google Share Email Related Stories B.C. craft beer trend: 3 tips for enjoying sour beers Craft beer bellies threaten hipster waistlines 4 B.C. craft beer changes to look forward to in 2015 The humble beer can celebrates its 80th year in 2015. On the Coast 's beer columnist Rebecca Whyman says beer cans have experienced a lot of up and downs over the past few decades. Macro breweries, which produce a lot of canned bee...

friends, abject apologies for my absence of late i am in the midst of having a website made (check out the progress ) and there have been some issues with integration with the blog which locked me out of the blog for a time (and there were the holidaze and all that jazz in there mucking stuff up too, i can't blame the website for my whole absence...) hopefully it's all back to normal from here on out oh, except for the fact that i'll be going away for a couple of weeks in a couple of weeks but more about that later in the meantime, here are some lovely beers that have been arriving at legacy liquor store in vancouver over the past few weeks: Phillips Brewing Black Jackal Imperial Coffee Stout - $6.95 This sweet little collaboration between Phillips Brewing Co. and 2% Jazz Coffee Co. is as dark as the underworld Anubis himself guards. Rich and roasty on the nose with intense aromas of espresso bean and dark malt, on the palate even more roasty espresso and of cou...

pretty things has a new website !

beernesday.com the website is coming! the lovely and delightful paige will be working on it this spring and summer yay! i'm quite excited and looking very much forward to the browse-ability a website offers over a blog by itself and branding and maybe swag too fun!

pintley.com got a pretty good review in beeradvocate #44 , so i thought i'd check the website out ("Bottom line:  Pintley is a fun and informative website that promises to offer fresh insight, and it will surely grow along with its community.  There is even a Pintley iPhone application in the works.  But be warned - while Pintley seems magical in its ability to determine what beers you will enjoy, it's also very good at eating up many hours of your time!"  Lisa Morrison - Beer Advocate #44) i gotta say, its a fabulous idea, but i'm less than impressed with the site. the blog hasn't been updated since june 25th there are very few local breweries represented on the site and even though i rated every belgian beer in the initial list as "hated it", they still included several belgians in my list of 145 beers they were convinced i would love perhaps i just need to rate more beers and it will start to get the actual picture of my likes i will try i...

"It just makes sense that our favorite social lubricant meshes so nicely with the online phenomenon known as social media.  Good-beer lovers knew this long before anyone ever heard of social media or websites like facebook and twitter." Bryce Eddings beeradvocate #41