vancouver craft beer week

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tickets for signature events at vancouver craft beer week are on sale as of today!
i went to the launch party at the dockside last night and got me some nibblies, some swag and some tickets!
tickets for the rest of the events go on sale next friday, april 8th

i will be attending hoppapalooza II at the alibi
and this year's dead famous pub crawl
(check out the hijinx at last year's pub crawl and then get thee a ticket to this year's - i think it was the best run, most fun, most interesting event in the city last year)
i am playing the women and beer and the two brewery creek nights by ear
most likely will be buying tix to them as well...
a whole week of beer events - i'm in heaven!

the launch party was quite well attended
check out the size of the line to buy tickets:


and this is the lovely beer toque that i got for swag:

i love meese!
the nibblies were good, if in shorter supply than the ravenous hoardes would have liked
check out how cute the sliders were:


the dockside beer itself is not the best craft out there
but we went with it and got a pitcher of the pilsner
definitely drinkable but nothing to write home about


at least they have a fabulous view down there on granville island!

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