dead famous pub crawl

only two weeks late, its my review of the vcbw dead famous pub crawl!
lord love a busy beer drinker!

so, the theme of the pub crawl was dead famous
as in dress up as a famous dead person
(and the sponsor was the dead famous ad agency, who made us all lovely buttons of dead famous people)

the first stop on the crawl was cinema, a donnelly group pub on granville street
there we had our choice of a pint of driftwood's white bark or their farmhand ale
woe be to me the non-wheat or belgian beer drinker in the crowd...
i went with the white bark
the food at this stop was cute little sliders with fries and chipotle aioli
for me they put roasted veggies on a bun, and it was delicious!!
(and hey, were the platters those ones from dragon's den that are all eco and stuff??)

cute food is fun!!

then we wandered our asses through the sunny streets of vancouver to the yaletown brew pub

where we made everyone in costume pose

(posers!)

at the yaletown i started with the pilsner
what a lovely hoppy brew that is

then  i bought myself a brick and beam ipa
which is also a wonderfully hoppy brew
and citrusy hops - delish!

they fed us a lovely assortment of pizzas, veggie and carnivorous

from the yaletown we hopped on the aquabus over to granville island
on this leg of the tour we got poured on
and hailed on
good times!
still, how great is this place that we live that we can boat between pubs?

at the backstage lounge we were apparently expected
but, um, there was nowhere for us to sit
and a big long line up at the bar
as we got there just as the intermission of the play let out
i am assured that the vcbw crew had it all set up, it was the backstage lounge that messed up on that one
however, they were pouring the vcbw collaboration cask
and they fed us lovely food
pizza, spring rolls, wings and some other meaty thing which i didn't have so escapes my memory at this time
my notes tell me that the hot wings were both and the pizza was ducky

the vcbw cascadian dark ale

the collaboration beer had a nose of hops, but the taste was not as forward as the bitterness that come through in the end

quite roasty for a cda

we pretty much all ordered the red racer as our second beer

but... there was a fabulous, although unexpected, balkan band who showed up and entertained us all
it was almost like last year when we had a band accompany us for the first few stops!

from the backstage lounge we trotted over to the dockside
which, like a proper venue should, had reserved the entire bar for us
(we are now at about 4:30ish on a day that began at noon)

the dockside had a cask for us
of ipa apparently with cardamom
people were getting anise and all sorts of other flavours like tea and parsley
me, i just found it weird
and pretty much we all agreed that it was not an ipa

for food we had us a bbq
there were various meat options and prawn skewers
plus lots of great accompaniments

after dinner, willie discovered that if you combined one third of the cask ipa with two thirds of the collaboration cda, it made a quite drinkable concoction
we named it the wet willie

all in all the pub crawl did not live up to last year's inaugural epic stature
but it sure was good times
and i'll do it again next year!