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there just aren't enough hours in my day! no time to blog, gotta go drink cask at the yaletown stout with lavender... and then i'm off camping for the long weekend happy canada day!! (and my beer of choice for the weekend is red racer ipa, in case you were wondering)

turning beer into energy  - the ultimate green for your beer! you buy beau's bourbon aged beer, they put in solar panels - win/win! not really beer related, but i do love my bc lions if you want to volunteer at the grey cup parties , sign up now! want to buy all things belgian online ?  then visit the belgian shop rogue's next beer pairing dinner is july 12th featuring beers from crannog you know i'll be there! craft beer and indie restaurants are a natural fit , as if you didn't already know that! and homebrewing not just for broke musicians any more!

the count so far on my 50 book challenge is 21 at the end of june i should be at 25... gotta start reading more short books - no more 800+ page ones! JUNE: Michael V. Smith: Progress Michael Connelly:  Angels Flight Jilly Cooper: Jump! MAY: Rachel York: Chasing Lightning Guy Gavriel Kay: Under Heaven Kim Harrison: Black Magic Sanction APRIL: Preston & Child: Fever Dream Nicholas Pashley: Cheers! An Intemperate History of Beer in Canada MARCH: Louise Welsh – Naming the Bones Jack Whyte – Order in Chaos Noah Boyd – The Bricklayer FEBRUARY: Christopher Moore – Coyote Blue Christopher Moore – Island of the Sequined Love Nun Jeff Lindsay – Dexter by Design Rachel Solar-Tuttle – Number Six Fumbles Val McDermid – Fever of the Bone Kim Harrison – Once Dead, Twice Shy Jonathan Franzen – Freedom JANUARY: MaryJanice Davidson – Undead & Unwelcome MaryJanice Davidson – Undead & Unworthy Kim Harrison – White Witch, Black Curse

tonight's cask at the railway club is a dry-hopped pale ale from russell brewing

how many posts can i get out of my visit to 21st amendment brewery in san francisco? well, i took lots of photos and five pages of notes! located at 563 2nd street, it is very close to giants stadium meaning that they get a huge crowd before and after games and they have a special license on game days to open a beer garden in the street next door sa-weet! because i went on a game day i didn't get to have a tour of the brewery itself but since they have a glass wall between the brewery and the pub, i got to see the brewery the interior is all wooden beams and exposed duct work and cinder block walls there is a bar, a lower seating area and a loft bar over the kitchen and like i said, on game days there is a beer garden outside during the giants game the beer garden looked like this: and this is the lower seating area and bar after a game: and this is the disco ball in the brewery!!: thus endeth post #1 about 21st amendment brewery

just randomly walking down 2nd street on my way between the bart from the airport and 21st amendment brewery as in very shortly after arriving in san francisco on a thursday afternoon i passed an indian restaurant whose curtain protecting their beer stock had fallen i was stopped in my tracks checking out the beers they had on offer and i was impressed: delerium tremens shipyard ipa kingfisher taj flying horse duvel please excuse the intense glare in the photo, it was the best i could do in the circumstances! go figure! i felt like this was a very good sign of the beer delights in store for me for the rest of my beer vacation in san francisco!

back from my san francisco mini vacation not too sure what the overarching theme was though i went down for pride but at least half of my photos are beer related... and i just gotta say the weather was very welcoming there not like the suckage i have returned to in vancouver...

so long, farewell i'm off to san francisco for the weekend! catch ya next week

all the way from paris, it's white woman beer! thanks jessica for taking time out of your paris odyssey to send me this pic!

brewdog names the top 5 contentious craft beer issues (at least in scotland) as: can vs. bottle keg vs. cask high abv beers duty on beer multinational buy-outs i'd say at least four of the five are relevant for north america as well (the duty issue or setting a minimum price for alcohol isn't currently being addressed by parliament in canadia as far as i know... and i'm too lazy to find out for sure)

we're not quite ready to brew our own yet this is the current state of the brewing room note how diligently we have been collecting bottles!

2,500 ibus is that even possible??? i dunno, i'm not a science person, but ontario claims it has brewed a 2,500 ibu beer oh ontario, always gotta be the biggest and best a gimmick?  probably do i want to try it?  of course! and frankly i hadn't heard of flying monkeys brewery until this so if its a publicity stunt, it worked on me!

howe sound rockfish red t-shirt:

ooooh, this sounds like the beer store i need to visit in san francisco this coming weekend city beer store on folsom street check out that beer list! and it looks like i might get a brewery tour at 21st amendment i'll be at the pub/brewery on thursday afternoon! (thought i'd kill the bit of time i have been arriving and my friend getting off work imbibing the back in black, hop crisis and over hopulation, all of which are on tap today... hopefully still on thursday!) "Hi Rebecca, Thanks for your note. Because we are a full service restaurant, there is always a brewer or a manger available that can potentially give small groups brewery tours. We often do impromptu tours provided we are not too busy--mid-afternoon is a good time for this. I recommend you call ahead to the pub to set up a time for a guaranteed tour. Their phone number is (415) 369-0900 Thanks for thinking of us and Cheers! Craft Beer in a can. Better for the beer. Better for the environment...

i am a total geek i am excited by this crop report hops, growing hops! and all sorts of other great agricultural stuff i feel kinda like les nessmann with the hog report!! Rogue Nation Department of Agriculture CROP REPORT June 2011 Rogue Farms Micro Barley Farm, Tygh Valley, Oregon: Barley: RiskTM 2-row winter malting barley is fully grown and filling out the kernels. Color recently changed from green to rusty brown. Rains delayed the planting of the DareTM 2-row spring malting barley. But recent sunny weather is helping them grow, they're now almost a foot tall. Total acres planted down slightly from last year. Crop:  RiskTM 2-row winter malting barley Acres in Production:  95 Estimated Harvest:  475,000 pounds Crop:  DareTM 2-row spring malting barley Acres in Production:  90 Estimated Harvest:  450,000 pounds Micro Floor Malt House: We lost a 2,000 pound batch of 2-row floor malt when the kiln malfunctioned during the first weekend...

my friend scout is a very good friend indeed she was in portland recently and when i asked if she could make it a mission to find some deschutes hop in the dark for me, she did! she brought back a bottle for us to share after softball and another for me to enjoy at my leisure the bottle we shared on friday night was every bit as good as i remember last year's being and such a great treat! i'm hoarding the other bottle for a bit savouring the knowledge that it is there waiting for me i love having friends who understand the importance of beer and being willing to go out of their way to make sure i get me some otherwise unavailable bottles! a million thank yous scout!

beer goggles???

the cask at the yaletown last thursday was iain hill's brick and beam ipa dry-hopped with uk goldings and it was delicious i may or may not have had far too many pints of it but really, it wasn't my fault i blame rob, who was in town from onterrible yeah, it was his fault or maybe it was the rum drinks they gave us to sample... kristy, rob and laura stacy, me and anne the crazy appelton rum drinks they gave us to sample mmmmm pizza! high school buddies a couple of years later! as always, good times at the yaletown that made my friday morning a little painful

our very own vancouver local lundy dale gets quoted in this article about women in beer and barley's angels ! go lundy! i'm looking forward to the upcoming beer and chocolate event...

need a reason to travel to victoria on saturday? how about the victoria one-day cultural festival which boasts a beer garden!!!!

yay beer garden! eat vancouver last weekend was good times! we showed up nice and early and ate our way through half of the exhibitors and then hit the beer garden! who was there? well, let me tell you: yangjing russell brewing granville island brewing cannery brewing tin whistle and mt. begbie dead frog brewery r & b brewing   driftwood brewery - check out all the awards from vcbw! singha and central city... lots of wine and spirits as well fun fun fun on a weekend afternoon! we ate our way through the other half of the exhibitors and returned to the beer garden for more and had us some absinthe from taboo i hear it makes the heart grow fonder... first you pour the shot over a sugar cube then you flame the sugar cube then you dissolve the sugar cube with 2 parts water then you muddle it all and drink it (you may note this was more than 2 parts water... disappointing for $3 a shot) hightlights: nando's giving ...

just in time for my san francisco trip 21st amendment releases hop crisis imperial ipa aged in oak barrels! gonna find me some and bring it home to canadia, yes i am! please, please, please have some on draft in a drinking establishment i frequent and please, please, please let me find some at the store! 21st amendment ... DBI Beverage 2225 Jerrold Ave. San Francisco CA 94124 (415) 643-9900 i hope i can find this place... gah - its in south san francisco dagnabbit, that doesn't work bah - and california isn't getting any dogfish head 120 minute ipa either this is not going as well as i had hoped... hopefully my hop in dark has made it to canadia and i will be tasting that delicious nectar friday evening...

last week's cask at the yaletown was the downtown brown ale dry-hopped with uk goldings! deeeeelicious! last week also saw us get to taste imported beers ryan brought back two from his trip to winnipeg one, from half pints, tasted exactly like apple crumble! he also traded a growler of yaletown with the half pints guys for a bottle out of their cellar collection the 3 musketeers grand cuvee doppelbock holy divinely fabulously delicious batman! no one got the chocolate from this one at first but after we visited a couple of other beers and revisited it everyone got the chocolate notes funny... iain then raided his cellar and produced a couple of belgians for us i translate this one as ringing bell i do not speak flemish or any related language, so i'm totally making it up! and i'm having too much fun with my invented translation to look up what it actually means not all of us are belgian fans (yay, so nice to have company on that one!) but we...

going back to moose's down under tonight to watch game 7! yay russell lemon ale! enjoying the game 5 win! moose's doesn't have the best beer list ever but for an aussie pub, its darned good and i really am a fan of the russell lemon ale! and they make a very mean nachos! go canucks go!