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last night's cask at the yaletown brewpub was their pale ale dry-hopped with cascades and it was a good one! rumour has it there's a stout cask coming up... because it was martini night (and that's not my scene) we left yaletown for rogue wetbar and more beer because we follow rogue on twitter we got to try one of their new beer cocktails for free! i love free! and i love a bellini, so i went for the beerlini pyramid apricot beer with bellini slush it makes for a murky drink, but damn, its delicious! then i had to have a pint of the hopworks abominable winter ale because they still had some available at rogue as their rotating tap guess it isn't officially spring for a couple more days...

hops and apricots?!? looking forward to tasting the dogfish head aprihop "a serious india pale ale brewed with real apricots." good head on the vigrourous pour subtle apricot nose some cloudiness in the glass dark caramel colour 7% 50 ibus the website says: Aprihop   Availability:   Seasonal Aprihop is our fruit beer for hopheads! It is an American IPA brewed with Pilsner and crystal malts massively hopped in in the continuous fashion. The flavor is complimented by the addition of Apricots. After fermentation the beer is dry hopped with irresponsible amounts of Amarillo hops. The beer is hoppy in the aroma with the apricots playing a supporting complimentary role. The flavor is rich with late hop flavors and it's bitterness is tempered by just the right amount of malt sweetness and fruity undertones from the apricots. This is one of our most popular seasonal beers and we've been brewing it each spring for quite a while now. We release the beer each Marc...