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RESIGNATION BREWERY HEADS NORTH: KCCO BEER COMING TO BRITISH COLUMBIA AND RAISING MONEY FOR CHARITY AS WELL Vancouver, BC  – Resignation Brewery is teaming up with Beerthirst to distribute it’s highly sought after beers in British Columbia. In November, KCCO Gold Lager will be hitting liquor store shelves, with some locations giving away KCCO Beer Pong tables, whilst others will be raising money for The BC Professional Firefighters Burn Fund.  After just one year of operation, Resignation Brewery broke into the top 100 biggest breweries in the US. Less than two years later, their brews were available US wide and now after some two and half years are welcomed to Canada.  Created by the founders of the digital lifestyle brand, theCHIVE, they aim to unite friends over a great tasting and accessible beer. “Finally the wait it is over!” says Andrew Platt, Beerthirst’s Marketing Manager. “We’ve had a lot of interest in these beers and we’re really excited to finall...

from central city brewers: Maple Syrup + Smoky Bacon Flavour + Red Racer Craft Beer = Awesome Jeff O’Neil Show Red Racer Maple Bacon Ale: a collaborative beer from Central City and CFOX’s Jeff O’Neil Show launches in 2015 for a repeat performance   Surrey, B.C. – What do you get when you combine maple syrup, bacon and Red Racer beer? The best-selling, limited release  Jeff O’Neil Show Red Racer Maple Bacon Ale  - a tasty collaboration beer between Central City Brewers + Distillers and CFOX’s Jeff O’Neil Show. Because everything tastes better with bacon! “We had tremendous success with last year’s release and were sold out within a couple of weeks,” says Tim Barnes, Vice President of Marketing and Sales at Central City. “We had a blast working with CFOX and the Jeff O’Neil team so we’re bringing back this limited release because fans just couldn’t get enough of this beer! I mean, what doesn’t...

beerthirst has brought red hook back to bc and to celebrate they're giving away a beer fridge: GET HOOKED ON REDHOOK 2015 IS THE YEAR OF THE SESSIONABLE CRAFT BEER!   Beerthirst.com is proud to announce the release of Redhook Brewing Company’s deliciously sessionable craft beer, now available in British Columbia and is soon to be available in Alberta. CRUSHABLE CRAFT SINCE 1981 Redhook Brewery was born out of the energy and spirit of the 80’s in the heart of Seattle. From this modest start in a former transmission shop in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood, Redhook has become one of America’s best known craft breweries. While Redhook has grown up over the past 30 years, one thing has never changed, brewing great beer and having fun doing it. And now it’s available in BC and AB! Redhook is the OG of craft beer, brewing balanced and sessionable beers with more flavors and aromas than super-premium import and domestic beers. Redhook drinkers are able to enjoy...

from central city brewers and distillers: Central City Hops into the Premium Craft Cider category Aims to lead the craft cider segment in Canada with launch of “Hopping Mad Dry Hopped Apple Cider”   Surrey, B.C. – In another bold move, Central City Brewers + Distillers has entered the craft cider market with the launch of Hopping Mad Dry Hopped Apple Cider.  Hopping Mad Dry Hopped Apple Cider is a dry-sweet cider blending Yakima valley hops with fresh pressed apples from the Pacific Northwest.  Hopping Mad Dry Hopped Cider is cold fermented from scratch, using Northwest Apples, Yakima Hops and a special yeast. The dry hopping process used adds a nice hop aroma onto the dry sweet, cider, complementing the cider’s natural tart flavour. “It’s an exhilarating time for us at Central City to be able to create new and exciting products. We are best known for our expertise and pass...

budweiser's anti-craft beer commercial analyzed by paste magazine and the same ad analyzed by a feminist and now spoofed by ninkasi brewing, double mountain and others the globe and mail on how much you can make in the craft brewing industry apparently ontario brewmasters are raking it in and there's tons of positions for brewers vancouver's east side is brewery haven ninkasi brewing on staying independent what it's like to run a brewery, according to brewmasters still on the elysian sell out topic: what beerthirst, their vancouver importer, has to say what pike, another seattle brewery, has to say

just a couple of pics from last night's launch of new belgium in vancouver:   besides the fact that they tried to poison me by feeding me "vegetarian" pizza that in fact contained a whole lotta meat sausage under the cheese, it was good times beerthirst brought in plenty of new belgium beers for us to quaff - i made it through three of the four flavours, but was too tipsy to have a fourth the pluot was a fruity little beer - very refreshing for summer (and paired nicely with the sausage pizza, lord help me) the heavenly feijoa was unpronounceable but a very nice belgian that paired well with the deep-fried spring rolls and prawns i was shovelling in my gob the ranger ipa is one of my faves and did not disappoint as my final beer of the night thanks beerthirst! and totally unrelatedly, 21 reasons you should drink more beer

lucky me! this is where i'll be this evening: NEW BELGIUM INDUSTRY PARTY hosted by beerthirst where i will enjoy live music, canapes and 4 New Belgium beers on tap (Fat Tire, Ranger IPA, Pluot and Heavenly Feijoa) some days it is very good to be me! beerthirst says this about the brewery: New Belgium is a 100% employee owned brewery located in Fort Collins, Colorado. It was founded in 1991 after home brewer, Jeff Lebesch, took his passion commercially. As of 2010, New Belgium was the third-largest craft brewery and seventh-largest overall brewery in the United States. The company continues to flourish with CEO, Kim Jordan, and they've been recognized as one of Outside Magazine's Best Places to Work and one of the Wall Street Journal's Best Small Businesses.

my notes from tuesday's beer column on cbc radio's on the coast topic:  gluten-free beers A couple of weeks ago I answered a listener’s question about wheat-free beer. Today I'd like to take you a little further down that road and talk about gluten-free beers. The four basic ingredients in beer are barley, water, hops and yeast. Barley has gluten in it, so all beers following the Bavarian purity law will have gluten in them. Wheat is present in beers when called for by the recipe, such as in wit beers and hefeweizens, or sometimes as an adjunct. If you have a wheat intolerance you’ll have to be careful to choose pure beers to avoid wheat. If you are gluten intolerant though, you will have to find a gluten-free beer. Gluten is a protein complex found in wheat (including kamut and spelt), barley and rye. Celiac disease is an autoimmune disease where the surface of the small intestine that absorbs nutrients from food is damaged by gluten. It seems that m...

new and exciting beers at legacy liquor store in vancouver (i will be tasting the gluten-free harvester pale ale (compliments of beerthirst) with stephen quinn on cbc radio's on the coast on august 6th.  buy a bottle and taste along with us!) Longwood Brewery - Berried Alive - $4.15 A tasty craft beer from Vancouver Island but with a twist, coming to us from Nanaimo as opposed to the craft beer kingdom that is Victoria, our province’s great capital. Dark red in colour, this beer boasts a nose of tart raspberry and mild malts, while on the palate that tart raspberry is backed up by more malt to create a refreshing fruit brew. Chris Bonnallie | Beer Supervisor | Legacy Liquor Store Lighthouse Brewing - Numbskull Imperial IPA - $7.55 Gems from Vancouver Island just keep on coming! Fresh from the tanks of Lighthouse Brewing comes Numbskull, an Imperial IPA that pours a beautiful amber with a small white head. Tons of pine, citrus and grapefruit are found on the nose, while o...