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legacy liquor store

freshly stocked at legacy liquor store in vancouver: Named after the Dageraadplaats, a neighbourhood square in Antwerp, Belgium, Dageraad Brewing is brewer Ben Coli’s effort to transport a small piece of the beer culture he found there home to British Columbia. Spending his youth traveling the world, Ben met three Belgians in Laos and quickly became fast friends, subsequently visiting them in Antwerp several times. Inevitably, at least once each visit, they would find themselves in the Dageraadplaats drinking the legendary beers of Belgium. It was these first encounters with Belgian beers that led Ben to try brewing them himself at home, and it was with his first Belgian-style homebrew that he fell in love. It was incredible—fruity, spicy, complex, but light and drinkable. Interest eventually grew into obsession, and a period of intensive study soon followed including brewing school and beer sabbaticals in Belgium, crisscrossing the country to visit breweries in tiny Flemish villages...

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another biercraft set to open in vancouver sfu's first brewing class is over what did the students learn ? what's a link love post without a top ten list?? this week i give you the top ten tasting rooms in vancouver and the huff post's top ten beers you've never head of part 6 of ben coli's blog on scout about belgian yeast great canadian homebrew contest is back this year's conference is in toronto on june 21st the newest break-out hop gets its name at the craft brewers conference welcome equinox!

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following on my naming a brewery bit for cbc radio, read about how ben coli came up with the name for his brewery and what it means to him in this first part of nine in scout magazine about opening up his own belgian-inspired brewery 23 american beers to try before you die 20 belgian beers to try before you die the ultimate top five list - the top 5 beers in the world brewdog takes all the angst out of deciding which beer to drink tonight provided of course it's brewdog beer you're craving video of beer pairings for st. paddy's day interactive chart helps you pick your next beer (and note in the comments how many people hate pumpkin ales!) craftbeer.com is calling all west virginians to lobby the gov't 7 craft beer professionals named james beard award semi-finalists gigantic ben love video - innovative and tasty beer yeast van is hopping bc craft beer industry is hopping