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ooooh, hoppy stout?!? sounds delicious! Dark and Bitter - Brace Your ‘Buds for New Belgium Brewing’s Hop Stout Latest Hop Kitchen release is brawny, bitter and best of both brewing worlds Ft. Collins, Colo., September 28, 2015 – As the days grow colder and the nights get long, New Belgium Brewing has unleashed one of the burliest beers of their Hop Kitchen series with 100 IBU’s of beautiful black bitterness. Hop Stout entices with a sweet, malty depth before a wicked bite of hops kicks in with the force of an imperial stout grappling with an IPA. Hop Stout pours a deep, delicious chocolate brown with a creamy head atop. Dark chocolate, roasted coffee and toasted bread notes emerge from the blending of eight different grains and six hop varieties, which accent the richness with a citrusy, woodsy pop. Equinox, Chinook and Willamette are just a few of the hops that arm this unique stout. “We wanted a wickedly hoppy and deeply malty stout to celebrate the fall season,” said Gra...

new and exciting beers at legacy liquor store in vancouver: Gigantic Brewing - The End of Reason - $9.95 Portland is known as a Mecca of great craft breweries and this Belgian Strong Ale, albeit closer to a petite quad, definitely reaffirms the fact. Rich Caramel and Malt with a heavy body make for a unique and tasty beer. Parallel 49 - Lord of the Hops - $6.70 The fine proprietors of Parallel 49 have been hitting home runs since day one and Lord of the Hops is batting a thousand. The foundation of this hop party is an amazing nose, backed up by a beautiful combination of citrus and west coast pine. 8 Wired Brewing - Super Conductor - $10.55 New Zealand has been rolling out some stellar craft beer and Super Conductor is certainly no slouch. Bitter, tropical and so much more, this Double IPA wears its tropical fruits with pride. Let's hope the Kiwis can keep their superb brews rolling.   they also have a bin end sale on right now, which includes beer wha...

this is just plain fun! " what your beer style says about you" by bite

got cancelled on last night so rather than go home and do all the stuff i should have done with a free night i went out drinking with bridget! we started at bitter where she had the flight of from left to right: lighthouse switchback, driftwood fat tug and alameda yellow wolf ipas isn't it pretty? there was another, boozey flight on offer as well but i went for a glass of the elysian prometheus ipa (still felt like i was in seattle, you know?) it was a good decision i like the prometheus! from there we went to st. augustine's for the cask of storm's masala ipa a lot like james' basil ipa, it was a pleaser! not very carbonated, not overly spiced, it was just right all in all a successful night of drinking and i made it home in time to do a load of laundry!

i know this is no surprise to anyone but i love hops! so pretty, so bitter, so good for me so delicious! want to know more about hops? craftbeer.com will let you in on the secret life of hops citra, chinook, cascade, centennial the "c" hops might just be my favourites...

oh the beers i did drink! camra vancouver's spring sessional featured a schwack load of casks all intended to be below 3.5% abv most made the 3.5% cut, but a few did not all however, were big on flavour! and this cask event saw the birth of the "wall of casks" the wall was a thing of beauty and a joy to behold but boy, did it ever make for crazy cramped quarters when you're back there pouring! still, having the central place to procure beer left the rest of london pub for mingling which i found to be an improvement over the winter fest at st. augustine's that featured casks all around the outside of the establishment leaving only the crowded centre for mingling and, patting myself and all the other amazing pourers on the back here, the line up at the central location did not ever get unbearably long so, thumbs up to camra executive (and president martin who built it) for the novel wall of casks! i managed to try most of the casks, skipping only ...

america's bitterest brews aka ipas for the huffington post article, click here seems a rather appropriate article for me to post on this the first day of lent aka day one of my 40 day odyssey without chocolate! (or ice cream or potato chips either) bring on the bitter beers to get me through!

i do love me some rogue and the brutal bitter is no exception do i have tasting notes? nope, can't find them quite possibly didn't make any so why am i posting about the brutal bitter without notes? because i happened to do a tasting of it the other night and took a photo don't want to waste a perfectly good photo...  that would be tragic so i'm gonna just say that it was yummy and i'll for sure have it again maybe you'll get notes then maybe not from the website: Style:   Bitter          Food Pairing:   Beef, Seafood Tasting Notes: An Imperial bitter with exotic traditional floor malts, citrusy, hoppy flavor, stupendous hop aroma. 6 Ingredients: Malts:  100% Floor-malted Maris Otter, Cara Vienna, Cara Wheat. Hops:  Crystal. Yeast & Water:  Rogue's Pacman Yeast & Free Range Coastal Water. HISTORY Dedicated to Justin Fisch, the Shade Man, and the official beer of the Rogue Nation. Brutal combin...

while at hidden the other night, my tastebuds were tingled by Rogue Brewery's Brutal Bitter. it pours with an awful lot of head, and stays a bit hazy even after it warms up a little.  offered in 650mL bottles, it didn't say what its alcohol volume was, but judging by our lack of addle-brainedness, we figured it wasn't outrageously high!  15 degrees plato, 59 IBUs, 14.2 degrees Lovibond and just 7 ingredients:  100% floor-malted maris otter, cara vienna, cara wheat malts; crystal and rogue farm willamette hops, free range coastal waters and top fermenting pacman yeast.  no chemicals, preservatives or additives.  suggested food pairings are beef and bbq. they say:  "Dedicated to Justin Fisch, the "Shade Man".  An imperial style bitter using exotic traditional floor malts, a hoppy citrus flavor with a stupendous hop aroma.  Hedonistic!" definitely has a hop aroma, its smooth and very easy-drinking.  not particularly bitter and makes a g...