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from cider riot: Earn Your Merit Badges with Lemmy’s Summer Camp Meyer Lemon Cider from Cider Riot!® FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Portland, Oregon- Following the smash hit seasonal Plastic Paddy , Cider Riot! is releasing Lemmy’s Summer Camp Meyer Lemon Cider, the second in its 2-liter flagon series. Meyer lemon zest gives this dry cider a thirst-quenching tartness. “It’s like the fun grown up summer camp you’ve never had,” says Cider Riot! founder and cidermaker Abram Goldman-Armstrong. “Try it and you’ll be a happy camper.” Lemmy’s Summer Camp gives drinkers the opportunity to earn the “merit badge” patches depicted on the label by submitting photos of themselves and their friends enjoying Lemmy’s whilst making the most out of the out of doors to ciderriot.com/summer or ...

it's vancouver craft beer week, so there won't be much on the blog this week... but here's a link to what I did a couple of weeks ago: judged the homebrew entered in the samley cup and a new release: Two Phillips brews now in the tall can section of your local private liquor store! View this email in your browser Blue Buck & Short Wave West Coast Pale Ale Released in 473mL Tall Cans! June 1st, 2015 - Craft beer lovers can toast to summer with two new Phillips tall cans!  Blue Buck and a brand new brew called Short Wave West Coast Pale Ale are joining the Amnesiac King Can in the tall can section of your favourite private liquor store.  Blue Buck is a noble beast ...

no sooner do i post about my beer snobbery and lack of enthusiasm for most bars' beer lists than i find an amazing watering hole! praise the lord! apparently its been a little while since i ventured out to the biltmore and stayed out far too late on a school night because since i was last there they have started carrying a plethora of really great craft brews! they had six taps on the go (for $5.50) phillips blue buck lighthouse ipa okanagan springs 1516 okanagan springs black lager okanagan springs something else and something else (might have been cider actually) great memory i have eh? and then the bottles!  i only wish i could remember half of them but alas, i cannot what i do remember is:  anchor steam, phillips hop circle, deschutes mirror pond, heineken, leffe... cans of pabst blue ribbon... what did i have? well, i'm glad you asked! i had a pint of the lighthouse ipa first (and second) followed by a bottle of mirror pond followed...

pivo public house is not located in the fancy part of town.  in fact its pretty close to the middle of the least desirable part of town.  and good on them for bringing good beer to the people! pivo is located at 526 abbott street in vancouver.  but don't let the address scare you off - this place is definitely worth a visit.  featuring a beer list that takes up one whole side of the bar menu, and $3.50 draught, this is some kind of beer heaven! currently the beer on tap is bowen island (two styles) and the seasonal bottled feature is black tusk ale. on the bottled beer list are:  black cat lager, alpine honey lager, molson canadian, coors light, heineken, corona, pilsner urquell, harp, red stripe, kronenbourg, czech mate, asahi, black tusk ale, killer bee dark honey, anarchist amber ale, naramata nut brown ale, blue buck ale, dos equis XX amber, morimoto soba, innis & gunn, cutthroat pale ale, newcastle brown ale, traditional ACME pale ale, hop head I...