beernesday

my notes from tuesday's beer column on cbc radio one's on the coast with stephen quinn: The pace of brewery openings appears to be slowing somewhat in Vancouver.  But there have been several brewery openings already this year across the province – among them Back Roads Brewing in Nelson, not to be confused with Back Country Brewing in Squamish!  And Highway 97 Brewing in Penticton, Gibsons Tapworks, and Twin City Brewing in Port Alberni also opened. Existing breweries continue to expand as well, so the thirst for craft beer isn’t waning!  I think there is still room in Vancouver’s market for more craft breweries, and definitely there is a lot of room in many underserviced areas in the province. So far most of the local breweries share a common model.  Some of the exceptions being Callister’s cooperative set-up, as mentioned a moment ago, Factory’s contract model and Howe Sound’s ownership of R&B Brewing, where they continue to make R&B brand beer...

sometimes the whole working for a living thing is a-okay and i don't just mean on pay day! today the office field trip was to the liquor store i love getting to stock the office fridge with beer! now keep in mind that i am slowly indoctrinating my work peeps so no judging the choices - the fridge looks so much better than when i started here!

north american beer awards results nice to see canadia well represented by our local breweries! go whistler brewing! go howe sound! go r & b! go bowen island!

bowen island has come out with a new brew, the artisan ipa i got me some, in a 12 pack of cans 4 lager, 2 extra pale ale, 2 artisan ipa, 2 irish cream ale, 2 honey brown and a trucker hat!! i love me a trucker hat! i love that the 12 pack features five different beers - great to have on hand in the beer fridge for when people stop by (not everyone loves an ipa you know!) if i were to choose the break down of the 12 pack though, i'd weight it more toward my preferred beers, the ipa and the extra pale ale oh, if only i were in charge! as for the ipa... its not bad not a typical west coast ipa though, and those seem to be my total favourites still, quite a drinkable little number 5.5% bowen island is currently re-working their website, so there's nothing on there yet about the ipa.