beernesday

only two weeks late, its my review of the vcbw dead famous pub crawl! lord love a busy beer drinker! so, the theme of the pub crawl was dead famous as in dress up as a famous dead person (and the sponsor was the dead famous ad agency, who made us all lovely buttons of dead famous people) the first stop on the crawl was cinema, a donnelly group pub on granville street there we had our choice of a pint of driftwood's white bark or their farmhand ale woe be to me the non-wheat or belgian beer drinker in the crowd... i went with the white bark the food at this stop was cute little sliders with fries and chipotle aioli for me they put roasted veggies on a bun, and it was delicious!! (and hey, were the platters those ones from dragon's den that are all eco and stuff??) cute food is fun!! then we wandered our asses through the sunny streets of vancouver to the yaletown brew pub where we made everyone in costume pose (posers!) at the yaletown i started with the pil...

to whet your appetite for all things vancouver craft beer week here are a few photos from the dead famous pub crawl now, they aren't my photos they're from the vcbw facebook page cuz i haven't had time to get my pics off my camera yet  the most excellent dead famous buttons  some of the motley crew arriving at the yaletown pizza and beers at the yaletown brewpub and the whole costumed gang of famous dead folks 

my head, she aches! the folks at work suggest it may be related to all the beer i drank over the weekend i think they might be onto something! so far my vancouver craft beer week has been fabulous! definitely worth some head aching mornings! saturday's dead famous pub crawl, while not rocking my world as much as last year's four beers and a funeral did, was a very good time folks showed up in costume (famous dead people in case you didn't figure that out from the name of the crawl) and progressed through the crazy weather from cinema to yaletown brewpub to the backstage lounge to dockside, taking an aquabus between yaletown and granville island as far as i know, no one got stranded on the wrong side of the water! we were not accompanied by a band this year but did get serenaded at the backstage lounge by a balkan wedding band the dockside put on the hockey game for us and fed us a big bbq dinner and there were buttons! who doesn't love a button? i went dr...

i love the opportunity to try out a new place so while i was being a lady who lunches last week i used a 20% off coupon i had and tried out cinema (owned by the donnelly group, located at the corner of granville and smithe in vancouver) it took forever for my sandwich and salad to arrive but when it finally did, omg, divine! roasted veggies, goat cheese and pesto - yay side salad of walnuts, craisins, more goat and vinaigrette - more yay but really, the important part the beer list! donnelly group, i'm impressed! the bottles the draught i hope when i hit library square for 80's night that i can look forward to a similar beer list there as well!