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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...

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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 is spinning with so much going on! i'm kicking off my vancouver craft beer week in an hour with the dead famous pub crawl then i have beers to pour at a softball event workshop sunday morning followed by hopapalooza sunday afternoon i am very much looking forward to all the vcbw mayhem but i'm not sure how i'm going to fit everything else in! had to do laundry this morning and cook for next week as i'm not sure when i'll have more than sleeping time at home between now and next sunday on top of that, i met an s.e.o. expert last night who has my head spinning with all the things i could be doing (or doing differently) on this blog to get more traffic its heady stuff! and i don't want to lose any of it between now and when i have time to implement it... but when am i going to find the time to implement it? i'm not even sure when i'm going to find the time to blog about vcbw! how lucky am i that these are my only laments? gotta go g...

tickets for signature events at vancouver craft beer week are on sale as of today! i went to the launch party at the dockside last night and got me some nibblies, some swag and some tickets! tickets for the rest of the events go on sale next friday, april 8th i will be attending hoppapalooza II at the alibi and this year's dead famous pub crawl (check out the hijinx at last year's pub crawl and then get thee a ticket to this year's - i think it was the best run, most fun, most interesting event in the city last year) i am playing the women and beer and the two brewery creek nights by ear most likely will be buying tix to them as well... a whole week of beer events - i'm in heaven! the launch party was quite well attended check out the size of the line to buy tickets: and this is the lovely beer toque that i got for swag: i love meese! the nibblies were good, if in shorter supply than the ravenous hoardes would have liked check out how cute the sl...