beernesday

i've had the pleasure of drinking several wonderful casks of late notably: howe sound devil's elbow ipa with delta and summit hops (at the railway club on tuesday evening) brassneck brewing passive aggressive pale ale dry hopped with sorachi ace (at the camra vancouver agm at the biltmore on sunday afternoon) red truck double clutch pale ale (at the camra vancouver agm at the biltmore on sunday afternoon)

i forgot to mention that while we were brewing our inaugural batch, we were also drinking! our beer list is as follows: 21st amendment - back in black 21st amendment - brew free or die ipa cannery brewing - wildfire ipa howe sound - devil's elbow ipa

i love jet-setting! okay, well, my version of it anyway freshly back from mexico last week, i jumped on over to whistler this weekend outlook tv was covering the winter pride celebrations so i got me a free trip to whistler woo hoo! i love hitting a ski slope with a tan while i was there i stopped in at whistler brewing for a post-snowshoeing whiskey jack ale which i also managed to find on tap at the garibaldi lift company where a couple of parties were held into each life a little corona must happen its unavoidable really and can you blame a gal for having one when it comes in a double margarita?? finally, on the drive back to vancouver the lovely outlook crew stopped in for dinner at howe sound brewpub i had a delicious devil's elbow ipa with my 4 cheese penne and picked up 3 litres of total eclipse of the hops to bring home with me i love the total eclipse!

i am not a big fan of earl's restaurants they just aren't my scene, you know? and there are so many other great indie places to plunk my hard earned dollars in vancouver... but occasionally i find myself being a sheep and following the herd to an earl's last night was one of those times work holiday lunch ended around 5 and of course that just meant we needed more to drink to their credit, the hostess did tell us they could only accomodate our party of 20 for about an hour and a half before they needed the table space for reservations sure, fine, whatever and yay for me, they had howe sound devil's elbow and pumpkineater on tap so i didn't have to settle for the mediocre in house albino rhino beer the dynamite roll was darned delicious too so far, so good however, when the manager comes over all in a huff to nastily chide us like we are little children for staying past the time we were to leave i get a really bad taste in my mouth perhaps you could ...

howe sound brewing and earl's restaurants have teamed up so now you can get devil's elbow at earl's i don't normally eat at earl's, but i'll be more likely to go now if i can get me a delicious ipa there!

this week's yelp is all about the beer in vancouver! Yelp's Pint Runneth Over This Weekly Yelp brought to you by Velopalooza "Howe" does a beer sampling "Sound"? Vancouverites aren't exactly shy about their suds. But alas, a good micro can be hard to find at your average Cold Beer and Wine Store. So your Weekly Yelp is here to hop you up on the freshest spots to find a frosted barley pop worth drinking. You betta beer-lieve it! “With over 40 craft beers on tap,” St. Augustine’s is a “must for anyone who likes craft beer,” promises Brad T. He considers himself quite the cicerone and recs "pairing their Flintstones-sized ribs with a pale ale and the oysters with a wheat beer." Kat S gives The Whip and its collection of all the "great microbrews our province has to offer” a crack. The "specialty cask openings on Sunday afternoons" also sound like the perfect cure for what ales us! Andy Y prefers to fill up his beer belly w...

tuesday's beer and food pairing dinner at rogue kitchen and wet bar was another fabulous evening of good food, good beer, bons mots from owner and brewmaster and good times! the evening got off to a bit of a late start - first tasters of beer arriving at 7:30ish and first dish at 7:40 but that just ensured that we were all drooling a little when it did arrive the menu we began with the king heffy imperial hefeweizen, a 7.7% behemoth of german yeasty goodness - bananas and cloves galore 45% wheat and 55% barley mash it won 2 gold medals last une at the american beer awards the king heffy the king heffy taster wedged between the double decker ipa from vancouver island brewing and crannog's back hand of god paired with braised pork belly, which we were told is its traditional food pairing seeing as i had fish instead of pork belly and don't actually enjoy the wheat beers i couldn't tell you if it actually did pair well first course - carnivorous ...

yup, i still adore the howe sound brews! even more so now that they did a shout out to my blog on their facebook page but it will not affect my impartiality well, not much anyway! got me a 1L pot-stopper bottle of the devil's elbow ipa to share with a friend i love a friend who loves a hoppy beer! i love a hoppy beer to share with a friend! 6% 68 ibus 14.2 degrees plato pours up with a big head on the vigourous pour almost orange in colour (just like its label - hmmm, another ipa that uses orange for its label) slightly hoppy nose very hoppy first sip and second, and third! the bottle says:  "an assertive ale that is heavily bittered and dry-hopped providing an intense aroma.  brewed using selected english and north american barley and hops.  named for the dramatic grade iv devil's elbow rapid on the elaho river north of squamish, bc, canada." "in 1980, bc's john mitchell and frank appleton pioneered north america's first modern craf...

happy birthday to me! among many other fabulous gifts from my nearest and dearest (including beers i will proceed to review as i manage to drink them) i received this lovely beer glass: (that says Howe Sound Brewing Devil's Elbow India Pale Ale if you couldn't actually read it) yay!  i love beer glasses!  i have quite the collection started.  notice i said started!