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awww, two of my favourite beer geeks are featured in the lastest edition of the growler ! Brewers Matt Anderson and Danny Seeton discuss the birth of Vancouver beer culture. — Jonny Healy photo

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 ...

best beer cities by livability.com bellingham makes #8 on the list (san diego, denver and bend are the top three) those rascally liberals were warned that their happy hour pricing would result in an increase and bill tieleman warns it will be the same thing with "level playing field" pricing to liquor sellers the secret world of beer muling 12 bucket-list breweries is this new home-brew system a good idea or a disservice to home brewers? hop vodka from anchor distilling best and worst christmas ales according to paste magazine (american and belgian) craft beer in kamloops and i'm throwing this one in there to see if anyone's paying attention the feminist killjoy holiday gift guide nothing beer related on the list, but day-um, it's a good list!

Founded in 2002 by Gunnar Wiig and Kjetil Jikiun with one mission, to create fantastic full-bodied handcrafted beer. The name Nøgne Ø, which means “Naked Island,” is a poetic term used by Henrik Ibsen to describe the countless stone outcroppings that are visible off Norway’s southern coast. It also paints a symbolic picture of what two Norwegian homebrewers set out to do in 2002 in a country flooded with macrobeers. Uncompromising in their methods, Nøgne Ø creates gold from gold using malts and hops such as Maris Otter, Cascade, Centennial, Chinook and Columbus. Quality ingredients for quality craft beers, it’s as simple as that. Since their founding, Nøgne Ø has grown from a 300 hl production to an estimated 3500 hl with more than 20 different styles brewed regularly. This Grimstad, Norway-based brewery is a testament to what two bold homebrewers can accomplish with a quality craft brew. Nøgne Ø Imperial Rye Porter - $14.45 A collaborative brew for the rainy weather courtesy of Ter...

i'm still on vacation!  love easter long weekend! but in case you're not... i offer you this small token of link love port alberni homebrewer trying to crowdsource himself into craft brewing with all the hype about session beers lately let's go back a couple of years to when it was still just an idea and get craftbeer.com's definition of sessionability five american hotels that are conveniently nestled among great craft beer venues aka rooms with a brew if you'll be in vancouver on may 10th (i won't be, i'll be in portland attending the cider riot kick-off party - yay me!) you may just wanna hit the cbc for the microdistillery festival vancouver island brewing celebrates 30 years of brewing with an anniversary imperial red ale Okanagan Spirits BC Hopped Whisky is going to be released this Spring and the image is a little sneak peak of the label. The idea behind the 'Final Proof Master Distiller Series' was to allow the crea...

another biercraft set to open in vancouver sfu's first brewing class is over what did the students learn ? what's a link love post without a top ten list?? this week i give you the top ten tasting rooms in vancouver and the huff post's top ten beers you've never head of part 6 of ben coli's blog on scout about belgian yeast great canadian homebrew contest is back this year's conference is in toronto on june 21st the newest break-out hop gets its name at the craft brewers conference welcome equinox!

in case you missed last week's beer column  on homebrewing on cbc radio one's on the coast with stephen quinn, you can just click and navigate yourself to the october 29th episode fast forward to the end, and i'm on right after the arcade fire musical interlude

here are my notes from yesterday's beer column on cbc radio one's on the coast: I sometimes bring in beers for Stephen Quinn and I to taste in the studio. This week I brought in not one, but four beers for tasting - but you won't find these beers at the liquor store or at a local brewery. These beers were brewed at home.  (We only got to the first three on air, but see below for my tasting notes on all four.) Whoa!   Isn't it difficult to brew beer yourself? Shouldn't we just leave it to the professionals? Hardly!  Brewing beer at home is actually quite easy and involves a minimal financial investment. You can purchase the basic brewing equipment in Vancouver at Dan's homebrew shop for $70, and you'll need a 19 litre stock pot (another $24) as well as the basic brewing gear.  A beer making kit of ingredients will cost you between $17 and $35. If you want to follow a recipe and put the ingredients together yourself you're lo...

i'll be on cbc radio one's on the coast with stephen quinn at 5:50 this afternoon talking about, and sampling some, home-brewed beers

not a well-written article from a beer perspective, cbc reports on new brunswick's beer lottery for samuel adams' utopias 70 songs about beer phillips brewing spearheads a canadian craft beer collaboration brew arguably the 10 best beer menus in vancouver   a hard to follow article in the sun on s torm brewing and james walton for a limited time only, a free streaming of a homebrewing video

and the rest of what i wanted to mention but ran outta time on tuesday's beer column on cbc: 1.  all british columbian beer lovers should be camra members! "campaign for real ale, an independent, volunteer-run consumer organization dedicated to supporting the brewing of traditional styles of beer in the traditional manner, using traditional ingredients" its only $25 a year to join add your voice to the craft beer lobby sign the FUSS and BYOCB campaigns sign up for the newsletter and be informed about all the fab craft beer events around town and if that wasn't enough, you also get some swell discounts around town for being a member but don't join just for the discounts join because, as a craft beer lover, its the right thing to do and a tasty way to do it 2.  are you a homebrewer? do you want to be a homebrewer? join vanbrewers !  or if you're not a vancouverite, join your local homebrew club membership in vanbrewers is only $20 a year ac...

vote, vote, vote! This being the political season, we are writing to you to urge you to vote — not just for the candidates clamoring for public office, but for something even more important: beer! Our 8th Annual Readers Choice Awards competition is underway! By visiting our website at http://www.brewingnews.com/northwest/bestofnorthwest/, you can vote for your favorite brewery, brewpub, alehouse or pub, beer store, and homebrew shop in Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and Northern California, and for your favorite beer and cider as well in 22 different categories. We've added nanobrewery to the list this time also. Don't delay, as our deadline is Saturday, November 10, at 12:00 noon PST. Remember, only one vote per category is allowed. This is your contest; Northwest Brewing News staff is not eligible to vote. Voter ID or proof of citizenship is not required! The winners will be announced in our December-January issue, and a special Readers' Choice Awards...

its only the first week of craft beer week and maybe its because i'm getting over my man-cold but i feel like its been all beer all the time for me so far! monday i skipped the craziness of st. augustine's sartori cask night for the calm of monday night football at a friend's house, with me supplying the beers which included an ipa homebrewed by matt, rod and ryan's that was needing to be drunk before it lost all its hoppy goodness, a true northwest ipa that went down far too well! tuesday i went to two cask nights the railway club had a lovely r&b ipa cask very satisfyingly delicious rogue broadway had their very first cask night, also with an r&b cask blueberry cranberry esb, which their front office person, lundy dale, who is also the president of camra bc, helped to brew and was thrilled to unveil at the start of bc craft beer month wednesday was my usual beernesday club night at st. augustine's omg, the cheese stromboli currently on their...

the derby girl ipa launched on friday at the pumphouse in richmond today, it launches in vancouver at st. augustine's this is what beerthirst has to say about the vanbrewers / elysian collaboration ipa i wish i could be there to try it tonight... hopefully there will still be some left for me a little later in the week also from elysian, its almost time for the 9th beer of the apocalypse, the blight pumpkin ale

endless simmer provides their top ten reasons to drink craft beer me, i think some of the best top reasons are:  r&b red devil pale ale cask at railway club - look how pretty it is!!! taster of nine beers at burnside brewing in portland you can brew your own! central city iced tea ipa cask at the railway club - omg, do you even know how tasty this is?? look how good the craft beer bottles look in a handknit cozy!

just before i leave for a long weekend in portland (on the bolt bus!!) lemme leave you with these lovely pics of bridget and i taking a sneak sip of our brew "ass penny stout" its very young yet (just 10 days in the bottle), but it has potential! needs more carbonation, needs some sweetness removed and please beer gods, take away the banana flavour! happy canada day!

its true! stop the presses! we finally bottled our first batch of homebrew! after doing almost everything either wrong or the hard way, our brew turned out quite well a little bottle conditioning and it should be very drinkable thank the beer gods! we're calling it "ass penny stout" after the story matt told us when we put pennies into the boil to prevent boil-overs, and the fact that we just kept pulling stuff out of our asses to make this brew actually happen its a pretty brew - dark as night the bottles of ass penny stout it took us all day saturday, but we got the bottles sterilized and sanitized, the bung out of the carboy, the dextrose into the beer and the beer from carboy into bottles and capped 'em. cleanliness is next to godliness in beer-making bridget puts a bottle in the pot to boil the bejesus out of it! checking to make sure the bejesus has in fact been boiled out! me, i was in charge of putting the sterilized bottles in ...