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dead frog cask night: Friday, May 15 at 5:00pm B's Craft Beer Lounge ( @BsCraftLounge ) Cask: Obsidian Dagger with whiskey-soaked coffee beans & cocoa nibs Ingredients: water, malted barley, hops, yeast, coffee beans, cocoa nibs, whiskey Malts: Pale Ale, Cara 60, Biscuit, Chocolate, Carafa II, Special B, Roast Barley Hops: Centennial, Columbus, Galaxy ABV: 6.5% IBU: 50 Sparks fly when bold & beautiful tropical hops meet a brazen & daring roasted malt base. Their chemistry is undeniable and perfectly balances the hop flavours and aromas of a powerhouse IPA with the depth and intricacy of a complex dark ale. phillips brewing's hopoxia: The annual beer festival dedicated to hoppy beers is back! Featuring over 30 BC breweries. Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser .   ...

so much beer so little time to devote to blogging about it woe is me! alibi room - wednesday: - wrath of khan cask - as usual, tariq's brew is ambrosia!  this one is being touted as his "swan song" because it was the last cask he made at big ridge.  but fear not, its not really the end of an era - tariq is still with the mark james group, he's just at yaletown now instead of big ridge - deschutes fresh squeezed ipa - mosaic and citra?  together?  you know this beer is a good one i need to get some bottles of it!  badly! - gigantic ipa - i love ben love! - four winds ipa - i love it when a new brewery makes such great beer right off the gun yaletown - thursday: - espresso stout cask - i wasn't feeling stouty, so i just had a sample - damned fine cask - raspberry wheat ale - summer in a glass! those black raspberries impart a tonne of flavour without too much sweetness.  i'm not a fruity wheaty beer kind of person, but this one i simply ad...

i've got my ticket, do you?? HOPoxia is Heaven for Hops Lovers May 28th, 2013: It's back!! The 3rd annual BC Celebration of Hops is going down in our back lot on July 6th from 3pm-7pm . It's a beer tasting festival that proudly lends its weight to the hoppier side of the scale. This year is sure to be bitter and better than ever with the following 22 brewers descending on our back lot armed with their favourite hop-infused brews: Canoe Club Brewpub Central City Brewing Co. Deep Cove Brewers & Distillers - first-time attendee! Driftwood Brewing Co. Four Winds Brewing Co. - first-time attendee! Granville Island Brewing Co. Howe Sounds Brewing Co. Hoyne Brewing Co. Lighthouse Brewing Co. Longwood Brewing Co. Moon Under Water Parallel 49 Brewing Co. Phillips Brewing Co. Powell St. Brewing Co. - first-time attendee! Russell Brewing Co. Salt Spring Island Ales Spinnakers Brewpub Tree Brewing Co. Tofino Brewing Co. ...

okay, ball was fun last night i'm just a lazy ass for wishing it had been rained out... and if we didn't have our finals tournament on july 21st, you know that i'd be hopping on a ferry over to victoria to attend hopoxia It's back!! Our 2nd annual BC Celebration of Hops is going down in our back lot on July 21st from 3pm-7pm . It's a beer tasting festival that proudly lends its weight to the hoppier side of the scale. This year is sure to be bitter and better than ever with the following brewers descending on our back lot armed with their favourite hop-infused brews: Hoyne Brewing Co. Driftwood Brewing Co. Canoe Club Brewpub Vancouver Island Brewing Co. Moon Under Water Brewpub Lighthouse Brewing Co. Spinnakers Brewpub Salt Spring Island Brewing Co. Tofino Brewing Co. Wolf Brewing Co. Whistler Brewing Co. Howe Sound Brewing Co. Central City Brewing Co. Granville Island Brewing Co. Tree Brewing Co. Coal Harbour...