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new and fabulous at legacy liquor store in vancouver: Southern Tier Brewing Live Pale Ale - $18.35 From the beloved Southern Tier Brewing Company in New York comes an exceptional bottle-conditioned pale ale. Deep yellow in colour, with a touch of haze for mystery, this beer is all about citrus on the nose. A hop-forward profile featuring the likes of orange, grapefruit and lemon all work together to rocket you into absolute bliss, while a crisp finish and lighter body make this brew easily quaffable and one worth revisiting again and again. Evan Doan | Beer Team | Legacy Liquor Store Jolly Pumpkin La Roja - $15.05 This American Wild Ale is brought to you by the state of Michigan and the creative minds of Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales. This barrel-aged beauty is brewed in the Flanders tradition and pours a murky amber in colour with all sorts of things going on in the aroma including subtle oak, spice, floral and of course sour notes. In addition to notes of red grape, these sour char...

get your say in now about bc liquor laws its time to get what you want, and the best way to do that is to speak up about it support your local brewers and breweries jan zeschky's updated new bc breweries of 2013 piece read up - there are so many new breweries opening up around the province! whistler beer festival was a success! 8 simple steps not to be a beer snob douchebag china joins in on the pandering to the idea that the way to woo women to beer is through low alcohol fruity beers with hello kitty beer.  yes, hello kitty beer i would be outraged, but frankly its just par for the course and i have bigger things to get worked up about (like the article equating using hello kitty to woo drinkers with the timbers army having its own beer) auto-brewery syndrome - making your own beer... in your gut sure, i buy this ever felt far too yeasty in your guts after a cask festival?  not a stretch from there! lynne, aka bg canary's latest article for the bc cr...

next up for a taste test is spinnaker' s mitchell's esb now i love me an extra special bitter so i have high hopes! crazy creamy head on the vigourous pour expected more sediment in the bottle and in the glass from this live yeast product, but there really wasn't much at all dark caramel colour not much of a hop nose 5.2% not as hoppy as i tend to like my esbs but the live yeast is not giving it a yeasty flavour, so i'm a fan it won't replace any of my favourite esbs in my regular rotation, but i'd certainly have it again (and again) the bottle says:  "Brewed in honour of John Mitchell, first brewer & Publican of Spinnakers Brew Pub, Victoria, this beer is a classic English style Extra Special Bitter, brewed with English two row pale and crystal malts, balanced with English Northern Brewer and East Kent Golding hops. Spinnakers beers are live real ales, are not filtered or pasteurized and contain no additives or preservatives.  Natural sedimentati...