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thursday

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tomorrow evening i will be at portland craft for the modern malt ipa mingler which is a sold out event... but for the rest of you, don't fret, you can still get your american beer on by going to the new oxford for the deschutes/phillips tap takeover anniversary party: The New Oxford Two Year Anniversary Party Thursday December 6th - 5pm - late Two years, two breweries taking over. Join us on Thursday for complimentary canapes & drink samplings as we host you alongside representatives from Deschutes & Phillips breweries to celebrate two years in Yaletown. Both breweries will be taking over six taps and will feature notable and rare craft beer selections all evening. $5.15 featured craft beer sleeves. Please RSVP to ts@donnellygroup.ca The New Oxford Public House 1144 Homer St., Yaletown 604.609.0901 www.donnellygroup.ca/n ew-oxford

phillips and rogue

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the lovely beer pairing dinner of last week:  here we all are with our pre-dinner pints the ginger beer arrived first at 7:15 i had already had several pints by this point not so much that i couldn't appreciate the lovely ginger beer but enough so that food with my beer would have been welcome (note to self:  stop drinking before dinner!) course one - meat option - cured pork belly soup course one - pescetarian option - ahi tuna soup unfortunately my first bowl of soup was mushroomed fortunately my server loves me and got me a new one everyone raved about the amazing pairing of ginger beer with the pork belly soup but there was a request for more kimchi in the soup to improve the pairing me, i just love ginger beer and think it goes with most things! "what is the creature on top?" asked theresa "pork fat" replied tasha happy eye rolls and licking of chops ensued "porktastic" exclaimed alison originally the ginger beer wa...

rogue phillips pairing

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and the menu for tonight's beer pairing dinner at rogue kitchen and wetbar featuring some mighty fine ales from phillips brewing