beernesday

where, oh where, has good customer service gone? especially at places i keep trying to drink beer? you'd think that with all the competition out there, high odds of failure and the sort, that there would be a push to go back to the good old days of satisfying customers i have had a couple of highly unsatisfying moments that i just can't keep quiet about i hate giving bad reviews i usually go out of my way to avoid doing so but who am i really helping by doing that? not me, not you and ultimately not the establishment either because these are not laments about individual servers some of whom are excellent and others of whom really need to up their game, but that is a very different rant from this one no, this one is about management so, the last bit of preamble before i finally jump into it: i worked in retail back in highschool but i have never waited tables or slung beer for a living maybe i don't know what it's like on the other side of the equation b...

oh, i do love an excuse to dress funny and drink beer... happy st. patrick's day and aren't i pretty? drinking fat tug at malone's on saturday afternoon in my guinness finery yup, that's how i rolled

gonna be in vancouver for st. patrick's day? not got plans yet? how about malone's?

i am slow off the mark, but here are some oktoberfest photos from malone's last saturday from other people's cameras of course i'm not nearly on top of my game enough to have uploaded mine yet! all of the above by rodney gitzel the two below are from the camera of christie little and these are from stacy buster's camera:

Vancouver, BC Oktoberfest & Harvestfest - 2 events, 1 day! Malone's Urban Drinkery, Saturday October 15th, 12 - 6pm The Oktoberfest will be taking place in the main room, as the fun continues onto the lounge hall with Harvestfest. It's $25 for entry ($20 for CAMRA members) which includes your 6oz taster glass and 3 *bonus tokens.* There will be a "CAMRA members only" cask available from 12pm-2pm exclusively. $1 for additional tokens and 35% of all proceeds from drink tokens will be donated to the Greater Vancouver Food Bank. Tickets will be available to purchase on-line on September 13th at 11am or in person at Malone's. So don't wait! Our last event sold out well in advance!

made it to cask night at the railway club on tuesday it was a dry-hopped with tomahawk pale ale by russell brewing i honestly have no idea how i feel about this cask definitely drinkable some haze, nice head, amazing nose tastes like a pale ale that has been dry-hopped you know, hoppy and malty but there's just something about it that i can't make up my mind about do i love it? do i hate it?  am i indifferent to it? i have no idea how's that for a review? that's what i'm here for folks - clarity and articulation yup, umm hmm but all was not lost i kept drinking i thought that was the best way to deal with my weird taste buds had a phillips hop circle at the railway then lagunitas ipa and acme ipa at malones followed by central city red racer at rogue (sounds a bit like the pub crawl for ipa day doesn't it? but nope, just any old tuesday night in vancouver...) my palate recalibrated itself and all was right in my world thank dog! 

i know ipa day was last week but i'm a bit slow on the photo upload, okay?! here is the fabulous ryan and myself in the shirts we made for our pub crawl adorable aren't we? first stop of the crawl was yaletown brewpub where we enjoyed iain hill's dry-hopped with simcoe cask of brick & beam ipa yaletown hosts a cask night every thursday, tapping at 4  yaletown brewpub we also had the extra treats made for us by lundy and ryan lundy made ipa bread with deschutes inversion ryan made his now famous ipa peanut brittle, this batch with hopworks ace of spades lundy and the ipa bread ryan and the ipa peanut brittle second stop was the railway club where they had specials on bottles of howe sound devil's elbow ipa, russell ip'eh and r&b hoppelganger... and phillips hop circle on tap i had the hop circle the railway also celebrated international beer day on august 5th with bands and many beer specials and has a weekly cask nigh...

wow, this is my 900th post i sure am chatty! only two days away from international ipa day please, if you're in vancouver come join in on the pub crawl!!! 4 - 5:45 at yaletown brewpub (with a cask of iain's ipa dry-hopped with simcoe) 6 - 6:45 at railway club (with ipa on special) 7 - 7:45 at malones (with ipa specials and an appetizer for the group) 8 - 8:45 at steamworks 9 onwards at rogue wetbar (with ipa specials on crannog insurrection, moylan’s ipa, central city ipa and driftwood fat tug) no tickets no muss, no fuss just show up at the venue(s) at the appointed time and join in on the ipa adoration hop aboard, they're expecting us! let's make this an event to remember

the ipa day pub crawl is totally figured out! yay! 4 - 5:45 at yaletown brewpub (with a cask of iain's ipa) 6 - 6:45 at railway club (with ipa specials) 7 - 7:45 at malones (with ipa specials and an appetizer for the group) 8 - 8:45 at steamworks 9 onwards at rogue wetbar (with ipa specials on crannog insurrection, mooylan’s ipa, central city ipa and driftwood fat tug) no tickets no muss, no fuss just show up at the venue(s) at the appointed time and join in on the ipa adoration hop aboard, they're expecting us!

four venues confirmed!! the fifth is in the works! 4 - 5:45 at yaletown brewpub (with a cask of iain's ipa) 6 - 6:45 at railway club (with ipa specials) 7 - 7:45 at malones 8 - 8:45 steamworks yeeeeeehaw! giddy-up! august 4th can't come fast enough for me!

the pub crawl for #IPADay vancouver is a go!! confirmed: 4 - 5:45 at yaletown brewpub malones (tentatively 7 - 7:45) 8 - 8:45 steamworks still have two stops in the works and will post those once they're confirmed as well i'm excited!!

malones is going crafty! yup, its true they're in the process of putting in oodles of taps and filling them with craft beer currently, there are 22 different beer flavours on tap and their bottle list is a gooder too! ryan told us about it, so bridget and i stopped in there on saturday afternoon to check it out and we were not disappointed i had an acme ipa and bridget tried this little number and we got our drinks on the house because the bar tender said that anyone who was taking photos of the menus and taps was a friend of his! finally this whole beer blogging thing pays a dividend!! it is really great to see another pub embracing craft beer so fiercely! good job and you know i'll be back...