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2000 km adventure for bc craft beer month the globe and mail on pumpkin beers brewmasters' dinner at hop & vine the globe and mail on beer terroir the beer wench's hallowe'en candy and beer pairings

new and exciting beers at legacy vancouver: Whistler Brewing Pineapple Express Wheat Ale A perfect excuse to kick back and enjoy a few. This golden beauty's just the ticket. This one's as fresh as a warm breeze - straight from the shores of Maui. Russell 626 Anniversary Scotch Ale This strong, dark ale was brewed with Scottish specialty peated malts for a slightly smoky character, then skillfully aged in Bourbon barrels - a beer to celebrate Russell's 17th Anniversary! Hofstettner Granit Bock 2011 The Granit Bock is brewed in large granite open troughs. The granite stones are then heated to be white hot and added to the wort. This causes the sugars in the malt to caramelize around the stones and gives the beer lovely caramel and roasted flavors. It also gives the Granit Bock a unique smoked flavor.

new green flash and founders collaboration brew! Green Flash has done it again! We have teamed up with another World Class Brewery, Founders Brewing Co. to produce a new collaboration, Linchpin IPA! Join the Green Flash team in the Tasting Room on Tuesday, May 1st for a special Release Party! “There’s a lot going on in this beer with two yeast strains, copious amounts of wheat malt, and a big focus on ‘C’ hops to deliver a citrus explosion,” explains Green Flash Brewmaster, Chuck Silva. “In fact we lined up more than a dozen hop varieties in the brewery to select three hops with the biggest citrus character to dry hop the beer. “This golden beer pours with beautiful, frothy white beer foam that lasts due to bottle conditioning. Gently rousing the yeast that settles in the bottle will result in a fuller texture and a more cloudy white appearance. The citrus aromas that jump from the glass are largely tangerine up front with other types of citrus notes that mingle with the Belgian yea...

back to some heavy hitting beers for the next instalment of "what i drank on my lost saturday" the fabulous ryan brought back some fine beers from his recent sojourn in las vegas stone brewing's belgo anise imperial russian stout certainly did not disappoint a licorice stout - how delightful! such a strong malt base totally hid the belgian yeast from my leery mouth and what a head! hoppy, stouty, licoricey, not belgiany, not overwhelmingly boozey - its a winner! i would love to have another bottle of this to age for a year or two... 10.5%, 56 ibus, warrior hops "This 2011 Odd Year release pours pitch black with a deep tan head, with aromatic notes of anise, coffee, and cocoa jumping from the glass. Coffee and dark roasted malt flavors dominate, with a robust complement of anise and oak, which leave a lingering blend of vanilla, licorice, and dark malt on the palate. This one will age nicely for several years." doing my best vanna white impression brew...

i hit up a birthday celebration at st. augustine's on wednesday evening and got to try the red truck limited release ipa! ( as featured in scout magazine ) when i first got to st. a's the staff were not aware of the ipa being on the premises after i told them it had been tweeted about they searched around and asked enough boss-type people until the keg was unearthed and hooked up yay! during that time i consoled myself with a deschutes inversion defintely my go-to ipa and a staunch member of my revolving evolving top ten beers list i am very happy that the red truck ipa was found! the juxtaposition of malts and hops, sweetness and bitterness was like a perfect tango on my tongue i really hope there is some left in the keg on sunday when i next get to stop by st. a's couldn't remember if i'd had the lagunita's lucky 13 before so i ordered me one "plenty of light roasted malt to keep it rich and mega-dosed with loads of hoppy - sweet and sp...

last weekend i had the opportunity to try a couple of beers again - yay! as part of anna's and my tasting afternoon on friday, we went with the tin whistle black widow ale i thought this would be a good one since anna likes the dark beers, but not the terribly hoppy ones i already knew i liked it, would it be a good choice for anna? you better believe it - she liked it too! black as night and opaque as treacle this truly is a mild ale very nicely roasty malty not much on the hop side, nor the thick and creamy side this one is just a very drinkable black ale i could drink it all day i tell ya! on saturday night at timbre while everyone else was eating the elk and playing with the kangaroo balls bottle opener, i had the elysian immortal ipa again its not the hoppiest ipa on the block but it is quite a lovely brew floral and aromatic and bitter delicious! i must admit that I did happily move on to the red racer ipa to finish the night though i am a very...

from bridget's friend nicolle on facebook: "OMG! You have an affinity for beer? You love the lager? You have affection for the amber brew? You've a soft spot for the suds? You're mad for the malts? You're the beloved of the brewski? You're captivated by the cold ones? You're sweet on stouts? You're bewitched by barley pops? I never knew! ;)"

love the name "a wee angry scotch ale" and love the beer! wonderfully dark and malty pours with an insanely huge head on the vigourous pour wafts malty aroma but has a lovely hop bitterness about it 6.5% 30 ibus from the bottle:  "a wee angry scotch ale is part of the russell brewmaster series: a succession of small batch beers that push taste boundaries and explore new styles of beers.  this beer has been brewed with a blend of scottish specialty malts in the style of a 19th century 90 shilling scotch ale - a strong, dark ale with a dominant malt accent that originated in edinburugh.  this batch of beer was brewed by jack bensley, eric dubuc and anders mckinnon, russell brewing company, 2010.  russell brewing company has been brewing premium craft beer in british columbia since 1995.  our beer is 100% natural and has no preservatives.  we don't pasteurize which means that we don't kill the taste - you drink it the way it is brewed.  fanatic...

one of the reasons why i love the rogue website so much is the education offered Rogue Ales are made with the finest hops and barley malt, free range coastal water and Pacman top fermenting proprietary yeast. Preservative, additives, chemicals: Never! Rogue does not pasteurize its products.  Kegs to Go Available! Rogue Ales are bottled using an oxygen absorbing cap, brown glass for better shelf life, and plenty of malted barley and hops to provide stability. Specifications Plato:  A description of the ratio of fermentable malts to water. A quick way to convert degrees Plato to an approximate ABV is to divide Plato by 2.5 (note, this is not exact!) IBU:  International Bittering Units; parts per million of isomerized hop resins in beer, related to the amount of alpha acid of the hops. Apparent Attenuation:  measure of the difference between the original and ending specific gravity after fermentation. Pacman yeast eats a lot of sugar, but leaves complex sugars. Ingre...

Craft Beer Locator   Beer Fact of the Day (courtesy of @Steve Parkes) Off-Flavor Series:  The corn flavor in some beers is actually a chemical called DiMethyl Sulfide (DMS). Derives from malted barley, not corn. It is present in all malt but is driven off during kilning (malthouse) and boiling (brewhouse). Very pale malts have more as they are less intensely kilned. A poor boil or a badly designed system results in more DMS in beer.

A "Wee Heavy" McRogue Returns NEWPORT, OR, September 10, 2010 - On October 1st, Rogue will bring an old favorite out of retirement after nearly a decade -- XS McRogue Scotch Ale. Unlike most Scottish Ales, which are light in color and body, McRogue Scotch Ale is a hearty brew, deep copper in color, with a caramel aroma, rich malty flavor and a roasted malt background. McRogue Scotch Ale originally debuted at the 1995 Oregon Brewers Festival. It is made with 10 ingredients: Great Western Harrington, Klages, Beeston Amber & Pale Chocolate & Weyermann Caramunich Malts; Kent Golding and Rogue Micro Hopyard Revolution Hops; Rolled Oats, Free Range Coastal Water and Top Fermenting Pacman Yeast. Brewing Specifications: 17.5o Plato, 45 IBU, 75 AA, 28.6o Lovibond. McRogue will be available on draft and in 7-ounce serigraphed "nip" bottles. McRogue Scotch Ale is brewed using hops from the Chatoe Rogue hopyard in Oregon's Wigrich Appellation and barley f...

next up is moylan 's hopsickle imperial ale its triple hopped! so i'm very much looking forward to some incredible hoppy goodness! not an ipa, it is quite balanced between the intense hops and its malts quite the big head on a vigourous pour hoppy nose dark caramel colour 9.2% (yay!) the bottle and the website say: "This is a "Hop" tribute, worthy of a King's Imperial Court! Enjoy the blast of fresh Tomahawk, Cascade and Centennial Hops as they stimulate the taste buds in a truly imperial fashion. Pucker Up!" "“Prohibition in this country ended our brewing tradition,” Moylan explained. “Budweiser and a few others moved in fast and captured many of the larger markets. Now we’re entering into a new phase of beer brewing. I think you’ll see it continue to grow.” In fact the craft brewing market share grew by 7% in 2004."

always questioning! at the craft show, as i was extolling the virtues of hops, i got asked about beers with hops a-plenty but with plenty of malty balance to keep the bitterness down you know, lots of hops for medicinal purposes, but flavoured for the non-bitter among us i came up with the driftwood bark ale and deschutes mirror pond but drew a blank after that i love the super hoppy and bitter so the others haven't stayed in my head nearly as well (and frankly i'm off on vacation for the long weekend so don't have time to research... lazy maybe, but that's just the way its gonna be!) so, help a sister out any suggestions??

Craft Beer Locator Beer Fact of the Day: Most all malts used in brewing are either kilned, roasted, or both. Carmelization occurs during this process, not during the normal boiling of the wort. The longer the kilning or roasting, the darker and less fermentable the grain becomes as the grain's enzymes become denatured.

pike brewing's pike ipa is next up for a tasting i love a tasting! fairly leapt out of the bottle when i popped the top but the head settled quite quickly into a manageable half inch of creaminess cloudy on the vigourous pour not a lot of nose 60 ibus 6.3% first sip is very malty so is the second and the aftertaste the bottle says nothing... the website says: og 1.062 malt varieties:  pale, crystal, munich, carapils hops varieties:  columbus, willamette, chinook, goldings, amarillo color:  amber yeast:  english ale flavor profile:  powerful malt backbone is balanced with aromatic herbal hop character history:  highly hopped to retain freshness on the voyages from england to india (not so impressed by their website actually...) definitely a more malty brew than i've been craving lately but the further i get into it, the more i'm enjoying the maltiness contrasting with the hoppiness not gonna become my favourite, but i'm not gonn...

oh deschutes ! so much great product coming out of another oregon brewery! the inversion ipa pours with an incredible creamy head (on a vigourous pour - like i know any other kind) more caramel malty on the nose, until i take a really big sniff then, then the citrusy hops come out clear caramel colour definitely complex, caramel malts and citrusy hops tantalizing my tongue alternately... 6.8% 80 ibus 228 calories for 12 oz the bottle says:  "like its name suggests, inversion ipa defies the ordinary.  with layers of soft caramel malt notes and generous amounts of our favorite northwest hops.  for a bright, sunny citrus finish." "here in oregon's high desert, seasonal changes often bring about a peculiar weather phenomenon - an inversion. the higher up the mountain you go, the sunnier it gets.  so even when bend is covered in clouds, the faithful know where to find clarity." the website says:  " Our year-round beer answer to the siren call of...

Craft Beer Locator Beer Fact of the Day - Compliments of Steve Parkes: Foam on beer is a result of a complex interaction between a specifically sized protein fragment from the malt, isomerized alpha acids from the hops, and metal ions usually found in the brewing water.

from green flash: "Biere de L'Amitie Collaboration Release Events this Weekend! "Bière De L’Amitié is a Blond Belgian Strong Ale, brewed with St. Feuillien’s traditional yeast and secret spices. For a Green Flash-style modern twist, rye and wheat malts were added to the mash and American Amarillo hops used in a late boiling kettle addition. Then the beer was dry-hopped with more Amarillo for even more hop flavor, aroma and zest." Join us as we release our long-awaited collaboration brew with St. Feuillien, this weekend! Check out the events happening around the area: Thursday, Aug 5 - Collaboration Release Party Beachwood Barbeque, Seal Beach, CA Beachwood will have a selection of Green Flash and St. Feuillien beers on tap, along with our featured beer: Biere de L'Amitie. Friday, Aug. 6 - Tasting room Release Green Flash Brewing Co. Tasting Room 4-8pm Come in and try Biere de L'Amitie. We are not retailing the beer out of the brewery. This tasti...

i'm currently swilling BrewDog's Hardcore IPA. at 9% i think i might have a lot of fun at the grocery store in half an hour. better write a list...  oops too late, better to have written that list earlier. label didn't grab me quite as much as the punk ipa, not enough contrast is hard for these old eyes to read - love the general brewdog label theme though, and not ashamed to admit label grab is a large part of my beer purchasing checklist called an explicit imperial ale, i'd argue its an imperious ale. definite toffee notes after the first sip, lovely aroma, still hazy after half an hour (again, what do you expect from a beer with no preservatives and no additives - a little haze ain't such a bad thing!), has me licking my chops and slavering for more. what the label says: "This imperial Indian Pale Ale Rocks... Hardcore! But don’t feel obliged to take our word for it, this little bottle has a grandiloquent story to tell. 2,204 malted Maris Otter g...