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newly stocked at legacy liquor store in vancouver: The minds behind Chuckanut Brewery have quite a history when it comes to beer, establishing breweries and brewpubs across the world. Mari and Will Kempers moved to Mexico in the late 90s to start the first two Sierra Madre Brewpubs in Monterrey, and in 2001 left for Istanbul to start Turkey’s first brewpub, “Taps”. The Kempers were then asked to return to Istanbul several years later to build Turkey’s first small craft brewery. While overseas, they traveled extensively throughout England, Belgium and Germany, visiting breweries and attending several trade shows and conferences, gaining new information that they now share with their Northwest Washington community. Chuckanut Brewery & Kitchen is passionate about being a sustainable member of their community and taking care of the environment. Since opening their doors in late July 2008 a movement towards Zero Waste has been implemented, recycling spent grains with local farmers, an...

if you missed last week's cbc radio beer column fear not!  you haven't missed out follow the link , choose july 23 and either listen to the whole broadcast or fast forward to the last 10 minutes to listen to me, me, me talking about craft beer and #IPAday and, as a preview to next week's beer column about gluten-free beers here are the beers i have been sampling: harvester brewing ipa (portland) harvester brewing pale ale brasseurs sans gluten brewing's glutenberg 8 (montreal) estrella damm's daura (barcelona) world top's against the grain (uk) green's dubbel dark ale (belgium)

i love montreal! not just because it has awesome old brick walls like this: but also because of the beer no really, i love beer! and they have some really good beer in montreal especially at dieu du ciel on rue laurier (at st laurent) physically it may be small, but the beer choices are not when i was there on april 28th this was the beer list; about 80% of the 130 recipe rotation offered at this location are brewed on premises (the other 20% come from the big production brewery that also bottles the beers that you can drink across canada) the list changes by approximately 2 beers per day what did i drink while i was there? i had the mosaika and the etc the mosaika was a mosaic hopped pale ale that really showcased the mosaic hop beautiful beer! the etc had 13 malts and 14 hops the malts outweighed the hops, but still a very nice beer the mosaika