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new and exciting beers at legacy liquor store in vancouver: Lech Lager - $3.15 Lech Beer is has a golden colour, light aroma, soft, light texture, lightly sweet flavours with a gently bitter finish. Magners Pear Cider - $4.45 Magners Traditional Apple Cider has been such a big hit, we couldn't resist bringing in the delicious Pear Cider made by the very same Irish producer. Porterhouse Oyster Stout - $3.55 A superbly balanced brew, smooth and rounded without being bland. More sweetness derived from fresh oysters shucked into the conditioning tank, what a way to go! But of course not suitable for vegetarians.

new and exciting beers at legacy liquor store in vancouver: Russel Brewing Nectar of the Gods - $11.55 Matured in Tennessee Whiskey barrels for over four months this Wheat Wine Ale delivers multiple layers of flavour complexity. Comprised of 50% What Malt plus a combination of Pilsner and Munich Malts. Limited Edition, do not miss out! Swan's Pumpkin Ale - $6.95 A fantastic brewery from Victoria, BC, Swans has produced a Pumpkin Ale to stand up to the other top-hitters around town. A simple recipe for a clean, flavourful beer: Water, Malted Barley, Hops, Yeast, Pumpkin and Spices. Porterhouse Brewing Company Hop Head Beyond the Pale - $3.55 A fulsome, winsome strong ale. A deep copper tinged brew for the true aficionado, longer fermentation and thrice hopping bring about a complex soft bitterness allied to a malt induced sweetness with the characteristic oily Fuggles hop perfume. Not just for students. Once "stuffed" savour the flavour of a glass as a digestif.....

why yes, apparently brewers do put oysters in beer! and i think i might just want to try some... provided to me by alison but actually from the huffington post "Brine in Your Brew: Sampling Oyster Stouts Sep 13 2010, 9:02 AM ET Though the Germans would like us to believe otherwise, beer has long been made with ingredients other than barley, hops, and water. Of course, there's a reason 16th-century German brewers were kept to such a strict recipe regimen—you can add a lot of nasty stuff to beer to make it more potent, to make it last longer, or to stretch ingredients. These days, though, brewers usually add extras to improve their beer, not degrade it: coffee, pumpkin, tea, spices; there's beer made with chilis, beer made with hemp, beer made with beet sugar (called, cleverly, the Kerouac), and even, according to a Seattle performance artist, beer made with her own ... well, yeah. With that in mind, is oyster beer really all that weird? Although it's a bit...