beernesday

- from yaletown brew pub (fyi, i will be pouring beer at this event): This Saturday, November 10th, we will be having a mini-Caskival featuring 11 different casks from 11 different breweries! Doors open at 11am. DRINK FRESH BEER - from railway club: Todays cask for Rail Ale Tuesday is a Vanilla-oaked Pumpkin Ale from Central City Brewing - tapping at 5 - what i drank for monday night football last night: - lastly, can craft beer use mega-breweries to succeed? the mega-breweries think so, and say craft brewers do too me, i'm not convinced...

the r&b simcoe and crystal ipa cask at the railway last night was all kinds of delicious! i had three...

the cask last night at the railway was a foamy one! central city's dark days of spring with citra hops was a tasty one! not too sure what the base beer was for this one as it wasn't any darker than an ipa... but it did have a little something in there that no one i was with could identify

tuesday's beer and food pairing dinner at rogue kitchen and wet bar was another fabulous evening of good food, good beer, bons mots from owner and brewmaster and good times! the evening got off to a bit of a late start - first tasters of beer arriving at 7:30ish and first dish at 7:40 but that just ensured that we were all drooling a little when it did arrive the menu we began with the king heffy imperial hefeweizen, a 7.7% behemoth of german yeasty goodness - bananas and cloves galore 45% wheat and 55% barley mash it won 2 gold medals last une at the american beer awards the king heffy the king heffy taster wedged between the double decker ipa from vancouver island brewing and crannog's back hand of god paired with braised pork belly, which we were told is its traditional food pairing seeing as i had fish instead of pork belly and don't actually enjoy the wheat beers i couldn't tell you if it actually did pair well first course - carnivorous ...

for a review of howe sound's rail ale on the lager blogger, click here for an article about granville island being bought out by the devil, click here for a van east beer blog about what makes craft beer craft beer, click here for a blog post from brewdog about their latest cooperative beer effort, click here and brewdog's punk ipa coming in cans, click here for the blog post beer is the new wine!  click here for the newspaper article

we all know howe sound brewery rocks! and here's just more proof of how hard it rocks: stolen from andy the beer man who stole it from news leader dot com "Canadian microbrewery makes one of best beers out right now I always chuckle a bit when I try a Canadian beer because it brings back memories of the early days of my beer education in the late 1970s. Before I ever knew that countries such as England, Germany and Belgium produced beer, a Canadian Moosehead or Labatt's was considered exotic.   Those beers don't differ significantly from what most Americans drink and were always skunky, probably from poor storage. The bartenders or owners would always say, "It's a foreign beer -- it's supposed to taste like that." Now, older and wiser, I am comforted by the fact that many Canadian microbreweries, such as Unibroue and Brasserie Dieu du Ciel, are making some of the best beers in the world. Howe Sound's Rail Ale Nut Brown can be add...