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my notes from yesterday's beer column on cbc radio's on the coast with stephen quinn: So you know you like craft beer. Now what? I think learning more about craft beer should be the second thing on everybody's craft beer to do list... right behind drinking more of it! I was at a tasting room the other evening and the folks beside me were very enthusiastic about their craft beers. It appeared they were on a bit of a brewery crawl, which I very much salute, and were trying to find the words to describe the different beers and how they felt about them. Now I'm not going to go all beer snob on you and say that they were using the wrong words to describe the beers, because there aren't wrong words to describe any experience. Sure, they could have used words like "mouthfeel" and "lacing on the glass" and other bits of beer lingo, but that's not what struck me most about these beer appreciators. No, what made me keep listening was th...

for some people this is a super busy time of year not so much for me i'm without family in this province so when i get some time off work over the holidays, the time is my own i will admit to spending a lot of it in front of the tv catching up on series that i don't normally have time to watch, and gluttonously consuming all manner of movies, 90% of which i dust off every year around this time because i love them so what does this have to do with you? well, i am also trying to catch up on some things i have let slide over the past couple of months to put some check marks on my to do list and one of those items on my list is to review inkling.com 's electronic version of one of the best beer books around, randy mosher's tasting beer i have extolled the virtues of this book in previous posts and to anyone who will listen to me so let's just go with the fact that i own the paper version of this book, have read it cover to cover, and use it as a resource for ...

my non-exhaustive gift buying guide for the beer geek in all of us: if your beer lover has a favourite beer: -check out the private liquor stores for branded glassware gift packs legacy liquor store in Olympic Village suggests:   Sam Smith’s 3 bottles plus a glass for $20, $88.50 for 6 bottles of Westvleteren plus 2 glasses,  $11.95 for 2 tall cans of Tiger and a glass,  Chimay – red, white, and blue caps with a glass $18.85, St. Ambroise Discovery pack – $14.95 2 beers and a glass, Lindemann’s -   $15.95 two beers and a glass -go online and see if the brewery has swag for sale - tshirts, bottle openers, beer cozies, etc. Dead Frog has tees, hoodies, hats, cozies, underwear and bottle openers for sale in their on-line shop and at the brewery in Aldergrove.   If   you order online in the next couple of days, there is still time to receive your order before Santa arrives. Stone Brewing in California will ship you a pub light for $50,...

"From the most formal judging to the simple joy of a fresh, delicious brew in a sun-dappled beer garden, the range of tasting experiences varies almost as much as beer itself.  Once the beer is in the glass, it's up to you to decide what your relationship to it will be:  advocate or critic, stranger or best buddy.  Like any worthy pursuit, the beer-tasting experience is only as good as you make it.  Summon all your senses and experience and dive into it wholeheartedly.  You'll find the experience that unfolds between you and your beer to be truly enlightening." Randy Mosher

"Beer is a great mirror of history.  It always amazes me how much of a story every beer has to tell.  When I hold up the glass and think about it, every aspect of this malty, hoppy, foamy brew is a consequence of a remarkable chain of events that began some 10,000 years ago.  That's a deep drink." Randy Mosher

Tasting Beer - an insider's guide to the world's greatest drink.  by Randy Mosher the how-to guide for properly tasting and intelligently talking about beer.  a must read if you love beer but don't know where to start finding the language to adequately express your love of beer to others.  with chapters devoted to the history of beer, the vocabulary of beer flavour, presenting beer and each of the beer styles, this text book will have you confidently throwing around terms like IBUs, attenuation and mouthfeel in no time.  and trying beer varieties you may not have heard of in mainstream advertising. "Beer really is the world's best beverage.  It may be quenching or nourishing, cooling or warming, simple or worthy of deep meditation.  It is a drink of a thousand aromas, a rainbow of color, and a range of character as diverse ad the people who brew and enjoy it.  It has ten thousand years of history, with gods, goddesses, heroes, and songs to celebra...