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Cranberry Orange Wit - 5% - 650mL November 30th, 2015 - Say hello to our little friend! Scarfface is snow-packed with enough cranberry and citrus to make a bad guy feel good, and is a welcome break from the heavy winter ales. Pouring a soft melon orange colour with a pillow white head, aromas of fresh oranges and fruity esters lead to a sweet orange wheat body, that finishes with a crisp cranberry tartness. This seasonal brew is only available for a limited time from your preferred craft-focused private liquor store.  If you find yourself in our neck of the woods, come on down to the brewer...

    The Hunt for Red October is On at Steamworks Vancouver, B.C. (September 21st, 2015)  - With the inevitable arrival of fall, beer drinkers are seeking out increasingly robust brews to keep them warm. You can't do better than Steamworks Heroica Red Ale: A Canadian Brewing Awards gold medal award winning, highly drinkable Red Ale that is back to save the day for its second year. Launched last year in a 650ml format, Heroica will be available this year in six-packs and in the Steamworks Mash-Up mixer (with Pale Ale & Black Angel IPA) at liquor stores across the province, or on-tap at local pubs and restaurants as well as the Steamworks Brewpub and Steamworks Brewery & Taproom in Burnaby. Steamworks Red Ale is a heroically sessionable red ale with beautiful citrus and pine notes from the additions of centennial, citra, and simcoe hops. Smooth and velvety in the mouth with toasted malts giving it a medium body with hints of roast...

this one is a fundraiser too!   In celebration of  BC Craft Beer Month  and  National Fire Prevention Week, we created  Steamworks Heroica Red Ale .   For the month of October, every Steamworks brew sold will benefit the  BC Firefighters Charities  and the  BC Burn Fund.   It's your last 8 days to support your local heroes through Steamworks Heroica!   Find Heroica in 650mL bottles, on-tap and in growlers at Steamworks Brewpub or Steamworks Brewery & Taproom in Burnaby while quantities last.   "A tribute to the every day local heroes in our communities and lives."         ...

new beers available at legacy liquor store in vancouver: Back in the 1980’s before the Craft Beer boom, Mark Irvin fell in love with suds that were more than just cold. Falling head over heels for the art and science of brewing beer with character, Mark took the next step in 1993 and the Northern Lights Brewing Company was born. Following eight years of producing draft beer and self-distributing kegs to local eateries, Mark and his brewing venture moved to its current location on the Spokane River and added a pub. Skip ahead to 2012 and Northern Lights Brewing is a man stronger with John Bryant, formerly of Deschutes, Odell and Oskar Blues breweries, working together with Mark Irvin to showcase the best of what the ‘Inland Empire’ has to offer. However, not everything was so rosy. Receiving the cold shoulder and the silent treatment over a name dispute with an eastern brewery, Northern Lights Brewing Co. was reborn as No-Li Brewhouse, and a wryly named Silent Treatment Pale Ale took ...

my notes from tuesday's beer column on cbc radio's on the coast topic:  gluten-free beers A couple of weeks ago I answered a listener’s question about wheat-free beer. Today I'd like to take you a little further down that road and talk about gluten-free beers. The four basic ingredients in beer are barley, water, hops and yeast. Barley has gluten in it, so all beers following the Bavarian purity law will have gluten in them. Wheat is present in beers when called for by the recipe, such as in wit beers and hefeweizens, or sometimes as an adjunct. If you have a wheat intolerance you’ll have to be careful to choose pure beers to avoid wheat. If you are gluten intolerant though, you will have to find a gluten-free beer. Gluten is a protein complex found in wheat (including kamut and spelt), barley and rye. Celiac disease is an autoimmune disease where the surface of the small intestine that absorbs nutrients from food is damaged by gluten. It seems that m...

new and fun beers available at legacy liquor store in vancouver: Phillips Double Dragon Red Ale - $6.95 A gem from Vancouver Island, this Imperial Red Ale pours dark amber with a frothy head. Grapefruit and malt dominate the nose while nuts and toast are found on the palate. Medium-bodied and textured, it satisfies the greatest thirst. Fort Garry Kona Imperial Stout - $7.55 From Winnipeg, Manitoba, this roasty Imperial Stout boasts notes of coffee and malt to match its dark mocha appearance, with more caramel and coffee taking charge in the flavour department. Medium-bodied and smooth, this Brewmaster Series beer is a solid contender in the realm of stouts. Phillips Twisted Oak Barrel Reserve Red Ale - $7.85 Aged in freshly emptied rum barrels to give it a deep amber hue, this brew wraps lightly roasted malts in sugarcane sweetness. It’s not often that a beer like this comes around, so don’t miss out. Enjoy in a snifter at cellar temperature.

Double Down on Red 2 seasonal red ale releases April 11th , 2013 - We doubled down, spun the brewlette wheel, and landed on red--but these two red ale seasonal releases are no gamble. The Double Dragon Imperial Red Ale is back in the ring to go another round with your taste buds, while the Twisted Oak Red Ale , carefully crafted and slowly conditioned in freshly emptied rum barrels, makes its debut. On Thursday April 11th from 4pm-6pm, we'll be hosting a special tasting of this primary coloured pair, so don't gamble on what may be your only chance to try these special releases from the tap. Here's a little breakdown of each brew: Twisted Oak Red Ale - 6.8% - 650mL This Twisted Oak special release is matured in freshly emptied rum barrels, where it transforms from fiery red colour to a deep amber, and is wrapped in soft roast flavours and velvety sugarcane sweetness. But unlike its Scotch-Ale cousin, this Twisted Oak release is on...

new and exciting beers at legacy liquor store in vancouver: Russell Luck of the Irish - $6.95 A locally brewed beer to celebrate St. Patrick's Day the right way. Rich red in colour courtesy of roasted barley, its palate of toffee and caramel make this malt forward beverage a must for any Irish festivity. Driftwood Twenty Pounder - $8.95 When has Driftwood ever done us wrong? Their Double IPA drops an IBU bomb of Cascadian citrus hop, with citrus and everything nice bouncing around on the nose and palate. Pick it up before it rolls out the door. Tuatara Mix 6 - $23.85 From Pilsner to Porter this special New Zealand six-pack has something for everyone, showcasing Tuatara Brewery, New Zealand and the local craft beer scene.   i had the 20 pounder last night as good as i remember it from last year!

the railway club's cask last night was driftwood's naughty hildegard driftwood rep ian mackay says that it is the last cask of naughtiness for the season so i'm extra glad that i got my mouth on some potent, delicious, happy-inducing after the railway we skipped on down to portland craft i had the ninkaski double red ale and an alameda yellow wolf paired with the olives, pickles, and rainbow trout portland craft is coming along nicely it was full, the beverages board is up now, food was prompt and delicious there are still a few small wrinkles being worked out but i love it there! i think the locals and craft beer folk alike are past the novelty and fully embracing it i predict a long, happy relationship with portland craft is in my future!

check out all the spring seasonals being released by u.s. brewers

i am very behind on posting reviews and tasting notes and i have no real excuse besides i don't wanna spend all my time on-line i wanna read six more books and meet the 50 book challenge oh, and i'd rather be out drinking the beer! october 5, 2011 rogue john john hazelnut - 5.6% ale with natural hazelnut flavor aged in hazelnut spice rum barrels blech, rum barrels! i thought i'd had this before (last year) but i don't remember booze in it, just nuttiness.  too boozey for me whistler valley trail chestnut ale - 6% dark amber colour with a tan-coloured head.  notes of chestnut, caramel and vanilla too much darned vanilla for my liking - why does everyone gotta put in vanilla?  too sweet, not nutty enough!  a vanilla hazelnut latte - not a chestnut beer dammit! storm imperial flanders red ale - 11% this full bodied monster of a sour has been aged in an oak barrel for a year oak, sure... but i'm getting a whole lotta vinegar.  i do love a sour and it did...

more for the 'beers to drink' list: crooked line - tilted smile imperial pilsner pyramid - juggernaut fall seasonal red ale long trail brewing - imperial porter amnesia brewing - copacetic ipa amnesia brewing - desolation ipa amnesia brewing - dusty trail pale ale shmaltz brewing - rye double ipa 21st amendment - back in black full sail - spotless ipa lagunitas brewing - lucky 13 red ale rj rockers brewing - rockhopper ipa sweetwater brewing - dank tank magnum ip

NEWPORT, OR., September 1, 2010 - Rogue Ales' Santa's Private Reserve comes equipped with built in nightlights -glistening snowflakes that GLOW-IN-THE-DARK. Dedicated to the Chris Kringle in each of us, Santa's Private Reserve is brewed in small batches, and available nationwide for the holiday season in serigraphed 22oz bottles and 12oz six packs. Forget the fruit cake, ties and socks...give your loved ones something they really want for Christmas, like the Santa's gift set. This pre-packaged holiday gift set includes a 22oz bottle and a stemmed serigraphed glass inside a collectible gift box. Gift set available by calling the Rogue Brewery at 541-867-3660 or at http://www.rogue.com/ . A 2009 World Beer Championship Gold Medal winner, Santa's Private Reserve is a double-hopped red ale and is a reddish-copper color with a roasty, malt flavor and a well balanced, spruce finish. This holiday elixir is brewed with 10 Ingredients: Carastan 30-37 & 13-17, Crystal...