beer column
my notes from yesterday's beer column on cbc radio one's on the coast with stephen quinn: Beer News: CallisterBrewing is now open. This is a new brewery concept for Vancouver, taking collaboration to a new place. Independent brewers lease Callister’s equipment to produce their own lines of beers, which are brewed under Callister’s licence and are available on tap at the tasting room. These include cask ales available on a beer engine from Adam Chatburn’s Real Cask, IPAs from Machine Brewing’s Adam Henderson and Belgian table beers from Brewery Creek Brewing’s Chester Carey – all familiar names to craft beer nerds. Callister itself will be offering an altbier, an apricot ale and a rye pale ale to begin with. Callister is located at 1338 Franklin Street. Check Facebook for their daily opening hours. Central City’s new Red Racer pub is opening on Friday in the old Dix Brewing location at 871 Beatty Street. They’ll have 40 taps - 14 of them c...