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St. Patrick’s Day is tomorrow.  I would like to remind you that there are more traditional ways to celebrate the Irish than by drinking green beer! Life is short!   Drink good beer!   Like a lovely dry Irish stout! One of the most common stouts, Dry Irish Stouts tend to have a bit of a lighter body, which makes them very drinkable!  They're usually a lower carbonation brew and can be served on a nitro system for a creamy mouthfeel.  The bitterness comes from both the roasted barley and the hops, though the roasted malt will be the more noticeable flavour. Guinness is probably the best known example of the style, but you can get some really nice local versions too – see below for a few examples. If you're in Vancouver and looking for a non-green beer-y way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, check out one (or more) of the below: - From the folks who bring you the HarvestHaus Oktoberfest celebrations comes The KelticLanding .   Held over two ...

Dry Irish stout picks for St. Paddy's Day not named Guinness Check out Rebecca Whyman's beer picks for some Guinness alternatives CBC News   Posted: Mar 15, 2016 6:01 PM PT  Last Updated: Mar 15, 2016 6:09 PM PT Don't worry: these beer picks are so good you won't want to bother with the green dye. (Jeffrey M. Smith/The Port Huron Times Herald/AP photo) 8 shares Facebook Twitter Reddit Google Share Email Related Stories OTC beer and wine Molson's old timey pale ale 'intrigues' beer columnist Budweiser is B.C.'s top beer choice, but craft beer on the rise With just two days to go until St. Patrick's Day, bars, pubs, clubs and liquor stores will be getting ready to sell about 13 million pints of Guinness dry Irish stout. But   On The Coast's  beer columnist Rebecca Whyman says if you're looking for something a little different on March ...

happy pretend you're irish and drink beer day! while refraining from drinking green beer please also refrain from shooting your friends for their beer choices (even if they are drinking macro swill!) and hey, why not listen to cbc radio's on the coast this afternoon? i'll be on with gloria macarenko at 5:50! talking about taking a brewery stroll around fun vancouver neighbourhoods

if you'll be in seattle this weekend, pike brewing can help you celebrate green day: Time marches to its own drummer and St. Patrick's Day is but a wee week away. With the big day falling on a Tuesday, Pike Brewing will begin celebrating St. Paddy's this coming Friday and continue the festivities through the 17th. Tis a stout brew we've aged in a Woodinville Whiskey barrel to welcome the  Stout Pounders , a  Celtic Folk band. They will perform from 6-9 pm this Friday, March 13 . Come tap your toes, dance a jig, and join in the fun. The Pike Pub has some delectable food specials too: our superb Corned Beef and Cabbage, luscious Irish Stew and Pike Pretzels (baked with spent grain and Pike Naughty Nellie). Top it all off with Pike Kilt Lifter Scotch Ale. All Irish (and everyone else's) eyes are smiling each time The Elliott Bay Pipe and Drum Band plays at The Pike Pub. For more than ten years, this 22-piece band has entertained our guests on St. Patrick...

St. Patrick’s day is approaching.   Can I tempt you to drink something other than green beer? I mean hey, if you're really into green beer, then by all means, drink up.  I hear they'll be serving it at the Blarney Stone. For me though,  food colouring added to beer doesn’t enhance my drinking experience, especially as it is generally added to macro lagers.   I would rather drink flavourful beer!   I find the idea of “drowning the shamrock” for luck, where a clover is added to beer or whisky and the whole thing downed, shamrock and all, a lot more palatable way to put some green in my beer to celebrate the day. Afterall, g reen beer is not an Irish tradition.   So where did green beer come from?   Who thought that it would be a good idea to slip food colouring into beer?   T he earliest reference I found to the drinking of green beer is a newspaper articlefrom 1914 about a New York social club serving green beer at a St. Patrick’s...

for no good reason at all, except that it's st. patrick's day weekend coming up:

following on my naming a brewery bit for cbc radio, read about how ben coli came up with the name for his brewery and what it means to him in this first part of nine in scout magazine about opening up his own belgian-inspired brewery 23 american beers to try before you die 20 belgian beers to try before you die the ultimate top five list - the top 5 beers in the world brewdog takes all the angst out of deciding which beer to drink tonight provided of course it's brewdog beer you're craving video of beer pairings for st. paddy's day interactive chart helps you pick your next beer (and note in the comments how many people hate pumpkin ales!) craftbeer.com is calling all west virginians to lobby the gov't 7 craft beer professionals named james beard award semi-finalists gigantic ben love video - innovative and tasty beer yeast van is hopping bc craft beer industry is hopping

"Exciting things are happening around Legacy, including an exclusive deal with Vancouver’s first micro-distiller, Long Table Distillery. You’ll be able to pick up a bottle of their vodka or gin exclusively at Legacy Liquor Store for the next six months, so get down here and see where the craft distillery market will take you. St. Patrick’s Day is this weekend and you know what that means – beer and lots of it – and we’ll be in high spirits running a gauntlet of beer tastings both West Coast craft and classic Irish. What more could you ask for? Well maybe some sun, but that’s up to Mother Nature. March 15 th Diamond Knot & Lazy Boy Beer Tasting, 4pm-7pm March 16 th Whistler Beer Tasting & Snowbus giveaway, 2pm-6pm March 17 th St. Patrick’s Day Beer Tasting, 2pm-6pm" new and exciting beers at legacy liquor store in vancouver: Townsite Brewing – Perfect Storm Oatmeal Stout - $6.15 Our friends from Powell River have come out with a beer to celebrate the cohesive t...

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!

oh, i do love an excuse to dress funny and drink beer... happy st. patrick's day and aren't i pretty? drinking fat tug at malone's on saturday afternoon in my guinness finery yup, that's how i rolled

happy pretend you're irish day!

more from the huffington post on the subject of st. patrick's day: the top ten beers consumed on paddy's day six beer recipes for you to cook on paddy's day

from saltspring island brewing: Because we get asked about this every year, we did some research for ya: here's how to make green beer for St Paddy's, sans chemicals. So, if you insist on imbibing your beer a-la Lephrechaun this Saturday, you may do so more naturally. (makes sense if you're drinking organic beer ;) Note: because beer is already 'yellow', blue coloring is the way to get green beer. Do It Yourself – Homemade Natural Blue Food Coloring Ingredients: Half head red cabbage (yes, I said “red cabbage!”) Water Baking Soda Method: 1. Wash the cabbage and cut out the stem. 2. Chop into small pieces. 3. Place cabbage pieces in a pot and add water until the cabbage is covered. 4. Simmer for 10 minutes and then drain. 5. The resulting liquid will be purplish. 6. Gradually add baking soda, 1/2 teaspoon at a time, until you get a nice blue hue. Be careful, because the baking soda will add flavor to the coloring. If you are using the color fo...

gonna be in vancouver for st. patrick's day? not got plans yet? how about malone's?

the beer chicks offer up advice on how not to offend the actual irish on st. patrick's day

its almost march and that means that st. patrick's day (aka an excuse to drink a lot of beer) is just around the corner

yay for avoiding green beer last night! and double yay for the wonderful cask at the whip! r& b's smokey jameson stout did not disappoint smokey jameson stout the bottom of the cask was a bit toooooo yeasty for us

what a great beer week this one's gonna be! tonight is the "beers with benefits" tasting at firefly, hosted by the amazing lundy tomorrow is beernesday, natch thursday is st. patrick's day and the beernesday gang has decided to hit the whip in an effort to make merry without worrying about inferior beer choices or gasp! green beer details of all the fun to follow when i've managed to catch up on my sleep!

upcoming deschutes events in bend, oregon: St. Patrick's Day Dash Bend Pub Sunday, March 13th Race begins at 10:05am GET YOUR GREEN ON! Deschutes Brewery and Mt. Bachelor Rotary Club join forces for this inaugural event. The dash begins at our Bend Pub and ends with a post-dash party on our warehouse lawn. Don't forget to WEAR YOUR GREEN because there will be prizes for "Best Wearing o' the Green" and "Best Costume". To register go to: www.bendstpatsdash.com and the proceeds will benefit Grandma's House. Packet Pick-Up & Pre-Party in the parking lot next to the Bend Pub on Saturday, March 12th from 2-6PM. Specialty menu items, complimentary passed appetizers and tasty Deschutes Beer on tap! 3rd Annual Chocolate Beer Dinner Deschutes Brewery Mountain Room Saturday, March 19 6 - 10 PM Chocolate is often referred to as a gift from the gods. At Deschutes Brewery, it is no different. Each of the five courses will include...you guess...

nothing else planned for march 19th? how about the st. paddy's day brewmaster's dinner? check it out, click here