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stone brewing is once again available in canada ! hooray! i attended the tap takeover launch at craft beer market on monday and i will be attending the tap takeover at stateside craft on friday unfortunately my life does have other things in it besides beer, so i am missing out on the collaboration brew day at bomber brewing (tuesday), the pairing dinner at blackbird (wednesday) and the biercraft beer dinner (thursday) half of the beer menu at craft beer market   paddle and a 0.45l pour in pretty branded glass

10 stark truths (and we're not talking game of thrones here) about dating a beer nerd breakside brewery liquid nitrogen frozen fresh hop beers and a reminder that breakside and the commons are having a tap takeover at portland craft on september 18th (aka thursday) a sneak peek at steel toad the strait loves stateside craft also, a very happy birthday to one of my oldest friends today oldest in time known, not age! not that she reads my blog, but whatever, happy birthday goog!

Stateside Tap Takeover Thursday Sept 11th! We're at Stateside with Ninkasi Brewing and Gigantic Brewing Company pouring 7, that's right SEVEN beers from EACH brewery. It's going to be amazing. Gigantic will be featuring Pipewrench, their gin-barrel aged IPA, an 8-wired Collaboration, and a Jenever Pale in addition to their seaonsal and regular line up. Ninkasi will be featuring Critical Hit, Jarrylo Single Hop beer, Imperiale, Vanilla Oatis and few others.

apparently this summer is 'pub crawl summer' for me two crawls over two weekends (and one last month) - i guess this is what i do when i'm not galivanting out of town on the weekend and i gotta tell ya, i like it! on the long weekend i went on a crawl organized by a friend and we hit a whopping 7 places (loosely calling them all pubs...) some peeps continued on to an 8th, but i tapped out after 7 (i'm not old, i'm sensible... yeah, sensible, that's it) where did we go? parallel 49 odd society storm brewing bomber brewing windjammer restaurant biercraft stateside craft (some to st. augustine's) odd society so what was the mission statement of this particular crawl? get hammered on a sunny saturday afternoon? well, that may have happened, but the purpose was to show off the incredible bounty of craft beverages within walking distance of our east van homes 3 breweries - parallel 49 tasting room, bomber brewing tasting room and storm br...

i so want this place to be my perfect bar it's close to my house it has 40 taps of beer i like (and yes i know they rotate, but c'mon 40 taps of great american beer?  of course i'm gonna like them) it has yummy food including the best beer and cheese sauce on earth but... and you knew there'd be a but! they have some work to do for my drinking pleasure, the place is too dark i can barely read the menu ambiance is one thing, dimness is another for my drinking pleasure, the music is often too loud and no, i'm not eighty years old! seriously, i don't want to be yelling at the friend next to me at the pub i am at a pub so that i can converse with my friends if i want pumping, thumping techno beats i'll go to a club honouring the $2 off parking that avanti's used to would be nice making the waffle the same size as the 'put a bird on it' at portland craft would be nice and yes, i have made all these suggestions to the very f...

quietly opening on commercial drive last week, stateside craft is the newest craft beer bar in the city portland craft's younger, over-achieving sister will officially open on july 4th but until then, they are soft launching and you can stop in for some wonderful brews and yummy food located in the former avanti's pub in il mercato mall at gravely and commercial it is a whole lot prettier inside than the former pub the female-identified bathroom is 8 million times nicer (thank dog!) bright (or as bright as a place with only a couple of windows can be), polished, open and airy this ain't avanti's, that's for sure and i couldn't be happier now, don't get me wrong, avanti's did me right for many years but their refusal to get any craft beer on tap led me to move my commercial drive beer drinking to st. augustine's as soon as that alternative presented itself now that st. a's has line-ups all the time, i've been jonesing for anoth...