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hahahaha just found these notes from a beer tasting two years ago january 29, 2009 with someone i don't even speak to any more... Beer tasting Stella Jan 29 Satan Gold J liked it. Very crisp. Lots of apple smell R didn't like it and found it not good lambic-like. Likes the label 8% alcohol Ingredients: water barley malt wheat malt hops yeast Brewed by brewery De Block http://www.satanbeer.com/ Best served: between 8 and 10 degrees c Stellas says: pours a blondish yellow. The nose has notes of apples, subtle note of banana and malts. Almost similar to a lambic. Comes across the palete As slighty biter with a mild spice. Piraat 10.5 % Contains barley malt best served between 7 and 11 c it's brewed by brewery van steenberge http://www.vansteenveege.com/ reb likes the ship on the label. Literally translates the label as highly fermented strong beer. Refermented in bottle. She enjoys the hops but doesn't like whatever they are with. Reb wonders if i...

a rose by any other name smells as sweet and attracts just as many aphids but i'm just not down with stella's new name biercraft??? geesh! its a bummer they had to change their name copyright and litigiousness and all that rot sucks but if you gotta change your name the least you could do is pick a good one biercraft??? really?

i am turning into quite the beer snob! drinking craft beer has made me not want to drink anything but the best which is making it hard to visit many of my old haunts and me less likely to be enthusiastic about trying some new places their beer lists just aren't inspiring so, my snobbery aside, how hard is it to bring in one or two local craft brews? it shouldn't be that hard... and it would please me to no end! i'm tired of granville island and okanagan springs being my only two "local" choices and corona and stella being the "imports" sadly, this critique extends to several pubs who pride themselves on having several taps as well but how inspiring is a choice of local taps that only include granville island, big rock, sleeman, okanagan springs and keith's?  i.e. the charlatan:  "Located in the heart of Vancouver's Commercial Drive, The Charlatan, is the areas best Gastro-Pub. Offering 15 fresh tap beers with 12 imported brews...

went to stella's on cambie street the other night and because i'm not the biggest fan of the belgian beers, i had another snakebite concoction i teamed the phillips ipa with strongbow i was a little worried that the hops and cider would fight each other rather than compliment each other, but i needn't have worried - it was delicious! the hops and the citrus were made for each other it was refreshing and bracing and i wish i'd thought of it years ago! so far, this is the leader in my ultimate snake bite search