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from yesterday's beer column on cbc radio one's on the coast: Craft beer tasting rooms add flavour to palates and communities, says columnist Columnist says tasting room atmosphere in B.C. is in same vein as U.K. pub culture CBC News Posted: Jul 05, 2016 5:00 PM PT Last Updated: Jul 05, 2016 5:00 PM PT Flights of beer are found in many craft breweries' tasting rooms, On The Coast beer columnist Rebecca Whyman says, as well as a sense of community. (CK Golf Solutions/Flickr) Related Stories OTC beer and wine How to have your summer beer and eat it too B.C. breweries tap into success at Canadian Brewing Awards On The Coast beer columnist Rebecca Whyman says B.C.'s many craft breweries with tasting rooms add a lot of flavour to the communities they're in and not just the flavours of their brews. She says those t...

Congrats to our first cruiser bike winner Greg Hlady! We've given away one cruiser bike.. BUT WAIT We have two more for July & August! How do you win? 1. Come to the Beer Institute every Tuesday 2. Drink a pint of delicious Tree Beer 3. Receive one entry to win a cruiser bike! Tree in the Community Dukes Cider Now On Sale! $8.99 6 Packs in Participating Liquor Stores What's On Tap at the Beer Institute

and from the cbc website : 3 unfiltered, dry-hopped beers to try this summer Beer columnist Rebecca Whyman delivers her top picks for unfiltered beer By On the Coast,  CBC News   Posted: Jul 07, 2015 5:00 PM PT  Last Updated: Jul 07, 2015 5:00 PM PT Tree Brewing in Kelowna, B.C. brews three types of unfiltered beers as part of their RAW series. (Tree Brewing) Facebook Twitter Reddit Google Share Email Related Stories 5 summer craft beer recommendations from our beer columnist Craft beer credentials are not always what they appear B.C. craft beer tours: walking, running, cycling and shuttling between stops If you're looking for unfiltered, dry-hopped beers,  On the Coast 's beer columnist Rebecca Whyman recommends these three brews from  Tree Brewing 's new RAW series. Knox Mountain Brown Ale : Named in honour of Kelowna's largest natura...

I'm back! And only slightly jet-lagged. What's with all the smoke? Can't I leave you alone for 10 days? Anyway, here are my notes from last evening's beer column on CBC's On the Coast with the wonderful and beer-loving Stephen Quinn: There's always something new in the world of craft beer - that's one of the great parts of the boom! A couple of breweries have new head brewers: Kevin Emms has moved from Deep Cove brewing to take over the small batch program at Granville Island Brewing. His first new brew for them is the 2 Tides India Session Ale. Steamworks Brewing's new head brewer is Julia Hanlon. Julia comes to Steamworks after a 10 year stint at the Molson brewery. As for new locations, Chambar Restaurant relocated a few doors up Beatty Street last year. The new location gives the restaurant a larger space, and it has a patio - a really nice patio. While you won't get much of a view from it, unlike some of the other craft beer patios in town...

i got to attend a backyard bbq and bottle share over the long weekend wanna see what we drank??     the two stand-outs for me were the breakside india golden ale and the double mountain devil's kriek tree's serendipity no. 8 was also stellar of the beers i regularly enjoy the gigantic ipa and driftwood 20 pounder continue to please me greatly! and i just can't say enough good things about the 2 towns hop and stalk cider i have one bottle of this baby left i want to save it for a special occasion, but i need to drink it soon! my life is really very difficult

it is one of my cbc radio tuesdays! i will be on radio one with stephen quinn at 5:50 today talking about craft beer and #IPAday on the coast then i will be going to the railway club to avail myself of the cask of driftwood naughty hildegard esb with mosaic hops if that sounds like fun to you, you could go in time to listen to the show my fan club (aka beer geek friends) have a listening party in the back room join them!  so long as they have craft beer in front of them, they do not bite (the cask at tap and barrel also sounds good... might have to try to hit both places! tree brewing blend of 2/3 hophead ipa and 1/3 black ipa)

new beer offerings at legacy liquor store in vancouver: Brooklyn Brewery - Silver Anniversary Lager - $18.90 Happy Anniversary, Brooklyn, 25 years of excellent brewing and many more to come! Brewed to the strength of a dopplebock, this lager uses four different malts in addition to Cascade, Willamette, and Hallertauer Mittelfrueh and Saphir hops. Pouring dark amber in colour with notes of citrus, toasted malt and butterscotch on the nose, aromas that carry through on the palate before fading into a spicy hop finish, this brew is an excellent way to celebrate 25 years. Tree Brewing - Hop Head Black IPA - $7.85 Nestled in the BC interior, Tree Brewing consistently churns out some spectacular seasonal beers, their Hop Head continuing the trend. Five hops and six malts can be found in this dark brown, nearly black beer. Biscuits, citrus (think grapefruit) and a little pine are all found in the aroma while smoke and chocolate lead the pack on the palate followed closely by citrus and pi...

fun beers available at legacy liquor store in vancouver: Parallel 49 Brewing – From East Van With Love - $13.75 A collaboration between Parallel 49 and Gigantic Brewing is responsible for this Bourbon Barrel-Aged Maple Stout. Rich and dark, with notes of maple subdued by barrel-aging, makes this beer a must for your cellar. Alameda Brewing – Bad Bunny - $7.75 Easter may be in the rearview, but Alameda is leading the pack with Bad Bunny, a lightly malted and hopped Cream Ale with subtle malt and fruit on the nose. On the palate fruit dominates, making this an excellent Cream Ale by any standard. Tree Brewing – Captivator Doppelbock - $7.75 Once a staple of fasting monks, this style of beer has recently exploded in popularity in the modern world. Sweet, malty and lightly hopped, this strong ale is full of dark fruits and biscuit, making it an excellent variation of a European classic.

what goes into lighthouse's switchback ipa? jan zeschky asks the brewer, dean mcleod tree brewing is going pink for breast cancer now packaging their beach blonde lager in pink cans are shrinkwrap labels on beer cans actually green? women enjoying beer wants you, and brewers, to step up to using sustainable beer packaging and last, but probably the most fun, sam adams beer hoisting contest how long can you hold a beer stein full of beer?

too many beers i wanted to try at beernesday at st. augustine's last night! had to have me two samplers to fit them all in look how well my iphone camera works when there is light whistler brewing cheakamus chai maple ale - 5%  this dark bronze ale is made with real maple syrup, added right to the mash.  then, a trace of chai tea is added during the filtration process.  the result is a highly complex, mildly spicy palette structure hoooo boy that is sweet!  it would be awesome in pancake batter or over ice cream a bit too much maple sweetness for me in a beer though, the chai notes were subtle, but appreciable chuckanut brewery pilsner - 5%  in 1842 a bavarian monk smuggled lager yeast from munich to the bohemian town of pilsn where they used the yeast with british pale malt, crafting a beer golden in color.  chuckanut pilsner is truly mouthwatering, deeply satisfying, and refreshing! i do love me a pilsner, and this one did not disappoint chuck...

i spent my lunch hour today at firefly and biercraft success at firefly!  bit of fail at biercraft :(  shopping with shans at firefly my hoppy haul biercraft has a new lunch menu and were offering $2 lunches between 11:30 and 1:30 today, plus a $2 coupon for your next lunch visit, meaning that your net spending would end up being zero a free lunch who doesn't want a free lunch? alas, because of the deal they were not able to make substitutions or deletions to their menu items and this vegetarian who isn't eating cheese these days was shit outta luck on menu items bummer but on the bright side, i made it back to work on time! i'm surprised there weren't more people in there taking advantage of the special, but then again, i only heard about it at about 11 this morning...

i began beernesday last night with two martinis i love the holiday season! anyway, after my after-work-schmoozey-do i dutifully headed off to st. augustine's to imbibe in craft beer i love craft beer! lagunitas sucks holiday ale - 7.9%  a "cereal medley" of barley, rye, wheat and oats.  full of complexishness from the 4 grains, and weighing in at 7.85% abv, then joyously dry-hopped for that big aroma and resinous hop flavor i love when they joyously dry-hop my beer! and i am in love with this beer - so much hoppy goodness, so many grains - i may have found my new breakfast of champions... seriously, loved it so much i had to have a whole pint after my taster tree spiced reserve ale - 7.5%  brewed using a special blend of brewer's spices special indeed! no vanilla in sight, just subtle spices all blending nicely on the tongue this is the tree winter ale i will choose to drink from now on (no vertical vanilla for me!) rogue yellow snow ipa - 6.2%  pale...

12 craft taps at pat's pub ? anti-hipster heaven! well, i'm not sure the 12 taps really all qualify as craft but i'm not going to quibble with a place that's trying to reinvent itself through craft beer they're trying! and, you know, they do brew and can their own lager on-site and its pretty good no really, it is try it, you'll like it! dude, its $3.50 a pint, $13 a pitcher and only $12 for a six-pack to go i'm not going to lie to you it was a couple of weeks ago that i stopped in at pat's pub on a tuesday night around 9 there was no one else there which just meant the bartender gave us lots of attention and back story on the lager but... it also means that i do not have total recall of what's on those 12 taps... thank goodness they list them on the website!! cannery:  ipa and blackberry porter r & b:  red devil pale ale russell:  cream ale, wee angry scotch tree brewing:  cut-throat pale ale big rock:  traditional ale, ...

not that i'm behind on my notes or anything... here's the past two week's worth of beernesday tastings at st. augustine's september 21, 2011 taster #1 elysian night owl pumpkin ale - 5.9%  brewed with 7 1/2 pounds of pumpkin per barrel and spiked in conditioning with ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and allspice rogue ales chatoe good chit pilsner - 5%  made with rogue farm barley that is floor-malted in small batches crannog bogtrotter brown ale - 4.8%  a nutty, sweet brown ale with a touch of toffee in the flavour red truck ipa - wasn't on the menu i found the bogtrotter to be a "nice little brown - easy drinking" the night owl was pumpkin pieish, not overly spiced... "pretty good, but i don't think i'm ready for fall beers" the pilsner was practically an ipa, so of course i loved it! the red truck ipa was "quite nice" taster #2 russell cranberry wheat ale - 4.7%  we take an already damn fine wheat ale and ad...

for the full list of the vcbw b.c. beer award winners, go check out the vcbw facebook page and now for my photos of the winners i apologize for the lousy photography - dunno what happened but apparently my camera and i were not getting long well on saturday... couldn't possibly have been the beer! for better pics, go to the vcbw facebook album and check out brian smith 's handiwork Gold: Conrad Gmoser of Steamworks Brewing Company - Pilsner BEST IN SHOW Gold: David Varga, Hamish MacRae & Cory Curtis of Red Truck Brewing - Big Black Bock Silver: Ralf Pittroff of Vancouver Island Brewing - Hermann’s Dark Lager Bronze: Ralf Pittroff of Vancouver Island Brewing - Seadog Amber Ale Gold: Gary Lohin of Red Racer Brewing - Pale Ale Bronze: Gary Lohin of Red Racer Brewing - ESB Gold: Gary Lohin of Central City Brewing - Thor’s Hammer Barley Wine Bronze: Gary Lohin of Red Racer Brewing - IPA Silver: Brent Mills of R&B Brewing - East Side Bitter...