beernesday

so, did you get your driftwood brewing sartori harvest ipa yet? if not, you're probably outta luck finding a bottle in vancouver the brewery in victoria is offering growler fills and there will be more casks about town (vancouver, victoria, chilliwack) i got my bottles at viti (vancouver) i tried to be greedy and get some more at liberty on the drive, but they were out of their 15 cases already i have tried two casks so far: monday night at st. augustine's (that was not very good) and tuesday night at the railway club (that was down-right ambrosia) i have only had a wee sample from the bottle - and it was so delicious i am on a quest to find more bottles!

my notes from tuesday's beer column on cbc radio's on the coast topic:  gluten-free beers A couple of weeks ago I answered a listener’s question about wheat-free beer. Today I'd like to take you a little further down that road and talk about gluten-free beers. The four basic ingredients in beer are barley, water, hops and yeast. Barley has gluten in it, so all beers following the Bavarian purity law will have gluten in them. Wheat is present in beers when called for by the recipe, such as in wit beers and hefeweizens, or sometimes as an adjunct. If you have a wheat intolerance you’ll have to be careful to choose pure beers to avoid wheat. If you are gluten intolerant though, you will have to find a gluten-free beer. Gluten is a protein complex found in wheat (including kamut and spelt), barley and rye. Celiac disease is an autoimmune disease where the surface of the small intestine that absorbs nutrients from food is damaged by gluten. It seems that m...

gosh darn it, i think this person got my pint of sartori at st. augustine's last night i just, just, just missed out [insert majorly pouty face here] now i must find me a bottle somewhere viti??? firefly??? brewery creek??? who has some left?