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hopping back in time to last thursday.... here are photos from the good vs evil event at waazubee (part of vancouver craft beer week): bridget shows off our tickets at the beginning of the night: the fearless russell brewery reps (featuring the honey lager and the angry scotch ale... their version of good vs evil???): michelle, the tree rep pouring for the absent crannog rep: and michelle pouring her own tree beverages: best display definitely goes to tree... and here's the lighthouse rep with bottles of the fisgard 150, he also had a keg of the keeper's stout: howe sound may have had my favourite beer of the evening, the limited edition pothole filler oatmeal stout, but they didn't have much going for them in the presentation department.  i don't have a photo of their table at all... but this might be the pothole filler (or it could be the angry scotch or the keeper's stout...): these are our end of the evening beers... when we resorted to lag...

vancouver craft beer week's good vs evil at waazubee last night was fabulous! i have all sorts of notes, in varying degrees of legibility...  here they are, for what they're worth!  photos to follow. Russell's Angry Scotch Ale:  nice head.  dark as treacle, but not hazy or opaque.  i can see why it won a bronze medal at the world cup of beer.  malty, toasty, with a little coffee.  delightfully dark.  4.5% oh boy, full-sized sleeves are gonna kick our fargin' arses [i chatted up the rep and he said that the lemon ale that i sampled the night before at st. augustine's is cleared of all its yeast and that's why its so un-hefeweisen-like and refreshing.  and probably why i actually liked a wheat beer!] Howe Sound's Pothole Filler limited edition oatmeal stout:  9% and 65 IBUs.  a meal in a glass - you could fill a pothole with it.  brown head.  opaque.  lots of coffee.  good thing we had this early so as to...