beernesday

so much beer so little time to devote to blogging about it woe is me! alibi room - wednesday: - wrath of khan cask - as usual, tariq's brew is ambrosia!  this one is being touted as his "swan song" because it was the last cask he made at big ridge.  but fear not, its not really the end of an era - tariq is still with the mark james group, he's just at yaletown now instead of big ridge - deschutes fresh squeezed ipa - mosaic and citra?  together?  you know this beer is a good one i need to get some bottles of it!  badly! - gigantic ipa - i love ben love! - four winds ipa - i love it when a new brewery makes such great beer right off the gun yaletown - thursday: - espresso stout cask - i wasn't feeling stouty, so i just had a sample - damned fine cask - raspberry wheat ale - summer in a glass! those black raspberries impart a tonne of flavour without too much sweetness.  i'm not a fruity wheaty beer kind of person, but this one i simply ad...

glutton for hop punishment that i am not only did i attend hoppapalooza yesterday, i'm going back to the alibi for more today! what a good deal that was $49 for all the beer i could swill plus delicious chili for dinner (there were several chili choices, including the veggie one i had) and the program!  what a great idea, and a fun read not just a list of the beers available, its a novel about the craft beer movement in vancouver chock full of inside jokes and original artwork for the cover definitely one for the archives of the 40 some odd kegs and 5 casks i got almost half way through trying them yesterday (i do not hold out hope that i will finish the list tonight though - i shoulda gone with half pours yesterday) my original plan was to start at the top of the list and work my way as far down as i could but people kept suggesting beers i couldn't miss, so i took their suggestions and between those went back to following the list 1.   gary's impe...