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Beer News : A-Frame Brewing is now open in Squamish.   They’re open Wednesday through Sunday and have an opening line up of: Okanagan Lake Cream Ale, Magic Lake Porter, Elfin Lakes Belgian Ale and Sproat Lake Dry Hopped Pale Ale.   I’m noticing a theme in their beer names... Old Yale Brewing in Chilliwack just got their lounge endorsement, so you can get full 20oz flights or 12 and 16oz pours now, with a selection of food options as well. New Year’s Eve beer events:   There’s a party at Darby’s Gastown .  Reserve your seat now!  They’ll be featuring limited releases from Strange Fellows, Deschutes, Four Winds and more.  No tickets to buy or set menus, just reserve a seat and show up to pay as you go. Big Rock UrbanBrewery is having a party that will ring in the new year six times!  Beginning at the far East of Canada, with a shot of Newfoundland Screech, they will count down the new year in each time zone of Canada.  $60 get...

from my files for CBC's On the Coast: On November 19 th  head over to the Yaletown Brewpub.  They’re hosting an all IPA caskival.  Just show up at 11:30 and get your $20 passport to try all 11 casks. This Saturday (November 12), Burnaby is hosting the second annual BurnabyBeer Fest at SpaceKraft on Kingsway.  There will be 30 beers and tasty appetizers to sample while you’re entertained by live music.  And there are three sessions to choose from.  Tickets are available on EventBrite. Luppolo Brewing has opened its doors!  With a soft opening on October 28 th they swelled the ranks of ‘Yeast Van’ breweries.  Their tasting room is beautiful, and they opened with a strong line up of 7 beers on tap.  Go visit them at 1123 Venables.  I’d also like to congratulate Luppolo for winning the judge’s choice at Celebrate Craft... Beer last weekend, for their fresh hopped Belgian rye IPA. Tomorrow (November 9) at Faculty Brewing y...

oooh look! i made it to the cbc website and facebook page! B.C. beer festival highlights coming up for fall 2015 On The Coast beer columnist Rebecca Whyman has her picks for the best festivals this year By On The Coast, CBC News Posted: Sep 15, 2015 5:00 PM PT Last Updated: Sep 15, 2015 5:00 PM PT Rebecca Whyman also stopped by to taste some Rhubarb Wit from Big Rock Brewery. She described it as "a classic witbier aged with rhubarb to lend a hint of tartness to subtle notes of orange peel and spice. Unfiltered and delicate." (Rebecca Whyman) Related Stories B.C beer prices rise, despite liquor law changes, says NDP Craft beer credentials are not always what they appear External Links Whistler Village Beer Festival Hopped BC Hop Fest HarvestHaus Craft Year Craft Beer BC Beer Awards (Note: CBC does not endorse and is not responsible for the content of external links.) ...

here are my notes from yesterday's beer column on cbc radio's on the coast: As we head into Fall, the crunching you hear won't just be the leaves under your feet - it may well be the liver of a craft beer lover cracking under the pressure of keeping up with all the fabulous craft beer events in September and October!  And this is by no means an exhaustive listing - there are always so many great beer events on the go, it's hard to keep track of them - and don't even try to get to them all - you'd need to be Hermione Granger to succeed. Start with this past weekend's Great Canadian Beer Festival in Victoria, and end with the BC Beer Awards on October 24th, filling in events every single weekend in between, and you've got a recipe for a sprained liver.  And a really great two months! Both Stephen and I had the pleasure of attending the Great Canadian Beer Festival this year.  This festival is always a well-organized two days of beer tasting.  And f...

St. Patrick’s day is approaching.   Can I tempt you to drink something other than green beer? I mean hey, if you're really into green beer, then by all means, drink up.  I hear they'll be serving it at the Blarney Stone. For me though,  food colouring added to beer doesn’t enhance my drinking experience, especially as it is generally added to macro lagers.   I would rather drink flavourful beer!   I find the idea of “drowning the shamrock” for luck, where a clover is added to beer or whisky and the whole thing downed, shamrock and all, a lot more palatable way to put some green in my beer to celebrate the day. Afterall, g reen beer is not an Irish tradition.   So where did green beer come from?   Who thought that it would be a good idea to slip food colouring into beer?   T he earliest reference I found to the drinking of green beer is a newspaper articlefrom 1914 about a New York social club serving green beer at a St. Patrick’s...

as my self-imposed month of cleansing comes to a close i have some thoughts on trying to be a beer person and live without beer for 31 days first off, let me admit that i didn't make it to 31 days i chose to have drinks on the 14th and the 15th, then tried to go back on the wagon for the rest of the month but alas, once you open that darned pandora's box, it's soooo darned easy to find another good reason to drink! my motives for drinking on the 14th and 15th were pure the ones since then have not been on the 14th i went to an about-to-open brewery and tried a sample of each of their beers this was an opportunity that i didn't feel i could miss out on that i would be cutting off my nose to spite my face if i was to be stubborn and refuse the time-sensitive offer just because it was january i had quite a bit of internal debate about the matter it was not an easy decision to make in the end, i went with my gut and drank the beers two weeks later, i have no ...

my notes from yesterday's beer column on cbc radio's on the coast with stephen quinn: So you know you like craft beer. Now what? I think learning more about craft beer should be the second thing on everybody's craft beer to do list... right behind drinking more of it! I was at a tasting room the other evening and the folks beside me were very enthusiastic about their craft beers. It appeared they were on a bit of a brewery crawl, which I very much salute, and were trying to find the words to describe the different beers and how they felt about them. Now I'm not going to go all beer snob on you and say that they were using the wrong words to describe the beers, because there aren't wrong words to describe any experience. Sure, they could have used words like "mouthfeel" and "lacing on the glass" and other bits of beer lingo, but that's not what struck me most about these beer appreciators. No, what made me keep listening was th...

yaletown brewpub's cask festival was good times so many good beers so many fun people to drink with   my favourite beer of the afternoon? pretty hard to choose as there were so many good ones but since you're making me choose, i'll go with the central city collaboration cask with gigantic, parallel 49 and ninkasi imperial ipa - some matured in cognac barrels, some matured in bourbon barrels, then blended and dry-hopped so very, very, very, very delicious (see how i did that four verys there?)  

here are my notes from yesterday's beer column on cbc radio's on the coast with stephen quinn: Get out your calendars and mark down these beer festival dates! There are beer festivals all year round, but right now is a particularly rife season, just thick with festivals here in BC, and it is not entirely due to Oktoberfests!   There’s the Great Canadian Beer festival in Victoria, the BC Beer Awards, Whistler Beer Festival, Yaletown Brewpub's Caskival, Harrison Beer Festival, Powell River Oktoberfest and Bomber Brewing’s Oktoberfest just to name a few. There are definitely elements that are common to all beer festivals – drinking beer for starters – but there are differences, which is why you can’t just say you’ve been to a beer festival and now you’re done.   Some beer festivals have a theme – like Oktoberfest or casks – some are big, some are small, some are about beer and food pairings – like Vancouver’s Brewery and the Beast meat and beer feast – some are hel...

stephen quinn is back! i have missed him so i'm especially looking forward to today's beer column cbc radio one on the coast 5:50 pm 88.1 fm 690 am in vancouver i'll be talking about some upcoming local beer festivals and oktoberfests

yaletown brewpub will be adding 4 extra casks as part of their vancouver craft beer week celebration! and there will be a feature menu of craft beer inspired items as well. Thursday May 29th: 4pm: Pale ale krausened with hefeweizen infused with Citrus Friday May 30th: 4pm: Oud Bruin Saturday May 31st: 11:30am: Belgian Dubbel infused with Port and aged on oak chips Thursday June 5th: 4pm: IPA dry hopped with Galaxy Friday June 6th: 4pm: Cherry Wheat Saturday June 7th: 11:30am IPA dry hopped with Summer

i managed to hit two cask nights this past week the first was the railway cask night on tuesday where camra vancouver launched its new #yvrcaskmeetup i was an ambassador and got to great the folks who came out in support (apparently i was the only one expecting the flash!) and drink the wonderfully hoppy cask of central city ipa - so good i had to have two!   (shown here with beer brittle made by the talented ryan wong) on thursday night i went to the yaletown brewpub for their cask of ginger marmalade wit and some of the seasonal india red ale all were delicious! although i never expected otherwise

the artwork of the amazing 21st amendment cans (incidently, brew free or die was what i drank on the soccer field all labour day weekend - i love it when i can find it... and consume it!!) go joe wiebe! so much success coming to such a deserving beer writer ! five places to drink in vancouver featuring my home away from home, yaletown brewpub and the prettiest drinking hole in vancouver, 33 acres (incidently, i reviewed yaletown brewpub in the upcoming bc craft beer news, and steamworks in the inaugural summer edition)

after a little stout with fuggles cask at the yaletown brewpub tonight followed by a good-bye party at st. augustine's i will be off to portland for the long weekend! crazily enough though, my excursion is not beer-related nope, i'm going there to play soccer beer will be consumed, both on the field and off but it is not the goal of the trip so who knows what i'll end up drinking!?

happy ipa day!! what is ipa day? silly rabbit, its one of the best days of the year! what's going on in vancouver? pink pints is hosting a cask of four winds mango ipa at rogue on broadway from 6-9 p.m. the donnelly group kicks off its 30 days of ipa yaletown brewpub has its weekly cask night what's going on in victoria? if you need some guidance on choosing which fabulous bc ipa to drink , jan zeschky has you covered! and finally, here's the ipa infographic that the beer wench had some friends of her create (Gina Schuland and Rebecca Selkregg of Deschutes Brewery)  

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...

my notes from yesterday's beer column on cbc radio one's on the coast with stephen quinn summer beers: The weather may not bear witness to the fact, but it is summer. That means a whole new season of beers is upon us.    In general terms, summer is the season of the lager. There are many fabulous summer ales available, but summer is the season in which lagers shine. Much maligned in recent history as flavour-less yellow fizzy beer, there are some wonderful craft brewed lagers available to quench your summer thirst. Cold is not a flavour so I would suggest avoiding a beer that advertises that it is. Instead I'd head for a beer that says it is crisp and refreshing and full of flavour. Also synonymous with summer are wheat ales and fruit beers. Lower alcohol percentages are also often found in a summer beer. When its hot out it is less enjoyable to quaff a 9% ale. A nice light low-alcohol lager just hits the spot so much more. A reminder about the differe...

well, i'm alive and still making it to work every day so vancouver craft beer week has not yet totally kicked my ass or any of my major organs! opening night on friday was a really great event they used the roundhouse to its utmost new breweries were on one side, with the lone cider stall lots of space in the middle for stage and oyster bar and mingling then all the old stand-bys on the other side it was packed, but not so full that it took too long to get a beer or from one side to the other and there were oysters! i made it to the yaletown for a pint after the event... which may or may not have been a good idea! saturday i attended the four winds open house out in the boonies no really, its out somewhere that required bridges and tunnels to get to but the beer was good, we were greeted with a casked fir tip ipa sample, growlers and bostons were already filled so no need to wait for yours, the brewery was open for a tour or just wandering around and checking out...

join the revolution!! as mentioned by me, on cbc radio's on the coast... from joe wiebe: Celebrate with me at  Yaletown Brewing  (1111 Mainland, Vancouver) on  Monday, June 3 at 7:00pm  as I launch my new book,  Craft Beer Revolution: The Insider's Guide to B.C. Breweries . The book will be available for sale for $19.95 (includes one beer ticket) and I will be available to autograph/personalize copies (Father's Day is right around the corner-HINT).  In addition to YBC's exceptional regular line-up of beers, there will also be 3 special “revolutionary” casks, prepared exclusively for this event by three Vancouver craft breweries. This event is part of  Vancouver Craft Beer Week . The event is open to anyone -- no reservations/tickets required.   You can RSVP here:  https://www.facebook.com/events/152320174948766 .  Or if you're not on Facebook, please reply to let me know if you'll be attending. ...