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an extra link love this week as there's just so much i love right now! student of beer waxes poetic about bridge brewing a couple of great articles in the westender about vcbw:  vcbw one , vcbw two  and joe wiebe's book launch at vcbw (by none other than vcbw organizer chris bjerrisgaard) 8 of the best looking craft beer brands , including one of my faves, 21st amendment   tasting notes for wine lovers when trying craft beers   how to fake it til you make it deciphering beer lists good news for me, champagne boosts memory! lastly, don't forget, craft beer week begins tomorrow night and there are still tix left for several events plus the non-ticketed walk-up events  

my notes from yesterday's beer column on cbc radio's on the coast with stephen quinn: CBC Radio Three's Grant Lawrence set the twitterverse on fire when he challenged listeners to use puns of Canadian bands to name fictious beers. Under the hashtag #CDNBandbeer his listeners responded. So much so that four breweries took up the challenge and have produced beer homages to local bands.     Grant Lawrence of CBC Music came up with the idea last Fall, tweeted it, got a great response and it grew from there. A CBC designer took eight of the suggested beer names and made mock-up labels for them, which were posted on the CBC website. Then Jeremy Sibley of Old Yale Brewing decided he wanted to brew the beers. He recruited three other breweries and the Canadian Band Beer series was created. Old Yale (Chilliwack) has brewed a brown ale called "D.O.Ale", an homage to the legendary Vancouver punk band D.O.A. - This medium-bodied, classic brown ale balances its ...

i'll be on cbc's on the coast with stephen quinn today at 5:50 talking about (and sampling) the cbc band beers

i've got my ticket, do you?? HOPoxia is Heaven for Hops Lovers May 28th, 2013: It's back!! The 3rd annual BC Celebration of Hops is going down in our back lot on July 6th from 3pm-7pm . It's a beer tasting festival that proudly lends its weight to the hoppier side of the scale. This year is sure to be bitter and better than ever with the following 22 brewers descending on our back lot armed with their favourite hop-infused brews: Canoe Club Brewpub Central City Brewing Co. Deep Cove Brewers & Distillers - first-time attendee! Driftwood Brewing Co. Four Winds Brewing Co. - first-time attendee! Granville Island Brewing Co. Howe Sounds Brewing Co. Hoyne Brewing Co. Lighthouse Brewing Co. Longwood Brewing Co. Moon Under Water Parallel 49 Brewing Co. Phillips Brewing Co. Powell St. Brewing Co. - first-time attendee! Russell Brewing Co. Salt Spring Island Ales Spinnakers Brewpub Tree Brewing Co. Tofino Brewing Co. ...

15 things craft beer fans think but nobody says is hoppy beer ruining craft beer? no way says i, check out my chat on cbc radio on just that topic (i'm at the 2:15 mark) joe wiebe on the new breweries opening this spring in and around Vancouver more joe wiebe in urban diner and more joe wiebe - on randy shore's podcast , along with chris bjerrisgaard of vcbw beer awards bug chris craft beer mac n cheese recipe from craftbeer.com  

i had the pleasure of visiting the deep cove brewers and distillers' in-progress site on thursday they held a bit of an open house for media folks its not the easiest place to get to via transit, but i persevered and, once you get out there, you can visit bridge brewing as well, pretty much across the street (in this case the streets are dollarton highway and forester in north vancouver) beer is always worth the effort of travel! she's in a rough state right now, but the brewery has got good bones! the brewery section is coming along well, with most of the equipment in place and they should be able to begin brewing in the next week or so but the boiler room is empty, there are barrels stacked around equipment and the custom bar (which is gorgeous) is on a pallet that's today though the owners expect to be serving you in their tasting room and on the patio by the end of june the tasting room and patio will not be large, but that's okay, there are plenty of...

i love montreal! not just because it has awesome old brick walls like this: but also because of the beer no really, i love beer! and they have some really good beer in montreal especially at dieu du ciel on rue laurier (at st laurent) physically it may be small, but the beer choices are not when i was there on april 28th this was the beer list; about 80% of the 130 recipe rotation offered at this location are brewed on premises (the other 20% come from the big production brewery that also bottles the beers that you can drink across canada) the list changes by approximately 2 beers per day what did i drink while i was there? i had the mosaika and the etc the mosaika was a mosaic hopped pale ale that really showcased the mosaic hop beautiful beer! the etc had 13 malts and 14 hops the malts outweighed the hops, but still a very nice beer the mosaika