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if you missed me on cbc radio's on the coast last week never fear!  you can still catch my talk with matthew lazin-ryder about camra's fuss campaign and how much i love radlers follow the link to on the coast past episodes click on july 22 and fast-forward to about 10 minutes before the end and hopefully you'll be able to tune in next tuesday (august 5) at 5:50 p.m. for my next beer column

beer geek life lessons "Beer is an affordable luxury, and the dividends it pays in flavor and camaraderie are worth the (ever-expanding) expenditures. " joe wiebe on canadian food bloggers reviewing fat tug and full nelson ipas camra president reports that the gov't is slowly realizing it needs to rework the new "unhappy hour" minimum pricing - pitchers can now be priced at $0.20 per ounce and paddy treavor's take on the new pitcher pricing "They cannot really believe we are that stupid to believe this small, token change fixes the EPIC FAIL that is our new minimum drink price standards." i don't think he's impressed i have my ticket to the inaugural vancouver craft brew cruise (8:00 p.m. session) do you?  tix still available for te 11:00 a.m. cruise

happy birthday to my mommy! here she is enjoying a pint of mill street organic lager she has to use two hands these days but i love that she can still down a pint with lunch!

i think the elysian brewing tap take over at st. augustine's on monday was the largest i have been to 25 taps of elysian were available (out of the 60 taps at st. a's) so big in fact that st. a's kept running out of taster glasses because everyone was ordering paddles in a vain attempt to try all of the offerings the place was packed and kudos must go to the servers who were run off their feet trying to get us all our beers i made it through eight tasters (and a lobster sandwich) before i tapped out first paddle contained: woo-tang kettle sour mortis persimmon sour ale barrel aged savant ipa zombo experimental ipa second paddle contained: barrel aged loser pale ale cowabunga ipa bombo experimental pale ale huy five pale ale as usual, i didn't take very good notes but here they are regardless and please note that i really quite liked all eight of my beer choices, despite how my notes may sound: woo-tang kettle sour:  yup, that's a sour. ...

here are my notes from yesterday's beer column on cbc radio one's on the coast wherein i explained to matthew lazin-ryder what all the fuss is about: You may have heard about the tempest in a pint glass that has hit Vancouver . Wondering what all the FUSS is about??? Who cares about accurate measuring of beer? Frankly, YOU should.  And here's why: CAMRA Vancouver's President and Treasurer recently (July 5, 2014) went to some licensed establishments in town and measured how much beer was being poured, and found out that very few places were actually serving as much beer as their menus stated. And they reported their findings via social media.  Why did CAMRA do this? CAMRA is a beer advocacy group - the Campaign for Real Ale - part of whose mandate it is to "encourage the responsible enjoyment of beer and actively support laws and regulations that contribute to that objective".     To that end, CAMRA's Vancouver Chapter...

i will be on cbc radio one's on the coast with matthew lazin-ryder at 5:50 this afternoon talking about camra's fuss campaign and why it should matter to all beer consuming folks in british columbia and extolling the virtues of radlers 690 am 88.1 fm in vancouver

for the love of radlers including a make it yourself radler recipe ninkasi brewing has a space program yes, you read that correctly a space program and they recently launched a rocket full of yeast into the outersphere stateside on the drive is fuss approved! but half of the bars surveyed by the vancouver sun are not (you'll note that the craft beer serving establishments were the ones closest to serving a full 20oz pint... quality and quantity - yay!) light beer is on its way out according to washington post yummy dung smoked beer is coming to the u s of a