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[Travel / Beer] 17 Spots on Vancouver’s North Shore Ale Trail

Posted in Beer, Breakfast, Brewery, Craft Beer Series, Dinner, Joyce, Lunch, North Vancouver, Travel, tagged BC Ale Trail, BC Beer, Black Kettle Brewing, Bridge Brewing, Capilano Suspension Bridge, Deep Cove Brewers, Deep Cove Kayak, House of Funk Brewing, Lonsdale Quay Market, Lower Lonsdale, North Point Brewing, north vancouver, Shipyards District, Tap and Barrel, Tomahawk Restaurant, Vancouver's North Shore, Wildeye Brewing on August 3, 2021| Leave a Comment »

Mr. and I got a taste of our post-pandemic world while exploring Vancouver’s North Shore Ale Trail for three days in early July. That’s 16 long months after the first COVID-19 lockdown in March 2020! We checked out a total of 17 spots in North Vancouver, including 9 craft breweries.

On our trip, we made a stop at Capilano Suspension Bridge Park, kayaked for 3 hours in Deep Cove, explored the Shipyards District, went for a waterfront stroll, and were basically in a constant food and beer coma.

I wrote a guest post on BC Ale Trail’s website detailing my 3-day trip. Here are some of the beer highlights for us:

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[Roundup] 8 Metro Vancouver Restaurants You Should Go for Food and Craft Beer

Posted in Asian, Beer, Beer pairing, Brewery, Craft Beer Series, Fine dining, Happy Hour, Japanese, Joyce, Lower Mainland, Mexican, Neighbourhood Gem, New Westminster, North Vancouver, Pan Asian, Port Moody, Roundup, Taco, Vancouver, tagged BC Ale Trail, BC Beer, Beer pairing, Bells and Whistles, Field House Brewing, Food and Beer, Gyoza Bar, Luppolo Brewing, Osteria Savio Volpe, Roundup, Tap and Barrel, Torafuku, Wildeye Brewing on July 29, 2021| Leave a Comment »

There are so many options in Greater Vancouver for craft beer lovers to find amazing food and beer pairings. You are probably familiar with gastropubs and bars such as Alibi Room, St. Augustine’s and O’Hare’s. If you are looking for a date night idea, or to try something different while still being able to enjoy a pint or two, I’ve put together a list of 8 restaurants ranging from Lebanese to pan-Asian cuisine, to Italian favourites and hidden gem fine-dining.

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[Craft Beer] Twin Sails Brewing’s 2nd Anniversary Beer Releases #BrewersRow

Posted in Beer, Brewery, Craft Beer Series, Drinks, Joyce, Port Moody, Product Reviews, Restaurants, tagged Barrel Aged, BC Ale Trail, BC Beer, Biere de Crabe, Bourbon Barrel Aged, Brewers Row, craft beer, Dry Hopped, Imperial Stout, IPA, Milkshake IPA, Saison, stout, Twin Sails Brewing on November 23, 2017| Leave a Comment »

A couple of weeks ago, Twin Sails Brewing in Port Moody celebrated its 2nd anniversary. To celebrate, they released a total of 8 beers on Friday, November 10, at their anniversary party.

Bryan can attest to the fact that I’m not the biggest advocate for TS because I’m not a big IPA drinker, and TS has made their name with all the interesting IPAs (among other beers) that they’ve produced over the last couple of years. That being said, I was really curious about one of the new releases, so to the contrary of my usual behaviour, I decided to join the crowd, meet up with Bryan (the huge TS fan) and check out the anniversary party. In fact, I even convinced a few of my colleagues to tag along.

And then, a 40-minute line-up later, I got to try all 7 of the 8 new releases that were available at the anniversary party. By this point, my colleagues had given up on me, and went to Yellow Dog next door instead.

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[Travel] Gladstone Brewing Company, Courtenay BC

Posted in Craft Beer Series, Drinks, Joyce, Travel, Vancouver Island, tagged #BCAleTrail, BC Ale Trail, BC Beer, beer, beer flight, Belgian Ale, Courtenay, craft beer, Gladstone Brewing Company, Gose, Indian Session Ale, Vancouver Island on September 25, 2017| Leave a Comment »

While we were staying in Courtenay, we learned that there were two breweries in town plus another one in Cumberland. It was a very hot summer day and we needed some refreshing beer to cool us down, so we paid Gladstone Brewing a visit!

Gladstone focuses on Belgian ales, European lagers, and Pacific Northwest style India pale ales. The interior is quite interesting. It reminded me of an auto repair shop. In fact, its flight paddles are license plates mounted on a piece of wood plank.