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[Craft Beer] Vancouver Craft Beer Week Wrap Up Part 2

Posted in Beer, Bryan, Craft Beer Series, Culinary Events, Drinks, Product Reviews, Vancouver, Vancouver Craft Beer Week, tagged Bomber Brewing Co., Bridge Brewing, Cannery Brewing, Central City Brewing, Copper Ale, craft beer, Driftwood Brewery, ESB, Four Winds Brewing, Hefeweizen, India Session Ale, IPA, ISA, Kolsch, Mill Street Brewery, Mission Springs, Parallel 49 Brewing Company, Pilsner, Porter, R&B Brewing, Radler, Russel Brewing, Scotch Ale, Stiegl, Vancouver Craft Beer Week, Vancouver Island Brewery on June 16, 2014| 1 Comment »

Continuing from Part 1 of my list, let me finish off telling you about the beers I tried:

The List (Continued)

Four Winds Brewing – Phaedra

So far, I haven’t had a Four Winds beer that I didn’t like, and I’m happy to see that tradition continue. This Rye Wheat IPA didn’t blow my mind like the Juxtapose Brett IPA did, but it certainly didn’t disappoint either. Definitely worth drinking.

Mill Street Brewery – Vanilla Porter

Last time I was in Kitchener, I had a flight of Mill Street beers. I didn’t like a single one. I couldn’t even finish the paddle. So I approached this booth with a bit of trepidation. Fortunately it was totally unfounded because their Vanilla Porter is actually really good! Absolutely worth a try.

Parallel 49 – Tricycle Grapefruit Radler

This is the kind of beer that really benefits from a hot, cloudless day. Here I was, sweating away, skin doing its best “cooked lobster” impression, when bam – a fist called refreshing hit me in the face. It’s hard to say how much, if at all, I would like this on a cool, winter night, but when I drank this with the sun beating down on me, it tasted great.

Steigl – Grapefruit

Compared to the other tasty fruit beers available, this one was decidedly lacking.

Cannery Brewing – Squire Scotch Ale

One of Cannery’s year round releases, the Squire Scotch Ale is one of the better scotch ales I’ve had recently.

Mission Springs – Lemon Ginger Radler

Another fist named refreshing. (more…)

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[Craft Beer] Vancouver Island Hermannator and Driftwood Lustrum [Beer Cellar Series]

Posted in Beer, Bryan, Craft Beer Series, Drinks, Product Reviews, tagged beer cellar, Beer Cellar Series, Driftwood Brewery, Hermannator, Ice Bock, Lustrum, sour beer, Vancouver Island Brewery, Victoria on November 26, 2013| 4 Comments »

For my second post, I wanted to introduce a new, regular(ish) segment. One of the great things about craft beer is the multitude of brews suitable of cellaring. A space that has traditionally been reserved for wines, more and more beers are being released that have the ability to age without going bad (assuming they are cellared properly).

As a fairly recent convert to the craft beer scene, I haven’t been able to build up a large trove of cellared beers just yet. But I’m working on it, and I thought it would be cool to share the results. Today I’m going to introduce two beers I’ve just added to my cellar, Vancouver Island’s Hermannator Ice Bock and Driftwood’s Lustrum Wild Sour Ale. I’m going to tell you what they taste like right now, and then at some unspecified point in the future I’m going to revisit them and see how they’ve changed! In the case of Hermannator, I have enough bottles to revisit it multiple times. I’ve spoken (tweeted, really) with Vancouver Island Brewery and they’ve confirmed that, in the right conditions, Hermannator can be be aged for upwards of 5 years!

Vancouver Island Hermannator Ice Bock

The great thing about Ice Bock (or Eisbock) as a style is the way it is made. (more…)