CAMRA BC What’s Brewing Deadline
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You read it the day it arrives, but have you ever though of writing for it? CAMRA BC’s What’s Brewing Newsletter is accepting articles for their next issue. Here is your chance to write about that trip you took to visit Vancouver Island’s breweries and brew pubs, or perhaps you’d like to describe that beer festival you went to somewhere far away. Well here is you chance!
The next What’s Brewing deadline is December 16th. Articles should be less than 700 words and submitted to Philip Atkinson at camrabc@shaw.ca. |
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With both the 100th beer rotation celebration at the Alibi Room and DIX X-Mas X-treme beer festival last week, you’d be right to think that Christmas came early for craft beer lovers here in Vancouver. The 100th beer rotation celebration brought brewers and craft beer fans together to sample some of the best beers brewed here in BC. Owner Nigel Springthorpe billed the event as a tribute to the BC craft brewing community, highlighting the many talented brewers we have here in the province.
DIX brewmaster Derrick Franche’s yearly X-Mas X-Treme winter beer festival featured over 20 winter beers. Craft beer enthusiasts packed the DIX to sample some interesting, creative, and downright delicious ‘one-offs’. Special mention goes to Dave Varga, who won the brewers choice award for his Taylor’s Crossing Christmas Cake, an amber ale flavoured with molasses, spices, and brandied fruit. Also worth noting was R&B’s Auld Nick Winter Ale, which won the peoples choice award. The Vancouver Morris Men were on hand to keep the party lively with their traditional English folk dances and songs.
These two events showcased the creativity and talent of BC craft brewers. Thanks again to everyone involved with the events: the brewers, the organizers, and the volunteers!
Cheers! Ryan O’Connor
Editor, CAMRA Vancouver
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Casks
Yaletown Making it Real (Ale)
December 10 @ 4:00pm
Brewmaster Iain Hill will tap a cask of his Darjeeling IPA this Thursday. Iain has infused this IPA with Darjeeling tea, a highly regarded black tea. If you like to fight your hangovers with plenty of tea then consider this a preemptive strike!
Dix Cask Thursday
December 10 @ 5:00pm
No cask this week due to a Canucks home game.
The Whip Real Ale Sundays
December 13 @ 4:00pm
This Saturday will see a cask of Tin Whistle Chocolate Cherry Porter tapped at The Whip. As you may have guessed by the name, this beer combines the traditional dark chocolate character found in many porters with a more unique cherry profile.
St. Augustines’s Manichean Mondays
December 14 @ 6:00pm
St Augustine’s will have a cask from Lighthouse Brewing next Monday. No word yet on specifics of the cask.
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| New Beer Arrivals/Restocks/Seasonals
BigRIdge will stay open! That’s right, BigRidge Brewing will remain open at their current location until their new building across the street is complete (hopefully sometime in March).
Brewery Creek
3045 Main Street, Vancouver
11:00am – 11:00pm daily
Anchor Christmas Ale (1.5L bottle); Brooklyn Local 2; Tullibardine 1488 Whisky Beer; Yukon Ice Fog IPA, Midnight Sun Espresso Stout.
Darby’s Liquor Store
2001 MacDonald Street, Vancouver
9:00am – 11:00pm daily
Granville Island Jolly Abbot; Howe Sound Diamond Head Stout; Light House Winter Ale; Rogue Yellow Snow IPA; Tree Brewing Winter Mingler. Restocks: Brew Dog Hardcore IPA; Paddock Wood Double Double; Tree Brewing Black Tree Dark Ale.
Firefly Fine Wines and Ales (Vancouver)
2857 Cambie Street, Vancouver
10:00am – 11:00pm daily
Anchor Christmas (1.5L bottle); Brooklyn Local 2; Budel gift pack; Central City Winter Ale; Duvel (1.5L bottle); Piraat 10.5; Rogue Yellow Snow IPA (5L keg); Tin Whistle Chocolate Cherry Porter; Yukon Midnight Sun Espresso Stout.
Firefly Fine Wines and Ales (Maple Ridge)
21755 Lougheed Highway, Maple Ridge
10:00am – 11:00pm daily
Anchor Christmas Ale; Central City Medley Pack; Erdinger Dunkel; Green’s Gluten Free Beers; Nelson Faceplant Winter Ale; Rogue Santa’s Private Reserve; Samuel Smith Taddy Porter.
Viti
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| Upcoming Events
December 6 – December 30
Irish Heather Long Table Series
The Irish Heather GastroPub
212 Carrall Street, Vancouver
Cost: $12+
Info: Long Table Series blog
- due to the popularity of this series, it has been extended “until you stop coming.”
January 1 – March 31
Campagnolo Pizza and Beer Pairing
Campagnolo
1020 Main St., Vancouver
- From January to the end of March Campagnolo will feature a special menu pairing their signature pizzas with craft beer. Campagnolo will pair their margarita pizza with R&B Lager, their Salciccia pizza with R&B Raven Cream Ale, and their Funghi pizza paired with a bottle of Menabrea Italian Lager.
January 10
3rd Annual Feast of Five Firkins
The Whip
209 E 6th Ave., Vancouver
- R&B Brewing and the whip host the third annual Feast of Five Firkins. Five brewers, five firkins, five courses. More information to come…
January 17 @ 2:30pm
CAMRA Vancouver AGM
Don’t forget there are many more events listed on the CAMRA Vancouver Calendar. |
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