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#21
Posted 08 January 2009 - 07:48 PM
#22
Posted 12 January 2009 - 04:59 PM
I've read (for example) that oysters & stout go together like chips & pop, or cheese & wine. (haven't tried it yet though) When's the next oysters & Guinness night @ Irish Times?Instead of Cheap Wine, Drink Great Beer
Anthony Gismondi writes in Saturday’s Vancouver Sun that in these times, it pays to become a more savvy wine drinker. What he means by that is not so much being more knowledgeable about wine itself, but looking for the best-valued wines rather than resorting to buying cheap wine to save money. Of course, you may have to drink less to stay within your shrunken budget.
Fortunately, drinking great beer presents few such restrictions and takes far less effort. How much money will you have to spend trying to find a wine in that crapshoot $10-$20 price range before you find something better than so-so or worse? Will that wine be just as good next year? Find a single bottle of beer in that price range, and you can be confident that the majority will be good to excellent. Most BC craft beer, on the other hand, is less than $5.00 per 650ml bottle. So for every bottle of wine you drink, you can try at least three different kinds of beer, if not more.
Would switching over to drinking more beer represent much of a sacrifice for wine drinkers? If you are sticking strictly to BC products, there certainly aren’t as many craft beers as there are wines. The BC wine industry has more money and government support than our brewers. Consequently, there are more of them. However, as you will glean from my earlier postings, there is no loss when it comes to food pairing. In fact, I would argue that given the flavour palette available with beer, there is a gain. Beer shines where pairings for wine are “tricky:” chocolate, oysters, sharp cheeses, and spicy foods.
http://bcbrews.wordp...ink-great-beer/Another thing that you will discover when you apply a connoisseur’s approach (kindly refrain from holding your nose up in the air) to beer is its seasonality — certain beer styles are suited to certain seasons. Jurgen Gothe, wine writer for the Georgia Straight, however, doesn’t seem to recognize that. His ‘Drink of the Week’ for December 30 was Tiger lager from Singapore. (Personally, I’m not too keen on drinking a generic macro lager from the other side of the world, especially after shoveling snow off the sidewalk. If I went to a Singaporean restaurant here, it would probably be the best choice available only because the proprietor likely knows nothing about beer except to stock what will sell and make the most money. In Singapore, though, you would be cheating yourself out of having a great beer if you kept only to Tiger.)
I’m not saying that you can’t drink a lager outside of summer; you can. But there are Bocks, Doppelbocks, and Eisbocks for this time of year that are more appropriate lagers than a Helles, Pils, or Vienna, both in terms of how they make us feel and in going with the hearty foods we eat to give us comfort. Barley wines, imperial stouts, old ales, Scotch ales, and Christmas/winter spiced beer often evolved from nature’s cycle. With respect to wine, I can only think of young wines, like Beaujolais Nouveau, and mulled wine that are consumed during a particular time of year. Therefore, in adopting the seasonality of beer, we become more in sync with our environment.
So to all wine drinkers, worry not. Find comfort in beer. And if your portfolio has taken a dive, seek shelter in a Bailout Bitter.
that reminds me, check out Driftwood's Old Cellar Dweller while it lasts. Upon a 2nd try it was really awesome, and definitely not "like a shot of whisky" as that other guy said that night (above).
#23
Posted 12 January 2009 - 06:24 PM
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
#24
Posted 13 January 2009 - 03:00 PM
Price is $85, all in. Great deal.
#25
Posted 13 January 2009 - 05:34 PM
I got some details about the Swans Dinner.
Brewmaster's Dinner at the Swans Wild Saffron Bistro.
6 courses, beer pairings with every course.
February 5th, at 6pm
Price: $49.95
Brewmaster Andrew Tessier and Executive Chef Aaron Lawrence will be introducing the food and beers.
Tickets available at Swans Front Desk (250) 361-3310
info@swanshotel.com
506 Pandora Ave.
I think I might go.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
#26
Posted 13 January 2009 - 07:11 PM
#27
Posted 13 January 2009 - 08:08 PM
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
#28
Posted 13 January 2009 - 08:54 PM
There were a couple of really interesting items in the current issue - I read a copy that belongs to a facility I was visiting, and would buy a my own copy, but am having a hard time finding it anywhere. Last one I bought was at Chapters, but I've checked Harris Green London Drugs, Market on Yates, and Fairfield Thrifty: nada.
#29
Posted 14 January 2009 - 09:25 AM
#30
Posted 14 January 2009 - 10:10 AM
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#31
Posted 14 January 2009 - 10:38 AM
Personally I love the smell of a boilling pot of wort.
#32
Posted 14 January 2009 - 12:25 PM
#33
Posted 14 January 2009 - 12:31 PM
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
#34
Posted 15 January 2009 - 04:48 PM
I'm especially lookng for a tulip glass (the tasting glass in the pic /\ ) & a trappist glass (a medieval-looking chalice/goblet) & maybe a giant Hoegaarden-style tumbler.
#35
Posted 22 January 2009 - 09:33 PM
http://www.atv.ca/vi...news_66190.aspxIsland's newest micro-brewery almost ready
COMOX - A Comox Valley businessman is about to have his dream become a reality at month's end when he opens Vancouver Island's newest micro-brewery.
Bob Surgenor, owner of an industrial electrical contracting company, says he began seriously considering the brewery when he noticed his business working with forest companies start to decline. Surgenor saw building the brewery as an ideal way to keep his workers busy, believing the process control and project management functions are a great fit for his employees.
The Surgenor Brewing Company is hoping to begin production with a "Steam Donkey Lager" and an "Irish Red House Ale". The products will be available in distinctive aluminum bottles through local pubs, beer and wine stores. Surgenor is hoping it will also be distributed through government liquor stores.
#36
Posted 22 January 2009 - 11:12 PM
lol
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
#37
Posted 23 January 2009 - 08:11 AM
http://blog.macleans...what-recession/
#38
Posted 23 January 2009 - 07:32 PM
#39
Posted 23 January 2009 - 08:28 PM
#40
Posted 17 February 2009 - 09:22 PM
http://driftwoodbeer...tival-march-14/CASK BROTHER BART’S AT SPINNAKERS CASK FESTIVAL MARCH 14
Rob Monk over at Spinnakers is putting together a massive cask event which will feature cask conditioned beer from some of BC’s best microbreweries. The event is Saturday, March 14; we will be offering a cask version of our newest release, Brother Bart’s Belgian Brown. This will be a great event, don’t miss what will be one of the biggest poolings of top quality BC cask beer outside of the Great Canadian Beer Festival! The festival will run from 12 to 5pm, with tickets going for $25.00. Bookings are limited, call 250.386.2739 for more info.
re: /\ according to Wiki a... "Cask ale or cask-conditioned beer is the term for unfiltered and unpasteurised beer which is conditioned (including secondary fermentation) and served from a cask, usually without additional nitrogen or carbon dioxide pressure."
I've heard of brewers using old whiskey barrels for their brewing also. It gives the beer peaty, scotch-like layers.
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