
http://phillipsbeer.com/craft-beers/
thx for the heads-up re: Legacy Ale I'll have to check it out

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It was sort of a potluck so people brought some & we didn't find out where they came from exactly. some had been in the fridge or pantry for a long time, most came from the Royal Oak & Douglas Liquor Plus stores.Holy cow! An impressive haul. Where do you buy all these beers? I haven't seen half of them at the Fort and Foul Bay liquor store.
THAT is cool. I like this part:By the way, Unknown Victoria has a new item posted about the local history of beer, linked here.
so maybe it makes sense to have a brewery district on Government, maybe within 1km of the new Phillips location. & it would be good for beer tourists also to try out all the Victoria beers, since they'd be relatively close together.Clearly demand was strong, because the following year Steinberger moved downtown, establishing a larger operation at the southeast corner of Government and Discovery streets. By 1863, six local breweries were supplying the city’s numerous saloons, packed with sailors of the British Royal Navy, which formally established its base at Esquimalt in 1865. The successful brewers became prominent citizens: Charles Gowen, who founded the Phoenix Brewery in 1868, later became a Victoria city councillor, and Arthur Bunster, who started the Colonial Brewery in 1859, served in the B.C. legislature and the federal parliament.
“These guys had to be good,” says Greg Evans, executive director of the Maritime Museum of British Columbia, who did his M.A. thesis on Vancouver Island’s early brewers. “They were an innovative, pioneering group.” Not only did they have to compete with bottled British ales imported by the Royal Navy, they had to ship in many of their ingredients and equipment from San Francisco, and had few of the tools (such as artificial refrigeration) that modern brewers rely upon today. Nevertheless, in 1886 the Vancouver Brewery, located on Herald Street, received a gold medal at the Paris Exposition for the superior quality of its ale and porter.
Posted 22 December 2008 - 05:50 PM
so maybe it makes sense to have a brewery district on Government, maybe within 1km of the new Phillips location. & it would be good for beer tourists also to try out all the Victoria beers, since they'd be relatively close together.
Posted 22 December 2008 - 05:55 PM
When you've barely scavenged enough cans and bottles to afford a six pack of Lucky or Old Milwaukee, Vancouver's Bowen Island Brewery offers some drinkable alternatives for the same price. Hey, just because you are a bum doesn't mean you have to drink like one.
Posted 22 December 2008 - 06:00 PM
I recently discovered two dusty, stubby beer bottles of Lucky in my garage.
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has anyone noticed what it says on the caps on Phillips bottles? "Remove cap before drinking" Is that supposed to be funny or is there a legal reason for it, like it's so they can't be sued by people who try to drink their beer without opening the bottle?
Posted 01 January 2009 - 12:25 PM
You can't get cheap, clean beer out of a kitchen faucet.
Housing a complete brewery inside of a 2-foot by 8-foot kitchen counter, the NanoBrewMaster is compact, mobile, and more exciting than your everyday kitchen cupboard. From sterilization on through to beer at the tap, the brewing of beer is handled automatically by the onboard computer system.
In addition to self-cleaning, the system also recognizes when to heat and when to cool, insuring that a cool, refreshing home brew is waiting for you at the other end of the tap. Two 7.5-gallon containers allow for up to 15 gallons of beer per brewing cycle. Experiment with one, and stay traditional with the other.
Posted 02 January 2009 - 01:16 PM
It’s been said that without beer, there would be no English civilization. That's proven true in British Columbia: in 1792, during his first survey of this coast, Captain George Vancouver mentioned in his journals that his crew created a “very salubrious and palatable” beer from local pine needles. So perhaps it’s no coincidence that the first commercial brewery was established in B.C. the same year that the province was founded.
http://en.wikipedia....t#Oatmeal_stoutBut by the early 20th century these beers had all but disappeared. When Michael Jackson [the beer hunter, not the singer
] mentioned the defunct Eldrige Pope Oat Malt Stout in his 1977 book The World Guide to Beer, Oatmeal stout was no longer being made anywhere, but Charles Finkel, founder of Merchant du Vin, was curious enough to commission Samuel Smith to produce a version. Samuel Smith's Oatmeal Stout then became the template for other breweries' versions.
Posted 02 January 2009 - 05:50 PM
Your dreams have come true, my friend:
Beer straight from the kitchen counter
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