Beer, Food, Life
From the category archives:
There’s nothing like large quantities of beer at lunch time after sleeping late for sucking all motivation to accomplish anything with your day. I’m back from the Dix Winter Caskival (actually they call it the X-mas Xtreme beer festival, but whatever) and in condition to write about it. Thank God for notes, and beer. The [...]
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Photo Credit: sashafatcat Tomorrow (December 6th) is the 2008 edition of Dix Winter Caskival. If you’re in Vancouver and like good beer, then you’d better go. All of the local brewers take a break from making boring commercial beers and put together a couple of dozen casks of fun and experimental beers for people who [...]
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For my first review under my new system, I’d like to do something special. As everybody knows (because the world loves Canadian history), it is Quebec city’s 400th anniversary. It may not compare favourably to cities in Europe and Asia, but, in North America, Quebec is winning. And beer drinkers are winning too. Unibroue, the [...]
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I created a reviews category, but I’m not really sure how I feel about reviewing beer. How is my opinion, or anyone else’s, relevant to your appreciation of beer? Maybe if I did more beer reviews and you realised that we like the same kinds of beer, then my reviews would be worthwhile. But why [...]
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One of the beers that survived the luggage handler’s fragile-baggage-toss competition from my trip to Belgium last summer was a 1999 Reserve Chimay Bleu. I’m shocked that it has taken this long, but I finally cracked the Chimay last night and, just for comparison’s sake, I also had a couple of regular, non-aged Chimay Bleus [...]
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I found this neat photo titled When Beer Ruled the Earth on flickr. The photographer, Lone Primate, also added a very clever caption. “Millions of years ago, when beer roamed the Earth, small liqueurs would ooze away in terror at the approach of Pintius Maximus, the fiercest of all the golden liquids ever to reign. [...]
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Dix Summer Caskival is a showcase of cask conditioned (experimental) beers from many of the local microbreweries put on by Dix Brewpub and the local chapter of CAMRA. The event featured a number of experimental beers that the brewers can’t normally make because the beers are either too unconventional or too expensive to sell. There [...]
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