There are a LOT of places where you can go to read beer reviews. Hell, I’ll probably link to a few of them myself once I get the old Blog Roll rollin’. So instead of an analytical review of a particular beer, I’m going to write about the experience. What was happening (in the wastelands of my mind or in the desert of the real) when I popped that particular cap. I mean, sure: I’ll tell you if I liked it or not. But beer is so damn subjective that, even if I had a competent, Cicerone-certified palate, your taste and experience of a certain beer could be vastly different. And we’d both be right! So if you’re looking for a clinical break down of beers, you won’t find it here. But if you want to pull up a stool and listen to this fool then give me your glass and let’s tear into that growler!
Life’s quest for truth & compatibility ultimately comes down to time. Will this add or subtract from my overall experience and do I have the time to find out? It’s About Time, a double IPA collaboratively brewed by Twin Sails Brewing, Boombox Brewing and Backcountry Brewing and released to the drooling masses on Twin Sails’…
Read moreThe first week of a new year is a string of days, like any other. Or is it? Often used as a time of reflection, these days can hold power, elevating them above their brethren. For some, the “days of the new” stand outside of time, offering “truths” seldom seen during the fetch & carry…
Read moreUtopia: an imagined place or state of perfection. In my Utopia each beached piece of driftwood holds a tale within it twist and a treasure at its core. Utopia, a Dry Hopped Peach Sour by Howe Sound Brewing Company. This beautifully adorned beer was as delicious on the inside as out. An approachable tartness, like…
Read moreThis beauty of a BFF is about a NE IPA named Pablo Esco Gnar, the second coming of a collaboration between two of British Columbia’s best Bedouin breweries: Superflux Beer Company and Boombox Brewing Company. Hey Superflux! Hey Boombox! Did I ever tell you about the time I went on a Quixotic quest for Pablo…
Read moreOftentimes it is the back road taking us where we need to go… The Marzen, by Backroads Brewing Company out of Nelson, BC. So here’s my mea culpa, I’m on the record as saying that I don’t love lagers. I know, I KNOW. There’s an entire spectrum to lagers, of which the Marzen is…
Read moreThis beer was a contributing factor to winning the S2SBG Award for Best Beer of the Summer. Dazy, a Double Hazy IPA by Russell Brewing. You may ask yourself, how could a beer be only a “contributing factor” to winning a made-up award? Best Beer of the Summer means this was the best beer of…
Read moreAnd now for your reading pleasure: the manuscript of a short vignette I’ve written inspired by Andina Brewing Company’s Blonde IPA named… Monita. “Oh Monita! You scandal, you red-letter-lover! Are you the cause of my face’s flush? My heart’s blood-rush?” Of course she was. “But wait, what is this I see?” Our hero looks curiously…
Read moreHey, how’s your rope-swing game? Personally, it’s been awhile. But I feel like, under the right circumstances, I could swing again. I’ve said in the past that styles such as lagers and light ales just aren’t my thing. Though, to be fair to me, part of that disdain was born from the obscene amounts of…
Read moreClose your eyes. Imagine yourself sitting in a well-made wooden chair, lakeside in the late afternoon. The slats of the Adirondack are warm, releasing the sun they absorbed into your chore-worn muscles. There’s a light sloshing of water against dock. But rather than distract, it provides a baseline, a starting point of sorts, for the…
Read moreB is for Beer but also for Bloomer. Late Bloomer, a Cherry Sour by Parallel 49 Brewing Company. I picked up three of the four barrel aged offerings from P49 a month ago and this was my first foray into the series. I was about to do a live read on Instagram (a bedtime story…
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