Beer Viking

The Beer Mapping Project – sweet!

Some crazy Viking I know gave me a copy of the magazine Draft. At first it sat next to my toliet unread for a few weeks. But finally did I read it and the last page had a nice little piece called Beer 2.0 by Stan Hieronymus (Appellation Beer) a long time beer blogger and thanks [...]

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Mühlen Kölsch – tasty fresh German larger

  A friend (who is German) and his wife came over for dinner tonight and he was kind enough to bring a stack of tasty Mühlen Kölsch beers. Cold, fresh and tasty. He drove these over in his car! This brew has no preservatives in it for sure, it says on the bottles to drink before [...]

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Fish Tale Organic India Pale Ale

Ok, not quite truly regional but Fish Tale Organic India Pale Ale is from Olympia, WA and so that’s really all part of Cascadia and counts in my books, well it does to this beer. An extremely tasty IPA and more than satisfies the green and the hophead in the Tank.  It’s a favourite of [...]

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BC Raid: Philips Amnesiac Double IPA Part 2

Scarbs went for this one next and most of my comments from the first go stand, but to add one thing that Scarbs said on spotting this bad boy: Double IPA, enough said

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BC Raid: Mt Begbie High Country Kolsch

Scarbs has joined the Tank for some tasting and we’ve entered with a very, fresh German-style Kolsch from Mt. Begbie. Scarbs says, This one is a summer porch beer, where one would lead twelve. I would agree with that, in that this is a very light, fresh, straw-yellow (4.5%) session beer.

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BC Raid: Phillips Black Toque Indian Dark Ale

The Tank has been waiting all week to try Victoria’s Phillips Brewing Company Black Toque Indian Dark Ale and upon tasting is regretting waiting through the week to get to this. Pours out as peaty, almost black with a light brown head. It’s quite a meaty bear where the roasted malts bring chocolate tones to [...]

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