VCBW 2012 Collaboration Beer!

By bencoli
May 18, 2012 //
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I know I’ve been running a lot of reviews lately. I’ve got to squeeze them in, because today’s the beginning of Vancouver Craft Beer Week!

In an earlier post I talked about the brew session for Vancouver Craft Beer Week’s collaboration beer. It’s been a long, anxious wait. Did the alpha acids in the hops isomerize and become soluble so they could bitter the beer? Did the alpha- and beta-amylase enzymes break the starches down to maltose, maltotriose, glucose, sucrose and fructose? Did the yeast find this banquet and convert these simple sugars into precious alcohol and other flavourful byproducts?

I can now assure you all that it worked. The biological functions were all performed correctly and it produced beer.

Good beer!

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Seedspitter Watermelon Wit

By bencoli
May 17, 2012 //
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There’s a new kid in town.

After months of anticipation, Parallel 49 has shipped its first kegs out into the world. Instead of starting with one of their regular lineup – which I’m told will include a hoppy amber, a brown ale, and a india pale lager – Parallel 49′s first release is their first seasonal, a watermelon witbier, ready just in time for patio season.

Parallel 49′s beer has been hugely anticipated by a certain subset of the beer nerd crowd: the homebrewers. The head brewer at Parallel 49 is one of our own, Vanbrewers club president and perennial contest winner, Graham With.

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Flying Tanker White IPA

By bencoli
May 15, 2012 //
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Vancouver Island Brewing Flying Tanker White IPA, 6.8% abv, something like $4.50 from BC Liquor

I can’t tell you how excited I was when I heard that Vancouver Island Brewery was getting in the business of brewing more exciting beers that they’d release in large bottles. First it was Lighthouse getting in the act, departing from their regular lineup of competently-brewed but staggeringly boring beers and brewing bigger, better, more exciting beers, and now it’s Vancouver Island Brewery. Things are getting better all the time.

Vancouver Island Brewery has broken out and started a new series, which is apparently either named the “Vancouver Island Series”, or “Brewer’s Batch” (the label carries both of these appellations and the brewery’s website doesn’t offer any help because it makes no mention of this beer).

Presenting the first beer of the new series, Vancouver Island’s Flying Tanker White IPA!

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