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On tap: new releases from Main Street, Backcountry and Field House

Rob Mangelsdorf • December 8, 2020

Here’s what we’re really drinking out of our coffee cup during the Zoom meeting with head office this week… Cosmic Dancer by Main Street Brewing Australian IPA • 6.3% ABV • 36 IBU • 473 mL tall cans The second […]

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On tap: new releases from Main Street, Twin Sails and Yellow Dog

Rob Mangelsdorf • November 5, 2020

Big DIPA by Main Street Brewing Double IPA • 8.0% ABV • 53 IBU • 473 mL tall cans This juicy beast of an IPA by Vancouver’s Main Street Brewing is brewed with gobs of Citra hops for notes of […]

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Drink this: Lava Salted Mocha Stout by Main St. Brewing

Rob Mangelsdorf • November 19, 2019
Lava Salted Mocha Stout by Main St. Brewing.

With the recent rediscovery of the long-forgotten gose beer style, it seems like brewers are increasingly experimenting with salted beers. For those that don’t know, gose is a salted sour wheat ale flavoured with coriander originating Germany that almost went […]

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BREWHALL to take over old Steel Toad space in late June

Growler Staff • May 25, 2018

Tap & Barrel Restaurants’ new brewery in the former Steel Toad space on East 2nd Ave. in Vancouver will be called BREWHALL, it was announced this week, and should be open for business by late June. In a press release […]

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Beer League BASH raises more than $5k for East Van youth hockey

Rob Mangelsdorf • March 20, 2018

Bomber Brewing’s Beer League BASH charity hockey tournament helped raise more than $5,500 for the Britannia After School Hockey program at Vancouver’s Britannia Community Secondary School earlier this month, helping give East Van kids who would not normally have the […]

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On Tap: New releases from Main Street, Powell and Granville Island

Rob Mangelsdorf • January 11, 2018

The holidays are over and resolutions are for the weak. Here’s what we’re tossing down our gullets this week…   Limited Release Barrel Aged American Style Barley Wine by Main Street Brewing (10.5% ABV, 77 IBU)   If you hurry, […]

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