Not a beer fan, but I've discovered I _am_ the kind of person who will watch anything you put up. (I did share this with my boyfriend's dad, who just retired from teaching brewing history.) Also, nice haircut.
Graham "I Like Sours" Stark: 1:16 Andina - Tatuna Kolsch (not shown) 1:32 Lighthouse - Citrus Shore Session Ale (not shown) 1:55 Persephone - Black Lager (not shown) 2:02 Strange Bedfellows - Black Raspberry Sour 2:10 Big Rock Brewery - Apricot Grisette 2:40 Twin Sails (Port Moody) - Horchata Milk Stout 3:12 A-Frame (Squamish) - Mango Lemonade Saison 3:51 Granville Island Brewery - Summer Hefe 5:39 Fieldhouse Brewing - Rum and Oak Porter 6:13 33 Acres Brewery - 33 Acres of Sunshine 6:43 Brassneck - Raspberry Changeling 7:12 Salt Spring Brewery - Apple Belgian 7:30 Fuggles and Warlock - (implied to be the following) Peach Sour 8:02 Bridge Brewing - Pumpkin Porter 8:28 Driftwood - Cry Me A River Gose 14:17 Backroads Brewing - Smoked Baltic Porter 16:35 Highway 97 Brewery - Hazy OK Raspberry Lemmon Summer Weiss 17:10 Barkerville - White Gold Whit Beer ((EXTRAS)) 19:28 A-Frame - Magic Lake Porter [also, Graham gets his growler] 20:30 Wheelhouse Brewing - Siren of the Sea Sour w/Lime and Sea Salt James "The One Over There With The Really Long Name" Turner: 3:12 A-Frame (Squamish) - Mango Lemonade Saison 4:49 Fieldhouse Brewing - Dry Hops Hazy Sour Double IPA 16:35 Highway 97 Brewery - Hazy OK Raspberry Lemmon Summer Weiss Matt "That's Very Nice" Wiggins: 4:00 Granville Island Brewery - Berliner Weiss (w/Woodruff) 9:24 Driftwood - Raised by Wolves IPA 12:02 Category 12 - Cucumber Lemon Peel Farmhouse Ale 16:02 (implied) Highway 97 Brewery - (unnamed) ESB 20:53 Spinnakers - Masked ESB Ashley (was also there): A-Frame Brewing - Mango Lemonade (not shown) In total, Graham had about 80 oz. of beer (20 4 oz. drinks) +/- whatever was shared with the others. If I got some of these names wrong, please correct me - I'm not a drinker.
Not positive but it looks like Graham might have grazed her as he past by. Still, at a beer fest one should expect the odd bump (depending on how long the event has been running at that point). Fine motor skills be damned!
out here in colorado we have an annual beer festivel called the great american beerfest which back in 2014 had roughly 700 breweries in attendence and is one of the largest beer festivals in the states
If you're in the UK in May next year I recommend the Cambridge Beer Festival. It was 200+ different beers (ales) this year, as well as ciders, perries, meads and fancy lagers and it lasts a week. (p.s I thought it was pronounced go-zz )
Yesss join us with the sours! But seriously Strange Fellows is perhaps my favourite brewery of all time. The Bridge Brewing blood orange and bourbon is disappointing for me because it's neither blood orange or bourbon enough
In fairness to ICBC, I've attended a Beerfest-type event as a Designated Driver. the DD bracelets had the same writing, but were a different base color. As for why I attended, none of my friends trusted themselves to not fall asleep on the bus, and (much to my brother-in-law's chagrin) I can't tolerate the taste of beers, so there was zero risk of me being tempted after 6 hours on my feet with nothing to drink but chilled water.
Eh, I find I prefer mixed drinks anyway. Of course, it's easy to prefer "does not make me throw up" to "makes me throw up," so I can't exactly speak from the position of a perceptive palate.
I also don't like sours, but this year at beer fest I think they figured it out. My fave of the day was Strathcona Mango lemon, it tasted like a beer mimosa
As someone who doesn't drink beer of alcohol in general, this was cool to watch and makes me want to try small sips of various beers to learn how to appreciate beer
I almost went to beerfest since we were in Victoria this weekend. Would have loved to run into you guys. Decided to go down to Chinatown and eat at Jam instead. Looks like I missed out on drunk Graham. 👍😏
It was almost to the point that each beer was better than the last, as the drinking continued.. but then there was that cucumber one. Anyway, looked like a good time.
Missed opportunities: 1) Recording wifely reactions to your intoxication level (I can imagine that Kathleen would not let sleeping dogs lie). 2) #hangoverGraham CrapShot (e.g. Jonny)
I feel like when Graham says "that is fascinating" is like when I say food or drink is "interesting". That is to say "I'm not into it but it is a thing i can see someone else liking."
Also if Unibroue had their Maudite there I would have happily just had it and not cared that they didn't do anything different. Then again I can't get it around where I am and I love Abbey style / Trappist ales.
So the beer I'm most curious about is one of the only ones that you didn't say who made it: The Peach Gin Sour from around the 7:50 mark. Who put that together?
Drinking game, drink every time somebody says "that's really nice" or any variation thereof, drink for every drink you see them holding,, and finish your drink when someone doesn't like a drink
Ok, rant time: Berliner Weiße is NOT 'traditionally' flavored with syrup. Traditionally it was flavored by dumping fruit in the barrel whil it was ins storage. However, proper traditional Weiße has been lost. Why? Because it was a sour beer which relied on a combination of yeast and a special strain of lactic acid bacteria, however what the brewers didn't know was that these bacteria lived in the wood barrels which were used for storage. So when the brewery changed from wooden to steel barrels they were suddently confronted with the fact, that their new beer was sh!t. Unfortunately by the point they realised what they had done it was to late and they had already trashed all the old barrels. And this is where the syrup-thing comes from, since the idea was that if you dump a bunch of syrup in the beer, people will not notice that its actually crap. - rant over
What's the problem with having thrown away the barrels? You can literally just buy Pediococcus and Lactobacillus cultures. Especially nowadays, it's common for making Lambic style beers. (See eg.: Wyeast 5733, Wyeast 5335) Or do you mean that the original Berliner Weiße had some different sort of mystery lactic acid bacteria strain?
Ok, 8 am is not a good time to watch this. 4 pm with no beer in my house won't be any better, but at least I'm not going to be craving the beers you're describing so dosh garned early in the day. bbl8r!
