Sunday, November 27, 2011

Half Pints Winter Harvest

Coming Soon - Demeter's Harvest. This a wheat wine with an 11% winter warmer. Another great endeavour of something different from the boys at Half Pints. Unfortunately for all you barley wine lovers, they are not producing their burly wine this year - making the Demeter's Harvest instead.

Hey change is good. Hope it makes its way out of the 'peg'



Calgary Beer Coming Home

We always thought it was weird that Molson's Calgary beer was still brewed, but only sold in Saskatchewan. It was very shocking to see it for the first time one day while visiting Regina. As a non-Calgary native I didn't know this as a Calgary staple, but those of you who have been missing it - it's back. Now brewed in Molson's Vancouver plant, Calgary beer has been brought back as a promotion but could return again for the century of Stampede this year.

Some History from Canadian Beer News: "Originally brewed by Calgary Brewing & Malting before that company was taken over by Carling-O’Keefe, the brand was withdrawn from its home market in the mid-1980s, but remained available in Saskatchewan. New parent company Molson brought it back to Calgary for two limited runs, the most recent in 1992, but it has not been seen there since."





Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Trouble and Strife IPA at Grizzly Paw

Canmore's pub The Grizzly Paw tweeted today that they have their Trouble and Strife Black IPA on tap. I'm going to go with "dark ale". probably "hoppy". Why not head to mountains this week and tell us what you think of it.

Looking to Impress your Friends with Beer?

As you know we posted the prairie award winners from the Canadian Brewing Awards earlier, but did you know there are other winners that you can get in the prairies.

One way to impress your friends would be to bring over a couple of Canadian Gold Medal Winners from Ontario. Did you know that you can get the following Ontario based beers out here? Try them and show off your knowledge to your friends:

Creemore Springs Traditional Pilsner - Gold in European Lager category

Creemore Springs Kellerbier - Gold in Kellebier category

Millstreet Coffee Porter - Gold in Porter category

They're good - really

CANADIAN BREWING AWARDS






Sunday, November 20, 2011

New Alley Kat Big Bottle Series out

The Blue Dragon Double ipa is out in Alberta and is the yang to the ying that was their red dragon ipa. This ale is described as:

The Blue Dragon is dark gold with subtle flavours of citrus & tropical fruit and resin that backs lots of piney hop flavour and an in-your-face bitterness. At 100+ IBUs and single hopped with Columbus, there is no doubt this brew is intended for hop heads.

If you liked Red Dragon, clearly blue is better.

Big Rock Hosts Unity Brew

The third installment of Alberta Brewer's Unity Brew kicked off this weekend hosted by Paul Gautreau of Big Rock. Started three years ago with an initiative from Michele Lowney of Grizzly Paw in Canmore, and continued last year at Alley Kat, the brewers of Alberta get together to create a recipe and brew a special beer for charity. This year's endeavour, a spiced blonde.

Joining Paul and the boys at Big Rock were brewers from Grizzly Paw of Canmore, Wild Rose, Brew Brothers from Calgary, Alley Kat from Edmonton, Brewsters from both cities and Drummond from Red Deer and Banff Ave Brewing from Banff.

Great work brewers - can't wait to give my money to your charity.
Alley Kat Unity Brew - Amber Ale


Monday, November 14, 2011

Phillips of BC now in Alberta

A Happy Day!!!! BC based Phillips has announced a partnership with 49th parallel group to bring anumber of the Phillips brands into Alberta. Regular brews such as Blue Buck and Hop Circle will come in 6 packs and Ginger Beer, Amnesiac, Longboat Chocolate Porter and Hoperation Tripel Cross will appear in 650 ml bottles. Also, seasonals will arrive from time to time.

All great, but we got to say that the Longboat Porter - prairie beer blogger favourite.

Thanks Phillips

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Yukon Seasonals for Alberta Eyes Only

Yukon Brewing announced a plan to release three new seasonal beers for the Alberta market only.
The A.D.D. series will include:
Birch Marzen - an amber lager made with Uncle Berwyn's Yukon Birch Syrup
Spiced Winter Ale - a dark ale made with cinnamon, cardamon, anise seed and orange peel
Imperial IPA - made with Goulding, Glacier, Millennium and Cascade hops - whew!

The beers will have limited releases and will appear in 341 ml bottles presented in tubes.

You can get the Marzen now and the Winter Ale will appear in December with the IPA starting the new year.


Sherbrookes' New "Beer Gods" Series Beer

The newest in the Beer Gods lineup form Sherbrooke Liquor is out in Edmonton. Silenus Belgian Style Tripel is made with white wine juice and has been contracted out by Paddock Wood.

The name comes from the folk character and companion of Dionysus - Greek god of wine.



New Alberta brewery!

Very excited that Ribstone Creek Brewery has sort of launched in Alberta. This undertaking of four partners - a farmer, a lawyer, a municipal officer and an automotive tech, have the plan to bring beer to rural Alberta. Bringing in David Beardsell, owner of the Noble Pig in Kamloops to consult, this brewery will plan to operate out of Edgerton within the year. Currently contracted its first beer, Ribstone Creek Lager to Yellowhead in Edmonton, they plan to serve bars in the rural areas.