Over the last two years, Central City Brewing has created a collaboration craft beer advent calendar with Parallel 49 Brewing to help spread the beer festivities for Canadian craft beer lovers. The mandate this past year was to include 12 brand new beer recipes in their calendars, six new one’s per brewery which not only…
Local Surrey, BC based Central City Brewing has been brewing up a storm of beer and cider in recent years since they expanded into a new huge location a few years back. New for 2016, they have designed, brewed and released two exciting Radlers, one that’s made with their Hopping Mad Cider and one that’s made with…
Central City Red Racer Wet Hop Pale Ale: Available only at the brewery and brewpubs (or in a draught tap filled growler to go), this Wet Hop Pale Ale is brewed in Surrey, BC to a strength of 5% abv and is presumably a fresh hopped version of their standard Pale Ale offering. Unfortunately it doesn’t…
Starting with full disclosure, I was invited to this event and given a media ticket (aka a free one) to help spread the word of their new beer all while sharing the experience with other members of the local blogging community – thanks for the invite by the way, please do consider me inviting me…
Central City / Four Winds Collaboration Maiden Voyage Cedar Aged Pale Ale: In conjunction with the BC Craft Brewers Guild, this is part of a collaboration series which should be continuing soon in the spring of 2015 with hopefully another release, perhaps with different brewers? Maiden Voyage was brewed to a strength of 6% abv, with…
Central City Winter Cask Festival 2015: In BC I would say this is one of the larger cask events that is offered, this particular one featuring 39 casks from 37 breweries which is kind of crazy when you think about it. The Winter Cask Fest is held annually in January at the Central City Brewpub location in…
BC Beer Bloggers Local Winter Favourites – This special review is part of a multi-blog collaboration between five BC Beer Bloggers (including a guest from over the mountains in Alberta) where we each chose our top three local winter releases and are blogging about them. Please take a look at the bottom of this review for…
Central City Brewing – Red Racer ISA: Is a Session IPA brewed in Surrey, BC at a sessionable strength of 4.0% abv with 40 IBU’s and was poured from a 12 oz can into a beer glass at home with lunch. Aroma and Appearance: It pours a clear golden copper with lots of bubbles and an inch of foam. The aroma…
Central City Brewing – Red Racer IPA: Is an IPA brewed in Surrey, BC at a strength of 6.5% with 80 IBU’s. The can in the picture is a special charity release of this beer, which is the same beer as their regular IPA, just in a different can with a promise of a $2 donation per 6…
Phillips/Central City Vancouver Craft Beer Week PrevAle: Is a collaboration VCBW California Common Ale that is brewed at 7% abv and was enjoyed at home in a 22 oz beer glass. Aroma and Appearance: It pours a super clear, bubbly amber with 3 generous fingers of foam. The aroma is grassy with light fruit hops, orange and…
Central City Brewing – Red Racer Maple Bacon Breakfast Ale: Is a Jeff O’Niel Show Bacon Ale brewed in Surrey, BC at a strength of 5% and was enjoyed at the Central City brewpub on tap. Aroma and Appearance: It pours a clear copper with an inch of foam, and has an aroma of smoke, tangerine, meat and bread. Flavour: The…
Central City Red Racer Belgian Wheat Ale: This wheat beer is brewed in Surrey, BC at a strength of 5% alcohol with 16 IBU’s and was enjoyed in a new 22oz beer glass (almost enough to hold a 650mL beer) Aroma and Appearance: Pours a hazy golden colour with 2 fingers of foam and I observed some tiny…
From Surrey, BC comes Central City’ Red Racer Imperial IPA 2014 (a serious 9% alc double IPA for charity, poured at home from a 22oz bottle). This is a 2000 case special release in 2014, they also did one last year. Aroma and Appearance: Pours a nice copper colour with two fingers of foam and has lots of grapefruity tangerine-like…
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