Sample Series – Townsite Brewing Quartz Blended Wild Ale

I was super stoked to see this beer arrive on my door step one day and wanted to feature it on my Sample Series reviews.

Sample Series – BC Craft Brewers Guild & Bomber Brewing Collaboration Oktoberfest Beer

Craft Oktoberfest, or festbiers, are styles that I typically avoid buying locally because they are usually poorly made (sorry, but that’s the truth). It also doesn’t help that you can get some pretty good German imports for a few bucks a can and most of those are pretty spot on. That being said, as someone…

Sample Series – Beau’s Full Time IPA, a West Coast Beer From the East

The local IPA scene lately has been littered with cloudy, New England or Eastern Style IPA’s, which has been a real treat for a while but it can be a bit overwhelming at times with all the fruit and lack of bitterness in the hopped up beers. Because of this, I’ve been craving more West…

Sample Series – A Look At Moody’s Sublime Pineapple Hefeweizen

I’ve always been a little iffy about pineapple beers, never really finding one that I enjoyed. So the thought of a free sample to try out was perfect for my endeavor to finally find a pineapple beer I can appreciate.

Sample Series – Trading Post Brewing Starts A Bold New Bomber Bottle Program

Gavin Hamilton, a Scotsman who began his career as an apprentice clerk for the Hudson’s Bay Company at Fort Langley, apparently shot and killed not one, but three bears with a double barrel shotgun on a canoe trip while hunting for wild ducks.

Sample Series – A Look At Steamworks & Dageraad East of East Van Saison

East of East Van comes in a large format 750mL bottle that retails for about $13 a piece and was co-brewed by Steamworks and Dageraad Breweries for a March 2017 release. This is a bottle conditioned Saison beer, where the carbonation is naturally derived from residual yeast interacting with sugars in the beer (usually topped…