Hoppapalooza At The Alibi Room
By Palle Steve Hoffstein at May 13, 2010 | 4:15 pm | 0 Comment
[caption id="attachment_2519" align="alignnone" width="575" caption="Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson taps Hoppapalooza's first cask"][/caption] The thirsty crowd was 100 strong by the time Mayor Gregor Robertson arrived to tap the ceremonial first cask for the inaugural Vancouver Craft Beer Week. To start, VCBW co-founder Rick Green suggested that now is the
CAMRA Vancouver
By Palle Steve Hoffstein at April 17, 2010 | 9:26 am | 0 Comment
The word of the day’s cask gets out, by Twitter, Facebook, emails and texts. “An IPA from Central City Brewery will be tapped at the Whip Gallery.” Word travels around the CAMRA membership - there is a fair bit of excitement over this cask. Sure enough, when I arrive there’s a good crowd. My first CAMRA event was one such cask night. Now I attend one or
The Best Places to Drink in Vancouver
By Elianna Lev at February 22, 2010 | 11:13 am | 0 Comment
My friend Mel asked me to do some writing for this website, which is all about Vancouver bars. She’s helped me out in the past so I agreed. Only thing is, I don’t drink. Haven’t in about four years. It’s not a serious AA type of thing. I just don’t enjoy drinking. Oh and dating several alcoholics turned me off of it too, for more or less forever. Anyhow, the