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Here are 15+ new BC beers released in BC this week
Gin, slang and sunshine round out this week's new beer releases
Geoff Sharpe
July 26, 2022
Good morning!
As I scroll through all the new BC beers each week, I can't help but feel excited for BC's beer scene, especially with some of this week's unique concoctions.
Congrats to Dan, Jeremy King and Sam who all guessed last week's BreweryGuesser. The answer was 33 Acres.
I will admit I wrote this extremely jet-lagged from my flight back to BC, so apologies for any spelling errors!
Today we've got over 15 new BC beers, some brewery giveaways and a guide (from Reddit) on Portland breweries to visit.
— Geoff Sharpe
NEW BEER RELEASE
Lala for L'Acadie
Fieldhouse Brewing is dropping some seriously cool beers. They've teamed up with Whispering Horse Winery to release a Grapefruit Peach L'Acadie Sour bottle. Untappd reviewer Dominic says "Its tart, puckering sour, salty. Lots of Brett and funk. Rind flavors, lots of peach and grapefruit. Subtle Dill on the finish." Yum.
Available: 500mL bottles and on tap in ABBY+ CHWK, available at stores soon.
Location: 2281 W Railway St, Abbotsford | Map
NEW BEER RELEASE
*Kanye singing* All of the (beer) lights
I hope you got that tile reference. If not, here you go.
What's with all these awesome collabs? Steel & Oak has teamed up with Brewhall to create Patio Lights a rhubarb gin pale ale. Gin and beer? Hell yes.
Available: Apparently almost gone at the brewery, check your local liquor store.
Location: 1319 3rd Ave, New Westminster | Map
NEW BEER RELEASE
Experimental slang
Dageraad Brewing's latest beer New Slang is part of their new experimental lineup of "experimental biotransformed IPAs using thiolized yeast". (For more on thiols, scroll down in this newsletter). We'll be sure to share the next beers from Dageraad once they're announced.
Available: Online, in stores and in their brewery.
Location: 3191 Thunderbird Crescent #114, Burnaby | Map
NEW BEER RELEASE
A delicious Rae of Sunshine
Congrats to assistant brewer Nick Henderson who brewed this new beer from Five Roads Brewing called Rae of Sunshine Blueberry & Lemon Verbena Gose. It has light salinity and notes of candied peel. Blueberries and lemons really are a stellar combo in anything.
Available: On tap and in single cans
Location: 6263 202 St #1, Langley | Map
OTHER BEER RELEASES
Stange Fellows announced a sneak peek of their Brut IPA.
Go gaze at the German-style Guava Gose by La Cerveceria Astilleros.
Andina Brewing has Mangua Passionfruit Orange Guava Sour.
Earth Watermelon Wind Fire is the best beer name this week. It's a watermelon wheat ale from Parallel 49.
Try Field House Brewing's new Passion Fruit Hazy Pae Ale.
Go husk some corn (only joking) with Lupollo's new El Malecón Mexican-style corn lager.
Pucker up with the Blackberry Tart Saison from Persephone.
A-FRAME Brewing has a new session pale ale called Ward Lake.
Fernie Brewing is launching Castaway Tropical IPA this coming Thursday.
Party in the Back Hazy IPA is the latest from Nelson Brewing Company and promises to be "full-send hoppy".
Eletric Bicycle Brewing has new creamy orange-y beer dubbed Holoscene Queen Wit Beer.
Back Country has three new beers coming out this week - a pina colada IPA If Like Making Love At Midnight, a west coast IPA Living in a Van Down by the River and a Mexican lager You Can Stop Laughing Right Meow.
Moody Ales dropped an ultra tangy Yuzu IPA.
SOME BEER NEWS
Buy a Strange Fellows Brewing beer at Tacofine and $2 from every beer helps pay for studio time for underrepresented artists.
Andina has some really nice new t-shirts and hats in their online store.
Barnside Brewing has a photo contest where you can win tickets to a Barnside Brewery Master Class.
Not technically beer, but Field House Brewing has some tasty-looking popsicles.
Congrats to Steel & Oak who raised $1,240 to Help Us Help Ukraine. Portions of every beer sold in their taproom are donated to rotating charities.
Can you name all of Locality Brewing's beers? If you can, you could be entered to win a prize.
Lupollo's brought back Elle's Hefe, a summer hefeweizen.
Ile Sauvage Brewing has brought back Melon à Trois.
Studio Brewing's summer favourites In Between Days, a hefeweizen and Embarrassment of Riches are now back.
LEARN SOMETHING NEW
In case you missed them
Joseph will return for another Beer School session next week. In the meantime, here's a lesson from the first newsletter we ever published.
What is a lagered ale?
With an altbier making our list of new releases this week, we thought it might be time for a refresher on the difference between ale and lager, and how lagered ales like altbier sit in between.
What's the difference between ale and lager? Quite simply, the type of yeast and that yeast's preferred fermentation temperature. Ales are made from top-fermenting yeasts that like to ferment at warmer temperatures (18-24ºC on average, but can go as high as 35ºC with certain yeasts). Lagers are bottom-fermenting yeasts that like to ferment at colder temperatures (6-12ºC).
What is lagering? Fermentation can take longer at colder temperatures, so lager beer was traditionally lagered, meaning, stored in cold cellars to let the yeast do its thing. To lager a beer is to store it cold for an extended period of time before packaging it.
A lagered ale, therefore...is an ale that has been lagered. In other words, using an ale yeast, fermented cooler, and lagered at cool temperatures for six to eight weeks minimum, to bring out a beautifully clear beer.
BEER ART
Phillips has brought back their Hopocalypse Meow Doube IPA and we couldn't help highlighting it. Anyone who's seen Apocolapyse Now or loves cats (that's gotta be close to 100% of the population) will appreciate the design.
JOB BOARD
Fernie Brewing is looking for a territory manager
Powell Brewery needs a craft beer territory manager
Old Yale Brewing is hiring for a marketing coordinator for a maternity leave
SOMETHING FUN
A new Reddit thread might be up your alley if you've ever wanted to explore Portland beer. Readers shared their favourite Portland breweries. Here are a few recommendations:
"Mast Landing, Allagash and Maine Brewing"
"Directly next to Allagash and in the same lot is Definitive, Foundation, Battery Steele, and Austin St"
"Rising Tide is awesome too! Right next door to Austin Street"
"Belleflower should be a must-hit on your list. For my taste, they're making the best beer in Portland right now. It's only a matter of time before word gets around, and they become the next darling of mega-hype-hazy-IPA-fanbois."
"Urban Farm and Maine Mead Works are both worth it - MMW's HoneyMaker Lavender Lemonade is an awesome warm weather drinker."
I'm heading there in October and will report back!