Shots fired!
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I love Brock. I had an amazing two years there.
But after I left CSU I had zero interest in the academic pursuits of university. I wanted to party. And Brock was the spot.
I visited friends there once during my victory lap year in high school. Was introduced to an activity at a local establishment known as the “toonie slide”. Points awarded if you know what I’m referring to.
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I had to read this 3 times. Yes, I’m a child.
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Is this the same as the Toonie Dive?
Clear heels involved, perhaps?
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One of our local municipal news guy (@j_mcelroy) is running a BC Beer bracket…I’m already disappointed and it hasn’t even started yet
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Craft beer really doesn’t lend itself well to brackets. Because it is by definition highly regionalized, votes get split and it ends up being the best known (but not necessarily best) beers that win. I am sure there are some great beers coming out of the Okanagan, the Kootenays, and Northern BC. But I haven’t tried most of them and wouldn’t be able to vote for them.
Also, the best beers I have had are seasonal and, in some cases, not even annual. The best BC beer I have ever had was Four Winds’ Quadrennial but I haven’t seen it in years. That it is aged for four years means that it will never be popular (supply is too limited) but it would win my personal bracket, hands down. (There almost needs to be a separate bracket for seasonals and one-offs… the $10 and up for a bomber beers. But again, that would be so fractured it would be pointless.)
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Maybe the answer is we should all just drink more BC beer…
Is Kokanee a BC beer? I drank a number of those in the Abbotsford airport while looking at the logo off in the distance.
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2020 Winners – Canadian Brewing Awards
Check this out - a lot of categories! Holy smokes.
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I don’t know how we do it, but the Duck Club always winds up talking about beer.
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Can we talk about how impossibly annoying it is trying to get out of province beers?
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This has been my solution. I put on work clothes to go in the office for a day last week and realized that maybe it’s been too much of a solution.
Almost eleven hours into dry March now.
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Whoa. Way too many categories. Three medals in 55 varietals, plus beer and brewery of the year. Everyone gets a ribbon.
Is Gold or Bronze the top award? Weird way to organize these lists
It is! I got a free 6-pack there once when passing through, my first time in Canada c. 2005. We called ahead to find out what time the last tour was that day, arrived on time only to be told we got bad info. They felt bad and gave us the beer to say sorry. Great service.
Edit to add - great service, beer was just fine. Best recommendation I could give it.
Kokanee is like a western Alexander Keith’s (in branding, not style). A once independent brewery with a strong regional identification (from Creston, BC) but owned by Labatts and is basically a mass-produced downmarket beer now.
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But Kieth’s doesn’t have a kickass movie about how drinking Kieth’s will save your buddy’s business like Kokanee does. I give you the gem of “The Movie Out Here”
Also, probably the greatest revelation since moving to BC from Ontario: the retailing of alcoholic beverages doesn’t have to suck. Every time I go back to Ontario, with the Beer store and LCBO monopolies (and limited grocery store and in-brewery/distillery/winery options), I am shocked at how I just didn’t know any better.
BC’s liquor laws can be finicky too (and prices are higher than Ontario), but the combination of provincial-owned and private liquor stores is amazing. The public stores are similar to the LCBO and the private stores compete on location, hours, and selection. I buy liquor on Christmas day here every year, simply because I can. And it means the selection of craft beers is more than you could ever want (you just need to know which private stores are the good ones).
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Ontario’s headed that direction, but it’s happening in typical government fashion. I can buy beer and wine at one grocery store in Kincardine (town of 8000ish) plus at the Beer Store and at the LCBO. There’s more and more LCBO retail stores popping up in convenience stores in villages (drove through 2 places on the weekend that would have no more than 100 residents that had LCBOs). I’m in favour of keeping the LCBO (government entity, decent wage jobs) but the Beer Store can’t be disbanded fast enough.
The only “good” thing that Ford’s done is allow me to buy beer online from the breweries and ship it directly to my house.
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