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Tis The Season for Christmas 2020 Beers

Tis The Season for Christmas 2020 Beers

Image Courtesy of Bridge Brewing. Christmas is definitely the time for beer and beer drinking. Craft breweries have really upped their game when it comes to Christmas 2020 beers. Maybe it was the COVID-19 pandemic that force them to get creative or innovative I am not...

Coffee Roundup November

Coffee Roundup November

I’ve written some coffee reviews on coffees I've consumed over the last few months but now that I am blogging more regularly I am going to do some coffee roundups. Sometimes I will have a couple of coffees in the month and other months just one. If I buy 1/2 of a...

Benchmark Espresso A Welcome Cup of Java During COVID-19

Benchmark Espresso A Welcome Cup of Java During COVID-19

As an ex Starbucks employee from many years ago it was great to receive training that taught me how coffee is grown, cultivated and processed and why that effects what you ultimately get in your cup. This education has stuck with me over the years and with limited...

Summertime Brews at Streetcar Brewing

Summertime Brews at Streetcar Brewing

With the COVID-19 restrictions relaxing a little bit, I made my way down to the Brewery District on Lower Lonsdale to visit a few breweries again after my visit in March. My March visit was on March 8th right before the COVID lockdown the following weekend. I stopped...

Old Boy Hits The Mark with a Classic Beer Recipe

With the craft beer industry in Vancouver a growing concern these days, Sours, Saisons and Hazy Pale Ales and India Pale Ale’s (IPA) seems to be the brews of choice for local company’s.  It’s refreshing when a company like Parallel 49 brings back it’s Old Boy Brown...

World Autism Month Kindness Quest – Week One

World Autism Month Kindness Quest – Week One

As a parent of a child on the spectrum I only recently became aware of Autism Speaks and the fact that today is World Autism Awareness Day. Below is the challenge from Autism Speaks for Week One Week One: 3/30/2020-4/5/2020 Your kindness quest this week is to spread...

Time To Get Weird With House of Funk Brewing

Time To Get Weird With House of Funk Brewing

The North Shore now boasts 10 breweries with the latest to open being North Point Brewing in the Shipyards Brewery District. The district which now has Streetcar Brewing, House of Funk Brewing Co. and Beere Brewing as well and is fast becoming one of the places to visit for local beer enthusiasts.

Coffee of the Week with Doi Chaang

Coffee of the Week with Doi Chaang

Drinking Doi Chaang Coffee was a pleasant surprise for me as I had not tried this locally roasted coffee in my coffee drinking over the last several years.

Major League Baseball’s Opening Day Comes And Goes

Major League Baseball’s Opening Day Comes And Goes

Major sports leagues like the National Hockey League (NHL) and the National Basketball Association (NBA) have been on hold for two weeks with the COVID-19 pandemic in full swing across North America. When this shutdown happened, Commissioner Rob Manfred announced on...

Beere Brewing A Great North Vancouver Find

Beere Brewing A Great North Vancouver Find

As part of our North Vancouver Brewery District Tour last weekend, we visited the lovely Beere Brewing, yes that is the correct spelling, for a round of their finest beers. Open since 2017 this is a family-run operation by Matt and Craig Beere.   We drank Legit...