Skookum Cascadian Brown Ale (Phillips Brewing Company, 6.5%)
Awesome label for this beer from Victoria’s Phillips, which was one of my hits from last month’s Great Canadian Beer Festival. “The unofficial fuel of the Cascadian revolution,” it reads – and I’ll...
View ArticleTrademark battle brewing over Cascadian Dark Ale
Having spent a long weekend sampling some of the delights (beer and otherwise) of Seattle, Cascadia’s largest city, I was a little shocked to return north to find I’d missed the opening salvos of a...
View ArticleBlack Christmas C.D.A. (Parallel 49 Brewing Company, 6.5%)
Not that this is a really a winter ale as such, just that Parallel 49 apparently wanted to head off any trademark issues. This “Christmas Dark Ale” is a Cascadian Dark Ale in everything but name, and...
View ArticleGathering Storm Cascadian Dark Ale (Howe Sound Brewing, 6.8%)
This review has been a long time coming. Ever since December 2010, in fact, when I made first contact with Howe Sound’s Cascadian dark ale at the beer’s very source in Squamish. It was love at first...
View ArticleCabin Fever Imperial Black IPA (Phillips Brewing Company, 8.5%)
With all the talk about Parallel 49’s productivity in its first year of business (20 different beers and counting), it’s worth remembering that the big-daddy craft brewery in Victoria has been...
View ArticleAbsolute Darkness India Dark Ale (Vancouver Island Brewery, 6.5%)
I often struggle with the notion of writing negative reviews. I think by this stage in my beer career I’ve fostered at least an impression of how much time, effort and money is involved in creating a...
View ArticleWildfire I.P.A. (Cannery Brewing, 6%)
I’m a summer person, so I love this time of year and the simple fact that there’s a guaranteed summer in this part of the world. (I once heard a local tell some tourists on a Glasgow bus: “How can you...
View ArticleCloak & Dagger Cascadian Dark Ale (Granville Island Brewing, 6.25%)
It was a while back that Granville Island released this, its inaugural beer in a new “Black Book” series, so I hope to goodness there’s still some available. Essentially, it’s a rebranding of...
View ArticleThe Obsidian Dagger IPA Noire (Dead Frog Brewery, 6.5%)
Of all the craft beer joints, in all the towns, in all the Lower Mainland, she walks into mine. 50 IBU. Centennial, Columbus and Galaxy hops. Roasted barley among the malt bill. Dead Frog’s latest has...
View ArticleCascadia: A state of mind, a bioregion of beer
(A version of this article appeared in The Growler 1.3.) Cascadia. It’s an evocative name. It conjures up images of dense evergreen forests, soaring snow-capped peaks and water, water everywhere: from...
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