Louisiana Brewery Trail

Just in time for the first-ever Louisiana Craft Beer Week that began Monday September 23, 2013 Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne unveiled the Louisiana Brewery Trail, highlighting each of the state's seven craft breweries: Abita, Bayou Teche, Chafunkta, Covington, NOLA, Parish and Tin Roof.




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Ingredients
1 cup beer
juice of half a pink grapefruit
1/4 cup sugar

Directions

Gently stir all ingredients together until sugar is dissolved, and pour into molds.
Freeze for at least 6 hours



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Beer Pairing

STYLE OF BEER	PAIRS WELL WITH
Lager	Spicy food, barbeque, hamburgers, chili, bread pudding, poached pears, fruit flan.
Pale Ale	Meat pie, English cheese, grilled meats, duck liver pate, blackened chicken, pumpkin flan, banana foster.
India Pale Ale	Spicy food, Thai and Mexican food, curries, grilled steak, mussels, carrot cake, caramel apples pie, fig crème brulle
Saison	Rib-eye steak, salmon, mussel, calamari, sausage, Thai and Vietnamese food, fruit tart, citrus sorbet.
Lambic, Gueze (sour)	Sockeye salmon, duck a l’orange, sweet & sour pork, apricot tart, baked pears.
Porter	Sockeye food, barbeque, blackened fish, sausage, roasted meat chocolate, toasted coconut.
Imperial Stout	Beef carpaccio, foie gras, smoked goose, chocolate, salted caramel pot de crème, expresso cheesecake.

11 new breweries to open in Vancouver

which will make 2013 the biggest year in BC craft brewing history!

Here are the ones we know about so far....

OPENING SUMMER

   Brassneck Brewery, 2148 Main Street, Vancouver
   @brassneckbrew

   Deep Cove Brewers & Distillers, 2270 Dollarton Highway, North Vancouver
   @deepcovecraft

   Main Street Brewing, 263 East 7th Avenue, Vancouver
   @MainStreetBeer

   Wheelhouse Brewing, 211 1st Avenue East, Prince Rupert
   @WheelhouseBeer

OPENING: JUNE

   33 Acres Brewing, 15 West 8th Avenue, Vancouver
   @33acres

   Four Winds Brewing, 7355 72nd Street, Delta
   @FourWindsBrewCo

   The Heid Out Restaurant and Brewhouse, 821 Baker Street, Cranbrook
   facebook.com/TheHeidOutRestaurantAndBrewhouse

OPENING FALL

   Beachcomber Brewing
   Beachcomberbrewing.com

   Four Mile Brewpub, 199 Island Highway, Victoria
   @FourMilePub


OPENING SEPTEMBER

   Bomber Brewing, 1488 Adanac Street, Vancouver
   @bomberbrewing

OPENING EARLY 2014

   Steel Toad Brewing, East 2nd Street, Vancouver

Iceberg Beer, St. John's Newfoundland

It has been said by many brew masters, “water makes the beer.”

This refreshingly light lager is brewed with 25,000 year old iceberg water harvested from Newfoundland’s awe-inspiring icebergs.

The appearance is clear and golden, a gently hopped, light-bodied brew offering a clean, sparkling finish, crisp with no aftertaste.

 

Yes, is the answer

Beer that shaped Canadian history

 

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Canada can learn a lot about its history by looking at five types of beer, says author and beer connoisseur Ian Coutts. This Canadian author said Canada became a beer country due to environmental factors because wine has only been made in small areas throughout the nation.

Here are the five types of beer that have shaped Canada, as defined by Coutts:

Brown ale

A pioneer beer made by "guys in the tub" in rural areas in the late 18th Century.

The beer was simple to make but unpredictable because you could not control much about the taste or colour.

 

Porter

The first industrial beer, which  Canadians started importing from overseas.

Pale ale

The drink of saloons, found in "handsome establishments" in towns and patronized by young guys.

It looked good in a glass and it coincided with the rise of the idea of brands — marking the growing urbanization.

 

Lager

The "star" of every beer commercial from 1955 to 1975, it came in during Prohibition and became the focus of lifestyle-based advertising. It's an industrial beer and you need a refrigerator for storage.

It is good for people raised on soft drinks. It is very connected to postwar affluence and the assembly line.

 Craft beer

It is what's current, so history is still being made. Craft beer is not exactly a beer, but a "state of mind." It's like music or fashion or anything else.

"It began as a rediscovery of lost beers, but now it is moving into exciting new territory, taking an increasingly sophisticated audience with it," Coutts said.



As for the future of Canadian beer, Coutts said it's looking bright. "This is the golden era of Canadian beer. We've never had more varieties of beer. We've probably got more breweries going now than we had in any time in the last 100 years," he told Robyn Bresnahan, host of CBC Radio's Ottawa Morning.
"You can walk into any bar and get absolutely amazing drinks — pale ales, porters — and it's just going to get better and better."

CBC News June 2013