All kinds of beer fun at Stella's tap house, they even have Belgian style fries.
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Bornem had a dubbel and a tripple, both were very nice. The beers were served VERY cold, so they took a long time to warm.
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All the appropiate glassware.
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Stella's Tap House. Best tap house in Vancouver. A wide variety of Belgian beers.
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Stella's Tap House. Best tap house in Vancouver.
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4 Beer sampler, they had a 5th in the bottle. All were good, maple beer was better ballanced then I expected. Also had a traning wheel lager, a honey lager (their best seller) and a pale ale (low hops as I have learned to expect north of the border)
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Granvillle Island - Brew house.
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Granville Island Brewery. Nice tap house no food, just beer.
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In granville island hotel
Pelican Bay brown lager- residual sweetness. Very malty sweet. bittered with an wilammette hop.

Haupenthal hefeweizen. Light banna and clove looks filtered.

Oak bridge dark lager. Malty amber beer. It is just middle of the road.

Marina light lager citrus almost carribean beer charter. Not aout standing. Dry apparent house funk.

Cartwright pale ale. this would be the training wheel beer if all of the othere were not training wheel beer. Pale and almost flavorless.

johnston plisner the best beer on the table. Still needs more sazz and more maltyness. Probally more a plae ale.

Hibiscus

Honey lager.

Just a lot of non descript beers here. They might be better with a line cleaning, but we left 75% of a $14 beer sampler at the bar.

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Eight beers, eight dirty lines. Gives all beers a limey tangy funk.
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Nice place at Dockside, but they need to clean their beer lines.
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Dockside's copper kettels face the pier.
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Beautiful brewery and location. Dockside.
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Dockside Brewery.
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There are 7 beers at the Pike. The service was excellent, but the Halibut and Chips I ordered seemed to take forever to come up. The meal was worth the wait. Just awesome.
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6 beer sampler

Pike Naughty Nellie, golden artisan ale. No chick beer here. Nice beer with a malty sweetness and enough hops to compliment the over all flavor.

Pike Weisse, American crystal wheat beer. Not a lot of character. Lightest tasting beer on the menu.

Pike pale ale, wow very crisp hops dance on the tongue. Beer finishes cleanly. Hops and malt are balanced perfectly.

Pike ipa, slight aromatics for the style. Big hops in the mouth and finishes up with a hop kick.

Pike kilt lifter malty sweet, finishes clean. Not big enough to induce kilt lifting. Definite hop character in the finish, not big hops, but detracts from the style.

Pike XXXXX stout. Big black patent in nose and in dry finish. Big coffee nose, almost espresso. Under tones of chocolate sneak up on you. Very good beer, malt sweetness comes through as it warms to balance the other dry flavors.

Pike Double Ale, an explosion in flavor. Deep amber beer with aggressive hops balanced to caramel malt body. My favorite on the menu, I got two of the $3 happy hour pints of this.


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The Pike bar has tin pressed ceiling deocrations.
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Serving tanks behind the main bar at the Pike.
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The pub is down stairs.
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Even this bottle is suspended at Pike's.
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The Pike brewrey and Pub Pikes Place Seattle. Nice open architecture. The brew house is suspended over the resturant.
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Okanagan Spring Brewery Old Engilsh Porter, Strong maybe in alcohol content, but sickly sweet. Some chocholate, but no other taste but sweet and coco. This beer oculd sneak up on you, as it has zero alcohol taste.
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OK, this is the only IPA in Oh Canada that actually understands hops.

A wow! On the hoppy aroma followed by a well ballanced beer. Hops, hops. Hops. On the tounge, in the finish, all around.

Now, don't get me wrong, this is not an American IPA that sits up and smacks you with hops. This is a great example of what I would expect a Brittish IPA to be.


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We hiked to R&B, but they were not open.
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Sampler 6 beers.
Tropical Lager - Caribbean lager. Crisp character, good mouth feel full bodies. Crystal clear
IPA, wow again a hoppy beer, crisp and aromatic. Pale straw color.
Pilsner, malty sweet but lacks the balance of traditional bohemian. Still a great drinkable pils. Best beer on the table.
Red Truck ale and lager. Essentially same as Yaletown.
Brown malty sweet; finishes sweet not crisp like sister brewery.

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Large bar, and 7 beers on draft. we missed the Cask party that they host one Thursday a month.
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NIce warm resturant at Dix, owned by the same group as Yaletown.
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Dix Brewery and BBQ. Small brewery but a large pub just accross the street from BC place.
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Yaletown Red Truck lager was smooth but non descript and wheat beer is a true training wheel beer. All beers are clean, but none are outstanding.
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Yaletown brewing co.

6 beer sampler

Velvet stout. Yummy sweet stout, chocholate and very slight roast dryness. Blackness hilighted with deep ruby red.

Yippee ipa - very hoppy yea! Light aroma, but tons of hops in the flavor. Nice mouth feel. Pale straw color.

Downtown brown, brown is a stretch more of an amber copper color. Very malty with a clean finish.

Red truck ale, yummy. Nice maly balanced with right amount of hops. Served on nitro. Sweetness coats the tounge.
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Yaletown resturant is huge.
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Nice warm brewery and resturant.
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Welcome to Yaletown.
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I am sure if it were nice Yaletown's patio would be packed.
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a rainy day at Yaletown Brewing co.
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Steamworks Brewing is my fave in Vancouver.
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7 beer sampler at Steamworks. Lions gate lager, training wheel beer. Light with a crisp clean finish. Well done but not outstanding.

Sour cherry seasonal. Cherry is perceivable, sour taste but not a sour beer. The fruit dominates the beer, more a fruit beer then a beer with fruit, I am not sure the beer would stand up without the cherry.

Impanema Wit, great name so so beer. Slight citrus flavor, more of an American wheat then a belgian wit. Drinkable, but lacking distinction.

Signature pale ale, sweet malty beer. You could easily drink a few pints of this brittish mild any time. Nice amber color.

Nirvana nut brown ale. More hops then expected, very clean finish. Toasted charcter, well balanced. The best beer of the 8.

Empress ipa, hoppy finish, light aroma. Hops is not dominate more of a pale ale then an IPA. Nice malty sweetnes, beer coats the tounge in flavour, but finishes clean.

Heroica oatmeal stout. Nice rast charcter, smooth creamy head. Beer is notably thin for an oatmeal stout, almost 0 mouthfeel. Hops nicely ballances to the roasted malt.

Pumpkin ale; spicy nutmeg and cinnamon ballenced and sweet. Risidual sweetness

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There is even a wine tasting area at steam works.
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Pool room is part of the basement.
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Downstaris houses the brewery. Beautiful copper kettles.
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Steamworks is a great brew pub in Vancouver. Lots of space in two stories. Library on ground floor is dark in the evening.
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Steamworks Vancouver.
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Boundry Bay Sampler: Stout has definite peat malt smokiness. Smooth but other then the peat, not remarkable.

Barleywine is in the jp sweet spot, big alcohol big hops big malt. The SYITF type of beer.

IPA piney nose and finish, definite cascade nose, amarillo and centennial for body. Bigger then it tastes.

Amber is a typical NP amber hops balanced with malt, red colour. A little bit of haze is the only detractor from this beer.

Imperial oatmeal stout is also big. Roast and hops come through during entire taste. Oatmeal smoothes bite, but the big stout preserves. Complex chocolate and roast flavors dominate as warmed.

Scotch is too hoppy for style. Nice color and malt, has the NWP flair.
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Lots of space, and much better lighting in the resturant side of Boundry Bay.
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Boundry Bay has lots of taps. and the pub was hoppin'
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Boundry Bay Brewing. Nice warm, but dark pub in Washington near Canada border.
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Ask nice and they will bring all of the beers, not just the six standards. Blonde, yea right. Drinkable, but bring your skirt.
Esb, the classic, the beer red hook was built on
Ipa, nice but by PNW standarda weak
Winterhook, malty and warm
Balckhook. Nice porter but best 'stout style' on nitro
Pacific ridge pale ale, two words: chick beer. Sweet with a slight hops
presence.
25th anniversary brew. Malty. Not a lot of hops, but nice drinkable
brew.
Cask esb, sweet but not wow, have this great.
Cask porter, roast comes in big, swells the mouthfeel. Much better then
then the straight. Still missing the nitro.
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Nice pub (portsmouth is warmer and more inviting).

Service rocks, biut the pub is dead at 6 on a monday.

All beers are good.
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All kinds of yummy taps at Red Hook.
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Red Hook welcomes beer lovers from all over.
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