Isola di Birra

"...are coming down the stairs.. 🎶". As a parent, my kids watched this show. An 11% imperial oatmeal stout with bananas, cocoa nibs, milk sugar, vanilla & wheat. Chocolaty banana flavour with a touch of roast & vanilla. Sweet, smooth & rich

New to me, Belgian Tripel. Light & bright. Floral, spicy hops are the star with an added sugar sweetness that compliments the malt. Light citrusy coriander & pepper.

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5th annual check-in. A happy revisit. Carbonated cold dill pickle juice with 4.5% abv. Your typical kettle-soured gose with added fresh cucumber, dill & lots of Himalayan pink salt that adds a briney quality. Some fullness from wheat & lactobacillus

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The only one of their "Heron" trilogy I'd missed. This is a cold IPA, fermented warm but with lager yeast. Swimming in hop flavours from Mosaic Lupomax, Mosaic T90 & Centennial. Berry, citrus, tropical fruit & pine. Cereals & rice.

One of their core beer. Light & soft like a pale ale makes this highly crushable for a 6.8% IPA. Juicy upfront with a light piney dankness in the middle & a medium-dry finish. Sticky honey malt. Mosaic, Citra & Simcoe. Wheat subdues the bitterness

Juicy, creamy, smooth, soft. Big flavour for a 4.1% hazy pale. Hopped with Citra & Mosaic & fermented with a designer yeast strain. Oats & wheat add fullness

Hey, if you have a foeder, you're gonna use it. I love this style. This is cold fermented in a foeder which imparts subtle notes of wood. A prominent roasted grain, charred wood character, with light smokiness. Smooth, mellow, earthy. Chocolate, vanilla..

A DIPA version of the namesake. Double shot of Sauvignon Blanc with Phantasm Powder (made from Thiol-rich Sauvignon grape skin) & Nelson Sauvin hops, known for their juicy white grape flavour. Thiol yeast. Mosaic & Simcoe along for the ride. Oats fullness

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Quite delicious with an intriguing hop profile. Citra, Mosaic, El Dorado & Azacca. Mango, peach, grapefruit, lemon, orange. Pepper & pine. Smooth, creamy, fruity, pungent.

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Big weekend? It is Friday. Prickly evergreen resin bitterness with a strawberry aftertaste. Mosaic, Simcoe, Citra & Cryo hops. Juicy pineapple & orange in the middle. Grapefruit zest.

Grainy ESB with barley, wheat & oats adding more body than traditional. Toasted bread. Earthy, woody Fuggles hops. Tannic tea, bitter herbs. Nice balance

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Named after an 80s English pop group. Who knew? Brewed with saison (rather than Champagne) yeast for the pinpoint carbonation & light funk & then conditioned on blood orange for a pithy citrus. DH with Nelson Sauvin, Mandarina Bavaria & Cascade. Pils malt

Soft, juicy. Chinook, Citra, Comet, El Dorado, Mosaic, Motueka & Waimea hops add fruit-forward flavour of pineapple, mango, peach, apricot, orange & pine. A NEIPA but for the Cali Ale yeast. Quite delicious

Hoyne's Italian Pilsner from last year now renamed to Che Bello. Italian barley from Eraclea in Veneto. Spalter Select this time & Saphir hops from Germany. Spicy, woody, floral. Crisp, clean. Light hit of sulphur. Very nice

Boozy 11.5% tripel from the Yukon 🫎. Aged in bourbon barrels, there are flavours of tannic wet wood, vanilla with a warm whiskey bite. Doughy bread. Fruity citrus. Spicy, peppery oak compliments Belgian yeast

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This has been in my fridge since September, when it came out. 2nd check-in. Collab w/ Brasserie du Bas-Canada. Crazy, juicy milkshake IPA DH with Citra & Mosaic. Creamy, smooth. Conditioned on toasted coconut, banana, passionfruit, vanilla & milk sugar.

I'd never heard of this beer until I saw it in the liquor store. Crisp. Nice aroma & flavour of floral hops. Doughy malt. Lemony citrus of coriander. Nice balance. Dry, quick finish

I'm tired of the kettle sours but have a weakness for creamsicles. Not quite the flavour I expected, however. Strong lactobacillus aroma & flavour tempered by orange juice added pre & post fermentation. Vanilla adds a creamy smoothness. Wheat & oats.

Another fine beer from this new North Van brewery. A westcoast-style IPA DH with Columbus & Mosaic. Nice resinous bitterness background with peach, melon, grapefruit zest, berry & black pepper.

I missed this when it came out last fall. Light for the abv. Soft & juicy, as described. It uses Imperial Yeast's Juice strain that accentuates the 4 hop blend. Peach, orange, mango, berry. Light citrus zest bite in place of actual bitterness.