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Nut Brown (Dead Frog Brewery, 5%)

  This dark-brown ale’s your answer if you want something easy to drink but don’t want to sacrifice any flavour. There are plenty of complex aromas on the nose, including oak and caramel. With an...

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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...

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Chocolate Mint Brown Ale (Dead Frog Brewery, 5%)

The first release in Dead Frog’s Beermaster Series, and another unusual flavour to add to the brewery’s repertoire. It’d be easy to dismiss this as liquid After Eight, or Dead Frog’s Nut Brown after...

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Race Rocks Ale (Lighthouse Brewing Company, 5.2%)

Another of my first forays into B.C. craft beer, Race Rocks caught my attention with its rich maltiness, which gave me hope that I could find decent Scottish ale in my new home. What makes this brown...

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Rail Ale Nut Brown (Howe Sound Brewing, 5%)

Time to start giving more love to some B.C. craft beer mainstays. It’s all too easy to get wrapped up in the latest seasonal or limited releases that seem to be currently landing on shelves every week,...

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Naramata Nut Brown Ale (Cannery Brewing, 5.5%)

Time to celebrate another B.C. classic that’s often overlooked. With their warm nut and chocolate flavours, nut brown ales have always struck me as great autumn and winter beers, though they’re mostly...

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Valley Trail Chestnut Ale (Whistler Brewing Company, 5%)

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire … Yes, we’re getting all Christmassy at Schloss Zeschky, even though our lack of open fire means the chestnuts go in the oven (because the only thing roasting on the...

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Mild Winter Ale (Okanagan Spring Brewery, 4.8%)

Okanagan Spring would strenuously deny it, but this beer can’t help but looking like the brewery’s challenge to this season’s commercial dominance by Granville Island’s Lions Winter Ale. The...

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Black Widow Mild Ale (The Tin Whistle Brewing Company, 5%)

Seeing as I reviewed one new B.C. mild, I thought it only fair to review the other B.C. one that’s been brewed down the road in Penticton by Tin Whistle for a good number of years now. As I mentioned...

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