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Alibi Room Celebrates 100th beer list

That’s right, 100th beer list, not beer, but beer list.  I find that impressive and am planning on stopping by for the celebration, which is tomorrow, Thursday the 3rd of December at the Alibi Room.  I’d heard rumors that an event of this sort might be taking place and the CAMRA newsletter confirms:

This Thursday will be the 100th rotation of the Alibi Room’s beer list. To mark the occasion owner Nigel Springthorpe will be replacing the regular lineup with a special selection featuring great current BC beers along with signature beers from many BC Brewers. Some kegs will be new, others may be kegs collected over the years and aged in the Alibi Room’s cellar. Highlights include a cask of Driftwood’s wet-hopped Sartori Harvest IPA, the last of Swan’s Legacy-Ale barleywine, and Steamworks’ Blitzen & Yaletown’s Le Nez Rouge Belgian-style tripels.

As if that wasn’t enough, The Alibi Room will be releasing the aged bottles they’ve collected and aged in their cellar.

I am pretty excited to give the fresh hopped Sartori Harvest IPA from Driftwood a try. I missed out on the bottled release when I was away in October, but the cask version promises to be even better.  One friend of mine has gone on record as saying it is the best IPA he’s ever tasted and he’s a certified hophead.  Should be good times, be sure to stop by if you can make it.

Cheers,

Chris

Lonely Planet Vancouver features Alibi Room

Alibi Room owner Nigel Springthorpe

Alibi Room owner Nigel Springthorpe

I enjoy traveling and am obsessed with the Lonely Planet series of guide books.  If you’ve never traveled with one or you have used lesser guide books, then you likely missed out on a few hidden gems.  I am particularly fond of the Lonely Planet Encounter series, which each profile a city sectioned into neighborhoods for easy reading.  I was at Chapters today and noticed that Lonely Planet very recently published a Vancouver Encounter, likely to cater to Olympic Visitors.  I was, of course, curious and flipped through it to see what travel experts recommend to see, eat, and do in Vancouver.  I wasn’t surprised at all to find the Alibi Room recommended, but I was surprised to see how much attention they paid to it.  Usually restaurants and bars get a two sentence blurb, but the Alibi Room garnered two pictures and an interview with owner Nigel Springthorpe!  This attention is warranted in my mind and is a testament to the hard work Nigel has done in building Vancouver’s best beer bar.  It pleases me that visitors to Vancouver, if they take the Lonely Planet’s excellent advice, will get to enjoy an establishment of such fine quality, likely giving them a positive impression of our fine city.  Although there is one negative, I imagine a seat at the Alibi Room will be an impossible commodity to come by during the Olympics.

The Alibi Room wasn’t the only beer destination recommended in the Vancouver Encounter.  Six Acres, The Irish Heather, Dix Brewery, Yaletown Brewing, and Steamworks were also listed.

Cheers,

Chris