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Great beer at the corner store?

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 | Beer | 2 Comments

I spent this past BC Day long weekend at a cabin near the foot of Mount Baker, a short jaunt across the border from where I live.  Just before the cabin on the road to Mount Baker, there is a small grocery store called Nooksack Market.  I’d visited this market two years ago on a previous visit to the same cabin.  When my wife told me we were heading to here uncle’s place, all I could think about was getting back to this market.  Why?  Because they have a fantastic craft beer selection stocked with delicious Washington and Oregon beers that you can’t get at any of BC’s best beer stores!  It was really overwhelming shopping at that tiny market because I wanted to buy everything.  I ended up buying a lot of the Stone, Lagunitas, and Deschutes beers that you can’t get here.  It was a good weekend, but I drank too much.

On the way back to Canada we stopped at the Sumas Liquor store to stock up.  This liquor store is two blocks from the border, within clear sight of the crossing.  They too had a fantastic selection and I picked more of the same great beers, plus a few Laughing Buddha bottles.  An American reading this blog might think I am crazy, stupid, or both, but the beer selection right across the border is enough to get this Canadian beer enthusiast exited.  Curse our stupid liquor laws!  If trucks carrying this delicious beer can get to the border, surely they can get across too, right?  We’ll even pay double, which is pretty much what we pay anyway.  At least we get Health Care…

Also, I had a Bud Light Lime this weekend and I thoroughly did not enjoy it.  It tasted nothing like beer, but like malty sprite.  I still think Bud Light Lime is horrible and implore you fans of this perverse liquid to seek out and explore other light beers and alcoholic beverages.

Cheers,

Chris

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