With summer upon us, lighter, fruity beers are natrually popular. Of the lineup available from Pentictons’ Tin Whistle Brewing, the Peach Cream Ale is their top-selling beer. Given their location in the heart of BC’s fruit-growing region, this is fitting. They could carve out a niche for themselves producing fruit beer or classic styles enhanced with fruit, such as their Cherry Chocolate Porter.
It’s amazing to me how infrequently bars and bartenders are used as fodder for storylines in pop culture. If there’s an industry more ripe for dramatic tension, then I’m at a loss to name it. Every bar I’ve ever worked is its own little version of Melrose Place, plus you’ve got an endless supply of tragicomic characters, all jacked up on truth serum just by the nature of the context. And yet we’ve only had that one TV show, where everybody apparently knows your name. We have that one movie too, of course, which I will not discuss here because it has rendered every bartender in the entire world incapable of so much as tossing a piece of glassware from one hand to the other without 5 people in the room yelling either the name of said movie or the lead actor from it at you simultaneously, and the resentment bred from hearing it every day since 1988 is of the sort that axe murderers and parking enforcement officers evolve from. Ahem. Read the rest of this entry »
Maenam introduces new take-out menu and $15 lunch special; Le Vieux Pin and Lastella Launch Ecommerce Site; Canada Day at OPUS ~ High Speed Bike Racing, a Beer Garden and an After Party; Mercury Rising at the Loden Hotel every Thursday; Hamilton Street Grill is now open for Brunch both Saturday and Sunday; Moustache Café Introduces Tuesday Wine Special.
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