Chad McCarthy

Certified Cicerone®, National-ranked BJCP Beer Judge, BJCP Mead Judge, award-winning @VanBrewers homebrewer, proponent of craft beer and related foodstuffs

[Chad McCarthy @hoplog]

@mikefarlane Reminds me of the SNL/Chris Farley/El Niño sketch: “El Niño is Spanish for… The Niño”

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Big cheers to @BCraig824 and @brighteyebrew for hooking up this homebrewer with some beer line on a semi-urgent basis. Good people who make good beer! 🍻

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Been a while since I entered & won anything at a homebrew competition. Thanks so much @VanBrewers and @BarleysHomebrew!

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Getting my #beerjudge on at the 2022 @BCBeerAwards. First time judging since Covid began! It’s good to be back.

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@brighteyebrew Yes, Logan hooked me up with my Escarpment yeast!

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First brew day after a summer break. Finally getting a chance to make something low-ABV. It will be riff on Vietnamese bia hơi rice ale, but also my first foray into kveik yeast (Krispy from @EscarpmentLabs)

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@brighteyebrew That would be fantastic, thanks! It’s a bit rough finding ingredients here, although the folks at BA Brewmaster have been great.

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@kathyyanli Awesome! Fingers crossed we’ll have an exam out west one of these days, too.

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@kathyyanli @CanadaHomebrews I’m so sorry about those struggles, Kathy; I hear you. Without some political will to open more spaces and make them affordable, I don’t see how we’ll make it through the imminent boomer retirement wave. And don’t worry about us homebrewers - family comes first!

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For the record: C-hop American pale ale, Vienna lager, Belgian pale ale, English barleywine, tripel.

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Bucket list achievement unlocked: I now have my own homebrew in all 5 of the corny kegs I own (had to remove the fridge door shelving to fit them all in) 🤘🍻

[Justin McElroy @j_mcelroy]

a vancouver unspecial is a six-storey mixed-used building on a busy street with a $4 million penthouse on top, $700,000 bachelor suites with 450 square feet in the middle, and a tim hortons and bank of montreal on the bottom

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@BernerPark @VanBrewers @vanbrewerawards Thanks, to you too!

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Why yes, I think I will have my @VanBrewers @vanbrewerawards silver-medal-winning “I Came To Drop Brahms” Vienna Lager with my burger tonight…

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@cityofkamloops Can we use the app for downtown street parking yet? I would much prefer that to the current clunky machines.

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@Ben_coli Testify! 🤘

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A brew day hot scotchie, as I wait for the wort to boil #homebrew

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🍀Happy St. Patrick’s Day, everyone! #stout #homebrew

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@Ben_coli I was a huge VH fan in my youth, but the equivalent would have been me blasting Benny Goodman while riding around on my BMX

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Brew day. Hopefully I can make this a regular occurrence in 2022. With luck, I’ll be drinking helles at Easter!