Kurtz Kraft Beer Blog: Off The Rail Brewing Co.

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Off The Rail Brewing Co.

OFF THE RAIL BREWING CO.
Contact:
Phone: 604-563-5767
Email: info@offtherailbrewing.com
Address: 1351 Adanac Street, Vancouver BC. V5L 2C4
www.offtherailbrewing.com

Hours:
Sunday: 12-8pm
Monday: 12-8pm
Tuesday: 12-8pm
Wednesday: 12-8pm
Thursday: 12-8pm
Friday: 12-10pm
Saturday: 12-10pm

I had a great visit to Off the Rails Brewing a week ago. I met with Trigger who is a huge fan of Craft Brew and is in my opinion a customer service specialist. She was easy to talk to and spoke with everyone in the tasting room addressing each person with their first name. This makes me feel like it is a place where Off The Rail Brewing cares to get to know each individual who comes in. This industry is getting personal. A fresh change from the corporate gobleygook we have all experienced.

We spoke a bit about how the brewery started, where the owners came from and their background. I was unfortunately driving that day so I did not get to do extensive tasting but I did purchase a growler of their Kama Citra Ale and she gave me a bottle of the Raj Mahal India Ale. The Kama Citra Ale was a great tasting beer. Nice hop flavour with a citrus taste. This is a great summer beer. 4.4 ABV (Alcohol by Volume) and a 33 IBU (International Bitterness Units). A great accompaniment for a summer picnic, barbecue or and outdoors get together.
I have not tried the Raj Mahal India Ale yet but if the Kama Citra is any indication, I think I will thoroughly enjoy it since it has won a prestigious award already.
They have recently won some Canadian Craft Beer awards for 2016 their Classic Pale Ale and the Raj Mahal India Ale both won Gold Medals and their Belt Up ESB won a Bronze Medal.

Here is a list of the beers they produce:
Czechmate Pilsner, Classic Pale Ale, Raybuck Red Ale, Hopinionated IPA, Gateway, Bohemian Lager, Kama Citra Ale, Crazy Train IPA, Belt Up ESB, Lancaster Cream Ale, Irish Pub Draught, Beez Kneez Honey Ginger Ale and Saison of the Witch.

I highly recommend a visit to this Brewery as they live beer. For only having been open since February of 2015, they are doing an amazing job of attending to both the new craft beer drinker and the experience pallet of a craft beer lover.
Rating for this brewery: 5 beers from a 6 pack

Next time on Kurtz Kraft Beer Blog: Parallel 49 Brewing Co.

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The History of Beer according to Wikipedia

Beer is one of the oldest beverages humans have produced, dating back to at least the fifth millennium BC and recorded in the written history of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. As almost any cereal containing certain sugars can undergo spontaneous fermentation due to wild yeasts in the air, it is possible that beer-like beverages were independently developed throughout the world soon after a tribe or culture had domesticated cereal. Chemical tests of ancient pottery jars reveal that beer was produced as far back as about 7,000 years ago in what is today Iran. This discovery reveals one of the earliest known uses of fermentation and is the earliest evidence of brewing to date. In Mesopotamia, the oldest evidence of beer is believed to be a 6,000-year-old Sumerian tablet depicting people drinking a beverage through reed straws from a communal bowl. A 3900-year-old Sumerian poem honouring Ninkasi, the patron goddess of brewing, contains the oldest surviving beer recipe, describing the production of beer from barley via bread. In China, residue on pottery dating from between 5400 to 4900 years ago shows beer was brewed using barley and other grains.^[2]

The invention of bread and beer has been argued to be responsible for humanity's ability to develop technology and build civilization.The earliest chemically confirmed barley beer to date was discovered at Godin Tepe in the central Zagros Mountains of Iran, where fragments of a jug, at least 5,000 years old was found to be coated with beerstone, a by-product of the brewing process.

Beer may have been known in Neolithic Europe as far back as 5,000 years ago, and was mainly brewed on a domestic scale.^[8]

Beer produced before the Industrial Revolution continued to be made and sold on a domestic scale, although by the 7th century AD beer was also being produced and sold by European monasteries. During the Industrial Revolution, the production of beer moved from artisanal manufacture to industrial manufacture, and domestic manufacture ceased to be significant by the end of the 19th century. The development of hydrometers and thermometers changed brewing by allowing the brewer more control of the process, and greater knowledge of the results.

Today, the brewing industry is a global business, consisting of several dominant multinational companies and many thousands of smaller producers ranging from brewpubs to regional breweries. More than 133 billion liters (35 billion gallons) are sold per year—producing total global revenues of $294.5 billion (£147.7 billion) in 2006.

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