Sailor Hagar’s Brew Pub, 86
Semisch Ave. , North Vancou-
ver. 984-3087. Visa, MasterCard
and American Express accepted.
Open from 11 a.m. everyday.
Take the kids or call a babysit-
ter? Call a babysitter and grab
you beer stein.

Menu for tonight

eA flask of Hagar's Honey
Pilsner ($2.55)

ejug of Scandinavian Lager
($9.75)

*Hogshead of Narwhal Pale Ale
($8.75)

TALKERS of honest ales

and Great Canadian

brews should direct dis-
cerning snouts and palates
harborside to another North
Shore brewing break-
through.

The Riedlinger family, Allan,
Brian and Ruth, proprietors of the
well-regarded Lower Lonsdale
Sailor Hagar’s neighborhood pub
have entered the rarefied ranks of
commercial brewing.

. Not the flavorless fizz of pan-
Canadian ersatz ales,.calorie-
reduced lagers, ice beers and
other mass-produced brewing
gimmicks, but real ales, hearty
bitters and crisp lagers.

The family proudly unveiled
its Sailor Hagar’s Brew Pub on
May 25 with a ceremonial chris-

_tening from North Vancouver
City Mayor Jack Loucks, he of the
paternal demeanor and Chicago
boxcar haircut.

More than a proud day for the
Riedlingers, the launch of their
brew pub signals yet another
local commitment to the glories
of beer, one of the world’s most

popular but least appreciated fer-

mented beverages. .
_ Sailor Hagar’s is the Lower
Mainland’s only brew pub and
- one of only four brew pubs in
B.C. It is also North Vancouver's
first modern-era brewery and first
_ brew pub, though it is not the
first of either on the North Shore.

The Troller Pub in Horseshoe
Bay made national brewing his-
tory in 1982 when it opened its
Horseshoe Brewery after securing
a licence to brew its own ale.

The pub’s ownership closed
the brewery in September 1987,
but it was rescued and resurrect-
ed by local brewmaster David
Bruce-Thomas, who secured a
microbrewery licence for the
Horseshoe Bay Brewing Co. in
April 1988.

-Bruce-Thomas continues to
operate his Horseshoe Bay
microbrewery in that West
Vancouver suburb and now sells
his Horseshoe Bay Ale and other
select brews to area restaurants
and through government liquor
stores,

Though they are brethren in
the honorable fight to preserve
real ales, brew pubs and micro-
breweries are different brewing
beasts.

Microbrewies can sell their
products where they please, but
cannot be affixed to a pub; the

. brewing component of a brew
pub must be affixed to a pub and
cannot sell its brews to any other
pubs, though its products can be
sold from an affixed beer and

_ wine store if the brew pub opera-
tors have one. And the

-Riedlingers do.

They plan to bottle and sell
Hagar’s Brewing Co. products _
from their cold beer and wine
‘store starting in July.

"But enough malted bureaucra-
cy and other licensing mumbo-

cee

Timothy Renshaw
TABLE HOPPING

jumbo, Let’s get down to the
malted meat and potatoes, which
for the Riedlingers and Hagar’s
brewmaster Gary Lohin, comes
down to the freshness and quality
of brew that is delivered! to
Hagar's customers in the glass.

Lohin, who was lured away
from Okanagan Springs to
become Hagar’s full-time brew-
master, has put together an
impressive new beer menu for
the neighborhood pub.

It includes:
fa Hagar’s Honey Pilsner ($2.55
per 9 oz. glass, $3.95 per 16 oz.
glass and $7.95 for the 34 oz.
Viking serving) a blend of

Canadian grains, German hops
and European Jager yeast.

Bi Scandinavian Lager
($2,.95,$4.45, $9.75), brewed
from Canadian Pale, English
Carastan and Chocolate and
German Munich grains; German
and Czechoslovakian hops and
European lager yeast.

B Narwhal Pale Ale ($2.75,
$4.45,$8.95), which adds English
Ale yeast and Perle and
Willamette hops from Yakima,
Washington, to the mix. |

Two new brews set to hit
Hagar’s pub taps this month are
Grizzly Nut Brown Ale and
Lohin’s Extra Special Bitter.

All are producec! about half a
block to the east of the pub in
the building that used to house
North Shore Auto Electric, but
which is now the Riedlinger fam-
ily’s pride and joy.

Their 10-hectolitre mini-brew-
ery is a spotlessly clean assem-
blage of stainless steel brewing
vats and tanks trimmed in cop-
per.

Its atmosphere is filled! with
the robust fragrances of hops,

NEWS photo Brad Lecwidge

HERE FOR the beer’... Hagar’s Brewing Co. brewmaster Gary
Lohin checks one of the vats at the new North Van brewery.

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Join us for one of our mary special Lunch Salads & for
Dinner, enjoy our finest French Cuisine ..,., Michel has been many people's

Open Tues.-Sat.

first choice for French food on the North
Shore for the past decade and more.”

grains, yeasts and malts and alive
with bubbling tubes and whirring
refrigeration units — all working
in precise harmony for the better-
ment of local beerdom,

Once brewed, chilled and
aged, the finished product flows
west through a complex system
of pipes to Sailor Hagar’s bar,

See Brew page 24

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