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Pourhouse Bier Bistro Has Ramen Burgers!

By Rebecca | August 5, 2014 | Comments 0 Comment

As I am sure you can tell, “Gastro Pubs” are one of my favourite places to visit. I am a bit of a beer snob, I would like to be MORE of a beer snob someday. (Of the non-pretentious variety) Beer goes great with food, just the same as wine, only you don’t need a sommelier to pour it for you. The Pourhouse always has a rotating selection of taps and bottles as well as a regular selection. The beer are all listed by flavour profile, which makes it easier for the non beer drinkers.

Ok, now that you know you can go to Pourhouse for a great brew, let’s talk about BurlyChef Lager… Pourhouse’s heart belongs to Chef Daniel Huber. No, he isn’t the only one that brings the Pourhouse to YEG, but he is the flavour creator. He wanted to bring a “normal” beer to Pourhouse, like the one Dad used to drink when they were BBQ’ing. Before your start grumbling and complaining about the brewery he chose, please note that he did try the “local” breweries and they were not able to give him the flavour profile that he was looking for. Labbatt’s brews “Burly Chef Lager” for the Pourhouse. It is a nice, light lager that goes with anything that the menu has to offer for food. For the entire month of August, $1 per pint will be donated to the Bissell Centre to help them with the rebuilding of the “Thrift Shoppe” after the two devastating fires.

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Cognac Passion at the Pourhouse Bier Bistro

By Rebecca | December 20, 2013 | Comments 0 Comment

Two of my strongest passions in life are food, and charities. I don’t settle for the ordinary in either. Food needs to be an experience. Any charity that I support needs to be supporting youth or animals in need, and, needs to provide a lion’s share of a donation to the cause and not to administration.

Chef Daniel Huber managed to combine two of my favourite things into a fundraiser; food with proceeds going to YESS. YESS stands for Youth Empowerment and Support Society. They help get homeless youth off of the streets and back into productive, healthy lifestyles. I highly encourage anyone reading this article to contact them and go for a tour of the main shelter facility. I could go on for days explaining the programs and what they do. To keep it short – they are phenomenal. With one of the volunteer organizations I work with, we have a young man that is a YESS graduate and he says he wouldn’t be alive today if it wasn’t for YESS.

Chef Daniel Huber is half of the culinary team that is the Pourhouse Bier Bistro. They are a gastropub located in Old Strathcona. One of the many places you can go for some great eats and a wonderful selection of craft brewed beer. Since he works in the same neighbourhood as the shelter, he has seen the struggle of the youth with homelessness, gangs and abuse. Chef Daniel decided to try and make a difference and use his culinary talent to hold a fundraiser with proceeds going to YESS.

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CRAFT Beer Market – Beer With Class

By Rebecca | December 19, 2013 | Comments 0 Comment

The new Craft Beer Market is located in downtown Edmonton just off Rice Howard Way. It is tucked away in the same block as Wood Work and 100 Bar and Grill. I am a huge beer fan, and “on tap” is the best of the best that a beer drinker can experience. The original Craft is located in Calgary; my Calgarian friends rave about how much they love it there. I have been waiting for Craft to open for months and carefully watching the social media feeds for opening day. Today is the day.

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Soda Jerks – Anything But Jerks

By Rebecca | November 8, 2013 | Comments 0 Comment

Soda Jerks was one of the first places in Edmonton to bring about the “Build Your Own Burger”. You can always have your burger the way YOU like it. Many, many, many choices! The ingredients are all top quality.

The name for me brought about visions of a “Soda Jerk” behind a chrome counter with an ice cream freezer and a pile of milkshake blenders. You won’t find an actual Soda Jerk here. The decor has lots of bottles of soda everywhere and comfy booths and seating throughout the restaurant. They also have a secondary location in St. Albert now that has a more open concept than the original restaurant.

Among the sides are the best deep fried pickles in the city. Hand breaded in tempura, they are always crispy and juicy at the same time.

As the name suggests, soda is what makes the Jerks go ’round! There are 45 different flavours of sodas. They also offer floats and milkshakes; non-alcoholic and the adult variety! My favourite is the Guinness float. I had to try it because I just couldn’t imagine ice cream and beer but it is phenomenal! I even bought one for my hard core Guinness drinking friend Ben, and he loved it!

The Barn Yard, The Big Jerk and the Doris, are three really BIG burgers. There is a contest to eat all three of them. One of my friends was able to eat Doris and got a t-shirt for his efforts.

If you are going to the restaurant during a peak time, expect a 45 minute to an hour wait. At the original restaurant in West Edmonton, you can go to the lounge to grab a drink while you wait. The menu is online so you can peruse before you go!

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