Love Potion NEVI IPA
​Release Party
Valentine's Day, 2018

Love Potion NEVI is the world's first commercially available North East Vancouver Island IPA.  With an outrageous amount of whirlpool hop additions and then dry hopping, this juicy, hazy IPA has a pillowy soft mouthfeel with a very restrained bitterness.  While some still consider this "style" of beer to be a brewing fault - as they don't appreciate the haze which is a natural byproduct of the brewing process, many of the top rated IPAs in North America right now are this style.  First brought to fame by a few breweries in the North East of the United States (some people call them New England IPAs) the North East Vancouver Island style is a play on this nomenclature.

It's Not Just Beer, It's Love - Victoria Version - Raised $1634 To Split Between BC Children's Hospital and Jeneece Place

Saturday June 25, the last 50 litre keg of the Royston IPA will be available for pint sales at the Drake Eatery in Victoria.  The Royston Nano Brewery will be making the trek over the Malahat in an electric car, bringing the last big keg of the RIPA.  Once again, no fossil fuels were burned in the delivery of the Royston Nano Brewery beer.

The Drake Eatery, Victoria BC

517 Pandora Ave, Victoria BC.

It's Not Just Beer, It's Love

This event is sold out

Friday May 6.  The long awaited release of the Royston Nano Brewery's first charitable brew.  The Royston IPA, affectionately known as the RIPA, will be available for pint sales and growler fills at the Gladstone Brewery starting at 4 o'clock.  After covering costs, all proceeds will be split between YANA - You Are Not Alone - and BC Children's Hospital Oncology Services.  This is not a tap takeover, the Gladstone Brewing Company's regular beer lineup will also be available.   The growler fill station will be open as well to enjoy brewery fresh beer to go.  The event will likely be very busy, so bring your patience and your love.  Growler fills to go may be the best option for enjoying the RIPA.  T-shirts and RNB logo laser etched glassware will be available for sale as well.

Gladstone Brewery, Courtenay, BC

244 - 4th Street, Courtenay, BC V9N
Opposite the Courtenay Museum and the Sid Williams Theatre

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Sing to the yeast.

Yeast are living creatures.  Filling their ears with love songs can only help.  Plus it's a bit of a hoot.  Apologies to Ryan for setting up shop right in his path.  I helped harvest the yeast today, which needs to warm up from its 0 degree chill to be used tomorrow.  Since the yeast needed to be in the steel vessel at room temperature, why not sing to it?  Here is the secret ingredient in the Royston IPA, love.

Make the beer.

Wednesday April 13 the RNB's first charitable gypsy contract beer was brewed.  I didn't break the equipment, and I was careful not to turn the wrong valve and fill the fermentor with caustic cleaning solution.

Dry hop the beer.

I was planning to dry hop the beer 0.5-1 degree plato above final gravity.  That's beer brewer talk for just before the yeast finish fermenting all the sugars.  Any oxygen introduced into the fermentor will be scrubbed up by the still active yeast.  Oxidation at this point will give the beer a caramel aroma.  We don't want caramel aroma.  LOTS of hops were added at this point.

Deliver the beer.

SUP board delivery from the Gladstone Brewery.  The Royston Nano Brewery has committed itself to distributing all beer from each contracted brewery by non fossil fuel burning methods.  Decreased carbon footprint yes, but more importantly engaging community, promoting exercise and an awareness of the benefits of a more bike, foot and paddle-friendly community.  Beer is heavy.  Smart people drink local beer.  And yes I get the irony of the picture from the car window.  Thanks to Courtenay City Councillor Dave Frisch for bicycle couriering 2 kegs the night before to ensure there were guaranteed cold and settled beers for the big release night.

Click here for a satellite Image of the trip at low tide. The beer was transported by dolly from Gladstone across the 5th St bridge and then left. We put in just upriver from the bridge, where the river bends to the left. Between the bridges we pulled into the slough and dropped off one keg at the White Whale's dock. We then carried on down river to the Comox Harbour. We crossed over the harbour and hauled out of the ocean just pass the ship wrecks of Royston (the line in the harbour), at the foot of Royston Road. Then dollied the beer to the Roy's Towne Pub. No fossil fuels were burned in the delivery of this beer.

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