CAMRA Vancouver

Month: August 2014

  • Stateside Craft CAMRA BC Members Appreciation Night

    Stateside Craft CAMRA BC Members Appreciation Night 

  • CAMRA Powell River’s Inaugural Craft Beer Festival

    Last year we ran a bus trip up to Powell River, BC for their Oktoberfest and to help the Powell River Branch of CAMRA BC launch, those who came know that it was an amazing time and most of them haven’t shut up about great it was!

  • Moody Ales

    The Spotlight is a series of interviews with the craft beer heroes behind local organizations who are helping grow the beer scene in our fine city. This week’s spotlight is on Moody Ales

  • #FUSS Returns to the Lamplighter

    Last weekend CAMRA Vancouver’s treasurer Ryan Baker returned to the Lamplighter in Gastown to retest them based on their responses to our emails. When we first tested them last month there was some confusion over their serving sizes but I am very happy to report that they have cleared it up just as they promised.

  • #FUSS Tour of Gastown Part 1

    After the explosion that was our first #FUSS testing trip on Commercial Drive we decided to take a slightly different tack based on some of the hateful criticism directed our way. No live tweeting, we would record the tests in HD with a small sign and then email the individual locations with the results asking them…

  • #FUSS Tour of Gastown Part 2

    For background on this project check Part 1 out first..

  • Yellow Dog Brewing

    The Spotlight is a series of interviews with the craft beer heroes behind local organizations who are helping grow the beer scene in our fine city. This week’s spotlight is on Yellow Dog Brewing

  • Farmers Markets and Craft Beer

    One of the great things to come out of the recent liquor law reform is a chance for craft breweries to showcase their wares at local farmers markets.

  • Fairness at the (Beer) Pumps – #FUSS goes Federal

    Along with the BC Liberal’s announcement of the discount on bulk alcohol (20¢ /oz on pitchers) there was a small section that initially went unnoticed but it shows that the campaign we’ve been waging for almost 3 years is finally making a dent on the authorities:

  • CAMRA BC Launches New Awards

    One thing that we’ve been working on this year at the CAMRA BC level is to have some kind of recognition awards, we wanted to do something that would stand apart from other Awards. So we decided to have just four categories, one for each branch,  looking at people who have done great work in…