Author: CAMRA Vancouver
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Whistler Village Beer Festival
With something for everyone, the second annual Whistler Village Beer Festival was a smashing success. Having increased events and attendance from last year, this festival is only going to keep getting bigger and better.
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Cobalt Starts Casks on Sunday This Week!
The Cobalt has spent the last 6 months working on the “Box Car”, converting the coach-tunnel side room into a long bar. The work is almost finished and they want CAMRA BC members to be the first to check it out as they launch their ongoing Cask Sundays with 2 casks at a very, very…
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Powell Street Craft Brewery
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 Powell Street Brewing
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Growlers Coming to a Liquor Store Near You?
The government’s now notorious Liquor Review Recommendations have divided many groups of British Columbians especially: #68. Allow private and public retail liquor stores to sell growlers (refillable bottles) and operate refilling stations.
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New CAMRA BC T-Shirt
One of the best things about working with CAMRA BC is the way we can share our resources, skills and volunteers with other branches. CAMRA Vancouver were contacted by fabulously talented illustrator and designer Justin Longoz who had a great idea for a t-Shirt.
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Stateside Craft CAMRA BC Members Appreciation Night
Stateside Craft CAMRA BC Members Appreciation Night
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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!
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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
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#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.
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#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…
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#FUSS Tour of Gastown Part 2
For background on this project check Part 1 out first..
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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
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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.
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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:
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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…
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Partial Pitcher Minimal Pricing Victory
In their usual Friday announcement burial slot the BC Liberals announced a climb down on the Minimum Pricing of beer – but before we start celebrating there’s a catch (isn’t there always).
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Fuggles & Warlock Craftworks
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 Fuggles and Warlock Craftworks
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CAMRA BC Summit #2 is in the Books!
On Saturday July 19th I spent over 5 hours getting to Victoria to attend the second of three Summit meetings between the individual branches and the BC Executive. These historic meetings allow us to talk over some of the problems and successes that we’ve had since our first Summit here in Vancouver. It’s also a…
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#FUSS Update: Stateside Craft Change Glassware
After our first FUSS-testing trip on Commercial Drive we were surprised just how many places weren’t serving what they claimed. We contacted each of the locations via social media – most brushed us off or ignored us but Stateside Craft, the newest craft beer Mecca on the drive (40 taps of awesome) contacted us back…
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Let your #unhappyhour Letters Fly!
Since last week I’ve been cc’d on dozens of letters to politicians expressing their dismay over the new minimum pricing policy-as-law.