Hello everyone,
A year-end look back
Craft Beer in China
Although it feels like there’s a new brewery in Vancouver every day, it may surprise you that the fastest growing beer market is China.
Txotx Basque Imports
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. In this issue, we look at Txotx Basque Imports
Fuggles and 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. In this issue, we look at Fuggles and Warlock Craftworks
Executive Nominations
It is hard to believe that next month it will have been one year since I took over the presidency of the Vancouver Branch of this amazing organization. We have had a fantastic year full of ups and downs. We had a new team of fresh faces that were keen to be a difference maker in the community. One year later, we have endured a change in liquor reform, and a subsequent liquor reform letter writing campaign, an overhaul of the CAMRA Education Curriculum bringing in new exciting classes, and a constant increase to our community benefit program. We ran some new events (including a Vancouver Canadians Baseball Game and our No-Nonesense Cask Festival) as well as some tried and tested events like CiderWISE, Session Cask Festival and many more.
Beer Mile World Record
History was made on December 1st, when Ontario-born Lewis Kent set a new world record for the fastest Beer Mile. For those who don’t know, the Beer Mile is a frat house inspired race that requires athletes to finish 4 beers over the course of a mile (four laps of a track). Last month, 21 year-old Kent finished in just 4 minutes and 47 seconds - less time than it takes make coffee in the morning. His new time crushed his previous world record by two seconds and beat Cory Gallagher, his closest competition, by just one second.
A Look at “What’s Brewing”
Let’s look back to the early 2000s, before our current Vancouver branch was even in existence. Paul Morris, Lundy Dale, and a few others would meet regularly at a coffee shop (!) in Steveston as part of the Richmond Branch of CAMRA BC. Paul recalls, “The Lower Mainland scene, in terms of craft beer outlets, was dontown Vancouver. Monthly cask nights had started at DIX in July 2002 and there were a bunch of regulars turning up every time. I suggested to Lundy, why don’t we form a Vancouver branch?”
Bainbridge Liquor Store
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. In this issue, we look at Bainbridge Liquor Store.
Over the course of 2015, British Columbia has seen significant changes to the cost of craft beer at retail. Despite the affirmations by our government that consumers and retailers would not be impacted by the price increases brought forward by liquor law reforms, you and I know this has not been the case. Retailers have been forced to rethink what beers they order and give shelf space to because of the imbalance in markups, resulting in less variety and ultimately limiting the selection you would otherwise have.
CAMRA Vancouver Winter Beer Faves
It’s time to curl up around the fire and stay out of the cold. And what better way to do that than with some of British Columbia’s yummiest winter beers! Some of the CAMRA Vancouver executive have some tasty recommendations for you.