Tag: CAMRA News & Events
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Newsletter Updates
Perhaps you noticed a big change in the newsletter this month. Here are some of the changes we’ve made and where you can find your old favourites.
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June Education Classes
CAMRA BC – Vancouver Branch offers a number of education classes, and for information on past classes check the menu under “Education”. Our Education series at Steamworks Brewpub showcases guest lecturers harvested from our local craft beer community. More classes are being scheduled all the time so check our social media and website regularly as we’ve sold…
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The CAMRA Vancouver Awards for 2014
Each year our branch of the Campaign for Real Ale conducts a poll of its members to recognize local and regional excellence in craft brewing and craft beer services. Members can vote online and then we tally them during the month of January so the winners can be presented with their awards at CAMRA Vancouver’s…
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CAMRA BC – Vancouver Branch AGM 2015
This year’s CAMRA Vancouver AGM will be taking place on Sunday, Feb 22nd 2015
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Casks: An Introduction – By Adam Chatburn
Now that I’m in the last few months of my last term as President, I wanted to talk about an aspect of craft beer that I feel is currently being deeply mishandled, casks. With more and more cask nights popping up all over the city we are developing a culture of craft beer that is…
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CAMRA Education Cider Class Highlights the Best of the Basque
CAMRA BC, Vancouver Branch’s Education Program has been one of the most successful parts of the last 2 years. Danny Seeton our Education Liaison and Amanda Barry – Buchart have worked hard putting together the classes which have run at Steamworks Brewpub. Almost every month we put on a sold-out class featuring some of the…
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Powell River Festival a Triumph!
Another year, another adventure for the brave souls who boarded a school bus from East Van to Powell River, another dash for the ferries and another legendary visit to the Sunshine Coast. Thanks again to Cedric and the Townsite Brew Crew for hosting a pre-festival cask event and brewery tour where we met up with…
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Volunteer Award to Be Presented This Weekend
The CAMRA YVR Executive is one of the best groups of people I have ever worked with in my whole life. Their dedication and hard work inspires me to give everything I have to this organisation so that I can help them as much as I can. This is one reason why Vancouver Branch has…
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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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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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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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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 Comes Back With a Vengeance
How was your Saturday? I had a great time – Whitecaps won, Bike Rave was amazing and I even went for a few beers on the drive with my buddy Ryan. The last thing seems to have upset some people.
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Lots of Support for CAMRA’s #unhappyhour Stance
In the week since the BC Liberals dropped the ball (again) with liquor reform we’ve been inundated with emails and letters of support from the responsible beer drinkers of BC who are rightly outraged that the government has jacked up the price of beer for so many people. This gross betrayal comes after the mess…
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#casks4acause BC Children’s Hospital Fundraiser
Calvin Basran runs Frankie G’s Neighbourhood Pub in New Westminster and his daughter is battling Leukaemia. Obviously this is sad and unfortunate news for everyone but especially Calvin’s family. The BC Children’s Hospital has bent over backwards to help her through the treatments and explore all the options for the best outcome. Calvin has been…
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CAMRA Alberta Launches with a Familiar Face
The Craft Beer Revolution is spreading through the Rockies! This time to Alberta with the launch of CAMRA Alberta in Calgary this summer. The person starting the new society is our friend Natasha Peiskar, the driving force behind SFBrew and one half of the Hoparella team who won the Deep Cove University Brew-off Competition. It…
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Spring Sessional a Huge Success
CAMRA BC – Vancouver Branch’s 3rd Annual Spring Sessional Cask festival was the best yet with 30 casks of great craft beer and cider packed inside and outside of the Cobalt in Vancouver. Over 300 people attended and with Vancouver again delivering a sunny Saturday the beer garden in the back we heard nothing but…
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Craft Beer Takes on Pairing Challenge in Wine Country
I was recently asked to help judge a craft-beer and oyster pairing in Osoyoos – it’s a tough job but being President does have some advantages! The Osoyoos Oyster Festival added the craft beer component to the weekend and approached CAMRA BC to get involved which we were very happy to do.