Tag: Community Spotlight
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Vine&hops Beer and Wine Tours
One of the most exciting and easy ways to explore new breweries is with a tour company. They do all the logistics for you and drive all day, so all you have to do is show up and have a great time! Vine&hops Beer and Wine Tours is one of the tour companies running in…
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Community Spotlight: Real Cask Brewing
One of the ongoing struggles that CAMRA BC (and CAMRA Vancouver) face on a regular basis is our association – or lack of association – with “real ale” in BC. CAMRA, as you may or may not know, is a UK based organization that advocates for traditional english styles (i.e. Bitters, Milds, etc.) They want…
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BC Farm Crafted Cider Association
Perhaps you’ve heard that we’re hosting the first Vancouver Craft Cider Festival this month! While tickets are sold out, we’d love to tell you more about one of the organizations that many of the cideries attending are members of. Formed just this past summer, the BC Farm Crafted Cider Association, primarily acts as a voice for…
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Community Spotlight: Orchard & The Sea
A pop up cider bar? It’s a thing! And it happens right here in Vancouver on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. Birds and the Beets transforms into Orchard & The Sea, a bar that’s dedicated to all things cider!
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Community Spotlight: R&B Ale and Pizza House
Wrap your head around this: if R&B were a person, they would be of legal beer-drinking age. That’s right; R&B has been a Mount Pleasant mainstay since 1997, brewing beer for the community since long before craft beer was a “thing” in Vancouver. The Brewery Creek veteran has recently revamped their Growler Station and upgraded…
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Community Spotlight: Faculty Brewing
Patience is a virtue. This is what I have been reminding myself since I first met Mauricio almost a full year ago to chat about Faculty Brewing, Vancouver’s newest kid on the Brewery Creek block. I was immediately excited and inspired by his vision, the tasting room space (although it was barebones at that time),…
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Community Spotlight: Beer Birds
Vancouver is undoubtedly notorious for its craft beer scene with small bloggers, connoisseurs, and even homebrewers in abundance. Heck, even I used to run my own blog. But, did you know that a few wonderful women are spearheading their own spotlight on the scene? If not, meet the Beer Birds.
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Community Spotlight: Storm Crow Alehouse
If you have been drinking on Commercial Drive in the last 4 years, you may have heard of the Storm Crow Tavern – it’s a well-established bar on the drive that has a lot of character. Recently, they decided to expand their operation and opened a second location on Broadway (at Fir) called the Storm…
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Community Spotlight: White Rock Brewing
We have seen so many breweries open in the Greater Vancouver area over the last few years. We saw pioneers like Brassneck push the concept of a brewery lounge license, which totally changed the landscape in the lower mainland for breweries that want to serve beer to their clients coming in. At this point, you…
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Community Spotlight: Mike Garson
One of Vancouver’s most prolific bloggers is also CAMRA Vancouver’s 2015 silver award winner for best blog! You might have heard of Mike’s Craft Beer, but have you met the Mike behind the blog? Get to know Mike Garson in this edition of the CAMRA Vancouver Spotlight
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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
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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
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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…
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Community Spotlight – Beer Me BC
If you ask beer drinkers in British Columbia where they go for their brewery information and beer reviews, they will give you many different sources. One, however, seems to have been a staple since craft beer took its major upswing in the late 2000s – and that is Beer Me BC.
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Twin Sails Brewing Co
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 Twin Sails Brewing Co.
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Community Spotlight: Danny Seeton
I have had the chance to work with Danny in various capacities for several years now and I must say that he is truly an incredible man. Very few people in the Vancouver Craft Beer scene are as genuine, caring, intelligent and funny as Danny is. His smile is infectious and his passion for learning…
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High Point Beer Wine and Spirits
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 High Point Beer Wine and Spirits
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Liberty Wine Merchants – Commercial Drive
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 Liberty Wine Merchants (Commercial Drive)
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Beyond The Grape
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 Beyond The Grape, the growth of the Tri-Cities Brew Club, and the explosion of the craft beer scene in the area.
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Denman Beer Wine and Spirits
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 Denman Beer Wine and Spirits.