Tag: President Updates
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CAMRA Members Event
CAMRA BC – Vancouver Chapter is bringing Beer Hunter: The movie, for one night only to the RIO Theatre on September 4th.
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Vancouver Homebrew Icon Passes
Dan’s Homebrewing Supplies is a Vancouver icon formerly located on Strathcona’s Heatley Block of East Hastings and recently relocated across the road. Every homebrewer in Vancouver knew Dan and so it is with great sadness that we learned of Dan Small’s passing. The homebrew “scene” in Vancouver is growing rapidly and craft-beer fans wanting to…
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Call to Action! Time for a Full Liquor Review!
The Election has been and gone and Premiere Clarke has announced her new cabinet, Minister Rich Coleman is no longer the Liquor Boss, instead former Vancouver City Councillor and Mayoral candidate Suzanne Anton has been named Attorney General and Justice Minister. However it is John Yap, MLA for Richmond-Steveston who has been made “Parliamentary Secretary…
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Bus Trip to Deep Cove & Bridge
Those of you that saw a CAMRA booth at an event during craft beer week may know that we had a competition for members to win a seat on a bus trip to North Vancouver. Deep Cover Brewing and Distilling invited us over to see their new brewhouse so we took the lucky winners on…
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CAMRA BC at the Farmers Market
CAMRA BC – Vancouver Chapter have partnered with Vancouver Farmers Markets to use their community tables at 5 markets this summer. We’ve already done Kitsilano and the West End with Main Street (July 10th), Trout Lake (July 13th) and Kerrisdale (August 10th) still to come. Thanks to everyone who has come to see us and…
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FUSS Cards
Although we’ve been busy of late working on other advocacy issues we’ve not neglected any of our existing campaigns.
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Cask Fest & New Membership System
Last weekend CAMRA BC – Vancouver Chapter, in partnership with the Portside Pub hosted the Annual Spring Sessional Cask Festival. I’m not alone in saying that it was the best event CAMRA BC has ever hosted. It boasted a great selection of session-strength beers featuring tasty offerings from both the stalwarts of Vancouver’s brewing scene…
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Presidential Brewery Visits
I’ve been busy recently meeting MLAs, launching campaigns, speaking to the City Council, cheerleading for the Southsiders and occasionally drinking a beer but I’ve also taken a few opportunities to abuse my position as CAMRA BC – Vancouver Chapter President and indulge in a private hobby – visiting breweries under construction.
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Unanimous Support from Vancouver City Council
Today the movement to allow beer lounges in Vancouver took a big step forward thanks to a motion tabled by NPA Clr George Affleck which formalized the fact that the city zoning and licensing offices are working on a way to allow Beer Lounges in Vancouver.
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Future of Vancouver Brewing Debated at City Hall
Vancouver BC – April 17th 2013 Former CAMRA BC – Vancouver Chapter President Paddy Treavor recently met up with NPA Councillor George Affleck at Vancouver City Hall to discuss the fact that Vancouver City Council is denying the applications of many local breweries to open “Beer lounges” despite the Provincial Government green-lighting them.
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Growlers Saved?
Today I had the pleasure of visiting Rick Dellows at the R&B brewery in East Van along with the Paddy Treavor of the Van East Beer Blog, Nigel Springthorpe and Conrad Gmoser from Brassneck Brewing but it wasn’t a social call, we were there for an announcement from NDP liquor policy critic MLA Maurine Karagianis.
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Growler Love
With so much love for the humble Growler let’s have a look at some of the ways people out there have pimped their growlers with all kinds of cool add-ons.
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Save the Growler Update – Your Say
I’ve been using the CAMRA website as a bit of a soapbox lately so I thought I would hand control over to you guys this week. Save the Growlers has really caught on (over 1700 signatures to date!) so here’s a selection of some of the comments that have come our way via the petition…
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CAMRA BC’s Visit to the Legislature March 11
Earlier this week CAMRA BC President Rick Green, Vice President Maureen Blaseckie and myself went to the BC Legislature in Victoria to meet with MLAs about some of CAMRA BC’s campaigns.
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CAMRA BC Opposed to Misguided Growler Tax
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 28, 2013 CAMRA BC Opposed to Misguided Growler Tax
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Presidential Update March 6
A Message From The President When news broke last week on the Van East Beer blog that Growler fills were to be given an additional tax it was hard to see it as anything other as a tax directly on craft beer, hitting both the burgeoning craft beer industry in BC and those people with great taste…
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A Message from Our President
Once again liquor law changes are one step forward, two steps back… Last week the provincial government made some significant amendments which affect many of the craft breweries here in Vancouver. It gives them the option of obtaining licence endorsements allowing special events and “lounges”. This means that breweries could apply to serve more than…