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my notes from yesterday's beer column on CBC radio's on the coast with stephen quinn: Do you love visiting different breweries to fill your growler, or are your growlers all at home gathering dust?  Methinks the growler trend is waning. ICYMI, g rowlers are bottles – generally 1L or 1.89L in size, that you can fill with beer at breweries and take it to go.   The bottles can be glass, ceramic or stainless steel, depending on how much you want to invest in them.   Most breweries sell the bottles, and fill both their own branded growlers and other breweries’ growlers too.   The 1.89L (64oz) ones are the standard size.   Their half-size 1L friends get called many things, including Boston rounds, growlettes, ½ growlers, and in some areas of America, a howler or a squealer – craft beer folks are nothing if not inventive in their names! The folklore behind the name is that pails were once used to transport beer, and after being sloshed around in a covered ...

parallel 49 celebrates after their win at whistler village beer festival do you want to see growler fills outside of breweries ? here's camra's take on why you might actually not want such a thing need help planning your next beercation ?  the travel channel can help beermebc's view from gcbf pumpkin beers - love em or hate em? i'm on the dislike side... most of them are just too pumpkin pie spice and not enough actual gourd whistler village beer festival as seen by go-pro molson lays off staff and blames craft beer might be the best thing ever to be blamed for! joe wiebe on the best of craft beer in vancouver and more on the debate over craft beer in cans

my notes from last evening's on the coast with matthew sitting in for stephen:   There are so many places to drink beer in Vancouver and surrounding area. And more breweries and tasting rooms expected to open up this year. What sets them apart from each other?    There are breweries that just brew beer for bottling and supplying to restaurants and bars, there are breweries that are combining bottling, kegging and tasting rooms, there are nanobreweries, microbreweries, macrobreweries, there are older breweries and newer breweries and there are brewpubs, just to start the list. Let's start on Main Street.  R&B Brewing is one of Vancouver's oldest breweries, opening their doors in 1997 at their current location at 54 East 4th Avenue at Quebec Street, just West of Main Street, in the old Brewery Creek district of East Vancouver. Rick and Barry, the R and the B in R&B used to brew for the big boys back in the day and left to pursue brewing better be...

my notes from last night's beer column on cbc radio one's on the coast: and we're back with more liquor law news this week. alas, this time it is not good news for beer lovers in the province i talked about some new liquor laws last show. i was very excited about the loosening of the tied-house rule and cautiously optimistic about the opportunity for breweries to apply for tasting rooms and special event venues. it looked like the province was finally making some positive changes to archaic and overly restrictive liquor laws - most of which hadn't changed significantly since the repeal of prohibition. alas, my joy was short-lived. i am still happy about the progress made, but we seem to be in a one step forward, two steps backwards situation. Rich Coleman and the BC Liberals, through the BC Liquor Distribution Branch, have decided that they need to collect even more tax on craft beer by increasing the markup on Growler fills. There is still a lot of confus...