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lucky me! i made it to the cbc website again ! Humble beer can celebrates 80 years On the Coast's beer columnist says beer cans have a lot of advantages over bottles By On the Coast, CBC News Posted: Feb 18, 2015 5:57 PM PT Last Updated: Feb 18, 2015 5:57 PM PT 2015 marks the 80th anniversary of the beer can (twothirstycats / Flickr) 80 years of beer cans 4:51   37 shares Facebook Twitter Reddit Google Share Email Related Stories B.C. craft beer trend: 3 tips for enjoying sour beers Craft beer bellies threaten hipster waistlines 4 B.C. craft beer changes to look forward to in 2015 The humble beer can celebrates its 80th year in 2015. On the Coast 's beer columnist Rebecca Whyman says beer cans have experienced a lot of up and downs over the past few decades. Macro breweries, which produce a lot of canned bee...

sad day - beer pioneer ed mcnally dies whether you're a fan of big rock beers or not, raise a glass to this man, who in the 80s took a leap of faith and went up against the big boys every year at the vancouver folk fest i sure do enjoy me a snake bite made of half traditional ale and half cider cheers, ed! signs you're a beer aficionado east bay brewery boom lynne mcilwee aka hops canary writes open letter to bc place suggesting they are losing $690k a year in beer sales by not offering craft beer i was gifted with a bottle of dead frog's new release, big stump it is a spruce golden ale and it is delicious! sweet and smooth, golden and nicely balanced with a fruity spruce hint but don't just take my word for it, jan zeschky agrees ! more on craft beer in mexico independents take on the giants

petition to get craft beer into local stadiums totally a topic i have been looking into myself double trouble and the royal york fairmont partner on an 85th anniversary brew 1929 cream ale i'm not a big fan of cream ales, but i suppose i'll try this when i'm in toronto at the end of june people seem to think this is a good idea me, i don't wanna see most of you naked, so i'll skip this beer fest thanks! an update to jan zeschky's new bc microbreweries list for 2014 an older article by joe wiebe in bc living mapping vancouver's hoppiest neighbourhoods beer lollipops vancouver's craft beer scene explodes a loveletter from a washington state writer don't want the tv on while you drink beer?  these vancouver craft beer spots have no tv i have also mentioned several non-tv bars in my column in the bc craft beer news ooooh, pretty!  a ceramic beer sleeve that is every bit as slick and stylin' as my new stainless steel innate sa...

9 beers that aren't craft, but you probably thought were (although, i'm not gonna lie to you, i do like me some pyramid ipa) jan zeschky's top 10 year-round bc beers and jan's updated list of microbreweries slated to open up in bc in 2014 paddy treavor on the east van beer fest where you will see my smiling face quaffing local and imported brews and paddy on the suggestion that there be an independent liquor board complaints department so brewers and retailers aren't afraid to be blackballed for airing concerns if you can get your hands on it, apparently oskar blues' limited release gubna imperial ipa is da bomb!

in case you missed me last week on cbc radio's on the coast you can still catch it here click on june 11th i'm on at the 2:19:30 mark right after the "cows around" song!

sustainable uses for spent grain (besides ryan's amazing spent grain ipa bread!) a pint of beer is every woman's right yup, more on women and beer but this one from the uk guardian is right on! campaign for culture wants to bring happy hour to vancouver and that's a movement i could get behind! and lastly, a top 8 canadian microbreweries list that i disagree with but what can you expect with an article that starts out saying "Kokanee, Canadian, Sleeman’s, and Alexander Keith’s (all great beers)..." and thinks that granville island and okanagan springs count as microbreweries?

lots of beer-related news today! the vancouver sun's 100 anniversary beer nigel springthorpe, the wine guy's beer guy women = sustainability in the brewing industry british columbia's best microbreweries

beer myths debunked women in beer who you should know great beer names hops and bitterness flavour poster legacy liquor store march calendar of events privatization may not be good news for bc craft beer drinkers british columbians drink micro-brew oregon hops of the future beer poetry

great cbc article about some of our favourite micro-brewers , central city and steamwhistle still lots of room for growth in craft brewing they say! and in a related article, the cbc wants to know if you buy locally crafted beer i do!

mother jones on the big boys versus the microbreweries , statistics-wise

"The way we brew, whatever raw material we use is there because we want the flavours that it brings to the beer.  What the big brewers tend to do, is they've gone down a road of, dare I say, removing flavour from the beer... They add things like rice and maize to give them the sugar that provides the alcohol without adding flavour.  If you listen to their ads, they tell you that their beer tastes cold.  They say the beer tastes crisp.  They don't say it tastes malty or hoppy or you taste the fruitiness of the yeast, all that kind of thing." Rick Dellow quoted in the Vancouver Courier September 17, 2010

"Microbrewing in B.C. has never been easy, but the makers of craft beer are enjoying a growing thirst for their product.  And not just beer nerds are sampling craft and cask beers at places like the Alibi Room.  Most of the events at the first Vancouver Craft Beer Week this spring sold old, as did last year's Hopscotch whisky, scotch and beer festival in Vancouver.  Fifty-five hundred people attended Nando's Canada Cup of Beer at the University of B.C. over two days in July where, organizers say, half the vendors were microbreweries.  And craft beer enthusiasts reportedly snapped up tickets to last weekend's Great Canadian Beer Festival in Victoria in 10 minutes." Cheryl Rossi Vancouver Courier September 17, 2010

oh the r & b hoppelganger what a lovely local ipa and a great way to get my hop fix i was reminded of my love for this brew at wild rice the other night i was there for a wedding reception and the host bar offered keiths or sleemans honey so that's what i drank until they ran out once i was on my own, i very happily switched to the ipa nothing makes me happier than an ipa especially an aggressively hopped ipa my night ended well! so well in fact that i decided to have another hoppelganger the other afternoon sitting outside on the deck in the october sunshine in a tank top sipping hoppelganger with a good friend what a great way to spend a couple of hours! from the bottle: "rick and barry (r&b) invite you to try our hoppelganger india pale ale.  we created our ipa for beer lovers who appreciate an assertively hopped brew.  well-balanced with a skillful combination of five hop varieties and premium english malt, hoppelganger has the generous flavour a...

is it true that granville island brewing was canada's first microbrewery when it opened in 1984? jan zeschky said so in the province, so it must be true but can you blame me for being incredulous? incredulous that gib was the first and incredulous that it happened when i was 15 and it took me so long to discover microbrews! but wait!  howe sound says on their website that john mitchell and frank appleton started the first craft brewery in north america in 1980, in horseshoe bay... so you tell me which was first?  how many more years have i lived without knowing the joys of craft brewed beers?

stolen from npr : Changing Tastes Drive Shift In Beer Sales by Wendy Kaufman "Americans drink a lot of beer during the summer. But beer drinking habits are changing. People are drinking less and drinking differently. Sales of some of the big-name brands are down, and the major brewers are fighting back with big marketing campaigns. At The Spot Off Main in Bellevue, Wash. — a neighborhood place for billiards and beer — the No. 1 selling U.S. brand, Bud Light, is on tap. But assistant manager John Stevens says his bartenders are pouring less of it than they used to. "Everyone's budget went down. That includes their entertainment dollars when they go out to drink in bars," he says. A lot of young men — some of beer's biggest fans — have lost their jobs in the down economy. And some are skipping bars altogether in favor of drinking at home. But those sales, at least of the premium and high-profit brands, are also down. Last year, the Beer Institute repor...