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What better way to celebrate Valentine’s day than to wax poetic about my love for the craft beer community?   It’s very true, I do love beer and the beer community, and I enjoy getting to share that love with everyone!   I speak often about how the beer community rallies around its members – such as brewers sharing ingredients when one brewery runs out, or when established breweries collaborate with newer breweries to help them jumpstart their entry into the marketplace.  With the many charity initiatives the industry undertakes, plus the economic and social benefits of having a strong craft brewing presence, it’s very easy to be a craft beer cheerleader! Today I want to really shine a light on just how much the beer community is a community, and how that benefits the community at large.  Wow, I just said the word community a lot in that sentence!  But I think in these interesting times in which we find ourselves, it is more important than e...

B.C. craft brewers know how to share the love, columnist says On The Cost beer columnist says craft brewers coming together is regularly seen in B.C. CBC News   Posted: Feb 14, 2017 5:00 PM PT  Last Updated: Feb 14, 2017 5:00 PM PT Dageraad Brune is one of Rebecca Whyman's beer picks for this week. (@DageraadBeer/Twitter) 14 shares Facebook Twitter Reddit Google Share Email Related Stories OTC Beer and Wine Last whimper for the growler? Columnist predicts craft beer mainstay could fade away Stout competition: B.C. brewers to box each other for charity On Valentine's Day,  On The Coast  beer columnist Rebecca Whyman is celebrating the love B.C.'s craft brewers show for each other. Cooperation in the craft beer industry is nothing new,  but a new example of that cooperation was recently seen when misfortune struck Burnaby brewer Dageraad and cost it...

the excerpt from the cbc website: Last whimper for the growler? Columnist predicts craft beer mainstay could fade away Plus, check out Rebecca Whyman's beer picks for this week CBC News   Posted: Jan 31, 2017 5:00 PM PT  Last Updated: Jan 31, 2017 5:00 PM PT Growlers from Nanaimo breweries Longwood and White Sails. Rebecca Whyman says the refillable bottles, part and parcel of the craft beer experience, could be on their way out. (@BCAleTrail/Instagram) Facebook Twitter Reddit Google Share Email Related Stories OTC Beer and Wine Stout competition: B.C. brewers to box each other for charity Milkshake beer could be among 2017's craft brewing trends On The Coast  beer columnist Rebecca Whyman says the B.C. craft beer scene may have had its fill of the growler. Whyman says the drawbacks of the refillable containers, usually one or 1.89 litres in size and used to ta...

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 ...