beernesday

finally, a political hopeful who recognizes that craft beer is a capital-t-thing and looks to sway the vote! one city candidate for city council rj aquino wants to enforce serving sizes and that's alright by me! story in the metro camra vancouver president's statement and mr. aquino's site p.s.  if you haven't already voted in the advance polls, get yer ass out tomorrow and exercise your democratic right and civil duty to vote.  voting is sexy!

if you missed me on cbc radio's on the coast last week never fear!  you can still catch my talk with matthew lazin-ryder about camra's fuss campaign and how much i love radlers follow the link to on the coast past episodes click on july 22 and fast-forward to about 10 minutes before the end and hopefully you'll be able to tune in next tuesday (august 5) at 5:50 p.m. for my next beer column

vancity buzz offers this list of cheap craft beer in vancouver it is a pretty good list, but it does not correctly identify that a pint is 20oz and doesn't list serving sizes of a lot of the sleeves however, i figure if you're looking for a beer bargain, its a great list of places to try and you can figure out for yourself where the best deal is (and when you do, tell me please!) on a related note i handed out my first camra fuss card last night what's a fuss card you ask? well, its a card that camra vancouver members can use to inform beer sellers that they are not living up to their provincially mandated duty to properly list serving sizes for their beers last night's card giving was at windjammer on commercial drive who advertise on their sandwich board and their menu that they serve 20 oz pints when the beer arrived, it was in a branded sleeve, not a pint glass this is not the first time i have been served less than 20oz there the beer is cheap at...