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here are my notes from yesterday's beer column on cbc radio one's on the coast with stephen quinn: The Beer News: Another tasting room is about to open - Fuggles & Warlock Craftworks in Richmond has been up and running, producing beer since December, and very soon you’ll be able to stop by for tasters and growler fills - the tasting room is expected to open in the next week or two. Their motto is “keeping beer weird”! Fuggles and Warlock push the boundaries of traditional style beers - you may have tried their adventurous beers before as they have been brewing out of various other facilities over the past couple of years, and have beer available on tap and at the liquor store. Check social media for the opening day of the tasting room at 11220 Horseshoe Way in Ironwood, Richmond. On Tuesday, March 8th there will be an International Women’s day beer pairing dinner from 6-9 p.m. at Craft Beer Market. It is $60 for four courses of food and beer. The beers will be special ...

NEW Molson's old timey pale  ale 'intrigues' beer columnist 1908 Historic Pale Ale brewed with over 100-year-old recipe, and  ingredients from that time By On The Coast,  CBC News   Posted: Mar 01, 2016 5:00 PM PT  Last Updated: Mar 01, 2016 5:00 PM PT Two bottles of Molson's 1908 Historic Pale Ale. Beer columnist Rebecca Whyman says the beer uses ingredients and a recipe that closely resembles those used around the turn of the 20th Century (@MolsonTonia/Twitter) Facebook Twitter Reddit Google Share Email Related Stories OTC beer and wine Budweiser is B.C.'s top beer choice, but craft beer on the rise Craft beer trend gives new life to hops grown in B.C. Regular listeners to  On The Coast  will know that beer columnist Rebecca Whyman is a big fan of B.C.'s small craft brewers. So regular listeners will be surprised to hear about the ...

my notes from yesterday's on the coast beer column: The macrobreweries of Canada and the United States are losing market share to craft breweries.   The big guys are fighting back in several ways.   But I think they're going about it alllll wrong! One way the big Canadian breweries are trying to regain their market share lost to the increasing love of craft beer is by diversifying their products – for example to include cider in their line-ups.   MolsonCoors introduced a cider to Eastern Canada a couple of years ago.   It made its debut in BC very recently.   Labatt’s brought out its Alexander Keith’s cider in 2012.   Cider is becoming more popular, so it only makes sense to get into that market as well.   With all the craft cider available, that probably won’t be enough to stem the market share slide, but at least it’s an honest way to go. Another, not-so-honest way is to offer new beer brands that appear to be made by independent bre...

here are my notes from yesterday's beer column on cbc radio's on the coast:   There is no absolute definition of craft beer, but most of the industry and consumers agree that craft beer is brewed with quality ingredients, by a brewery owned by people rather than other companies and that produces a smaller amount of beer annually.   The Brewers Association   defines American craft brewers as " small, independentand traditional ": "small" is defined as an "annual production of 6 million barrels of beer or less"; "independent" is defined as at least 75% owned or controlled by a craft brewer; and "traditional" is defined as brewing in which at least 50% of the beer's volume consists of "traditional or innovative" ingredients.   Most people agree that craft beer is artisanal vs. mass-produced. Crafty beer is the name beer advocates have been giving to beers that are pretending to be craft beers.   These are beer...

probably the only way you could ever get me to try molson m is to give me a free can and that's just what happened! if you're in vancouver and interested in trying molson m, they're giving the stuff away i got four cans at howe and robson at lunch-time now, will i actually try it or just put it in my beer fridge and foist it on unsuspecting non-beer-geeks???

i am woman, hear me roar! but not today today its more of a frustrated growl i'm really annoyed by the pandering of the major players in the beer industry to what they have decided women want in beer me, i want what every other beer loving human wants:  real, quality brews i'm tired of being told women are different from other beer drinkers (unless you include all those other beer-guzzling species here, that means men) and that women need special marketing and different recipes to drink beer gee, maybe have a beer commercial that doesn't feature vapid barely dressed women and more actual women might feel inclined to try your product or wait, put some flavour in your beer and people with brains might want to drink it any way, that's my soap box for now and it was inspired by the always condescending molson coors who bring us floral light beer for the vapid women in your life

i have been wondering what to make of molson's claim to microcarbonation but haven't had time to research it and now, thanks to barley mowat, i don't have to just click here for the blog post and pretend i wrote it!

for a review of howe sound's rail ale on the lager blogger, click here for an article about granville island being bought out by the devil, click here for a van east beer blog about what makes craft beer craft beer, click here for a blog post from brewdog about their latest cooperative beer effort, click here and brewdog's punk ipa coming in cans, click here for the blog post beer is the new wine!  click here for the newspaper article

seems to me that if you want to revive a dying beer market in the uk, making better beer might be the first step thanks molson coors for taking over small craft breweries and making them water down their beers cuz surely that's not at all what's wrong with beer these days or causing flagging sales... for the actual article, click here .