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beer and travel the tyee on craft beer alliances walmart looking to double their liquor sales am i the only one who thinks walmart is the evil empire and will think less of any craft breweries who agree to sell their products there? upcycling at its best - turning a beer can into a camp stove new zealand cancels two beer festivals, starts up another what's new at the port of vancouver?   apparently it's craft beer but the princeton pub may be cutting its nose off to spite its face over the whole thing brewdog loves dieu du ciel! women who brew some love for no-longer nano bridge brewing

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!

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...

vote, vote, vote! This being the political season, we are writing to you to urge you to vote — not just for the candidates clamoring for public office, but for something even more important: beer! Our 8th Annual Readers Choice Awards competition is underway! By visiting our website at http://www.brewingnews.com/northwest/bestofnorthwest/, you can vote for your favorite brewery, brewpub, alehouse or pub, beer store, and homebrew shop in Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and Northern California, and for your favorite beer and cider as well in 22 different categories. We've added nanobrewery to the list this time also. Don't delay, as our deadline is Saturday, November 10, at 12:00 noon PST. Remember, only one vote per category is allowed. This is your contest; Northwest Brewing News staff is not eligible to vote. Voter ID or proof of citizenship is not required! The winners will be announced in our December-January issue, and a special Readers' Choice Awards...

just before i head out to the railway club for cask night (and the delightful chan's birthday) bridge brewing is open in north vancouver!!