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me, me, me all me, all the time vanmag's video of the behind the scenes beer judging for the international craft beer awards - no winners announced - just footage of the judges being all judgey cbc's follow up on my beer column on crafty beers    Craft beer credentials are not always what they appear Major breweries like MillerCoors and Anheuser-Busch InBev are cashing in on craft craze By Jason Proctor, CBC News Posted: May 19, 2015 5:00 PM PT Last Updated: May 20, 2015 7:32 AM PT Looks alone make it tough to distinguish between craft beer and beer made by major breweries, but aficionados claim all brew is not created equal. (CBC) Related Stories Beer sales guide to the provinces and territories Ontario craft brewers skeptical about Beer Store deal Manitoba's craft beer: Sales up, brewery tasting rooms edge closer Cra...

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...

belgian beer pipeline can we get enbridge to build one of these instead?? shame on you labatt's still trying to convince the gullible that shock-top is craft brewed vintage pics of vancouver's brewing scene stone brewing is going to be available in bc once again!  yay! the serious down-side to the legislation allowing beer sales in grocery stores and unfettered re-location of existing licences under an 8 year moratorium on issuing new licences - small communities may see their licences bought up and moved elsewhere

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...