Becoming a BC Beer Warrior
Questions pinball through my brain, syncopated with the beat of my overstressed heart. It’s day three of BC Beer Wars training and I am struggling. I had thought the training would be hard but manageable. Hah.
Questions pinball through my brain, syncopated with the beat of my overstressed heart. It’s day three of BC Beer Wars training and I am struggling. I had thought the training would be hard but manageable. Hah.
A brand-new Airshow attraction called The Grandstand: A Craft Beer Experience will feature over a dozen BC craft brewers in a special beer-garden-like zone adjacent to 3-story stadium seating. It’s like a craft beer festival right in the Airshow.
In Part I of Beer League, we discussed how Vancouver’s Alibi Room famously rejected sports bar culture by refusing to bring (working) televisions into the bar. They weren’t alone; try walking the Yeast Van circuit (OK, yes, you can use your bicycle) and look hard for a flat panel TV. Sorry, no Nascar for you.
Formerly known as The Cellar, the room underneath Doolin’s Irish Pub was re-introduced in 2014 as the craft-forward Belmont Bar.
Armin Sodhi took over what is now the 12 Kings Pub (12th & Kingsway, Vancouver) in Fall 2014, and introduced 12 taps of craft beer into a Kingsway sports bar. What’s Brewing caught up with him to find out how the concept is working out.
What’s Brewing caught up with Paul Sabourin-Hertzog, Director of Internal Communications with the Vancouver Southsiders supporter group.
Everybody knows that beer is married to sports. The historic correlation between the two is obvious; sponsorship of about every pro sports team in the Western world by giant beer companies is a given. Depending on your age, you’ve seen decades of marketing featuring ex-jocks who will gladly tell you the right beer Tastes Great and/or is Less Filling.
I love craft beer. I love Vancouver. I love sports. I want my loves to come together more often, and not make me choose between them.
That's All There Was!
That's All There Was!