Posts Tagged: British Columbia
British Columbia: Three Beers Sent From Cannery Brewing
Posted by on Wednesday, October 3, 2012 in - 1 comment
Not Canary Brewing. That is what the email said. Not Kan Airy, either, I suppose. Good advice but not information I needed as I've enjoyed a couple of their beers before, the ones placed in the local government store. Local in the sense that it serves about 12 million souls. The beer is brewed …
What's In A Beer's Name? Fun Or Suffering Or Both?
Posted by on Monday, March 26, 2012 in - 7 comments
We have seen government interventions when beers take on brand characters like Santa or the Easter Bunny. People throw up their hands in a combination of libertarian outrage and laughter. But what happens when the images are more directly hurtful even if the message presented is quite dislocated …
Good Beer + Keggers + University = Great Move
Posted by on Thursday, February 9, 2012 in - 9 comments
Usually when you read about university students with a kegs and kegs of beer you are not reading a story about the exercise of great responsibility: • The University of British Columbia’s student union, the Alma Mater Society, believes it can profit off that fact when it opens a brewery on … read more »
Hop Bomb: Hoperation, Phillips Brewing, Victoria, B.C.
Posted by on Friday, February 18, 2011 in - 2 comments
Canada is big. You knew that, right? So, when a pal takes a plane for hours and hours to the other end of the nation and is good enough to bring back a few, well, all the beer labels may as well be written in Hungarian. You never see this things back here. Happy then was I to be handed a Phillips …
Let Us All Forget The Simple Joys Of A Taxi...
Posted by on Tuesday, October 19, 2010 in - leave a comment
How embarrassing. We all know there are certain truths. That, before cars, there was no drunk driving is one of them. Which leads me to this: what the heck sort of problem do people have with jumping into a taxi? You know what that need to get behind the wheel after a few now is leading to? It …
Beer And Ethics: Charges Not In The Public Interest
Posted by on Saturday, October 16, 2010 in - 2 comments
Remember that odd case last June when firefighters saved and then drained a keg they liberated from the scene of the fire? Well, the case is now closed: • Oliver city council urged the RCMP to look into the matter and Mounties alleged the kegs were removed as firefighters responded to the flames …
Beer And Ethics: Does One Tap The Saved Keg?
Posted by on Tuesday, June 22, 2010 in - 5 comments
This moment in the lives of a couple of small town Canadian firefighters has got me thinking: • As the smouldering site was being demolished, some firefighters noticed the six kegs of beer and decided to save the valuable merchandise, Oliver Mayor Pat Hampson told The Province Monday night. But …
BBADD: New Rules in British Columbia
Posted by on Monday, May 3, 2010 in - leave a comment
Newspapers are full of the new heightened administrative penalties for blowing over the limit(s) in Canada's left coast province of British Columbia. Here is a good explanation of what the new rules look like: • Anyone who fails a roadside breath test will face a 90-day driving ban, a $500 fine …
No Free Beer On The Election Trail But Maybe Wine
Posted by on Sunday, April 26, 2009 in - 3 comments
I grew up in the eastern older part of Canada where it was not unknown a few decades ago for things like truck loads of gravel and other public benefit being conferred on the loyal after a winning campaign. It was also not unknown for a mickey - or pint - of hard liquor to be placed in hands in …
BC: Brockton IPA, Granville Island, Vancouver
Posted by on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 in - 4 comments
I was thinking of posting again on the response to, you know, the movie but Stephen Beaumont has said it perfectly: "the craft beer market and its adherents are now confident enough and mature enough to handle both reading and writing criticism of something obviously intended for their …
