Vancouver Craft Beer Week, May 6 – 14, 2011

Quotes and links about VCBW

• Vancouver Sun, VCBW event setup
  

  B.C. beer drinkers are finally growing up, wanting more and even becoming demanding about it. We can now officially say that we have a beer culture and Vancouver Craft Beer Week is the evidence.

• Love Good Beer, VCBW Event Highlights
  

  Vancouver Craft Beer Week is shaping up with many tantalizing events announced recently. If you haven’t heard, VCBW is a week long celebration of local beer taking place around Vancouver May 10-16.

• BC Brews, Why Vancouver Craft Beer Week?
  

  Vancouver Craft Beer Week is meant as a strong public statement that when we speak of beer, we are no longer talking about swilling suds.

• Miss Wendy Jo, VCBW Commentary
  

  Vancouver has long since been a bevy of awesomeness, so it seems only natural that Vancouver would boast a bevy of bevvies as well.

• Vancouver Sun, Best Craft Beer in BC? and VCBW
  

  The craft brewing industry, well, became an industry about 15 years ago. Up til then if you wanted a beer that didn’t taste like aluminum and dishwater you either ponied up for the Heinnies or brewed a hoppy yeasty concoction in your basement.

• Scout Magazine, Red Truck and VCBW
  

  …Red Truck Beer is proud to announce it’s newest Limited Release, The Red Truck I.P.A.

• New Brew Thursday, I AM A CANADIAN CRAFT BREWER!
  

  Well, I’m not.. but there are a ton of brewers in Canada who are, who also struggle against the same mega breweries intent on convincing the masses that fizzy yellow beer that freezes during a hockey game is the only way to drink .. BOO!!

• Canadian Beer News, Red Truck and VCBW
  

  Following in May will be Red Truck Pilsner, which will be released at Hoppapalooza in the Alibi Room on May 10th to celebrate the launch of Vancouver Craft Beer Week.

• Miss 604, VCBW
  

  I had the chance to visit the judging panel a few weeks ago where dozens tasted, sipped, and ranked craft beer in preparation for the BC Beer Week Awards.

• Vancity Buzz, VCBW announcement
  

  Now I know what many of you are thinking, what is Craft Beer? Well let me enlighten you…

• Beyond Robson, New Cool Craft Beer, VCBW
  

  They arrive at parties with bottles of beer you have never heard of, stouts, ales and lagers…

• Great Canadian Pubs, VCBW Video
  

  Well, they’ve released the video and it’s terrific! Good job lads.

• Hoppepress, VCBW Video
  

  I won’t be there to see it, but Vancouver Craft Beer Week is beginning to take shape. Dinners and tours are being planned, and it seems like all the breweries in the area are getting behind this.

• Brockston Beer Bulletin
  

  In an effort to promote Vancouver Beer Week, which is set to take place May 10-16 throughout the Vancouver, Canada area, the organizers have created a wonderful video….

• Definitive Ale
  

  …earlier today organizers from the Vancouver Craft Beer Week created a similar video entitled ”I am a Canadian Craft Brewer”.

• The Beer Wrangler
  

  This should be a great series of events that will do more than wet your whistle! If you’re not a local this will be a great reason to come and visit the city…

• Brewsville
  

  In preparation for Vancouver Craft Beer Week (May 10-16th) Brewery Creek Beer Store has organized the BC Beer Awards Judges for the beer awards were selected primarily from the beer media, with judges traveling from Alberta and Oregon.

• Vancouver Bars, Cask Beer and VCBW
  

  And with the Vancouver Craft Beer Week coming up in May, there will be no shortage of fine brews to sample this Spring.

• Canadian Beer News, VCBW Promo Video
  

  To help promote Vancouver Craft Beer Week, taking place May 10th to 16th, the event organizers have produced a video in the style of the “I Am A Craft Brewer” short film produced by American craft brewers last year.

• That’s The Spirit, VCBW
  

  What is to my understanding the first ever Beer Week to be held in Canada, Vancouver Craft Beer Week, is fast approaching.

• BC Living, VCBW Event Listing
  

  This inaugural event celebrates BC’s craft beer industry with more than 25 participating breweries at more than 20 venues. And they promise: no crap beer.

• Serious about Beer
  

  According to Carey, the best place to educate yourself about the latest in beer is Vancouver’s first annual Craft Beer Week which takes place from May 10-16, 2010.

• Vancouver is Awesome, Six Cent Press Sponsors VCBW
  

  …be sure to receive a collectors badge to commemorate the first of its kind event here in Vancouver.

• Nileguide, VCBW setup
  

  For all you beer lovers, mark you calendars for May 10th – 16th because Vancouver Craft Beer Week is beckoning your name.

• Foodist, VCBW Beer Worship
  

  To celebrate our burgeoning beer scene, a collection of local brewers, beer enthusiasts and promoters have created the inaugural Vancouver Craft Beer Week.

• Just Grapes Wine, VCBW Call To Action
  

  This is a public service announcement to support what is going to be the most important and best craft brewing event in Canada: Vancouver Craft Beer Week.

• BC Living, VCBW Event Listing
  

  This inaugural event celebrates BC’s craft beer industry with more than 25 participating breweries at more than 20 venues.

• Vancouver Career College, VCBW gets Serious about Beer
  

  “Craft Beer Week will become as big as the Playhouse Wine Festival,” Chester Carey predicts.