{"id":8616,"date":"2014-02-19T08:50:06","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T16:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=8616"},"modified":"2014-02-17T12:53:21","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T20:53:21","slug":"victoria-beer-week-gets-crafty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2014\/02\/19\/victoria-beer-week-gets-crafty\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Beer Week gets crafty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bringing over 30 craft breweries, including every brewery and brewpub on Vancouver Island, together for a week-long series of events wasn\u2019t nearly as tricky as it sounds. Victoria Beer Week is a new event that celebrates BC\u2019s growing craft beer scene and, according to board member Jeff Kendrew, the amount of interest from brewers and beer-drinkers alike proves that it\u2019s long overdue.<\/p>\n

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Jeff Kendrew of Vancouver Island Brewery is also a board member of Victoria Beer Week (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cPeople are starting to really pay attention to their local breweries, and it\u2019s not just your rare beer geek, it\u2019s your everyday person that\u2019s looking for a good quality, flavourful beverage,\u201d says Kendrew, also territory manager for Vancouver Island Brewery and one of only 25 certified beer tasters in Canada. \u201cAnd there\u2019s also a lot of value in supporting your local company.\u201d<\/p>\n

Victoria Beer Week features brew-related events such as meet and greets with brewmasters, a beer label art show, a women-and-beer panel discussion, beer-related film screenings, and two craft beer pub crawls. The event finishes up with a brewmasters\u2019 brunch on its final day.
\nOver 30 craft breweries from BC, including all nine craft breweries and brewpubs in Victoria, are included in the week-long series.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor an event like this, everyone wants to be involved,\u201d says Kendrew, stressing the importance of community within the craft beer industry. \u201cIt\u2019s an easy event to get breweries in to. Even from within our group of seven board members, there are four different beer reps from four different breweries and we understand that we\u2019re all in this together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Participating breweries seem to agree that Victoria\u2019s beer scene is all about striving for a common cause, with some healthy competition along the way. Victoria Beer Week shows that the craft beer scene here and throughout BC is stronger than ever.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo me, it\u2019s the more the merrier,\u201d says Moon Under Water brewmaster Clay Potter. \u201cThere is still a small percentage of people drinking craft beer, so the more breweries the better. As long as everyone\u2019s making good beer, it\u2019s good for everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

Started from an idea sparked by Garrick\u2019s Head Pub manager Jeff Nowak, Victoria Beer Week brings together local beer venues and BC\u2019s breweries with the city\u2019s beer lovers. More importantly, the event will expose even more Victorians to the growing popularity of craft beer.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s another outlet to introduce new beer drinkers to craft beer, so that\u2019s why everyone is working together,\u201d says Potter. \u201cRather than just promoting our own breweries, we can promote craft beer in general, and there\u2019s enough good breweries in Victoria making really good beer that we\u2019re able to do it now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Victoria Beer Week
\nMarch 1-9
\nvarious venues
\nvictoriabeerweek.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bringing over 30 craft breweries, including every brewery and brewpub on Vancouver Island, together for a week-long series of events wasn\u2019t nearly as tricky as it sounds. Victoria Beer Week is a new event that celebrates BC\u2019s growing craft beer scene and, according to board member Jeff Kendrew, the amount of interest from brewers and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-february-19-2014"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8618,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8616\/revisions\/8618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}