Kurtz Kraft Beer Blog: Vancouver Craft Beer Week

Monday, June 6, 2016

Vancouver Craft Beer Week

Having been to the final weekend of the Vancouver Craft Beer Week for the past three years and this being the second year the event has been held at the Western end of the Pacific National Exibition grounds, VCBW is becoming a must attend event for the beer lovers on the Left Coast.

The security and safety for the event was well controlled, the layout of the participating breweries, the music being offered and the food vendors was perfectly spaced for the attendees to move freely throughout the grounds.

My wife, Cathy and I attended on the last Sunday of the weeks celebrations. From all the conversations I had with the Brewers, the day before was "a gong show" compared to the day we attended. There was probably 2000 to 3000 people who were there when we were, but with that amount of people, it did not seem busy or cramped to move around the grounds.

Between myself and Cathy, we tasted 22 different beverages from stouts, ales, saisons, ciders, pilsners, ESBs, IPAs, Biere de Guards, dunkles and lagers.

The Vancouver Craft Beer Week had 100 different Brew

Houses attending with almost 400 different beers and ciders to choose from. Too many for this beer lover to sample in one day but with some planning, we tasted all the libations we wanted to.

As this even grows every year, the business development by Paul Kamon, Event Director Leah

Heneghan and Technical Director Tylor Olsen, this event will become better and better for years to come.

Here is the list of beers that I tasted:

Alameda Brewing Black Beer Stout XX

Lagunitas Brewing A Little Sumpin Sumpin Ale

Steel and Oak Tu Meke Saison

33 Acres Brewing 33 Acres of Sunshine

Hoyne Brewing Appleton ESB

Parkside Brewing Dusk Pale Ale

Lighthouse Brewing Race Rocks Ale

4 Mile Brewing Tangerine Dream Ale

Trading Post Brewing Captain Coopers Cranberry Ale

Be Right Back Brewing Kentucky Comon

Real Cask Brewery Melon IPA

Brewhouse Whistler Biere de Guarde

Main St. Brewing Begian Bonson Single Hop Ale

Brookside Brewery Flagship IPA

Erdinger Dunkel

Affligen Blond Ale

KPU Brewing Golden Lager

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The History of Beer according to Wikipedia

Beer is one of the oldest beverages humans have produced, dating back to at least the fifth millennium BC and recorded in the written history of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. As almost any cereal containing certain sugars can undergo spontaneous fermentation due to wild yeasts in the air, it is possible that beer-like beverages were independently developed throughout the world soon after a tribe or culture had domesticated cereal. Chemical tests of ancient pottery jars reveal that beer was produced as far back as about 7,000 years ago in what is today Iran. This discovery reveals one of the earliest known uses of fermentation and is the earliest evidence of brewing to date. In Mesopotamia, the oldest evidence of beer is believed to be a 6,000-year-old Sumerian tablet depicting people drinking a beverage through reed straws from a communal bowl. A 3900-year-old Sumerian poem honouring Ninkasi, the patron goddess of brewing, contains the oldest surviving beer recipe, describing the production of beer from barley via bread. In China, residue on pottery dating from between 5400 to 4900 years ago shows beer was brewed using barley and other grains.^[2]

The invention of bread and beer has been argued to be responsible for humanity's ability to develop technology and build civilization.The earliest chemically confirmed barley beer to date was discovered at Godin Tepe in the central Zagros Mountains of Iran, where fragments of a jug, at least 5,000 years old was found to be coated with beerstone, a by-product of the brewing process.

Beer may have been known in Neolithic Europe as far back as 5,000 years ago, and was mainly brewed on a domestic scale.^[8]

Beer produced before the Industrial Revolution continued to be made and sold on a domestic scale, although by the 7th century AD beer was also being produced and sold by European monasteries. During the Industrial Revolution, the production of beer moved from artisanal manufacture to industrial manufacture, and domestic manufacture ceased to be significant by the end of the 19th century. The development of hydrometers and thermometers changed brewing by allowing the brewer more control of the process, and greater knowledge of the results.

Today, the brewing industry is a global business, consisting of several dominant multinational companies and many thousands of smaller producers ranging from brewpubs to regional breweries. More than 133 billion liters (35 billion gallons) are sold per year—producing total global revenues of $294.5 billion (£147.7 billion) in 2006.

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