The Victoria beer thread
#81
Posted 24 May 2009 - 08:01 AM
#82
Posted 24 May 2009 - 08:58 AM
#84
Posted 25 May 2009 - 07:01 PM
old or weird beer cans
http://weburbanist.c...y-of-beer-cans/
Wonderful Amor - loved the 'Fritz Brew' can, which looks more like it holds motor oil than beer.
#85
Posted 10 June 2009 - 06:46 AM
http://www.timescolo...0789/story.htmlLighthouse Brewery ramps up first bottling line
By Darron Kloster, Times Colonist
June 10, 2009
The tinkle of brown bottles is music to Paul Hoyne's ears.
The owner of Lighthouse Brewery in Esquimalt has ramped up the company's first glass bottling line, arriving just in time for the annual summer spike in beer sales.
Lighthouse is currently the No. 2 craft brewer on the Island, behind Vancouver Island Brewery.
Hoyne said the fast new line will boost annual production by 400,000 litres in the fast-growing craft brew market.
Hoyne and his 21 staff produce about 1,200,000 litres a year, supplying five beer brands to 450 retail outlets, restaurants and bars.
Hoyne said Canada's big breweries are losing a slice of market share every year to the craft brew market. And that small share means ever increasing business for companies like Lighthouse, he added.
Lighthouse has put its product in kegs and aluminum cans for the past decade.
The unique bottles with the company logo in glass is something Hoyne says his customers have wanted for years.
He acquired The bottling line from Boulevard Brewing in Kansas City for $225,000 Cdn and watched the line in action before buying the machinery, dismantling and shipping it to his brewery late last year. Setup and features brought the bill to $500,000.
Hoyne said the line, capable of producing 325 bottles per minute, is one of the fastest in B.C. Most operate at 100 per minute, he said.
Boulevard calls itself the largest craft brewer in the U.S. Midwest and upgraded to a larger line, Hoyne said.
Lighthouse is currently putting its newest product, Riptide Pale Ale, as well Race Rocks Amber into both glass and cans. The company also brews Beacon India Pale Ale, Lighthouse Lager and Keepers Stout.
Hoyne was trained by a German brewmaster and his goal is to introduce some German-style lines, possibly later this year.
#87
Posted 09 July 2009 - 07:58 PM
http://www.scienceda...90709110546.htmUnleashing The Power In Beer
ScienceDaily (July 9, 2009) — Wolfgang Bengel, the technical director at German biomass company BMP Biomasse Projekt, saw a business opportunity in solving the breweries’ grain waste headache. He reasoned that the leftover grain could be used to create steam and biogas, which would provide energy for the breweries, cheapening their energy costs as well as their costs of transporting grain to farms.
Bengel has successfully treated the residue from rice and sugar cane in boilers with atmospheric fluidized bed combustion systems, to produce energy in China and Thailand, and Bengel thought a similar process could be developed for the breweries’ spent wet grain. Water would first have to be removed from the wet spent grain, the grain would have to be dried and then burned to produce energy. “Beer making is energy intensive – you boil stuff, use hot water and steam and then use electric energy for cooling – so if you recover more than 50 percent of your own energy costs from the spent grain that’s a big saving,” says Bengel.
BMP turned to a long-standing business partner, fellow German biogas plant specialist INNOVAS, which had worked with it in China, to help develop the method as a EUREKA project. Germany’s BISANZ, which works on engineering projects, was also enlisted, as was Slovakian partner Adato, which designs boilers. By chance, BISANZ had been working on a boiler plant for a waste management company which entered bankruptcy, with assets being sold. The partners decided to buy the unwanted plant and to adapt the equipment to the process of burning spent grain.
Researchers had to add extra cleaning and filtering equipment to the combustion equipment they had bought. There are extremely high European standards for combustion and the team had to extend the research timetable as its initial burning tests failed to meet the requirements. “We had more than 50-60 test periods of burning mixtures of spent grain,” says Bengel.
They have managed to refine the process so that the burning met the requirements. They also perfected a process for the anaerobic treatment of the waste water from breweries, thereby producing a complete system for breweries to treat their complete waste stream, wet spent grain and waste water. One of Germany’s environmental protection agencies (TÜV) certified the burning process as up to standard.
Breweries who sign up could become greener breweries, creating their own energy and cutting down on lorries travelling to and from their factories. “Out of 100,000 tonnes of wet spent grain, you have 2,000 tonnes or even less of ashes,” says Bengel.
#88
Posted 12 August 2009 - 02:01 PM
You can get tickets at Solomon's or at the Spinnakers retail stores. It should be a kick ass event for beer nerds.
Facebook event: http://www.facebook....id=125412759800
#89
Posted 19 October 2009 - 02:54 PM
#90
Posted 19 October 2009 - 08:15 PM
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#91
Posted 19 October 2009 - 08:18 PM
^Egads, it's true! Owned by Molson/Coors! It will no longer grace my icebox.
Wow, more BEER ELITISTS. You would drink it when owned by an independant, but even if not a single thing changes about they way they brew/ship/retail it, just because it's owned by a major, you reject it.
How elitist.
#92
Posted 19 October 2009 - 08:22 PM
/edit: speaking of which - has anyone tried Canoe's Black Cherry Porter yet?
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
#93
Posted 19 October 2009 - 08:28 PM
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#94
Posted 19 October 2009 - 08:28 PM
If we're going to be giving them our money, maybe we should speak up and suggest some worthy causes for Molson/Coors to support. Perhaps they would like to help with the construction of a new bridge, or new Crystal Pool?
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#95
Posted 20 October 2009 - 06:32 AM
#96
Posted 20 October 2009 - 07:00 AM
I prefer the money I spend on beer to remain in the community, not funneled back to Ontario and Colorado or wherever the hell it goes.
GIB has been owned by Andrew Peller (Andres) since 2005. Most of their beer is made in Kelowna. They keep their Granville Island operation around for show. Drink Molson Canadian and you are drinking a more "local" beer, as it is likely produced in Vancouver.
http://en.wikipedia...._Island_Brewing
* In August 2005 Andres Wines completes their purchase of Granville Island Brewing.
* 2006 Granville Island beers win six medals at the World Beer Championships.
* 2006 Granville Island Brewing spends over one million dollars renovating their Kelowna brewing facility in order to keep up with growing demand.
#97
Posted 20 October 2009 - 07:07 AM
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#98
Posted 20 October 2009 - 07:42 AM
I am pretty eltitist when it comes to beer. I pretty much will only buy Phillips or Lighthouse. I have had Driftwood once and need to give it another try.
it's like phillips has a released a bunch of new beers all at once. they've got their crazy 8s, blackberry heifer bison, grow hop...
#99
Posted 20 October 2009 - 08:40 AM
Currently, living in the dark depths of Rockland, I am further than a block away.
I feel more sinister every day.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
#100
Posted 20 October 2009 - 10:46 PM
it's like phillips has a released a bunch of new beers all at once. they've got their crazy 8s, blackberry heifer bison, grow hop...
not to mention the hudson lite.
hard to keep up and still appreciate the classics! poor liver.
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