industry with their malty exper- iments quickly became popular amongst friends and family. Already operating a successful restaurant business, it wasn’t much of a stretch to extend operations to include a craft brewery. They are always hap- py to share a beer and chat about their beginnings, their beer, and the community they serve in British Co- lumbia. The Victoria Beer Society start- ed as a collaborative vision shared between bar managers, beer reps, brewers, local stakeholders, and chefs, all coming together with the intent to celebrate what makes our city’s craft beer scene vibrant. Victo- ria Beer Week launched in 2014 as an annual craft beer festival show- casing craft beer in a variety of unique venues around Greater Vic- toria.
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All ticket offerings included access to the live music, games, and activities plus a bus ticket home, provided by BC Transit so you can make it home safely. Once festivalgoers were inside the gate, they had the opportunity to sam- ple over 250 beers, ciders, mead, glu - ten-free beers, and non-alcoholic beers and chat with brewers like Gladstone Brewing Company from Courtenay, BC that started in a garage on Gladstone Avenue in Victoria, British Columbia, at the time it was more-or-less a few university buddies brewing beverag- es for their own consumption and sav- ing a few bucks on their student booze budget. With the university well in the rear-view mirror for the owners, they opened the doors in 2014 and have
now been brewing amazing beers for a decade. Another of the many brewers was Mount Arrowsmith Brewing Compa- ny a family-run brewery out of Parks- ville, BC that opened its doors in April 2017, and by September of the same year, they were awarded gold and sil- ver medals for two of its beers along with being named Brewery of the Year by the British Columbia Beer Awards turning the Mount Arrowsmith Brew- ing Company into a hub of activity in the Parksville-Qualicum Beach district of beautiful Vancouver Island. Cannery Brewing of Penticton, BC whose owners started home brew- ing as a hobby to provide a pleasant distraction from the food services
Our Family is Hands-On in the Operation of our Cidery from the Brewing of our Small-Batch Hard Apple Cider to Flavoring, Canning & Labelling!
All of Our Ciders are made with 100% Natural Flavours & Pure Apple Juice, not from concentrate, plus are Non-Carbonated & Gluten Free!
Ardrossan, Alberta, Canada
foxhillscidery@gmail.com
(780) 238 2119
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