The Brewed Awakening guide to B.C.’s new breweries in 2013
CLICK HERE TO READ A 2014 VERSION OF THIS POST Seems like this is going to be an annual feature every January. Last year I reported on five new breweries that were due to open in B.C. All have done...
View ArticleTracking Brassneck Brewery through the social media jungle
There are many, many different tools available for tracking a company’s buzz across the web, with all of them taking a different slant on how this buzz is heard and registered. One brewery that I know...
View ArticleThe Brewed Awakening guide to B.C.’s new breweries in 2013-14
CLICK HERE TO READ AN UPDATED 2014 VERSION OF THIS POST At the start of the year I said these new brewery rundowns were likely going to be an annual feature. Make that biannual (pending what happens in...
View ArticleMultiweizen (Brassneck Brewery, 5%)
Another big event I missed while on hiatus (now just distant, halcyon memories of glorious German meadows and gloriously unhealthy Scottish food) was the opening of Brassneck Brewery on Main Street. To...
View ArticleCraft beer starts at home: How homebrewers are fuelling the B.C. beer boom,...
Read part one here Read part two here Read part three here Perhaps recognizing the many obstacles faced by those amateur brewers aiming to become professional — and recalling their own difficulties...
View ArticleBrewed Avisioning review: Klutz Kölsch (Brassneck Brewery, 5%)
[CAN'T SEE VIDEO? CLICK HERE FOR YOUTUBE VERSION] The beer: Klutz The style: Kölsch The brewery and venue: Brassneck Brewery, 2148 Main St., Vancouver The price: $5 for 12-oz. pour The food pairing:...
View ArticleThe R&B dilemma: Lessons for B.C.’s heated craft beer market, part 2
A condensed version of this article was published in Issue 1.2 of The Growler. Read part one One way a brewery can insulate itself from that competition is simply to not package its product or seek...
View ArticleBrewed Awakening x A la Cart: The brewery/food truck pairing at Brassneck...
CAN’T SEE VIDEO? CLICK HERE FOR YOUTUBE VERSION As keeper of both the Brewed Awakening blog and the A la Cart video blog (or “vlog” if you hate the English language), I’ve tasted many a fine beer at...
View ArticleBrassneck Brewery’s One Trick Pony gallops to glory at B.C. Beer Awards 2015
Vancouver’s Brassneck Brewery took top honours at the B.C. Beer Awards 2015 on Saturday as its One Trick Pony Imperial IPA cantered to victory in the Best in Show race. The Main Street brewery’s...
View ArticleOne Trick Pony SMaSH IPA with Mosaic hops (Brassneck Brewery, 9%)
So, here it is. B.C.’s best beer of 2015, if you think a beer that’s come top of 580 entries from 78 breweries across the province counts for anything. I kind of do. Brassneck‘s One Trick Pony has...
View ArticleBrewed Awakening’s Top 10 exbeeriences of 2015
It’s been a quiet year for me on the blogging front, but that doesn’t mean I’ve cut back on the beer. Quite the opposite, if my Untappd account (and bank account) is anything to go by. So I thought I’d...
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