{"id":50851,"date":"2024-02-14T14:49:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T22:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bcaletrail.ca\/?p=50851"},"modified":"2024-02-15T15:08:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T23:08:00","slug":"victoria-beer-week-celebrates-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcaletrail.ca\/victoria-beer-week-celebrates-10-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Beer Week Celebrates 10 Years!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Launched in 2014, Victoria Beer Week returns March 1-9 for a 10th annual celebration of our capital city\u2019s craft beer culture.<\/b><\/p>\n

The event that kicked off Victoria Beer Week<\/a> back on March 1, 2014, was a Cask Night featuring 30 cask-conditioned beers from a great mix of breweries located on both sides of the Salish Sea\/Georgia Strait. About an hour into the sold-out event, after all the hectic setup and the flurry of opening the doors and letting in all the ticketholders, I found myself at the top of the stairs overlooking the main hall of the Victoria Public Market where I paused to take a breath. The venue looked amazing: the low lighting and decorative twinkly lights created a magical ambiance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I was filled with pleasure and pride as I looked at the sea of happy beer lovers filling the big room \u2014 throngs of people smiling and laughing, sipping and savouring a glass of something fresh and unique. The buzz of their conversations filled the spaces in the background music. It was an amazing moment after all the long weeks of planning and organizing with my colleagues on the VBW founding team. We had done it!<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Victoria Public Market filled with beer lovers at a past Victoria Beer Week event.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Since that first night a decade ago Victoria Beer Week has returned annually with a series of events \u2014 often featuring Cask Nights like that first one. Over the years we have produced more than 100 events, and there are some that stand out in my memory:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n