Brew 2.0 Visits Vancouver
On Tuesday evening, Molson invited some of Vancouver’s finest social media folks to an evening at our house — the Molson Brewery on Burrard St. in Vancouver. The event, Brew 2.0 Vancouver-style, was a smashing success (in my opinion), as the 35 or so guests joined our Molson crew in the pub for some bevies, chats, AMAZING food and a little info session about Molson and our beer.
The guests arrived around 6:00 p.m. and we started the night with a quick intro from one of the event organizers and Molson’s PR manager, Adam Moffat (@moffat). Adam welcomed everyone and went through the agenda for the night which included a beer and food pairing session with Molson Brewmaster Kerry Scarsbrook and Executive Chef at the Pan Pacific, Blair Rasmussen, a brewery tour and a meeting with our special guests of honour — Geoff Molson (7th generation Molson) and Gord Rickards (creator of Rickard’s beer).
Geoff Molson chatting with our guests
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If beer and food wasn’t enough entertainment, Mr. Neil Harnett serenaded us for the whole evening with some tunes. Thanks Neil — you were fantastic, and I caught you on video!
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At the end of the evening, after the eats and tours, we had a surprise treat for everyone — tasting a new beer crafted by Kerry for the Vancouver Brewery’s 50th Anniversary (which was also this week…blog post to come soon!) — Rickard’s Gold Standard. Mmmm…. tasty.
Geoff and Kerry pouring Rickard’s Gold Standard
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This was the second Brew 2.0 event that we have held, the first one was in Toronto in June. It was so nice to meet everyone offline, have a pint together and just have a great time.
Thanks to everyone who helped make Brew 2.0 an incredible evening and to our gusts who added their thoughts: Raul, Danny, Tris, Tanya, Rebecca, Ryan, Corey, Arieanna
Special thanks to Geoff, Kerry and Gord for hanging out with us bloggers all night!
Here are some of my photos…more to come still.
