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JULY 2015
VANCOUVER ISLAND BREWERY VICTORIOUS IN NIAGARA FALLS Craft brewery wins national industry awards ICTORIA – Vancouver Island Brewery cleaned house at the recent ͖͔͕͙ Canadian Brewing Awards. The company took home three separate honours, including Gold in the North American Style Lager category for its Islander Lager, Gold in the North American Style Dark Lager category for Hermann’s Dark Lager, and Silver in the Wheat Beer, German Style category for the Beachcomber Summer Ale. General Manager Murray Langdon accepted the awards at the Niagara Falls-based event, and attributes the success as a reflection of the company’s history and culture. “This business has been built on a foundation of innovation,” he says. “We’re a mature brewery with an experienced team, that has continued to produce high caliber beers for more than 3 decades. Winning awards like this gives everyone involved a real sense of validation, it inspires us to evolve and try to put out even better products next year. “We were the very first craft
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Murray Langdon, General Manager at Vancouver Island Brewery with two of the company’s 2015 Canadian Brewing Awards
Va ncouver Isla nd Brew i ng first opened back in 1984, and since then they’ve grown from a staff of 6, to more than 40 today. Langdon credits that to a commitment to across-the-board excellence from his employees. “The level of competition in this industry is staggering,” he says. “There are more than 100 breweries in BC alone, and standing out like we have takes a lot of effort, creativity, passion and drive from people at all levels of operations. In a congested marketplace like ours, the consumer has, and is entitled to have very high expectations. “As a company it’s vital for us to provide the absolute best quality product that we can. Our staff takes a lot of pride in creating our beers; they go beyond what’s required of them because they’re passionate about doing their best. We are defined by the people we employ, from the delivery drivers to the brewers and production team, there is no unimportant job here.”
brewery on Vancouver Island, and have piloted quite a few different products that are now common place. We like to think of ourselves as brewing trailblazers, and receiving the honours that we have remind us that we still have a lot to offer to the industry and consumer.”
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