Storm Crow Tavern on Commercial Drive!

My story on Storm Crow Tavern is finally up on the Vancouver Sun website, and I assume it ran in yesterday’s paper too. You can read the piece here.

I’m pretty excited about this place, especially since it’s just up the street from where I live. The menu is somewhat limited (no brunch—yet) but I love the fact that you can stop in any time and the one screen in the joint will be showing cinematic fare such as Forbidden Planet and, as was the case yesterday (Friday) afternoon, The Last Starfighter. (Thanks to Rodney DeCroo‘s friend Michael for identifying the obscure 1984 sci-fi movie.)

I’ve been meaning to stop in at the Storm Crow more often than I have , but this is owing largely to the fact that most of my discretionary drinking-out income goes towards paddles of craft beer at St. Augustine’s. However, I do grow weary of that joint’s sports-bar ambience (numerous TVs tuned into TSN). Old episodes of Rocket Robin Hood are much more to my taste.

I wrote this: Vancouver Craft Beer Week preview

Vancouver Craft Beer Week Belgian Beer Showcase at Biercraft on Commercial 2011. Robyn Hanson photo

I recently wrote a preview for the third annual Vancouver Craft Beer Week, which begins this Friday (May 18).  I had a blast at the events I went to last year – an American beer expo at the armoury downtown and a Belgian showcase at Biercraft on Commercial – and from the looks of this year’s lineup, there’s lots of great events coming up. I’m especially excited about Portland Craft, a new bar opening up during the festival. It features only Oregon brews on tap.

Anyway, usually a piece like this should probably only run 5 – 600 words, especially for the pay rate, which barely covers the cost of the ticket I bought for one of the events during my research. But I got carried away…

From BCLiving.ca (posted May 14 2012):

Imerse yourself in the wonderful world of beer at Vancouver’s Third Annual Craft Beer Week May 18-26

If you haven’t started drinking craft beer, here’s a word of advice: don’t.

Because if you do, you might find yourself sniffing the air at bars and informing people, “The tap selection here isn’t fit for swine.” Party invitations will stop coming because you can’t stop talking about hoppiness and barley notes. You’ll find yourself standing in front of the beer fridge at specialty liquor stores, looking for that perfect magical elixir among the selection of newly arrived small-craft brews that seems to grow every week.

However, if you’re already at this point – or if you don’t mind ostracizing yourself from your circle of PBR-swilling friends – then welcome to third annual Vancouver Craft Beer Week.

Read more at BCLiving.ca.

Vancouver Craft Beer Week Belgian Beer Showcase at Biercraft on Commercial 2011. Robyn Hanson photo