The second annual 91原创 Craft Beverage Week wrapped up on Sunday, May 19 at Fort 91原创 Park with a flash sale by more than 20 vendors offering samples, including all of the 鈥�91原创 Loop.鈥�

Featuring drink tastings and live music, it was the first-ever Spirits in the Park event to be hosted by the Loop, a network of local breweries, cideries and distilleries.

Lies Reimer, general manager for Red Door events, the organizer of the park tastings, described it as a 鈥減icnic in the park鈥� where people could go around with glasses provided by the event and sample beers and whiskey.

Among the Loop members present was the newest 91原创-based craft brewery, the , which opened its doors in September of 2022, as well as the farm-based Aldergrove-based Locality Brewing, which became 91原创鈥檚 eighth brewery in 2021.

Brookswood Brewing Co. co-founder Kris Johnson said he and partners Jeff Hurkett and John Collins set up their tasting room in Brookswood, at 4061 200th Street, because there aren鈥檛 any craft breweries to speak of in South 91原创.

鈥淭here was nothing out here in Brookswood and now there is a community hub for people to come and hang out and have a beer, have a conversation,鈥� Johnson commented.

At Spirits in Park, Johnson reported the most popular Brookswood beer was one he personally designed.

鈥淗ands down, it was our caramel cream,鈥� Johnson told the 91原创 Advance Times.

鈥淚 went to a beer festival 20 years ago over on Vancouver Island and I tried it from a different brewery. This was before craft brewing here in B.C. was even really a thing. We started brewing it last year around this time and it鈥檚 been one of our most popular beers.鈥�

It鈥檚 called 鈥溾�� because Johnson used to say that all the time when he was asked 鈥榟ow does your beer taste?鈥�

鈥淚鈥檓 like, well, 鈥榠t tastes like another beer鈥�, which means it tastes good, and now we鈥檝e got a beer with that name on it.鈥�

At the table, co-owner Andrew Hamer was explaining how he and his wife Melanie MacInnes turned her Aldergrove family farm into a 鈥渇ield to glass鈥� brewery that grows its own ingredients.

鈥淲e鈥檙e operating on a 96-acre farm,鈥� Hamer told a visitor.

鈥淢y wife Melanie runs the brewery. We started growing ingredients in 2016. We grow our rye, barley, wheat hops [and more]. A lot of those ingredients goes into our beer because we have the only malt house in the lower mainland.

Offering picnic areas and hiking trails, the Locality farm brewery is slightly off the beaten track at 7111 252 Street, but Hamer said it was easy to find using GPS

鈥淲e鈥檙e a great summertime destination. If you come, you can a reconnect with the land. That鈥檚 what kind of what we鈥檙e about.鈥�

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For the 10-day long beverage week, the Loop brewed what was described as a 鈥渟pecial collaboration beer鈥� with partial proceeds going to the 91原创 Food Bank 鈥� a blend of five berries from across the Fraser Valley called a 鈥淰alley Berry Sour.鈥�

Other members of the 91原创 Loop include the Barley Merchant, Camp Beer Co., Dead Frog Brewery, Farm Country Brewing, Five Roads Brewing, Fraser Valley Cider Company,, Trading Post Brewing, Smugglers Trail and the Roots & Wings Distillery.

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