How one man founded Canada's craft beer industry right here in B.C.

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The John Mitchell Signature Cascadian Dark Ale is being launched to mark the 40th anniversary of the first craft ale at The Troller pub

John Mitchell, owner of The Troller in Horseshoe Bay, had been left without any beer to sell following a strike at Carling O’Keefe. He’d had enough. Not only did he want to make his own small-batch, wood-keg beer, he wanted to sell it.

Handout photo of John Mitchell and John Ohler on a craft brewing road trip around B.C. in 2018. John Mitchell and Frank Appleton opened the first microbrewery in Canada, Horseshoe Bay Brewery, in 1982.: “During a meeting in 1981, B.C.’s Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs Peter Hyndman told the CEOs of Canada’s big three breweries that he was going to approve John’s plan for a “cottage brewery.” The brewing executives replied that Mitchell was a fool, and he would never “make a go of it.

In 1984, after pushing officials even harder, Mitchell coined the term “brewpub” and convinced officials to allow brewing and quaffing beer to happen on the same site. He co-founded Spinnakers in Victoria, the first brewpub in the country.Article content Mitchell knew that the wood keg process couldn’t be done in large breweries — he dreamed of 100-per-cent barley mash, he believed in using whole cone hops, not hop pellets, said Ohler.

 

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