13th Edition
April 2017
Crannog Ales Protests ALR Regulations By Larissa Lutjen Local brewery Crannog Ales is fighting back after getting 'The Back Hand of the ALR'. In 2015, an amendment to the regulations governing the Agricultural Land Reserve required both wineries and breweries to use 50% onsite farm product in their alcohol manufacture in order to qualify as an ALR approved activity. The concern from the province was that without the 50% requirement breweries could choose to relocate to cheaper agricultural land with no net benefit to BC agriculture.
Crannog Ales has been operating on ALR land in Sorrento for 17 years. At the time they were established they only needed their brewing facility to be smaller than the 900 square foot space requirement and did not need a special dispensation from the ALR in order to operate (although it was suggested they could apply for one as they were the first brewery to set up on ALR land). Crannog does grow 98-100% of the hops needed to produce their organic (Continued on page 3)
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