Brewery Tour Guide

About Vancouver Brewery Tours

Vancouver Brewery Tours Inc. is Vancouver’s #1 craft brewery tour experience. Since launching in 2013 as Vancouver’s first and only company dedicated exclusively to craft brewery tours, we pride ourselves on connecting locals and visitors to the vibrant craft beer community in Vancouver. From weekly Public Tours to by request Private Tours, on tour our guests are taken on a craft beer adventure that includes an introduction to the brewing process, behind the scenes tours, VIP entrance and seating, and a generous amount of craft beer samples meant to highlight the exciting diversity currently being brewed in town.

The Opportunity: Brewery Tour Guide

We are seeking 2-3 passionate and knowledgeable brewery tour guides to join our team.  The positions are for on call, part time and potentially full time. The successful candidate must be available every Saturday without exception with other weekday/weekend shifts available upon request. Shifts are 5-8 hours long.

Think you’re right for the job?  Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Passion for locally made craft beer is a MUST
• Sound knowledge of craft beer, or be willing to learn: Including beer styles, the brewing process, and familiarity with the Vancouver brewery scene in general.
• Ability to command and captivate a crowd and lead a tour for up to 42 beer lovers
• Be 100% responsible for a positive and memorable experience for each and every guest
• Captivating storytelling and sales abilities
• Outstanding customer service skills
• Skilled conversationalist
• Clean and professional appearance
• Respectful sense of humour and a laugh that lights up a room!
• Positive and enthusiastic attitude
• Acute time management skills
• Ability to project your voice in loud spaces
• Professional and goal oriented approach to your work

Primary Requirements

We are searching for 3 types of candidates
1)    Strong experience in the local craft beer scene (brewers, home brewers, liquor store, etc) AND willing to obtain a Class 4 driver’s license.
2)    Holds a Class 4 driver’s license and a passion for Vancouver craft beer
3)    Holds a Class 4 License AND strong craft beer experience? Skip the interview you’re hired!

Other Requirements

• Experience as a tour guide an asset
• Have a smartphone with access to social media
• PC or Mac with access to the MS suite of products
• Aged 19 or over
• Please note a criminal record check and ICBC driver’s abstract will be requested from the successful candidates

How to apply

1.    Email a PDF or Word document of your resume along with a cover letter. In your cover letter show us a little personality! Please tell us the following:

• Why you’ll make the perfect brewery tour guide
• Your beer experience – do you homebrew? have you worked in a brewery? how well do you know the Vancouver craft beer scene and/or beer styles? etc
• Do you hold a Class 4 License?
• About your favourite Vancouver brewery and why you think others should support them

2. Submit your application to info@vancouverbrewerytours.com

Due to the amount of applications received, we will only be contacting potential candiates. Thank you for your interest in good luck!

It’s commonly suggested and accepted that the perfect obvious pairing for spicy foods is an IPA. Curry and IPA. Wings and IPA. This is an interesting article that I found on the Brewers Association website (www.craftbeer.com) by Nicole Garneau, that talks about the science behind why that’s not actually correct if you’re looking to quench your thirst or subdue your burning mouth. On our Vancouver Brewery Tours we talk a little about pairing beer and food. I learned in the Cicerone Certified Beer Server program that you can either complement your food’s flavours or you can contrast the flavours. At the end of the day it’s up to you! You can also find a pairing chart on the Brewers Association website here.

Happy tasting!

Monica

 

My career cultivating a scientific understanding about flavor has prepared me for contributing to beer knowledge, but not “growing up” in the industry means that I often am not aware of the many of the shared stories, anecdotes and oral histories that have been passed down from one brewing generation to the next. So it’s not surprising that I find myself stumbling into these moments of tension where my grasp on the science behind a phenomenon, like beer calming spice, doesn’t quite match up with the brewing industry’s perspective.

Along those lines, I recently got myself in a bit of boiling water. I was presenting a workshop of food and beer pairing alongside my colleagues on the Beer & Food Working Group, when I made a comment about the dated image of beer and hot wings and made the mistake of following that up by saying beer is a pretty terrible choice for spicy food. There was an audible gasp in the audience, and I looked over to find my friend, and incidentally, publisher of CraftBeer.com, Julia Herz shaking her head with eyes wide. I learned later that for many craft connoisseurs like Julia, beer is a go-to for spicy Thai and Indian food. She swore that it was the residual sugar in the beer that made the pairing work.

How Your Taste Receptors React to Spicy Foods

First, the reason why spicy foods cause a burning feeling is because they contain an irritant. For this reason, spicy is a mouthfeel, not a taste. It could be capsaicin in chili peppers, gingerol in ginger, or cinnamaldehyde in cinnamon to name a few. These irritants bind to receptors on the tongue, which kicks off a chain reaction and signals to the brain that there is something potentially dangerous in the mouth. This causes the brain to unleash a typical pain reaction: dilation of blood vessels cause your skin to get red, sweating occurs, and you actually feel like your mouth is burning. The goal of a pain reaction? Your body is telling you to counteract. If you’re reading this post, my guess is that you counteract by picking up your beer….

Read the full article here.

About the Author: Dr. Nicole Garneau is a geneticist who studies taste, co-author of the Beer Flavor Map, and co-founder of the beer sensory app DraughtLab. She is a sought-after speaker, has done numerous media interviews and is featured in the book, Beer Pairing the Essential Guide from the Pros. She is a member of ASBC, the Beer & Food Working Group, and on the advisory board member for the Fermentation Science & Technology program at her alma mater Colorado State University. When she’s not speaking or consulting on sensory perception, she’s enjoying time at her day job as PI of the Genetics of Taste Lab at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.

In the fourth annual BC craft beer survey we asked you, BC craft beer drinkers, about your favourite events breweries and beers. Compiling the results we have come up with the top 5 in each category. From Best Craft Beer Event to Best BC Craft Beer, here are the 2016 Beer Me BC People’s Choice Awards.

The people have spoken! Do you agree? Did you vote?

 

 

Categories include:

• Best BC Beer Festival
• Best Spring/Summer Seasonal BC Craft Beer
• Best Fall/Winter Seasonal BC Craft Beer
• Most Often Consumed BC Craft Beer
• Best New BC Craft Brewery
• Best BC Craft Brewery

To find out who won > visit BeerMeBC.

Congratulations to all of the winners! The craft beer culture in BC is alive and thriving. It’s a great time for us in BC. A special congrats to our Vancouver Brewery Tours partners Brassneck Brewery and Faculty Brewing.

 
Beer Me BC was founded in 2012 by Dustan Sept. In the early days it was a personal account of craft beer adventures within British Columbia. Quickly the site evolved to become an industry voice for craft beer within the province. Today, Beer Me BC is the largest online news source for craft beer news, events and reviews coverage in BC. Grab a pint and come along for the ride!

Christmas is only one week away and if you’re like me, you’ve probably got alot of shopping and last minute running around to do! Thankfully our friends at the Westender have put together an A to Z list of great holiday gift ideas, and we’re thrilled to have our super popular Vancouver Brewery Tours Gift Certificates on the list!

Click on the link or picture below to start shopping, and happy holidays beer lovers!

Westender A-Z Holiday Gift Guide