Wednesday, September 9, 1998 — North Shore News — 21

Nelson Brewing Co.

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robert@nsnews.com

BRINGING the taste of
Nelson to the Lower
Mainland has kept Patrick
Moore hopping.
The 28-vear-old North
Vancouverite is the recently hired
marketing and sales manager for 7 .
Nelson Brewing Company. But ho Sn TN : . Se PR .
points out the ale sounds like more & ? cote uj . . ~~ ay t
than it is — or less. se : <<. — | eo on now: -” :
“Down here we're brand new. E : : “, ° ; j ns ae ae ; C) }
Ye have no budget and all I have is ; : : : ‘ < mo
word of mouth and myself,” said

Moore. “And quality of the prod- ore SEPP - : hae . ll
uct. I think Pye doubled the sales [# AN - Co lj #40) Great Savings on all natural
down here since last spring,” said Tare A . ‘ . : 5 * gas & propane models Broil King.

Moore who originally made a name .
for himself in the area as the manag: At Johnstone’s we service everything we sell - check us out!

er of the Queens Cross Pub.

A change of ownership at the
watering hole left Moore casting
about for a new job, a search thar
ended in Nelson where he started
running a bar. It didn’t take long tor
him to meet the principals of the
brewery, and he eventually took up
his present position which sees him
back at his old North Shore haunts.

The company’s history reaches ; .
back to 1893 when the then-Nelson — : - °
Brewing and Ice Company opened NEWS photo 21H Waheed
its doors. By the 50s, it had opened PATRICK Moore is bringing the Kootenays to Van-
several other locations which ied to couver where Nelson Brewing is making its mark.
the company consolidating its pro-
duction facilities in Creston abandoning all oth- — Brewing Company was born.
ers including Nelson. That company has since Although they started out supplying taps in
continued to grow. In the carly "90s three self- bars and restaurants, Nelson Brewing Company
described beer-lovers re- opened the doors of the — has recently incorporated a bottling plant which
old brewery in its curren? reincarnation. Nelson now ses the beer available throughout B.C.

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