Brewery and distillery projects in Abbotsford, Vernon and the Sunshine Coast are on hold as a small brewery near Gibsons petitions the provincial government for changes to the Agricultural Land Commission Act.
Persephone Brewing Co. has been given two years to vacate the 4.45-hectare (11-acre) farm that is home to a brewery and tasting room after the Agricultural Land Commission found that the business does not conform to the rules of the act.
The act was changed in June 2015 to designate breweries, distilleries and meaderies as farm uses if at least 50 per cent of the farm product used to make the alcohol is grown on site. The new regulation also threatens 17-year-old Crannog Ales, which is located on a 10-acre hop farm in Sorrento.
Randy Shore – Vancouver Sun – March 11, 2017.
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