Comments on: Turning Point Brewery – the inside scoop

By: Keith

Keith — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 03:04:46 +0000

The Amber Ale and Pilsner lager are both very smooth and taste great. You can tell from the shape of the bottles and the well designed labels that this is a quality operation. I’m happy to support a local Delta brewery.

By: Everything In This Blog Is A Lie… Including This at Barley Mowat

Everything In This Blog Is A Lie… Including This at Barley Mowat — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 03:01:50 +0000

[...] Wind Powered Yup, they’ve got a wind turbine. “A” as in “one.” If you believe that’s running the boilers in a ~100 hectolitre brewery I’ve got a wind turbine to sell you. I’d be impressed if that thing powers the lights. As a side note, does anyone else find it odd that it rotates even when there’s no wind? [...]

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:44:50 +0000

It’s 2012, and still no post from MAG. Turning Point brewery.ca still has a one-page website up, Stanely Park brewing still claims sustainability. Where’s the MAG’s defense and the proof? Fail.

By: Mickey

Mickey — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:02:55 +0000

I love fish and chips and amber ale while watching the hockey game, it really doesn’t get more west coast.
Well, unless you top it off with a little mary jane ^_^

By: JustAnObserver

JustAnObserver — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:07:15 +0000

Green washing is happening. If not washing, exaggerating.

Ask them how much energy the turbine actually produces, its barley enough to run the computers in the brewery. When it runs at max capacity it can help power 20% of the breweries total power, which it never has yet to date.

Be aware, all the numbers you are hearing are based off of them running at 100% efficiency consistently. That is the only way to ever reach the savings in water and power they state. As we know this is never the case with a brewery there are always problems arising.

Lets see them actually go out and be proactive in being sustainable instead of paying money to look sustainable.

Beer, however, is not bad. Better than most mainstream craft beers out there. The Noble Pilsner is great on a sunny day, while the Amber goes great with dinner.

By: SisterC

SisterC — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:04:12 +0000

Mark Anthony Group may be a large company, but it remains 100% BC owned and operated!
They have never claimed that the beer is 100% sustainable but have said that they are taking efforts to get to that point. The wine turbine out front the brewery DOES run-anyone who drives over the Alex Fraser daily, will see that for themselves. They use something like 70% less water in the production of their beer.
The argument that they are attempting to take out all of the ‘little guys’ is completely false. How can anyone make a statement like that, unless they are working for the company (in which point, hopefully wouldn’t make a claim like that)
They are actually looking to take a piece of pie away from the big brewers.
Their tactic is to create a craft style beer with continuous consistancy and quality. Most craft brewers make GREAT beer but on an inconsistant level. Most large brewers make OK beer but very consistantly. Mark Anthony/Turning Point is looking to make great beer, consistantly, all the time! That is their marketing plan-plain and simple!
To another point, being sustainable doesn’t mean they are laying claim to being organic. That was never part of their pitch, they are two completely different things.
There isn’t absolultely no ‘green washing’ in attempt there. They have given the simple facts when asked for them and from what I see, never tried to disguise anything that they are doing.
To the point of never saying where the Brewery is…..I have heard from dozens of Mark Anthony restaurant/retail partners who have been hosted to the brewery. If they were trying to conceal the location, why would they host people there daily? The reason for the location is because they had property there and it’s close to everything they need for production/distribution purposes. It is no different that any other brewery space out there.
I am shamed that people would make comments about this not being a ‘real beer’ …… beer is beer. Whomever manufactures the beer of course plays a role, however, from the FACTS that I know about Mark Anthony/Turning Point, there is absolutely no reason why I would have a negative opinion about Stanley Park.
I think people need to focus on the liquid and how it tastes rather than the rumours behind it.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 21:54:40 +0000

By all means, please do set the record straight. We’d be happy to post your side of the story.

By: TuringPointBrewery/MarcAnthonyGroup

TuringPointBrewery/MarcAnthonyGroup — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 20:03:16 +0000

I will be happy to answer any questions you may have, I work for the Mark Anthony Group/Turning Point Brewery

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:14:55 +0000

I’m glad to see that some respondents are concerned about greenwashing. This brewery claims to be Canada’s First Sustainable Brewery, but they are not. They are not certified organic, they provide no statistics to back up their claims (which insiders say are false) to be operating only on windpower and to be using “less” water than other breweries. Yes, I’m in the industry, you probably all know who I am and I’m posting under my own name. Check out http://www.crannogales.com and see who’s backing up what claims.
Oh, and in beer, bitterness is good

By: darkcanuck

darkcanuck — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:02:23 +0000

glad i found this site. i had just finished watching ‘beer wars’ and thought i’d do a little research on some of the beers i drink. i specifically tried Stanley Park Amber Ale for the first time because it was 1)local and 2)sustainably brewed.

knowing that they are just using green-washing gimmickry (and seeing that they are based on annacis island) they have been struck off my list.

cheers!