Siris Cask Festival
Cat & Fiddle Pub
1976 Brown St, Port Coquitlam, BC V3C 4K9, Canada
British Columbia
49.25203639999999
-122.76673119999998
Description
Celebrating the Women of Craft Beer, Celebrating the Craft Beer of Women
The Tri-Cities Cask Festival Association is proud to announce The Siris Cask Festival, a Craft Cask event featuring 25+ beers brewed exclusively by women.
The goal of the festival is to provide a venue to showcase the amazing skill of our female brewers, reaching back to a time when the important duty of brewing beer was exclusively the role of women in society. Siris was the original goddess of beer in pre-Sumerian mythology.
The other goal for the festival is to provide a bursary for Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s Brewing Studies program. The bursary will be available to female students, with the intention of helping achieve gender parity in the brewing industry.
Siris is helmed by three Associate Directors: Claire Wilson, Brewmaster of Dogwood Brewing, Ashley Brooks, Brewmaster of Big Ridge, and Julia Hanlon, Brewmaster of Steamworks. In addition to addressing the festival, all of them will be supplying casks. MC for the event is Nancy More, the first female Brewmaster in North America and instructor at KPU. From Julia Hanlon: ". . . this small club . . . needs more members, so that in the future nobody will feel compelled to ask the question about what it means to be a "female" brewer. The Siris Cask Festival and bursary is one step towards this and I am very honoured and proud to be part of this event to help more female brewers join this amazing community!"
In keeping with spirit of the festival, the first hour will be open only to women. After that hour, the ticketed public will be allowed in.
Some quick answers to your questions:
When, Where, How: April 22nd 2017, at the Cat and Fiddle Pub, 11 am to 5 pm (1st hour open only to women).
Who are the brewers?
There are only three craft breweries in BC that have women designated as head brewers, but there are dozens of women working at every craft brewery. We approached almost all of BC’s craft brewers to have their female staff produce casks for Siris. The response was immediate and enthusiastic.
Breweries that didn’t have a woman as an active member of their fermentation staff almost all had women working for them with brewing skills—either attending brewing school or as home brewers, or from working with other breweries in the past—who stepped in and brewed, again with enthusiasm.
For breweries without the benefit of female brewers in-house, we were able to connect them with female brewers from inside the industry: cicerones, inside staff, account managers, and others who had the skill and love of brewing. In the end, it all came together.
For an updated list of all the breweries and a short bio of each brewer, please click on this link SIRIS BREWERS BIO'S
Special Event Sponsors:
FAQs
What do I get with my ticket?
Each ticket includes access to the event, 10oz Tasting Glass, 10 tokens for 4oz tasting (you can use 2 tokens to have the glass filled), Event Program, Entry in to the Door Prize Draws. If you choose the T-Shirt option it will include one Siris Cask Festival T-Shirt in the size you indicate. Additional tokens will be available at the venue for $2 each.
What do I need to get in?
You will need to present your ticket in either paper form or on your digital device. 2 pieces of valid ID
Females only for the first hour?
In celebrating the women of craft brewing we want to also recognize the female consumers of craft beer with giving them the first hour 11am-Noon with out the male consumers. Event will open to everyone at Noon.
Are you women? Who’s running the show?
No, we’re a non-profit society that organizes the largest and best-attended cask festivals in BC. We’ve done the behind-the-scenes organizing to get the space and the casks together, but it’s not our show—we are just holding the curtain for the important players, the brewers.
So are you speaking for the women of brewing?
No. The Women of Craft Brewing don’t need anybody to speak for them. All they need is a place to speak for themselves. As such the TCCFA has only two mandates: to facilitate a great cask festival, and to use ticket proceeds to endow a bursary available to female students at KPU. The rest of the festival is up to the brewers themselves. We’re as excited as anyone to see where they take it. That’s part of the reason why it’s women-only in the first hour: networking, celebrating, sharing and enjoying great beer.
How much is the bursary? How will it be awarded?
Our pledge to KPU is set at $1500 for this festival. We’re planning on driving that number higher—as high as we can—through merchandise sales and donations. The award criteria is handled by the finance department at KPU, but the award will go to a female student entering their second year who demonstrates financial need and meets the minimum GPA.
Is that a depiction of Siris in your logo? Isn’t Ninkasi the goddess of brewers?
It’s actually a stylized image of Innana, the mother-goddess that originated in Uruk. There are no definitively identifiable images of Siris, or indeed of Ninkasi. Siris actually preceded Ninkasi as the goddess of beer and brewing among the Semite peoples and later got folded into Sumerian mythology as a daemon daughter of Ninkasi. We chose Siris because she was earliest, and because there’s a famous brewery named after Ninkasi that we didn’t want to be confused with. Ancient anthropology is fun, but not simple.
Is the registration/ticket transferable?
Yes. Tickets can be gifted. As long as the ticket can be presented either in paper or digitally everything is fine.
Can I get Tickets at the door?
If the event is not sold out tickets will be available at the door for $45.
Are there ID requirements or an age limit to enter the event?
This
is a 19 + event. No admittance under the age of 19. We will be
requiring 2 pieces of valid ID to enter the venue. If you do not have ID
you will be turned away and no refund will be provided.
What are my transport/parking options getting to the event?
There
will be plenty of parking on site and surrounding area. Taxi service is
available, public transit is just step from the venue and there are
several services that can drive you and your vehicle home.
What is the refund policy?
The
registration deadline is April 22nd, 2017. Full refunds are
available prior to April 14th, 2017. There will be no ticket sales
and no refunds at the event. After this date no refunds will be offered.
To request a cancellation or to make a change please send an email to
info@tricitiescaskfestival.com
If you have any other questions, please send us a note to info@sirisfestival.com and put ‘Siris’ in the subject line. We’ll get back to you with an answer.
Are you with media and would like to contact us? Please email media@sirisfestival.com
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Start:
2017-04-22T11:00:00-07:00
End:
2017-04-22T17:00:00-07:00
Category
Food & Drink
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