I lived in Vancouver during that time and got to visit and meet the people behind all those new breweries through the UBC Brewing Club. It was truly inspiring. People just a little bit older than us combining their passion with engineering and some business savvy to build these amazing companies, some of which are huge now (e.g. parallel 49).
In hindsight, I think those days may have been the most excited and hopeful I've seen kids from my generation be about 'Capitalism' and their ability to make it doing something they thought was cool, especially the non-overachiever, arts major kids. Even if we weren't thinking about the brewing industry in particular there was something infectious about that energy.
In hindsight, I think those days may have been the most excited and hopeful I've seen kids from my generation be about 'Capitalism' and their ability to make it doing something they thought was cool, especially the non-overachiever, arts major kids. Even if we weren't thinking about the brewing industry in particular there was something infectious about that energy.