{"id":6080,"date":"2015-07-21T16:44:07","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T16:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newscoverage.org\/?p=6080"},"modified":"2015-07-21T16:44:07","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T16:44:07","slug":"beerfest-draws-14000-to-laval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2015\/07\/21\/beerfest-draws-14000-to-laval\/","title":{"rendered":"Beerfest draws 14,000 to Laval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"www.thesuburban.com\">By Robert Frank<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Laval loves suds, judging by the turnout at the city\u2019s first-ever summer beerfest, held in St. Vincent du Paul, July 10-12. Some 30 microbreweries showed off their wares there at\u00a0<em>Centre de la nature\u00a0<\/em>during the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was very much to my liking,\u201d Laval executive committee vice-chairman David de Cotis told\u00a0<em>The Suburban.\u00a0<\/em>\u201cFor something that was done for the first time in the city of Laval, to draw more than 14,000 people represents an achievement not merely for the organizers but also for Laval.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The beerfest was one of a number of activities that the city organized to mark the 50<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary of the 1965 municipal merger that forged Laval out of 14 separate cities on \u00cele J\u00e9sus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe festival helped to make Laval a city we can be proud of,\u201d he told\u00a0<em>The Suburban\u00a0<\/em>in an interview. \u201cThe event drew people not just from Laval but also from Montreal and the North Shore. It was inspiring for us as politicians but also for Laval citizens to see what we an accomplish through this kind of event.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4><strong><u>Next year\u2019s event already brewing<\/u><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The beerfest\u2019s unmitigated success means that Laval beer lovers can expect a reprise in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause it was the first year [that we held this event], we didn\u2019t know what we would be up against,\u201d St. Vincent de Paul Councilor Paolo Galati told\u00a0<em>The Suburban.\u00a0<\/em>\u201cPeople enjoyed it so much and city workers helped tremendously and were so excited about the event that they are already suggesting different ways to approach the whole site to make it easier next year for concessions to bring in stock without intruding upon the festival itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Galati added that the event will be held in the same St. Vincent de Paul location next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be at the same place, but pushed forward a little,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOverall, we have all the right ingredients to make this event even more successful next year,\u201d de Cotis enthused.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe city sponsored the event with a [$15,000] grant and [Councilor Galati] worked closely with the organizers,\u201d he concluded. \u201cHopefully in 2016, the city can provide even more in terms of financial contributions and services to make this event even better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Organizers posted a helpful English web page that described the event at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/festivaldesbieresdelaval.com\/en\/\">festivaldesbieresdelaval.com\/en\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/150712-Laval-beerfest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6075\" src=\"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/150712-Laval-beerfest-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"150712 Laval beerfest\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/150712-Laval-beerfest-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/150712-Laval-beerfest-1024x669.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/150712-Laval-beerfest-720x470.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>(Left to right) Executive committee vice-chairman David de Cotis with Laval beerfest organizers Maril\u00e8ne Barale and Guillaume Ouimet and St. Vincent de Paul Councilor Paolo Galati declared weekend extravaganza an unmitigated success.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Note: The number of visitors and the amount of the city sponsorship was amended subsequent to publication, based on new information provided by organizer Maril\u00e8ne Barale.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Robert Frank Laval loves suds, judging by the turnout at the city\u2019s first-ever summer beerfest, held in St. Vincent du Paul, July 10-12. Some 30 microbreweries showed off their wares there at\u00a0Centre de la nature\u00a0during the weekend. \u201cIt was very much to my liking,\u201d Laval executive committee vice-chairman David de Cotis told\u00a0The Suburban.\u00a0\u201cFor something<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Beerfest draws 14,000 to Laval - Newscoverage<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2015\/07\/21\/beerfest-draws-14000-to-laval\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Beerfest draws 14,000 to Laval - Newscoverage\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Robert Frank Laval loves suds, judging by the turnout at the city\u2019s first-ever summer beerfest, held in St. Vincent du Paul, July 10-12. 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