Artisan Ales Consulting Inc. reflects an on-going love affair with great
beer. Founded in 2009, the business currently represents 28 of the top 50 beers
brewed in Canada, and have started working with some amazing Belgian and French
breweries, with more great stuff to come.
Co-owner Mike Tessier started
his beer journey as an obessive homebrewer, winning more brewing medals than you
can shake a stick at, including what many homebrewers consider the Holy Grail of
American brewing medals, a Masters Championship of Amateur Brewing gold medal.
Subsequently, Mike branched out into beer writing. He’s been published in many
of the world’s best beer magazines for the last decade and is a well-versed
public speaker on all things beers. He and his business partner and wife, Bo
Vitanov, have long planned their vacations around great beer and learning more
about this dynamic beverage.
Artisan Ales’ goal is to deal only with
breweries that share the same passion for great suds and to bring Western Canada
more great brews, but we’re a little selfish as these are all beers we want to
drink!