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Vancouver Would Be Cooler If It Had London’s Office Craft Beer Deliveries

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A recently launched subscription service in London delivers locally brewed craft beer to City offices every Friday. The miracle is aptly called Desk Beers.

How does it work? “You and your team do awesome stuff during the week (like always). We drop by at some point Friday afternoon with this week’s pick. You call it a week and sip back on some serious beer. You did good.” Here are the FAQs:

What beer will we get? You’ll get what you’re given, but it’ll be top notch. We’ll do our best to get the best beers at the best times. So expect light & hoppy in summer, and dark and filling in winter.

Will all the beers be the same? Each week, yes. Drinking and discovering beer isn’t something to do alone. Everyone gets the same beer. You taste, you comment, you taste again. No one misses out. Everyone’s happy.

When will it be delivered? At some point Friday afternoon. We will aim to get it to you no later than 5pm. No one should have to wait that late for a beer.

Do you only deliver on Fridays? For now, yes. But we have big plans, and we know that beer isn’t just for Fridays. Don’t worry, we’re on it.

Who will deliver it? Your new best friends.

Wouldn’t it be fantastic to have someone arrive at your office every Friday with some suds? It’s really not hard to imagine Parallel 49 one week, some Brassneck the next, some 33 Acres the week after, and some Red Truck to close out the month. It would be great for company morale, and a fun way for local breweries to broaden their nets.

Sadly, of course, our local liquor laws likely wouldn’t allow a service like this to get past the drawing board, but who knows? Maybe someday. The times they are a’ changing.

Vancouver Would Be Cooler If It was Included on ‘The Wasted “World” Tour’

Copenhagen-based food waste initiative, Eat Wasted, is currently on the road, working with a bunch of cool chefs to feed folks their up-cycled “Bread Waste Pasta” at pop-ups and food festivals in cities around Europe and North America (but not Vancouver?!)

Vancouver (and the World) Would be Cooler If Our Housing Crisis Was Solved Via Video Games

There is nothing special about Vancouver's lack of affordable housing...but what is special about Dublin, Ireland’s housing crisis, is that it's the catalyst and subject matter of a new 16-bit "anti-landlordist" video game, called Mega Dreoilín.

Vancouver Would Be Cooler If We Had More Safe Indoor Spaces for Skateboarding

Its vaulted ceilings may have once carried the tenors and altos of Catholic choirboys, but nowadays the acoustics of the abandoned St. Liborius Church have been repurposed to carry the screeches and echoes characteristic of a DIY Skatepark. We think Vancouver would be cooler if we had an all-inclusive indoor community skatepark of our own...

Vancouver Would Be Cooler If It Had a Massive Floating Housing Project at the Port

Imagine a colourful, mixed-used, housing complex like Amsterdam's Silodam floating at the foot of Victoria Drive.