Sonny Chu loading delivery van for delivery to licensees
Sacks of Prairie Malt barley in the Granville Island Brewing warehouse
Sonny Chu
The brewhouse, with store area further back
Preparing the retail store in May 1984: Steve Whitehead and unidentified employee with mop
Steve Whitehead and Joann. Pre-opening view from brewhouse into retail store
Pallets of beer cases and bags of malt barley
The shiny new Krones bottling line from Germany
Turk Whitehead, general manager, in the brewery
Installing the bottling line. Note the unfinished retail store and Bob McKecknie (engineer and founding partner) in the office
Opening Day, June 9, 1984. Bill Harvey, King Ganong, Mitch Taylor, and Larry Sherwood. King Ganong was chairman of the Granville Island Trust / Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation
Bob McKecknie (nickname Bob Mc3), our engineer and founding partner, and brewmaster Rainer Kallahne
Larry Sherwood 'supervising' as Rainer Kallahne cleans up after brewing
Larry Sherwood, marketing guru and founding partner, in the brewhouse
The raised tiled area awaiting the arrival of the Krones bottling line
Brewmaster Rainer Kallahne cleaning up after brewing
Pressurized fermenting and aging tanks, all with cooling jackets
The new Krones bottling line being installed in 1984/1985
Mitch Taylor, CEO, doing a sales transaction in the Granville Island Brewing retail store in 1984
Larry Sherwood with Mitch's daughters, Jillian and Lydia, in the Granville Island Brewing retail store before opening
Granville Island Brewing store clerk with Lydia Taylor (age 11) and Joann
Turk Whitehead (general manager) Joann, Lydia Taylor (age 11) and Jillian Taylor (10)
Brewmaster Rainer Kallahne in his office/lab in 1984
Pressurized fermenting and aging tanks, all with cooling jackets