Two craft breweries in Gibsons are looking for council’s backing to make some changes.
101 Brewhouse and Distillery at 1009 Gibsons Way is applying to extend its hours, currently from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday to Sunday, to allow it to open earlier and close later.
The owners have asked for a liquor licence amendment to allow it to operate from 9 a.m. to midnight Sunday to Thursday and 9 a.m. to 1 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.
The change requires a motion of council as well as Liquor Control and Licensing Branch approval.
Council voted Dec. 5 to start the process by sending notices out to other businesses and residents in the immediate neighbourhood.
Coun. Jeremy Valeriote said he was comfortable moving ahead.
“There may be some discussion when we get responses,” he said.
Councillors did not discuss a suggestion in the staff report on updating the Town’s now 15-year-old general policy on opening hours for pubs and other so-called “liquor primary” establishments. Craft and micro breweries and distilleries are not mentioned in the existing policy.
The other micro brewery planning changes is Gibsons Tapworks at 537 Cruice Lane. Tapworks’ owners are hoping to add a rooftop terrace.
The Tapworks application was discussed at the Advisory Planning Com-mission on Nov. 24, and has yet to go to council.
The brewery’s owners want a development permit to allow them to add a bar, storage area, bathroom, and seating area with gas firepit to the roof of the existing one-storey building. The rooftop terrace would add about three metres to the building’s height.
