New Logo for the Beer Parlour Project

The Beer Parlour Project now has a logo...!!  We had this one designed for us and will start using it immediately.  We hope to eventually be able to offer some swag... T-shirts, hats, beer mugs, etc. with this printed on it.

We also now have an official website as well.  It can be found at...  beerparlourproject.com

At the moment it is still under construction and there is just some very basic information available.  But we will be working on it over the coming weeks and will eventually have a bunch of information about our project, a list of locations visited, upcoming visits, and a photo gallery.

When we were last out on BP 9.1, our return visit to the Victoria Hotel in Bruderheim, we were interviewed by a reporter from the local paper.  Apparently there is an article about our project in the Wednesday February 14th edition of the Lamont newspaper.  I haven't seen a copy of it yet but we are attempting to secure one.

 The Beer Parlour Project is a long term documentary project being undertaken by Fine Art Photographer Rob Pohl and his wife Margarit, from Edmonton.  Working along side them are Chris Doering and Connie Biggart, friends, historians, researchers and photographers from Calgary, Alberta.  We are travelling to locations throughout western Canada to document small town hotel taverns.  Not only are we fascinated by the history of these places, but we are also intrigued by the current evolution of these establishments as the gathering place that they have become in many small towns.  We are meeting and visiting and photographing the current owners and their patrons.  We respect the fact that some do not wish to have their picture taken, and there is no pressure.  Those that oblige us and allow photographs to be taken, may someday find their image included in some part of our project.  This is in addition to the research that is undertaken to uncover the past history of these places, some over a century old.  The project has an online presence and a website is in the works which will follow the path of our explorations.  In the future we are also planning to put together a gallery exhibition of photographs, and eventually a book.  The project was originally conceived in 2019, but the Pandemic put things on hold for a while.  Our first trip was in July of 2022 when we visited the Hidden Gem Tavern in Egremont, Alberta.  It is anticipated that the project will continue for most of the next decade.