{"id":8143,"date":"2025-06-13T05:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwine\/news\/8143\/in-numbers-beer-wine-and-spirits-in-kamloops-okanagan\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T05:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T12:00:11","slug":"in-numbers-beer-wine-and-spirits-in-kamloops-okanagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwine\/news\/8143\/in-numbers-beer-wine-and-spirits-in-kamloops-okanagan\/","title":{"rendered":"iN NUMBERS: Beer, wine and spirits in Kamloops, Okanagan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everyone loves to go on about how great the wine is in the Okanagan, but good ol\u2019 beer and liquor is too often overlooked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are some numbers for wine, beer and spirits in Kamloops and the Okanagan:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>8,830: Acres of vineyards in the Okanagan.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>40: Wineries in the Kelowna area, at least.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>16 Craft breweries in Kelowna.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>75: Different types of grapes grown at wineries in the South Okanagan.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>80: Wineries within a 20 minute drive of Penticton.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>19: Licensed breweries in Kelowna, according to the provincial government. This doesn\u2019t include your uncle\u2019s sketchy basement brewed beer.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>3: Licensed breweries in Vernon.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1: Distillery in Vernon, Okanagan Spirits Inc.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>379: Dollars per person for one of the most expensive wine tours you can find online in Kelowna.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>4: Licensed wineries in Kamloops.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>4: Distilleries in Kamloops, but Kelowna has 5. To quote\u00a0<em>Wolf of Wall Street<\/em>, \u201cGotta pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers in this racket.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2: Well-named beer festivals in Kamloops this summer, Brewloops and Bike and Brew Fest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some numbers for wine, beer and spirits in Kamloops and the Okanagan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":547,"featured_media":8144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"guid":"","source":"","byline":"","published":"","updated":"","_infotelid":"","_prepressid":"","_multisite_post_sync":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[706,704],"tags":[],"region":[547,548,549,550],"class_list":["post-8143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-topnews","region-kamloops","region-kelowna","region-penticton","region-vernon"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/hd-mediaitemid35263-3467.jpg","post_modified":"2025-06-13T05:00:11","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T12:00:11","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/547"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8143"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=8143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}