B.C.'S CRAFT BEER AND CIDER GUIDE
SILVER – Best Weird Beer // The Jeffery BRONZE – Best East Coast IPA // Widowmaker BRONZE – Best Branding/Packaging Squamish’s Backcountry Brewing is known for some of the longest beer names in the business, and indeed, pop culture references […]
Welcome to The Growler’s third annual B.C. Craft Beer and Cider Readers’ Choice Awards, AKA the Growlies! The Growlies are B.C.’s only province-wide craft beer and cider readers’ choice awards, celebrating every style of awesome craft beer and cider […]
Steamworks Brewing Co. in Burnaby has announced the release of their Piquette, the company’s first foray into wine. “Piquette boasts high drinkability thanks to its delivery of light, fruity effervescence and low ABV (typically only 5-7%),” says a news release. […]
In the last couple of decades, craft beer has come on in leaps and bounds. Craft beer represents a vibrant, expressive range of products that’s defined almost as much by novelty as it is by bold, punchy flavours. Despite its […]
Despite the global pandemic breweries and cideries just keep on opening in B.C., which makes us all very happy indeed! Here is a list of all the new operations expected to open across British Columbia in the coming months. Brookswood […]
Happy 2021! Like me, I’m sure that you are very happy to say good riddance to 2020 (and perhaps raise a middle finger). Now that the worst year most of us have lived through is finally over, I’m starting […]
The BC Ale Trail just opened nominations for its Best Brewery Experience Award for 2020. This is the third year time they are giving out this award, which went to Powell River’s Townsite Brewing in 2018 and Land & Sea Brewing […]
Since the last issue of The Growler came out just before the pandemic arrived, the world has changed radically. Your favourite beer and cider guide was forced to hit pause for a bit, but we’re happy to be back now. […]
Here’s what we’re killing the Covid with this week… 6° by Dageraad Brewing Belgian-style sour ale • 7.0% ABV • 650 mL bottles This lightly soured dubbel was brewed with 400 pounds of Montmorency cherries. 6° promises to be “fruit-forward, […]
OK, so we’ve moved to Phase 2 of COVID-19 beer consumption. We’re regularly ordering our favourite beers for home delivery, but cracking a can in front of the only Netflix show you’ve got left on your sad, dwindling list is […]