B.C.'S CRAFT BEER AND CIDER GUIDE
GOLD Best Brewery in B.C. Best Dark Lager // Vienna Lager Best B.C. Collab (with Locality Brewing) // Throwback English IPA Best Brewery/Cidery Tasting Room Best Food Program Best Branding/Packaging SILVER Best Beer in B.C. // Vienna Lager The people […]
SILVER Best East Coast/Hazy IPA // Widowmaker IPA BRONZE Best B.C. Collab (with Changing Colours Brewing Project) // “Zombiemaker” Ever since winning Rookie Brewery of the Year at the BC Beer Awards back in 2017, Backcountry Brewing has been a […]
Although not well known today, Thomas Uphill was B.C.’s longest serving MLA, representing Fernie from 1920-1960. Prior to joining provincial politics, Uphill was Mayor of Fernie during B.C.’s short-lived Prohibition (1917-1920), which he opposed heartily even though he himself was […]
Disc golf pairs well with B.C. craft beer While flinging a flying disc for fun likely dates back to the proliferation of the pie pan, it became popularized in the 1950s with the commercialization of the Frisbee. A variety of […]
There’s salt in my beer My teetotalling grandparents didn’t drink beer, but more than a few friends remember seeing their older forebears spilling some salt into their Old Style Pilsners. The reason for doing so varies considerably: it adds more […]
This is the first time a brewery from Eastern Canada has won the Canada Beer Cup Canadian craft breweries celebrated brewing excellence at the Canada Beer Cup Awards Gala in Québec City on November 10. The trophy for Best Beer […]
Brewery tours around the world My first brewery tour did not include any actual beer because I was still an underage high school student at the time. One of my buddies wanted to become a brewer after graduation and […]
GOLD Best New World Cider // Cowichan Dry Merridale is B.C.’s first craft cidery. Its founders took over this enchanting yet slightly run-down cidery in Cobble Hill back in 1999, and then set to work transforming Merridale into a thriving establishment […]
GOLD Best Dark Ale // Dark Matter I first tasted Sean Hoyne’s beer more than 30 years ago when I moved to Victoria from Ontario and discovered Swans Brewpub where he began his brewing career. Of the core list of four […]
Colourful Breweries Did you know that 13 different B.C. breweries have a colour in their name? The most commonly used is red/rouge (5) with white coming in second (3). Black Kettle, Buffalo Rouge, Copper, Grey Fox, Red Arrow, Red […]