B.C.'S CRAFT BEER AND CIDER GUIDE
Dan Small had finally discovered Kokanee. The avid homebrewer had stopped in Revelstoke overnight while moving to Vancouver from Toronto. At the bar, he saw a beer label he didn’t recognize. A new beer! Dan thought it must’ve been a […]
You’d think that in 2016, with craft beer a considerable cultural industry, the discussion about the quality of canned craft beer would have gone extinct – but sadly, this isn’t the case. And it’s a particular sore point for Matt Human, […]
Pemberton Music Festival starts today (July 14) so we interviewed several of the performers about their first, worst or most memorable experience with alcohol. We were really hoping Noel Gallagher would be available to grace us with some of his […]
I’m being disingenuous with that headline, because I’d actually “had it” with Molson the very first time I barfed it all up because Canadian tastes so repulsive. But this time, they’ve gone and made it personal. Here’s the story: This […]
It was once a sleepy, little suburb that’s mutated suddenly into a craft beer hotspot. Since 2014, three breweries have opened along Port Moody’s Murray Street – Yellow Dog, Moody Ales and Twin Sails – revitalizing a declining industrial area […]
In case you’ve been wearing earplugs for the past 10 days, Vancouver Craft Beer Week is in full swing right now. The main event – a massive three-day tasting festival taking place at the PNE – starts this Friday, where […]
No hyperbole: Next week will be the loudest, brashest, most drunken and all around most fun week for craft beer of the year. Yes, it’s Vancouver Craft Beer Week. The weeklong festival is celebrating its seventh year with its biggest […]
If you read the headline, you’ll know that the Canadian Brewing Awards are coming to Vancouver. If you didn’t read it – well, how did you get here? Whatever the case, the Ontario-based CBAs are a huge deal for Canadian […]
It’s collaboration brew day at Steel & Oak and of course I’m late. The plan was to come early and watch the whole process from start to finish – to pull back the curtains and see what’s at the heart […]
Consider this: a small group of devoted beer enthusiasts start a homebrewing club and unwittingly shape the course of Vancouver culture in the process. We’re talking, of course, about VanBrewers, Vancouver’s premier homebrewing club, which is throwing its sixth annual […]