B.C.'S CRAFT BEER AND CIDER GUIDE
Dark lagers are a must-have in the fridge come wintertime—or all year round, really. Crisp, clean and refreshing, yet complex and roasty, they’re a flavourful, malt-forward beer that like any good lager will never wear out your palate. Field House […]
Cocktail inspired beers are so hot right now, and for good reason. The familiar flavours of an old fashioned or a whisky sour have remained relevant for more than 100 years because they work. They are delicious and balanced—with elements […]
With the recent rediscovery of the long-forgotten gose beer style, it seems like brewers are increasingly experimenting with salted beers. For those that don’t know, gose is a salted sour wheat ale flavoured with coriander originating Germany that almost went […]
In the brave new world of craft beer, you don’t even need your own brewery to make amazing brews. Case in point: Boombox Brewing Company. This hazy hype can brand is making big waves with its delicious IPAs and killer […]
There was a lot to celebrate Saturday night at the 2019 B.C. Beer Awards, and one of the breweries that managed to turn some heads was Victoria’s Île Sauvage Brewing. This modest barrel-aged sour focused brewery picked up the coveted […]
For 18 years, Victoria’s Phillips Brewing has been at the cutting edge of craft beer in this province. Beers like Longboat Chocolate Porter, Raspberry Wheat and, of course, Blue Buck, helped change the landscape of craft beer in B.C., popularizing […]
Fresh hop beer season is here and so is the hype surrounding these delicious, ephemeral beers. To some, fresh hop beers explode with life, capturing the fleeting flavours and aromas of those tiny nuggets of goodness before they quickly fade […]
If you’re unfamiliar with Strange Fellows’ Fellowship program, you seriously need to change that. The East Van Belgian-influenced brewery has been putting out some of its best releases as part of this limited release beer club. You get exclusive access […]
Oktoberfest is nigh so it seems appropriate to have something big and German this week. Beer styles like marzen, festbier and festbock were designed specifically for Oktoberfest, and are basically different ways of describing essentially the same beer: a darker, […]
In the early days of B.C.’s craft beer renaissance (like, 2013), craft-brewed lagers were about as common as sushi restaurants in Saskatchewan: there wasn’t very many of them, and the few examples that did exist weren’t that great. Craft beer, […]