B.C.'s CRAFT BEER GUIDE
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, […]
Squamish’s Howe Sound Brewing is one of the craft beer originals in this province. Producing beer since 1996, it began with a lineup of English-style ales formulated by the Grandfather of Canadian Craft Beer, himself—the late John Mitchell. Over the […]
I love that B.C. craft breweries seem to be so committed to giving back to the communities that they’re a part of. While the cynic in me knows that’s it’s probably all just marketing, I also know there are probably […]
There are so many new varieties of hops hitting the market these days—each with their own flavour and aroma characteristics—that it’s hard to keep up. Most of these hop strains are hybrids developed in laboratories and test farms, like Oregon […]
The B.C. Day long weekend is upon us which means Vancouver’s annual mass exodus to the verdant hinterland begins anew. It’s time to “get in touch with nature,” which apparently means drinking beer next to some trees or a body […]
Interprovincial relations with our neighbor to the east have been pretty fubar lately, to borrow a term from the Canadian cinema classic. As any Albertan relative’s rabid Facebook posts will tell you, us British Columbians apparently hate Canada almost as […]
For many people, the craft beer movement isn’t just about choosing delicious, flavourful beer over insipid macro lagers—it’s about supporting local businesses, too. Instead of spending their hard-earned money on foreign-owned beer that’s made on the other side of the […]
One of the interesting hybrid styles that has popped up in recent years has been the dry-hopped sour ale. The style gained in popularity after Four Winds’ Nectarous won beer of the year at the Canadian Brewing Awards in 2016, […]
British Columbia is truly the land of plenty. There’s no shortage of delicious homegrown ingredients brewers can play with, and incorporating these flavours is one of the many ways they can put their own spin on classic beer styles. Phillips’ […]