B.C.'S CRAFT BEER AND CIDER GUIDE
Esquimalt’s Lighthouse Brewing is celebrating a pretty significant milestone this year: 20 years of producing of quality craft beer. Part of the second wave of B.C. craft breweries, Lighthouse launched in 1998 and its flagship Race Rocks Ale soon became […]
Today is International India Pale Ale Day, so I think it’s fitting we crack into an IPA, on this, the holiest of days. The IPA is the style that helped craft beer conquer the world, thanks to its massive bold […]
I gotta say, I love it when I discover something I like, and find out there’s a crazy story behind it. Case in point: Longwood’s Quinceotica. Although ostensibly categorized as a beer, Quinceotica is actually an obscure kind of beer/cider […]
One of the great things about the recent craft beer revolution is all the obscure beer styles that are being resurrected. Take the gose, for instance (pronounced goes-uh). This traditional salted sour wheat ale dates back to the 1500s and […]
Remember IPAs? I feel like I haven’t talked about them in ages, and if I’m being honest, it’s because it’s been a while since an India pale ale has stirred any excitement in me. There’s so many different kinds available […]
It’s summer, so you want a beer that’s cold, refreshing and you can drink dozens of if given the opportunity. Normally, fruit beers don’t fit this bill: they’re often cloyingly sweet, with flavours that tend to overstay their welcome. The […]
The latest edition of The Growler’s B.C. Collaboration Series is here and it’s pretty fantastic, if we do say so ourselves (and we do). Granted, I might be somewhat biased. This time around we paired up East Vancouver’s Doan’s Craft […]
Vancouver Craft Beer Week kicks off with the East Van Crusher tonight (May 25) at the Maritime Labour Centre, where you can be among the first lucky people to sample VCBW’s 2018 Collaboration Beer, the Double Dry Hopped Pilsner by […]
Sour beers can be a polarizing thing. Some of the more challenging styles are closer to salad dressing than beer, and if you don’t know what you’re getting into, you could be in for a big surprise. But when executed […]
Spring is here, and with it light, refreshing springtime beers. Beers with invigorating fresh flavours. Beers that make you forget about the six months of freezing rain and snow we just survived. Almost. In that spirit, Cannery Brewing’s Meadowlark Saison […]