Victoria Beer Week Celebrates 10 Years! Launched in 2014, VBW returns for its 10th annual celebration of the capital city’s craft beer culture March 1-9, 2024. Launched in 2014, Victoria Beer Week is returning March 1-9, 2024. The festival includes […]
Behind the Scenes of the Craft Beer Industry: Experiencing the 2023 BC Craft Brewers Conference
This past week New Westminster hosted craft beer industry insiders from around the province at this year’s BC Craft Brewers Conference, organized by the BC Craft Brewers Guild. For craft beer fans like myself, it was a couple days of […]
Great Canadian Beer Festival is going on tour to Cranbrook
This September, Canada’s oldest beer festival will go on tour to the East Kootenays. After celebrating in Victoria on the weekend after Labour Day as usual, GCBF will hit the road for the first time ever in its 29-year history. […]
Craft & Canapés at The Barley Merchant
Celebrating the Inaugural Langley Craft Beverage Week Perhaps it’s the dichotomy between hidden gems in strip malls like Farm Country and the field to glass oasis that is Locality, but there is something truly special about Langley’s craft beverage community. […]
Vancouver getting new fest ‘to bring the community together and celebrate beer’
The inaugural Vancouver Brewers Festival happens this month. Vancouver’s independent beer makers are doing their own thing, again. The inaugural Vancouver Brewers Festival will be an event by brewers for brewers, and the community says organizer Aaron Jonckheere. “We get together sometimes,” says […]
The BC Ale Trail Launches Five Tasting Passports Throughout Metro Vancouver
Dry January is over — February is all about exploring and tasting along the BC Ale Trail. The BC Ale Trail, in collaboration with Translink’s Dine the Line, has created Tasting Passports featuring 64 businesses in five different Metro Vancouver […]
The BC Beer Awards Return After Two-Year Hiatus
Gladstone Brewing Wins Brewery of the Year and Parallel 49 Brewing Earns Best in Show The 2022 BC Beer Awards were announced on November 5 at the Croatian Cultural Centre in Vancouver. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, this was the […]
BC Craft Brewers Conference Returns in November 2022
BC’s Premiere Craft Beer Industry Event Returns In Person November 8 & 9. The BC Craft Brewers Conference, aka BC Beer Con, hosted by the BC Craft Brewers Guild and presented by Great Little Box Co / Ideon Packaging is […]
Vancouver’s got a new Halloween beer event this year with ‘monster burlesque’
It’s not just a beer fest… First, there was the Rocky Horror Picture Show, and now there’s the Hoppy Horror Beer Show. Coming to the Croatian Cultural Centre on Oct. 21, the new twist on a beer festival promises plenty of ales […]
A craft beer and music festival is coming to the North Van Shipyards in October
The Brewhalla Beer and Music Festival will feature beverages from North Shore breweries, as well as local musicians playing on two stages A new festival for fans of sipping good brews while listening to good tunes is coming to North […]