B.C.'S CRAFT BEER AND CIDER GUIDE
Finding puppies their fur-ever homes through craft beer Warning: if you hate unabashed joy, puppy cuddles, beer, and undying loyalty and companionship, these events are not for you. Unleashed in 2022 by Leah Bosello and Emily Boucher, Barks N’ Brews […]
Since launching Burnaby’s Dageraad Brewing in May of 2014, Ben Coli has seen a lot of changes to B.C.’s craft brewing scene. It’s the same for Iain Hill, whose Strange Fellows Brewing in East Vancouver turns 10 this December. During […]
From the somewhat obvious, to the quirky and creative—we’ll help you look like you put some thought into it. How is it already the middle of December?! If you’re like me, that means that you are utterly unprepared, likely still […]
All across the province, craft brewers are using new and creative techniques to offer gluten-free and gluten-reduced offerings. Gluten-free and gluten-reduced beers have now arrived in B.C. in a substantial way. Previously the options for the gluten adverse were limited, […]
Tabletop board games and craft beer go hand in hand. When I get together with my board gaming buddies, we always share interesting beers with the group. Similarly, it’s not unusual to walk into a craft brewery taproom and find […]
For this edition of Brewer vs. Brewer I talked to two ex-brewers who now make cider: Matt Cavers, cidermaker at Banditry Cider, which placed second in the Growlies for Cidery of the Year (who often writes in these pages himself); […]
Meet the B.C. breweries venturing into wild, sour, and aged beers Back in the 1990s, B.C. beer drinkers were just getting used to a newfangled thing called a “microbrewery,” and were shocked by some crazy new styles—like the India Pale […]
B.C.’s craft beer industry has exploded over the past decade, and even the most devoted drinker can’t make it out to every brewery. To support breweries and craft beer drinkers in this hot market, more craft beer taprooms have opened […]
A guide to the sessionable yet contemplative ESB WHAT IS IT? A top-fermented ale just that’s little bit stronger and darker than a typical pub-strength English Bitter, among the stronger offerings from English breweries, but average for American craft beer. […]
They’re basically a three-egg breakfast platter loaded into one massive sandwich There’s a new destination in Vancouver to get your hands on massive Korean-style “egg drop” sandwiches. Featuring a mound of fluffy, creamy scrambled eggs, a variety of companion components, […]