This story originally appeared in the Summer 2019 issue of The Growler, out now! You can find B.C.’s favourite craft beer guide at your local brewery, select private liquor stores, and on newsstands across the province. Ask any […]
Michael Jackson: The Beer Writer Who Changed the World
If you were given the unenviable task of picking the single most important person to modern beer, it might seem odd that it is a writer’s name rather than a brewer or brewery founder’s that you keep coming back to. […]
Brewer vs. Brewer: The Victoria Edition
Victoria is the undisputed birthplace of craft beer in Canada—if not North America—but after years of innovation, the beer scene seemed to stall in the past decade. While Vancouver exploded with new breweries, new brewers and new styles, Victoria was […]
Five beers to drink with dad this Father’s Day
This Sunday is Father’s Day, which means it’s time to take your old man out for an awkward dinner and maybe grab him a six-pack while you’re at it. Or maybe another tie? No, definitely go with the six-pack. But […]
Brewing it Old School: B.C. craft brewers go back in time to bring obscure beer styles back from the dead
Before the almighty industrial lager managed to supplant nearly every beer style on earth, people brewed with whatever local ingredients they could get their hands on. That meant beer styles varied greatly from region to region, and even town-to-town. While […]
Brewing Up Gender Parity: The Quest for Beerquality
Women are markedly underrepresented in craft beer. This is not news to anyone. But have you ruminated on just how large the gender gap is? A 2018 survey by Nielsen-Harris found American craft beer drinkers are 68.5 per cent male […]
Brew Kid On The Block: Five Roads Brewing Co.
Langley’s craft beer scene is booming right now with close to half a dozen new breweries recently opened or currently in the works. Five Roads Brewing Co. officially opened its door (and its taps!) a couple weeks ago, so we […]
Granville Island goes legit with new brews and new look
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how macrobreweries will straight-up lie to you about their beer, presenting it as something that it’s not. In the case of Edmonton-brewed and multinational AB InBev-owned Lucky Lager, that means pretending to […]
Are we hosers getting hosed? US options for craft beer put B.C. to shame
They say it’s a great time to be a craft beer lover in B.C., but you don’t have to drive far to discover we hosers are in fact getting hosed by a surprising lack of options for buying and consuming […]
Blood, Sweat and Beers at B.C. Beer Wars
In the backstreets of Chinatown, nestled among stores selling dried fish and barbecue pork, is the unmarked entrance to Eastside Boxing Club. Halfway up the staircase, the air turns tropical and fills with the primal sounds of a crowd reacting […]