I think every craft beer nerd probably has a bucket list; a list of beers they want to try before they kick said bucket. Last year, I had the opportunity to cross one of the beers off of mine. My […]
Toppling the craft beer pedestal
Brews News: International Beer Day; Iron Road opens; Main Street gets artistic
International Beer Day As if you need another excuse to crack a cold one, but its International Beer Day today, which is totally a thing. Personally, EVERY day is Beer Day here in Growlerland, but we can get behind making […]
Brews News: Pride edition
Queers and Beers turns 3 Vancouver’s favourite LGBTQ+ craft beer night kicks off Pride week this Sunday, July 30, at The Cobalt (and the neighbouring Boxcar Bar) with tons of craft beers and good times. This year’s Pride party […]
Persephone Brewing pins survival hopes on NDP
With the NDP and Greens assuming power this week in Victoria, BC brewers and hop farmers are “cautiously optimistic” that changes are coming to an ill-conceived provincial policy that makes it all but impossible to operate a farm-based brewery. In […]
Brews News: Fernie tasting room reopens; Kettle River turns 1; Red Truck goes country
Fernie Brewing’s new tasting room opens After a three-month closure, Fernie Brewing’s tasting room reopened this week, much to the relief of many a-thirsty Fernian (Fernite? Fern?) With the new extended bar, Fernie’s tasting room now offers up to 12 […]
Contract brewing looks to help “homeless” breweries
Contract brewing is part of the beer business that most people know little about. The idea is simple: rather than build your own brewing facility, you pay an existing brewery that has excess capacity to brew your beer for you. […]
The Growler guide to Tacoma's beer scene
Beer makes people do strange and unexpected things. Things like spend a few soggy days and nights in Tacoma, Wash. The enjoyably gritty port town on south Puget Sound doesn’t attract the same volume of IBU-addicted tourists as Portland […]
Does beer have terroir?
The concept of terroir and its influence are enthusiastically debated in the wine world. Very few of the beer geeks I asked cared one whit about terroir, and hadn’t even given it a thought before I asked. After some debate, they decided that although […]
Brews News: Summer fun!
Liver, don’t fail me now! There’s no shortage of fantastic craft beer events taking place across B.C. this weekend. Things kicks off on Friday with the Tapped Craft Beer Festival at Mount Washington on Vancouver Island, with 15 breweries taking […]
Celebrate Canada Day with these 150-themed craft beers
It’s Canada’s birthday, so it’s a great time to crack open a craft beer and reflect on 150 years of maple syrup, hockey and the systematic oppression of our Aboriginal population. If you’re a lower middle-class Caucasian dirtbag like me, […]