B.C.'S CRAFT BEER AND CIDER GUIDE
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 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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Cloudy beers have started to fill glasses in tap houses and brewery tasting rooms, but we’re not talking about German hefeweizens or Belgian witbiers. Instead, these opaque beers are a newish style called “hazy IPA” and they’ve taken the West […]
Over the course of the last few years, Brewer vs. Brewer has interviewed some of the best professional craft brewers in the province. But what about the thousands of homebrewers out there? Just because someone doesn’t get paid to make […]
B.C. breweries clean up at the Canadian Beer Awards B.C. breweries owned the podium last weekend at the Canadian Beer Awards, proving, yet again, that the West Coast is the Best Coast. In all, close to 50 of the 167 […]
The eighth annual Vancouver Craft Beer Week Festival returns to the PNE Fairgrounds this Saturday and Sunday, and it’s looking like the weather is going to cooperate. If you’ve never been, imagine what heaven looks like to a beer nerd, […]