British Columbia is home to so many amazing destinations, there is something sure to attract every type of traveller. An added bonus is that everywhere you go, you’ll likely find a local brewery—or several. The BC Ale Trail is the […]
Map: Here are all the craft breweries, distilleries, wineries and cideries in North Vancouver
The craft beer and spirits scene is now booming in North Vancouver, particularly in the burgeoning Brewery District in Lower Lonsdale. The North Shore will forever hold a piece of Canadian brewing history, as West Vancouver holds the distinction as […]
Perfect Pairings: Find a great beer to go with your next B.C. hike
Beer and food pairings are increasingly popular here in B.C., as sold-out events like Uli’s beer-pairing dinners in White Rock or the Smuggler’s Trail Brewmaster Dinners in Langley demonstrate. But beer goes with so many other things–including hiking! B.C. is […]
Brewer vs Brewer: The Anniversary Edition
Celebrating milestones during the pandemic sucks. Typically, a brewery turning 10 or 20 years old might put on a big event, but during COVID, not so much. In 2021, two well-known Victoria breweries reached significant milestones with little fanfare: Phillips […]
North Vancouver’s Shaketown Brewing Co. is selling lagers, ales, and tall tales
The stories are fake and the flavours are real at the newest addition to North Van’s Brewery District. 🍺 When visiting the recently opened Shaketown Brewing Co. in North Vancouver’s burgeoning Brewery District, you’ll want to bring a healthy appetite […]
Don’t let bar service be another COVID casualty
By ordering at the bar, we’re compelled to move around and interact socially The craft beer tasting room is special place, I think we can all agree on that. Since they first started popping up after finally becoming legal […]
Craft breweries make great neighbours
You don’t need to look very hard to find dozens of examples of B.C. craft breweries that have improved the neighbourhoods they have opened up in. Across the province, craft breweries have helped transform their surroundings in profoundly positive ways […]
Keep your New Year’s resolutions with these non-alcoholic beers
It’s a new year, and many of us are turning over a new leaf and cutting down on our alcohol consumption, whether it’s to support our mental and/or physical health, or just to give our wallets a break. I’m not […]
10 winter craft beer releases to brighten your holidays
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! No, I’m not talking about the holidays, or the ski season, or the end of another year spent watching society crumble before our very eyes. It’s time for year-end limited edition craft […]
WTF is Kveik?
An exploration of Norwegian farmhouse yeast It all started with a blog post. The year was 2014, and in the backwaters of the Internet, a software engineer from Norway by the name of Lars Marius Garshol was posting about archaic […]