The Growler is back with all the beer news and features you need to get you through the fall and winter! In this issue: Kristina Mameli finds bliss at an Icelandic beer spa. In Noëlle Phillips’ B.C. beer history series, […]
Tickets Are Now Live for the 2026 BC Beer Awards!
Get ready to celebrate the best of BC craft beer and cider! Join us on Friday, October 16th at Anvil Centre in New Westminster. Don’t miss your chance to be part of it all and raise a glass to the […]
News and Notes: Hello, ‘Ber Months!
Give me fresh hops, give me Märzen, give me Festbier—hell, even give me pumpkin beer—the ‘Ber months are, without question, THE best time of year in B.C. craft beer! Need proof? I submit to you the slew of Oktoberfest celebrations […]
North Vancouver brewery opens new location in Port Moody’s Brewery Row
North Point is taking over the space left empty when Moody Ales closed. Port Moody’s Brewery Row has a new member. North Point has joined the beer destination with its second location. The North Vancouver-based craft brewer is bringing the […]
‘Best friends’ opening new brewery in East Vancouver
It’ll join others in the ‘Yeast Vancouver’ area. There’ll be something new on tap in East Vancouver soon. Discovery Brewing is set to open later this year, according to Aleksander Zuber and Winston Lin, best friends, co-owners and founders of the […]
News and Notes: #SummerlandStrong Edition
It feels appropriate to start this preamble by commending all of the firefighters, first responders, search and rescue teams, emergency crews, healthcare workers, volunteers, and members of the community for their tireless support of those displaced by the devastating Bald […]
News and Notes: New Beginnings Edition
Before we get into anything else: THE GROWLIES ARE BACK! Voting is live for our eighth annual craft beer and cider readers’ choice awards, AKA, the Growlies! Panel nominated, but decided by you, our loyal readers, the Growlies are unlike […]
News and Notes: June Edition
Salutations, craft enthusiasts and welcome to another edition of News and Notes! Whether you live and breathe the beautiful game, or only care because Ted Lasso is a pretty good show (guilty), craft spaces throughout the province will be screening […]
Seven breweries and distilleries within walking distance of North Vancouver’s World Cup festival
Looking for a place to wet your whistle after the final whistle? These tasty spots are all near Canada Soccer’s World Cup fan festival in North Van’s Shipyards So you’ve come to the North Vancouver Shipyards to experience the thrill […]
News and Notes: Beer Alternatives and Sports Collab Edition
Greetings, craft beverage fans! Apologies for the slightly clunky, but very apt, title. In this edition, among other things, we say goodbye to B.C.’s first urban cidery, welcome a new meadery to the fold, and get the (insert appropriate sports […]