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The Fall/Winter 2021 edition of The Growler is out now and here’s where you can find it!

Growler Staff • September 3, 2021

  The Growlies are back, and we’re celebrating B.C.’s best craft beer and cider with the results of The Growler’s 2021 B.C. Craft Beer & Cider Readers’ Choice Awards! Unlike other craft beer awards and contests, the Growlies are decided […]

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Three Kitsilano friends hope to launch the West Side’s first craft brewery

Brendan Kergin / Vancouver Is Awesome • June 9, 2021

In a city as beer crazy as Vancouver, it’s maybe surprising there are no breweries or brewpubs in Kitsilano. Three friends and long-time residents of the west side Vancouver neighbourhood are rectifying that. James Boileau, Andrew Lavigne, and Dana Barnaby are […]

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Beer to the Ground: the most anticipated new breweries in B.C., spring 2021 edition

Growler Staff • April 2, 2021

Despite the global pandemic breweries and cideries just keep on opening in B.C., which makes us all very happy indeed! Here is a list of all the new operations expected to open across British Columbia in the coming months. Brookswood […]

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Main St. Brewing partners with Kevin Smith to release a Jay and Silent Bob beer

Brendan Kergin / Vancouver Is Awesome • March 17, 2021

Fans of beer and Jay and Silent Bob unite! Actually, that Venn diagram is probably pretty much a perfect circle. All the same, the two worlds are officially meeting at Main Street Brewing, where director and Silent Bob himself Kevin […]

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B.C. permanently allows restaurants to sell alcohol with pick-up and delivery meals

Glen Korstrom / Business in Vancouver • March 17, 2021

The B.C. government has granted permanent permission for restaurants and pubs to be able to sell and deliver sealed, packaged wine, beer and spirits alongside meals. The March 11 news comes almost one year after the province started to allow this practice, on […]

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The Spring/Summer 2021 edition of The Growler is out now and here’s where you can find it!

Growler Staff • March 3, 2021

  Happy 2021! Like me, I’m sure that you are very happy to say good riddance to 2020 (and perhaps raise a middle finger). Now that the worst year most of us have lived through is finally over, I’m starting […]

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City of Vancouver starts accepting commercial patio applications for 2021

Glen Korstrom / Business in Vancouver • March 2, 2021

Restaurant, pub and brewery owners may now apply for free temporary patio licences, which would allow their businesses to create patios on public property and service those patios between April 1 and October 31, the City of Vancouver announced March 1. The program includes patios […]

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New Craft Beer Market set to open at English Bay by end of March

Lindsay William-Ross / Vancouver Is Awesome • February 26, 2021

With one of the most enviable views in Vancouver and the indoor and outdoor seating to make the most of it, the soon-to-open Craft Beer Market location on English Bay in Vancouver’s West End is poised to be a major […]

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North Vancouver brewery selling special beer for newborn baby with rare form of cancer

Andy Prest / Vancouver Is Awesome • February 26, 2021

If you’re interested in raising a glass to a good cause, a North Vancouver craft brewery might have the perfect beer for you. North Point Brewing is selling cans and pouring pints in their brewery of a special edition beer […]

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Langley-based Five Roads Brewing is coming to Richmond’s Steveston neighbourhood with new taproom

Alan Campbell / Richmond News • February 18, 2021

Steveston Village’s fledgling brewery scene is set to grow a little more this spring with the opening of a new tasting room. Five Roads Brewing – which has its sole brewery and tasting room in Langley – is currently renovating […]

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