Vancouver Craft Beer Week returns for its ninth year May 25 to June 3, and it’s commemorating the annual citywide celebration with its official 2018 VCBW Collaboration Beer. This year, VCBW partnered with Backcountry Brewing (Squamish), Beere Brewing (North Vancouver) […]
Vancouver Craft Beer Week kicks off with the East Van Crusher
Gird your liver and clear your schedule, because the ninth annual Vancouver Craft Beer Week is almost upon us. What started out as a humble craft beer fest back when you could count the number of local breweries on both […]
Phillips’ Levidrome Imperial Regal Lager seeks to add six-year-old’s word to the dictionary
Phillips Brewing is helping a six-year-old boy’s dream come true by hopefully forever changing the English language with the release of its latest beer. Let me explain. Victoria author and musician Lucky Budd says his son Levi discovered there was […]
Tap & Barrel’s new patio has an insane amount of B.C. craft beer
Tap & Barrel is opening its 240-seat patio at their flagship North Vancouver location in Lower Lonsdale this Friday, and it might be the best place in the province to enjoy B.C. craft beer al fresco. The patio—which is designed […]
B.C. brewers win big at World Beer Cup
It bills itself as the “Most Prestigious Beer Competition in the World”, and this year B.C. brewers proved they are among the best of the best. In all, B.C. breweries brought home nine medals—including three golds—from the World Beer Cup, […]
Vancouver’s top breweries, according to Vancouver Courier readers
If you have a liver and pulse, you’ve probably noticed that there’s a lot more fantastic beer being brewed and consumed in Vancouver these days. In little more than five years, our city has transformed itself from a puritanical craft […]
Hop Circuit returns to Yeast Van this Sunday
Yeast Van is home to some of the best beer and spirits in the province, and this Sunday you can get a peek behind the scenes and meet the people responsible for your favourite bevvies. The third annual Yeast Van […]
Siris Cask Festival coming to Vancouver
The Siris Cask Festival is returning in June, and this time you won’t have to schlep all the way out to Port Coquitlam to enjoy it. Named after Siris, the original goddess of beer in pre-Sumerian mythology, the festival features […]
Luppolo takes the top prize at Okanagan Fest of Ale
Vancouver’s Luppolo Brewing Co. was the big winner at the 2018 Okanagan Fest of Ale this past weekend in Penticton, picking up coveted Best in Show honours for its Tart Wild Ale with Plum, as well as winning for Best […]
Okanagan Fest of Ale kicks off this weekend
The rain has stopped (sort of), the roads have cleared, and it’s smooth sailing to the Interior for the first time in forever—which means conditions are perfect for the Okanagan Fest of Ale this weekend in Penticton! This year marks […]