Craft Beer is IN. It’s hip, it’s local, it’s environmentally friendly, and to top it all off, it gets you drunk. What’s not to like? I think Oprah even mentioned it (Ed Note #1: We have not yet verified the […]

It was once a sleepy, little suburb that’s mutated suddenly into a craft beer hotspot. Since 2014, three breweries have opened along Port Moody’s Murray Street – Yellow Dog, Moody Ales and Twin Sails – revitalizing a declining industrial area […]

In case you’ve been wearing earplugs for the past 10 days, Vancouver Craft Beer Week is in full swing right now. The main event – a massive three-day tasting festival taking place at the PNE – starts this Friday, where […]

Hello and welcome. It’s time to learn. Don’t be frightened. Your brain could use the stretch. Right – before we offer you some advice on how to review beer (without being a dink about it), here are some tips on how […]

No hyperbole: Next week will be the loudest, brashest, most drunken and all around most fun week for craft beer of the year. Yes, it’s Vancouver Craft Beer Week. The weeklong festival is celebrating its seventh year with its biggest […]

It’s collaboration brew day at Steel & Oak and of course I’m late. The plan was to come early and watch the whole process from start to finish – to pull back the curtains and see what’s at the heart […]

Consider this: a small group of devoted beer enthusiasts start a homebrewing club and unwittingly shape the course of Vancouver culture in the process. We’re talking, of course, about VanBrewers, Vancouver’s premier homebrewing club, which is throwing its sixth annual […]

Do you need an escape? Of course you do. Everyone does. Your back hurts, stress is clawing at your chest like a demented lover, and your head is so cluttered you can hardly form a coherent thought, let alone a […]

The opening of the Red Racer Restaurant on Beatty Street earlier this year felt like a re-opening to many Vancouver beer lovers. That same location was home to Dix Bar-B-Q and Brewery, a popular and influential brewpub that shut down […]

This column is also the cover story in Westender this week. Go pick up a copy. It’s finally happened – there’s an official beer crawl taking place this weekend. Hop Circuit– a sort of Eastside Culture Crawl for the local beer and distilling […]