For all its wonders, all this variety of craft beer can be a serious prick in the teat. Like, y’know, when you try a random beer and it blows your mind apart? And you want nothing more than to drink […]

The path of every great beer (or wine; or whisky) drinker is strewn invariably with horrific, head-and-belly destroying hangovers. And chances are, that first hangover is the all-time worst hangover. Take for example New Year’s Eve, 1998. I had turned […]

Having just returned from San Francisco last week and faced with the task of condensing my experience into a clean 600 words, I was instead faced with a blank Word document and a blinking cursor. This was not an easy […]

Uber-nerdy craft beer wizards Fuggles & Warlock have been producing some weird and impressive beers for well over a year now, over at Dead Frog Brewing. But what about their own brewery? Yhey’ve been promising one for, like, well over a year! Well, […]

At noon on Friday, Nov. 13, Malone’s Social Lounge and Taphouse Vancouver sent a press release to media outlets, announcing its new off-sales growler filling station. The downtown pub claimed that the station would be the “first of its kind” […]

If you, like me, are sane, reasonable and a little cheap, you’ll  see the Advent calendars produced by Phillips Brewing and by Parallel 49 / Central City this year at the liquor store and balk at the $60-plus price tag. […]

From the folks who brought you Aprons for Gloves comes another charity boxing event, this time featuring exclusively the beer industry. Say hello to Beer Wars. The event will be similar to Aprons for Gloves, but this time people employed […]

We at The Growler were under the impression that the swell of new brewery openings had subsided. That the boom had already taken place, and the industry was ready to level off, so beer lovers could go on and enjoy […]

This recipe is the first in a running collaboration with The Growler and Park Place Productions & Events. This is how you cook short ribs, folks. We’re launching our new recipe series with these short ribs because beef is the ideal […]

Richard Hatter had a difficult job and he knew it. His firm, Hired Guns, had been tapped to redesign the label for Fat Tug, one of B.C.’s most influential beers – and one that already had an iconic label. According […]