Welcome, CowDog! After having lost a couple of breweries over the last year, Vancouver has a new one. The CowDog Brew Company has officially opened its doors this weekend, after taking over the former location of Callister, which left its East […]
Retro-themed Wayback Brewing opens in Surrey
Surrey is back up to three craft breweries with this addition to the brewery scene Surrey is getting a new craft brewery. With a Grand Opening on Dec. 1, Wayback Brewing brings the Metro Vancouver city back up to three, and […]
Award-winning Callister Brewring in East Van closing taproom, but not the whole business
“What will become of our little brewery? Well, we aren’t completely sure ourselves” One of Vancouver’s many award-winning breweries is going through some significant changes. Callister Brewing Company, tucked away at 1338 Franklin St., will be closing its taproom on […]
5 things you (probably) didn’t know about beer in Vancouver
Vancouver and craft beer goes together like Vancouver and expensive real estate, it’s one of those things that’s come around in the last few decades but seems to be written into the city’s DNA. Beer wasn’t here as settlers moved into the […]
Storm Brewing’s mural ‘beloved by locals and visitors alike’ gets official reprieve from removal
The beer gear and rats will stick around The tempest around Storm Brewing’s mural appears to have quelled. At a meeting on July 25, city council voted unanimously to have the mural “be grandfathered and allowed to stay in place.” […]
Andina Brewing Company closed permanently due to landlord dispute
The business is for sale now Vancouver has lost one of its popular craft breweries. Andina Brewing Company closed down in the spring; at the time it was announced as a temporary closure, but one of the owners has confirmed […]
‘I don’t think anyone is coming out defending this’: Storm Brewing mural to be painted over by city
The mural has been there for almost 10 years. As city politicians aim to kill Vancouver’s reputation as ‘No Fun City’ bylaw officials have told an East Van brewery its nearly decade-old mural will have to be painted over. Storm Brewing, founded in […]
Seabus Memes launching collab with Container Brewing to ‘keep you comfortably lubricated’
First there was Seabus Sauce, now comes Seabus Juice. One of Vancouver’s most famous (though anonymous) purveyors of memes is striking out into the craft beer industry yet again. Seabus Juice is currently brewing at East Vancouver’s Container Brewing, as […]
Three Vancouver breweries bring home gold from world’s biggest beer awards event
BC won seven medals in all at the international event There are likely a few Vancouver brewers cracking a cold one to celebrate their beers this week. That’s because three local breweries won golds at the World Beer Cup, the biggest beer […]
Vancouver getting new fest ‘to bring the community together and celebrate beer’
The inaugural Vancouver Brewers Festival happens this month. Vancouver’s independent beer makers are doing their own thing, again. The inaugural Vancouver Brewers Festival will be an event by brewers for brewers, and the community says organizer Aaron Jonckheere. “We get together sometimes,” says […]