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. […]
Drinkin' for Jesus!
Eastside Boxing announces charity-boxing event Beer Wars
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 […]
The Growler Guide to upcoming breweries
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 […]
RECIPE: Longwood Stoutnik braised beef short ribs
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 […]
The hand that rocks the label
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 […]
Gluten for Punishment
As a ruggedly handsome 43-year-old man with a lustrous ginger beard, an open-minded palate, near-perfect digestion and guts of iron, I have never had an issue with gluten. If I could make love to it or shower in the stuff, […]
Know your freaky hangover cures, people
First, there was alcohol. And it was good. Then – likely the next morning – came the nauseous, head-pounding hangover. And it was very bad. For thousands of years, different cultures all over the world have suffered hangovers, and have […]
The Growler guide to Portland
There’s too bloody much to do in Portland. You might know this. If not…dude. Every district has a dozen little neighbourhoods, all of which are self-contained with every kind of restaurant imaginable, countless bars, excellent coffee shops, strip joints and, […]
Beer tastes just fine out of the can, thank you very much
“Cans? Are you crazy?” If you, like me, have used this as your rallying cry – if you have spent the past few years scoffing at canned beer’s highly inferior taste, decrying its proponents as hopeless plebs, and turning up […]
Where's Surrey's beer scene, dude?
Perhaps you’ve already noticed, but B.C.’s craft beer boom has been consistent across the province. Smaller, more remote communities such as Cumberland, Invermere and Terrace have all staked a claim to the burgeoning industry, right alongside Vancouver and Victoria. There […]