The Growler is back with all the beer news and features you need to get you through the fall and winter! In this issue, we celebrate the best of B.C. beer and cider with the results of the 5th annual Growler […]
Vancouver U-Brew promises fun, affordability and fine craft beer
Terminal City Brewing has been helping customers craft beer, wine, cider and coolers for more than 30 years. Craft beer making in recent years has reached such a cult-like status, it’s now considered by many to be a mystical art […]
Here are the winners of The Growler’s 2023 Craft Beer & Cider Readers’ Choice Awards
There are several different beer award programs B.C. breweries can submit their beers to for adjudication. Around the time this issue comes out, I will be in Niagara Falls tasting beers as part of the judging panel for the […]
2023 GROWLER AWARD WINNER PROFILE: Small Gods Brewing
GOLD – Best New Brewery SILVER – Best East Coast/Hazy IPA // Promised Land Hazy Best Weird Beer // Sea of Tranquility Smoked Dulse Stout Best B.C. Collab // Bruja Tajin & Lime Cerveza (with Boomtown Burritos) Sidney is a […]
2023 GROWLER AWARD WINNER PROFILE: Dog Mountain Brewing
SILVER – Best Belgian-Style Ale // BEES! Unsung Hero of Craft Beer You know, if I ever had to move away from Victoria, Port Alberni might just be at the top of my list of destinations. Its location at the […]
2023 GROWLER AWARD WINNER PROFILE: Camp Beer Co.
GOLD – Best Brewery in B.C., Best Dark Lager // Dark Lager Best Branding and Packaging SILVER – Best Brewery or Cidery Tasting Room BRONZE – Best Beer in BC // Upstream Pale Ale Best Food Program Since opening just […]
2023 GROWLER AWARD WINNER PROFILE: Cannery Brewing
SILVER – Best Light Lager // Lakeboat Lager BRONZE – Best Dark Ale // Heist Maple Stout BRONZE – Best Imperial Ale // Kindling Imperial Stout BRONZE – Unsung Hero of Craft Beer I’ve been visiting Penticton annually each spring to […]
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 […]
Brewery and tasting room approved for Squamish’s Hop Creek Farms
A brewery and tasting room is coming to Hop Creek Farms on Government Road in Squamish. At a July 4 regular business meeting, Squamish council members unanimously approved a development permit to add a brewery and tasting room to the Brackendale […]
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.” […]