During the depths of the pandemic lockdown last year I often found myself fantasizing about beer-themed vacations I might enjoy once the virus is vanquished. Even though the prospect of travelling was unfathomable then, picturing myself wandering the streets of […]
Drink This: Sober Carpenter’s Toolbox of Non-Alcoholic Beers
In the last couple of decades, craft beer has come on in leaps and bounds. Craft beer represents a vibrant, expressive range of products that’s defined almost as much by novelty as it is by bold, punchy flavours. Despite its […]
On tap: new releases from Four Winds, Dageraad and Neighbourhood Brewing
Here’s what we’re sipping in the kiddie pool on the balcony this week… Tropicae by Four Winds Brewing IPA • 6.0% ABV • 50 IBU • 473 mL tall cans The 2021 edition of Tropicae by Delta’s Four Winds Brewing […]
Brewer vs. Brewer: The Pandemic Edition
We decided to check in with two breweries that launched in 2020 to get their takes on what it was like to open their doors during the pandemic. I spoke to Will Tanenbaum at Patina Brewing, which opened on March […]
On tap: new releases from ABC, Main St., and Barkerville Brewing
Here’s what we’re pairing with our leftover Easter eggs this week… The More You Know! by Another Beer Co. (collab w/ Sundown Beer Co.) Fruited sour ale • 8.0% ABV • 473 mL tall cans This whopper of a fruit […]
Beer to the Ground: the most anticipated new breweries in B.C., spring 2021 edition
Despite the global pandemic breweries and cideries just keep on opening in B.C., which makes us all very happy indeed! Here is a list of all the new operations expected to open across British Columbia in the coming months. Brookswood […]
On Tap: New releases from Beere, North Point and Dageraad
Here’s what’s really in our coffee cup during our pantsless morning Zoom meeting this week… Space Jazz by Beere Brewing Co. Kveik Double Dry Hopped IPA • 6.5% ABV • 473 mL tall cans North Vancouver’s Beere Brewing Co. has […]
This hand sanitizer, that beer
Author’s note: below is a transcript of my notes from the This Hand Sanitizer, That Beer Throwdown, a new event which took place on January 9, 2021, in Gibsons.* 12:40 P.M. // First beer event I’ve been to in a […]
The best beer in B.C. (according to Twitter)
Driftwood Brewery’s Fat Tug IPA is B.C.’s best beer. That’s not according to brewers, experts or cicerones, but thousands of Twitter users. CBC reporter and B.C.’s top bracket maker Justin McElroy just spent the last couple of weeks creating a tournament […]
Main St. Brewing partners with Kevin Smith to release a Jay and Silent Bob beer
Fans of beer and Jay and Silent Bob unite! Actually, that Venn diagram is probably pretty much a perfect circle. All the same, the two worlds are officially meeting at Main Street Brewing, where director and Silent Bob himself Kevin […]