The pub is a special place, a sacred place. It serves as the living room for its community, where young and old can come together and bond over a pint, a plate of greasy food, some keno and probably a […]
Drink this: Internet Famous by Parkside Brewery
Fresh hop beer season is here and so is the hype surrounding these delicious, ephemeral beers. To some, fresh hop beers explode with life, capturing the fleeting flavours and aromas of those tiny nuggets of goodness before they quickly fade […]
Vote now for The Growler’s 2019 B.C. Craft Beer Readers’ Choice Awards!
Welcome to The Growler’s second annual B.C. Craft Beer Readers’ Choice Awards, AKA, the Growlies! The Growlies are B.C.’s only province-wide craft beer readers’ choice awards, celebrating every style of awesome craft beer B.C. has to offer. Unlike traditional beer […]
Vote for your favourite beer and win a luxury helicopter craft beer tour!
This year The Growler is pleased to announce four awesome prizes up for grabs for those voting in The Growler’s 2019 B.C. Craft Beer Readers’ Choice Awards, AKA, The Growlies! The grand prize is an absolutely bonkers luxury helicopter craft […]
Backcountry says Suck It Cancer with new fundraiser release
Squamish’s Backcountry Brewing is honouring the memory of local artist Chili Thom and raising money for cancer research at the same time. The brewery released Suck It Cancer this week, a double dry-hopped pale ale (5.5% ABV, 28 IBU) with […]
What’s up with what’s going down: your craft beer weekend event guide for Sept. 27-29
Brewloops Sept. 27 and 28 • Kamloops This beer festival has it all: more than 30 B.C. breweries and cideries, a dozen live music acts, a Ferris wheel, bumper cars, and a family-friendly event on the afternoon of the 28th. […]
On tap: new fresh hop releases by Category 12, Parkside and Faculty
Here’s a look at some of the newly released fresh-hopped beers we’ll be filling our stomachs with this week… Internet Famous by Parkside Brewery 6.4% ABV • 473 mL tall cans This fresh-hopped IPA beer was made in collaboration with […]
B.C. woman awarded best scholarship ever—to study beer!
Explaining the difference between a hefeweizen and a Belgian witbier just got easier for Bethany Smith, Brand Ambassador and Sales at Craft & Compass, a beverage marketing agency in Kelowna. She is one of 15 Canadians awarded a scholarship through […]
Fresh to Death returns with a killer fresh hopped beer list
Fresh to Death, B.C.’s biggest fresh hop beer festival, returns to the Roundhouse in Victoria on Saturday, Oct. 12, with 20 B.C. breweries on hand offering seasonal fresh-hopped beers. The style list runs the gamut from pale ales and IPAs […]
Hammer Time: Craft beer adventures in Canada’s “Steeltown”
This story originally appeared in the Fall 2019 issue of The Growler, out now! You can find B.C.’s favourite craft beer guide at your local brewery, select private liquor stores, and on newsstands across the province. Perhaps understandably, Hamilton […]