B.C.'S CRAFT BEER AND CIDER GUIDE
Before the almighty industrial lager managed to supplant nearly every beer style on earth, people brewed with whatever local ingredients they could get their hands on. That meant beer styles varied greatly from region to region, and even town-to-town. While […]
Women are markedly underrepresented in craft beer. This is not news to anyone. But have you ruminated on just how large the gender gap is? A 2018 survey by Nielsen-Harris found American craft beer drinkers are 68.5 per cent male […]
Penticton’s Cannery Brewing helped raise more than $5,400 to help support mental health with its Power Chord Pilsner charity beer. The beer was made to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the South Okanagan Events Centre with proceeds benefitting the Canadian […]
There’s so many awesome things about the B.C. craft beer scene, but easily the No. 1 super duper bestest awesome thing is how all the breweries are totally open to working together to make great beer. Collaborations between seemingly “competing” […]
Vancouver Craft Beer Week is back for its 10th annual edition this Saturday and Sunday (June 8 and 9) at the PNE Fairgrounds and this year’s beer lineup promises to be the festival’s best-ever, with more than 100 breweries and […]
Here’s what we’re spending our hard-earned money on this week… Little Red One by Strange Fellows Brewing 6.5% ABV • 750 mL bottles Previously brewed and bottled exclusively for Strange Fellows’ Fellowship members in 2017 (and winner of Best European […]
The B.C. Beer Awards announced the first recipient of its annual grant to support students in Simon Fraser University’s Craft Brewing Essentials Program. The grant, titled “The B.C. Beer Awards Starter Kit” provides $3,200 towards tuition for students in the […]
Phillips Brewing sure knows how to throw a party, and this year’s edition of its annual Backyard Weekender concert series, July 26-28, is sure to be another rager. The fun starts on Friday, July 26, with a definite Caribbean flavour, […]
Lagers are back in a big way, and it seems like this summer every brewery is trying its hand at super light, refreshing, Mexican-style cervezas. The style has its roots in the Bohemian pilsner, and over the years has become […]
The Summer 2019 issue of The Growler has landed, and it’s packed full of the latest news from the B.C. craft beer scene, hilarious articles, insightful interviews and more than 180 brewery listings and details on close to 400 beers. […]
