B.C.'S CRAFT BEER AND CIDER GUIDE
Fernie Brewing donates $100K to local charities When it comes to giving back to its community, Fernie Brewing Co. walks the walk. This week the East Kootenay brewery announced that it had topped the $100,000-mark in donations to local charities […]
Changes appear to be coming to B.C.’s liquor laws, and some of the proposals could potentially result in you paying slightly more for your favourite beer. So-called contract brands have come under scrutiny by many in the craft beer industry, […]
The haze has been lifted from our skies and our province is slightly less burny then it was a week ago, but the trend of hazy beer appears to be persisting. Which is great! If there’s one fad I can […]
The Great Canadian Beer Festival returns to Victoria’s Royal Athletic Park on Sept. 7 and 8 with more than 75 breweries taking part. Obviously, you’re not going to be able to visit all the booths—nor should you try—so we’re here […]
Despite the fact that the sun has been reduced to an amorphous, vaguely glowing patch in the billowing smokescreen we used to call the sky, it is still very much summer, and I want some sunshine, dammit. Since I can’t […]
Esquimalt’s Lighthouse Brewing is celebrating a pretty significant milestone this year: 20 years of producing of quality craft beer. Part of the second wave of B.C. craft breweries, Lighthouse launched in 1998 and its flagship Race Rocks Ale soon became […]
Vancouverites, us millennials in particular, love to gripe about the high cost of living in this city; in fact, it’s our favourite topic of conversation. Rent? Astronomical! Gas? Despicable! Dining out? Deplorable! Don’t even get us started on the topic […]
It was actually Cam’s idea. He had joined the #BCCraftBeerQuest and was now also working his way through The Growler, so he suggested a road trip to Vancouver to hit up the breweries we had not yet sampled. I agreed […]
So, cannabis beer. When’s that going to be a thing? With the legalization of weed in Canada imminent, it turns out that macrobrewers are jumping on the opportunity to be first to market with cannabis beers. This week, Molson Coors […]
Today is International India Pale Ale Day, so I think it’s fitting we crack into an IPA, on this, the holiest of days. The IPA is the style that helped craft beer conquer the world, thanks to its massive bold […]
