Good news everyone! May Long Weekend is right around the corner and it looks like the weather is going to be pretty glorious for a change. It might not officially be summer, but we highly encourage you to get into […]
Drink This: Lil’ Red Chair 4.0 by Townsite Brewing
Sour beers can be a polarizing thing. Some of the more challenging styles are closer to salad dressing than beer, and if you don’t know what you’re getting into, you could be in for a big surprise. But when executed […]
Squamish has a thirst for craft
Squamish is brewing, roasting, fermenting and distilling its way into our hearts There’s got to be something in the water. Squamish has an insatiable appetite for a lot of things: climbing mountains, jumping off of mountains, and riding mountains— […]
Phillips’ Levidrome Imperial Regal Lager seeks to add six-year-old’s word to the dictionary
Phillips Brewing is helping a six-year-old boy’s dream come true by hopefully forever changing the English language with the release of its latest beer. Let me explain. Victoria author and musician Lucky Budd says his son Levi discovered there was […]
Tap & Barrel’s new patio has an insane amount of B.C. craft beer
Tap & Barrel is opening its 240-seat patio at their flagship North Vancouver location in Lower Lonsdale this Friday, and it might be the best place in the province to enjoy B.C. craft beer al fresco. The patio—which is designed […]
10 uses for your surplus suds
We’ve probably all found ourselves at some point or another with the unusual dilemma of having unwanted beer. Whether it’s cans of Coors Light left in the cooler that a bad friend brought to a party, a failed batch of […]
B.C. brewers win big at World Beer Cup
It bills itself as the “Most Prestigious Beer Competition in the World”, and this year B.C. brewers proved they are among the best of the best. In all, B.C. breweries brought home nine medals—including three golds—from the World Beer Cup, […]
RECIPE: Beer-Braised Wild Boar Shoulder Tacos with Tofino Brewing Kelp Stout
When it comes to cooking with beer, Tacofino regional executive chef Stefan Hartmann looks for dark, rich beers that can stand up to the bold flavours he cooks with. True to Tacofino’s roots as a Tofino-based taco truck, Hartmann is […]
The beers of Ballard
There’s a certain undeniable magic to Seattle. After all, this is the town that gave us Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and Kenny G. Home of the 2014 Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks and the 1917 Stanley Cup champion Seattle Metropolitans. […]
Vancouver’s top breweries, according to Vancouver Courier readers
If you have a liver and pulse, you’ve probably noticed that there’s a lot more fantastic beer being brewed and consumed in Vancouver these days. In little more than five years, our city has transformed itself from a puritanical craft […]