Flavours in beer: Hops

Sipping cider along Summerland’s Bottleneck Drive

A brewery by any other name…

Anyone who’s done it will tell you that opening a brewery isn’t easy. Choosing the name? Even harder. Despite all the time and effort involved, and having so much riding on choosing the right one, some of B.C.’s breweries have […]

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So glitter beer is a thing now…

Few things excite me more than innovative new beers. Beers with new flavours or ingredients, beers that are brewed with new technology or techniques, beers that are bursting with creativity and pushing the envelope of what a beer can even […]

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Factory Brewing is now Craft Collective Beerworks

B.C.’s first dedicated contract brewery is getting a rebrand, and a change of focus. Factory Brewing is no longer. In it’s place, the much more pleasant-sounding Craft Collective Beerworks. So why the rebrand? It looks like Craft Collective will be […]

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Five years, 100 new breweries

Back in 2013, when the first edition of my book, Craft Beer Revolution: The Insider’s Guide to B.C. Breweries, came out, there were 50 craft breweries in the province. But at my book launch early in June, I joked that […]

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