B.C.'S CRAFT BEER AND CIDER GUIDE
Here’s a look at what we’re drinking this week… Get Trash-ed Parallel 49 is launching its first-ever hazy Northeast-style IPA in cans. Trash Panda (5.5% ABV, 55 IBU) features Cashmere, Loral, Simcoe and Citra hops with some pretty serious dry-hopping […]
If you weren’t lucky enough to make it to B.C. Hop Fest last weekend in Abbotsford to try all the delicious fresh-hopped beers in one convenient location, you’ll have seek them out on your own. Here’s a small sample of […]
It seems the gospel of craft beer keeps on spreading, and why shouldn’t it? Beer is delicious and we deserve nice things. In the past few weeks a handful of breweries have opened their doors across B.C., bringing our province-wide […]
After years of legislative red tape, Coquitlam’s first and so far only craft brewery opened earlier this month at long last. Mariner Brewing is the boozy lovechild of local couple Lauren Ang and Byron Vallis, and business partner Wim […]
There’s a funny rivalry that exists between Melbourne and Sydney. Australia’s two largest cities have a long history of jockeying for the world’s attention, each believing they are Australia’s greatest gift to the world. It can get a little nasty. […]
…AKA The Comox Valley Edition The craft beer industry in B.C. has come along way since Frank Appleton first started making beer in converted dairy equipment at the now defunct Troller Pub in Horseshoe Bay more than 35 years […]
Whistler Village Beer Fest celebrates five years Whistler Village is obviously a great spot for some pints of craft beer après ski, but it’s a pretty fantastic place even when there’s no snow on the mountains. The Whistler Village […]
There’s something truly magical about a fresh-hopped beer. In terms of flavour, the use of fresh hops – that is, hops that have been picked that day and put immediately into the brew – imparts wonderfully floral aromatics and intense […]
OK, check this out. I have this crazy idea. It’s totally insane. Stay with me here. I think (you ready for this?) the good people of this city should be able to sit down together at a picnic table, in […]
Kamloops may be Canada’s Tournament Capital, but until recently, there haven’t been many craft beer options there. Despite having 10 times the population of Nelson, it somehow has fewer craft breweries. Thankfully, Richard Phillips and Jared Tarswell chose to do something about […]
