BREWS NEWS: This six pack costs $100

Yes, you read that correctly, this six-pack from Red Truck Beer Co. does indeed cost $100. And it’s actually a pretty good deal, all things considered. This isn’t a caviar stout served in gold-plated cans, however. The $100 six-pack includes […]

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Toppling the craft beer pedestal

I think every craft beer nerd probably has a bucket list; a list of beers they want to try before they kick said bucket. Last year, I had the opportunity to cross one of the beers off of mine. My […]

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Brews News: Pride edition

  Queers and Beers turns 3 Vancouver’s favourite LGBTQ+ craft beer night kicks off Pride week this Sunday, July 30, at The Cobalt (and the neighbouring Boxcar Bar) with tons of craft beers and good times. This year’s Pride party […]

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Persephone Brewing pins survival hopes on NDP

With the NDP and Greens assuming power this week in Victoria, BC brewers and hop farmers are “cautiously optimistic” that changes are coming to an ill-conceived provincial policy that makes it all but impossible to operate a farm-based brewery. In […]

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The Growler guide to Tacoma's beer scene

  Beer makes people do strange and unexpected things. Things like spend a few soggy days and nights in Tacoma, Wash. The enjoyably gritty port town on south Puget Sound doesn’t attract the same volume of IBU-addicted tourists as Portland […]

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Does beer have terroir?

The concept of terroir and its influence are enthusiastically debated in the wine world. Very few of the beer geeks I asked cared one whit about terroir, and hadn’t even given it a thought before I asked. After some debate, they decided that although […]

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