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‘We’re dead. Dead tired’: Metro Vancouver beer company announces impending closure

Brendan Kergin / Vancouver Is Awesome • May 28, 2025

“We needed to do this for our families.” Metro Vancouver is losing Another Beer Company (ABC). The New Westminster brewery has announced that the company is shutting down in September. “We’ve decided to close Another Beer Co. because it just seemed to be the […]

Beer, New Releases

Fall for some of BC’s best craft beers

Joe Wiebe • September 24, 2021

Festbiers and Fresh Hops and Märzens, Oh My! Hit your local BC Ale Trail this autumn and explore the inspired seasonal flavours BC craft breweries have on tap. There’s a chill in the air and an abundance of juicy, fresh […]

New Releases

On tap: new releases from ABC, Main St., and Barkerville Brewing

Rob Mangelsdorf • April 8, 2021

Here’s what we’re pairing with our leftover Easter eggs this week… The More You Know! by Another Beer Co. (collab w/ Sundown Beer Co.) Fruited sour ale • 8.0% ABV • 473 mL tall cans This whopper of a fruit […]

Beer reviews

Drink this: Intolerant by Another Beer Co.

Rob Mangelsdorf • May 6, 2020

The new reality of COVID-19 is that even tiny breweries previously focused solely on their tasting rooms have now pivoted to packaged sales in order to stay alive. While this doesn’t come close to making up for the loss of […]

Features, News

Beer to the ground! Here’s our quarterly round-up of B.C.’s newest breweries for Spring 2018

Rob Mangelsdorf • March 28, 2018

Our spies are working overtime to keep up with all the new breweries opening every month in B.C. Another Beer Co. New Westminster (summer 2018) Sapperton used to be the brewing capital of the province, and ABC hopes to […]

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