B.C.'S CRAFT BEER AND CIDER GUIDE
Esquimalt’s Lighthouse Brewing is celebrating a pretty significant milestone this year: 20 years of producing of quality craft beer. Part of the second wave of B.C. craft breweries, Lighthouse launched in 1998 and its flagship Race Rocks Ale soon became […]
Vancouverites, us millennials in particular, love to gripe about the high cost of living in this city; in fact, it’s our favourite topic of conversation. Rent? Astronomical! Gas? Despicable! Dining out? Deplorable! Don’t even get us started on the topic […]
It was actually Cam’s idea. He had joined the #BCCraftBeerQuest and was now also working his way through The Growler, so he suggested a road trip to Vancouver to hit up the breweries we had not yet sampled. I agreed […]
So, cannabis beer. When’s that going to be a thing? With the legalization of weed in Canada imminent, it turns out that macrobrewers are jumping on the opportunity to be first to market with cannabis beers. This week, Molson Coors […]
Today is International India Pale Ale Day, so I think it’s fitting we crack into an IPA, on this, the holiest of days. The IPA is the style that helped craft beer conquer the world, thanks to its massive bold […]
One of the great things about Metro Vancouver is the many unique out-of-the-way neighbourhoods that are sprinkled all over our fair city. Downtown Cloverdale is one such gem. It’s historic, super cute, and it feels like you’re a million miles […]
Tickets to the B.C. Beer Awards go on sale today (as in, right now) with VIP passes and discounted early bird general admission tickets available for the Oct. 20 event. The ninth annual event returns to the Croatian Cultural Centre […]
In the past few months I’ve done a fair bit of travelling, and I’ve noticed something. When I was down in the U.S. and stopped in at some of my favourite breweries, there were dogs in the tasting rooms. And […]
I gotta say, I love it when I discover something I like, and find out there’s a crazy story behind it. Case in point: Longwood’s Quinceotica. Although ostensibly categorized as a beer, Quinceotica is actually an obscure kind of beer/cider […]
Old Abbey Ales reopens It’s been a rocky road for Abbotsford’s Old Abbey Ales over the past year, with the sudden passing of owner Don Piccolo, and the subsequent sale and closure of the brewery. Thankfully, the brewery has found […]