B.C.'S CRAFT BEER AND CIDER GUIDE
The festival is making some changes this year Following last year’s disastrous experience, the popular Vancouver Craft Beer Week (VCBW) festival is making some changes for the 2023 event. In 2022, Metro Vancouver’s largest craft beer festival promised to set itself apart from […]
If all goes well, we’ll be lining up for porta-potties as early as April Walking around for hours in a home-made costume under a blazing sun/in the pouring rain, sipping foamy/flat beer from little plastic cups, waiting in line for […]
The future of beer festivals in the COVID-19 age This story originally appeared in the Fall/Winter 2020 issue of The Growler, out now! You can find B.C.’s favourite craft beer and cider guide at your local brewery, cidery, select private […]
Victoria Beer Week returns March 6–14, 2020, and with it a plethora of fantastic beer from breweries across the province. Here’s a look at some of the beers we think you should keep an eye out for. La Piazza […]
Saturday, Feb. 29 OK Cask Fest @ Slackwater Brewing (Penticton) Celebrate all things Okanagan with the first ever OK Cask Beer Fest. Thirteen Okanagan breweries will be taking part in this cask beer festival hosted by Penticton’s Slackwater Brewing, each […]
Thursday, Feb. 20 Nanaimo Craft Beer Week (Nanaimo) The third annual Nanaimo Craft Beer Week got underway Feb. 15 and continues until Feb. 23. On Thursday, Feb. 20, Townsite Brewing’s Cedric Dauchot and The Growler’s Joe Wiebe present Bruges Brothers […]
Saturday, Feb. 15 B.C. Craft Cider Celebration @ Darby’s (Vancouver) Darby’s Kits is hosting its third annual celebration of B.C. cider, starting at 1pm. Twenty-one different ciders from craft cideries across the province will be featured. This is a non-ticketed […]
5th Annual Beard and Mustache Challenge @ Strange Fellows Nov. 21, 7-9pm • Vancouver The bewhiskered and moustachioed are invited to Strange Fellows Brewing in Vancouver for its 5th Annual Beard and Mustache Challenge in honour of the Most Terrible […]
A Grand Tour of Beer Nov. 8, 7:30 p.m. • Port Theatre, Nanaimo Come along on a beer-soaked musical journey through five regions of Europe, each with its own unique tradition of classical music and brewing. Joe Wiebe, the Thirsty […]
Brewloops Sept. 27 and 28 • Kamloops This beer festival has it all: more than 30 B.C. breweries and cideries, a dozen live music acts, a Ferris wheel, bumper cars, and a family-friendly event on the afternoon of the 28th. […]