Beer is good. Good craft beer tastes amazing. For a lot of people, it’s become more than a drink they enjoy, it has become a hobby and even further, a passion. Unfortunately, for the longest time, beer always seemed to […]
Vancouver U-Brew promises fun, affordability and fine craft beer
Terminal City Brewing has been helping customers craft beer, wine, cider and coolers for more than 30 years. Craft beer making in recent years has reached such a cult-like status, it’s now considered by many to be a mystical art […]
Here are the winners of The Growler’s 2023 Craft Beer & Cider Readers’ Choice Awards
There are several different beer award programs B.C. breweries can submit their beers to for adjudication. Around the time this issue comes out, I will be in Niagara Falls tasting beers as part of the judging panel for the […]
What came first: The beer or the bread?
In anthropological circles, debate rages over whether beer was responsible for the birth of civilization One of the big questions of human history is what was the catalyst that prompted humankind to largely give up their hunter/gatherer ways and settle […]
Beer and cider in the land of the long white cloud
New Zealand has much to offer visitors, from stunning mountains to beautiful beaches. As Matt Cavers discovers, the craft beer and cider coming out of Aotearoa is also worth the trip. New Zealand: it’s a long way from here. Like, […]
Beware the snakebite
When I was 20, I found myself working behind the bar at the filthiest, sweatiest subterranean pub in Brisbane, Australia. Despite the fact that we had 16 draft taps, we only carried two types of beer—both of which were lagers—and […]
B.C. Breweries win big at 2020 Canadian Beer Awards, with Golden’s Whitetooth Brewing leading the way
B.C. breweries took home the most medals of any province at the 2020 Canadian Beer Awards Saturday night, winning 43 medals, including 11 golds. Particularly golden was Golden B.C.’s Whitetooth Brewing, which took home five medals—the most of any brewery […]
15 new beers launching at Victoria Beer Week’s Lift Off!
Victoria Beer Week kicks off—or should I say lifts off—this Friday at Victoria Public Market with the much beloved Lift Off! event. What sets this craft beer party apart is that every brewery that will be pouring will also be […]
Drunk and drookit: On the beer and whisky trail in the Scottish Highlands
Scotland has always been a place steeped in myth and magic, and nowhere is that more evident than in the Highlands. While Edinburgh—with its breathtaking Royal Mile— and Glasgow—with its cutting edge arts and music scene—inevitably compete for the attention […]
Brews News: Old Abbey reopens; Beer industry parties for a cause; Drake turns four
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 […]