Ever had a beer that was just, well… off? When good beer goes bad, it can feel like a tragedy. Off-flavours are a scourge that affects every style of beer, and without sensory training, it can be difficult to find […]
Elemental Series: Grain
Part 2 in a four-part series exploring the basic building blocks of beer… Beer starts with grain in just about every way. Even historically. There’s no canonical origin story for beer, but the myth goes that one of our […]
Elemental Series: Water
It’s fair to say we all take water for granted. Turn on the tap and there it is. It’s only when restrictions kick in during extreme dry spells, or the city cuts your supply as it flushes the damn […]
Core business: B.C. breweries get hip to cider trend
Growing up on an apple orchard and then becoming a brewer of beer may seem a bit counterintuitive, but it comes in handy when the craft world starts experimenting with cider, as it has in the past few years. For […]
The Electric Craft Beer Acid Test
Hey dude, did you know there’s acid in your beer?! Indeed, some of B.C.’s brewers have been purposely adding acid to their beers for a while now – lactic acid, that is. The sour beer craze is only getting bigger […]
Craft Beer is Awesome! Coal Harbour Brewing Co.'s Market Saturation IPA
It’s pretty miserable out this week and I’m feeling pretty miserable, too, thanks to a lingering cold that just will not go away. So for this week’s beer I decided my sinuses needed a shotgun blast of hops to […]
BREWS NEWS: NDP launches liquor review; Strathcona turns 1, Phillips' Snowcase is back
B.C. NDP to launch liquor review B.C. Attorney General David Eby is making good on his promise to create a liquor industry advisory panel to review the province’s current liquor legislation and policies. As we first reported last month, […]
Craft Beer is Awesome! Steel & Oak Brewing Co. / Four Winds Brewing Co., The Fraser
Steel and Oak and Four Winds are two breweries that can pretty much do no wrong as far as I’m concerned, and The Fraser is further proof of that. The beer is the second collaboration of these two Fraser River-adjacent […]
Westender's Best Beer in the City
Westender released its annual Best of the City Dining Awards this week, so I thought I’d take the opportunity to highlight some of the very deserving beer-related winners. Check out the full readers’ poll results here. Best Craft Brewery: […]