GOLD – Best Belgian-Style Ale // Blonde BRONZE – Best Light Ale // Burnabarian Belgian Table Beer HM – Beer of the Year // Blonde HM – Best Wheat Ale // White When I am scanning liquor store shelves looking […]
Steamworks Brewing releases its first wine with low-alcohol Piquette
Steamworks Brewing Co. in Burnaby has announced the release of their Piquette, the company’s first foray into wine. “Piquette boasts high drinkability thanks to its delivery of light, fruity effervescence and low ABV (typically only 5-7%),” says a news release. […]
On Tap: New releases from Beere, North Point and Dageraad
Here’s what’s really in our coffee cup during our pantsless morning Zoom meeting this week… Space Jazz by Beere Brewing Co. Kveik Double Dry Hopped IPA • 6.5% ABV • 473 mL tall cans North Vancouver’s Beere Brewing Co. has […]
On Tap: new releases from Dageraad, Studio and Vancouver Island Brewing
Here’s what we’re chasing our Covid shot with this week… Dagerlaager by Dageraad Brewing Pilsner • 5.0% ABV • 473 mL tall cans The days are getting lighter, and Burnaby’s Dageraad Brewing has brewed a beer to match. This crispy […]
These are B.C.’s best and worst beer towns, according to census data
UPDATE: As reader Justin Douglas correctly pointed out, Red Arrow and Small Block are not in Duncan, but are technically located in the District Municipality of North Cowichan. That knocks Duncan out of third place in the under 30,000 […]
2019 GROWLER AWARD WINNER PROFILE: Dageraad Brewing
GOLD – Best Belgian-Style Ale // Blonde SILVER – Best Wheat Ale // De Witte BRONZE – Best Collab Beer // Ten: VCBW 10th Anniversary Collab Burnaby’s Dageraad Brewing started out more than five years ago with a seemingly impossible […]
Labours of Love: B.C. brewers get funky with their side hustles
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 […]
Q&A with Ben Coli of Dageraad Brewing, 2018 CBA Brewery of the Year
Burnaby’s Dageraad Brewing may have marked its fourth anniversary earlier this month, but the big celebration came Saturday night after it was named Brewery of the Year at the Canadian Brewing Awards in Halifax. For owner/brewer Ben Coli, the award […]
B.C. brewers win big at World Beer Cup
It bills itself as the “Most Prestigious Beer Competition in the World”, and this year B.C. brewers proved they are among the best of the best. In all, B.C. breweries brought home nine medals—including three golds—from the World Beer Cup, […]
Craft Beer is Awesome! The Suburbs 2 IPA by Dageraad Brewing / Steel & Oak Brewing Co.
Dageraad and Steel & Oak aren’t exactly known for their IPAs. Burnaby’s Dageraad has made a name for itself brewing some of the most authentic and interesting expressions of Belgian beer styles in the province, while New West’s Steel & […]