B.C.'S CRAFT BEER AND CIDER GUIDE
Penticton is celebrating all things craft beer as Canada’s Craft Beer Capital (according to travel guide Lonely Planet) has officially proclaimed Oct. 16-24 as Penticton Beer Week 2020. The week features a full lineup of COVID-friendly events and virtual meet-ups, […]
Breweries from all over the province have teamed up with the BC Ale Trail to brew a made-in-B.C. IPA that highlights our amazing craft beer scene. The Explore BC IPA is hitting beer store shelves next week and features local […]
Interprovincial relations with our neighbor to the east have been pretty fubar lately, to borrow a term from the Canadian cinema classic. As any Albertan relative’s rabid Facebook posts will tell you, us British Columbians apparently hate Canada almost as […]
There’s so many awesome things about the B.C. craft beer scene, but easily the No. 1 super duper bestest awesome thing is how all the breweries are totally open to working together to make great beer. Collaborations between seemingly “competing” […]
Surrey’s Central City Brewers & Distillers is launching its Across the Nation Collaboration next week, featuring collabs with breweries from every province and territory (except Nunavut, since there are no craft breweries there). The Red Racer Across the Nation Collaboration […]
As the son of an Australian and a former Australian passport holder myself, I feel it is time to set the record straight regarding some oft-repeated stereotypes of our antipodean cousins. No one drinks Fosters; not all the men are […]
Who says winter beers need to be heavy, dark, sweet and insanely strong? Why can’t a winter seasonal beer be delicate, fruity and spicy? Some of us have to work in the morning! Think about the flavours we often associate […]
Expedia recently released its list of Best Beer Towns in Canada, and the interwebs are abuzz with controversy as a result. Naturally, Vancouver was named numero uno, and for good reason. You can’t swing an empty growler in this town […]
The latest edition of The Growler’s B.C. Brewer Collaboration Series is here and it’s a jackpot of fruit and hops! Blueberry Lemon IPA is the third in The Growler’s ongoing series of collaboration beers—and the first India Pale Ale. The […]
The latest edition of The Growler’s B.C. Collaboration Series is here and it’s pretty fantastic, if we do say so ourselves (and we do). Granted, I might be somewhat biased. This time around we paired up East Vancouver’s Doan’s Craft […]