GOLD – Best New Brewery SILVER – Best Collab Beer // Patience is a Virtue When it comes to brewing, North Vancouver’s House of Funk isn’t just limiting itself to beer. The Growlie’s 2019 New Brewery of the Year has […]
Drink this: Over Them Mountains by Beere Brewing
Back in the day (like, eight years ago), IPAs pretty much only came in one shade. They were like divorced rabbits: hoppy and bitter, and that was about it. There were only a handful of commercially available hop varieties to […]
Lower Lonsdale brewery district approved by City of North Vancouver
The City of North Vancouver is opening the taps and adding a new “brewery district” to Lower Lonsdale. Council voted April 15 to rewrite a portion of the city’s zoning bylaw to make it easier for a host of new […]
RECIPE: Sea to Sky RAD-ler beer cocktail
Made with Vancouver Craft Beer Week’s 2018 Collaboration Beer, Sea To Sky Double Dry-Hopped Pilsner, by bartender Shaun Layton of Backcountry Brewing. If you’ve been following the burgeoning cocktail scene in Vancouver over the past decade, there’s a good chance […]
Drink This: VCBW’s Double Dry Hopped Pilsner by Backcountry, Beere and Coast Mountain Brewing
Vancouver Craft Beer Week kicks off with the East Van Crusher tonight (May 25) at the Maritime Labour Centre, where you can be among the first lucky people to sample VCBW’s 2018 Collaboration Beer, the Double Dry Hopped Pilsner by […]
Tap & Barrel’s new patio has an insane amount of B.C. craft beer
Tap & Barrel is opening its 240-seat patio at their flagship North Vancouver location in Lower Lonsdale this Friday, and it might be the best place in the province to enjoy B.C. craft beer al fresco. The patio—which is designed […]
Beer to the ground! Here’s our quarterly round-up of B.C.’s newest breweries for Spring 2018
Our spies are working overtime to keep up with all the new breweries opening every month in B.C. Another Beer Co. New Westminster (summer 2018) Sapperton used to be the brewing capital of the province, and ABC hopes to […]
Craft Beer is Awesome! Altaretto by Doan’s Craft Brewing Company / Sons of Vancouver Distillery
So this is a beer I didn’t know I needed until now. Vancouver’s Doan’s Craft Brewing Company and Sons of Vancouver Distillery teamed up to create this delicious little number, combining Doan’s Altbier with SoV’s No. 82 Amaretto to create… […]
Craft Beer is Awesome! Beere Brewing Co.’s Go Easy
Given his last name, it was inevitable that Matt Beere would end up making craft beer for a living. The longtime homebrewer decided to go pro when some space became available in the North Vancouver building that houses the family […]
On tap: New releases from Fernie, Deep Cove and Luppolo
Here’s what we’re looking forward to tossing down our gullet this week… Fernie Brewing Co., Black Mammoth Winter Ale (8.0% ABV, 25 IBU) Fernie’s Black Mammoth Winter Ale is back to warm our hearts and our livers. This […]