B.C.'S CRAFT BEER AND CIDER GUIDE
Vancouver and craft beer goes together like Vancouver and expensive real estate, it’s one of those things that’s come around in the last few decades but seems to be written into the city’s DNA. Beer wasn’t here as settlers moved into the […]
Using spruce shoots in beer dates back as far as the Vikings In the long history of brewing, basically every conceivable ingredient imaginable has been tried. While beer brewed with wormwood, mugwort or chicken (also known as “cock ale”) might […]
Get ‘em while you still can! To some, Autumn means rain, coats and boots, rain, pumpkin spice, and rain; to us, it means a new crop of fresh hop brews to savour! Slightly delayed this year, due to the insane, […]
Contrary to worn-out stereotypes of the lazy beer drinker, B.C.’s craft beer consumers often spend their days hiking, dancing, or running. But there’s one sport that seems to really click with B.C.’s craft beer community: Ultimate (a.k.a. Ultimate Frisbee). Ultimate […]
Here’s what we’re lining up for this week (six feet apart, of course)… Pod Pack 2021 by Vancouver Island Brewing Assorted • 4.2%–6.8% ABV • 473 mL tall can four-packs The long-awaited return of Vancouver Island Brewing’s Pod Pack collab […]
Our first jaunt across “the pond” taking the #BCCraftBeerQuest from Central Saanich on the island over to Vancouver for the day in 2018 was so much fun that we had to do it again. If you missed the tale from […]
Here’s what we’re spending our rent money on this week… Hop Devil Fresh Hop Kellerbier by Strange Fellows Brewing 4.9% ABV • 23 IBU • Draught only Fresh hop beer season is upon us and Vancouver’s Strange Fellows Brewing has […]
Here’s what we’re looking forward to shoving down our throats this week… Missing Lynx Hazy IPA and Gold Medal Deer by Luppolo Brewing Co. 6.8% ABV, 5.5% ABV • 473 mL tall cans Luppolo has a couple of can releases […]
Here at Growler HQ, we get a lot of questions from readers asking us debunk common misconceptions about beer. We thought we’d address some of the most persistent myths with some help from the top beer minds in B.C. […]
It is time, Vancouver. Time for us to leave our caves, pale and pasty, and shake off the mildew and rust that has accumulated over the seemingly endless months of cold, wet misery. We emerge, staring confusedly at the heavens, […]