B.C.'S CRAFT BEER AND CIDER GUIDE
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” […]
Tickets for Farmhouse Fest—returning for its fifth year with an all inclusive format—are going on sale at noon this Friday, April 12. So set an alarm, because if previous years are anything to go by, this highly anticipated event will […]
When the British beer writer Michael Jackson first began writing about Belgian beer culture in the 1970s, he found very few examples of saisons in existence. By the early 1990s he even described the style as “endangered.” But he loved […]
Here are some of the new releases we’re keeping an eye out for this week at the ol’ bottle shop. Blush Rosé Saison by Steel & Oak Brewing Co. 6.0% ABV • 4 x 473 mL cans Released in […]
I’ll admit it: I’m a sucker for a pretty bottle or can. If a beer’s labeling catches my eye in the liquor store, I’m probably going to buy it. I don’t think I’m alone in that respect. And so it […]
Wine bottles are fancy, huh? So when a brewery puts its beer in a wine bottle, it must mean that it’s extra fancy, I guess. Actually, more often than not, this has proven to be true, in my experience. Sometimes […]
Funky beers aren’t for everyone. Your uncle Jimbo, for example, is probably not going to be super into that barrel-aged brett-fermented saison you’ve been saving for a special occasion. An ice cold Lucky, though? Now you’re talking Jimbo’s language! But […]
Spring is here, and with it light, refreshing springtime beers. Beers with invigorating fresh flavours. Beers that make you forget about the six months of freezing rain and snow we just survived. Almost. In that spirit, Cannery Brewing’s Meadowlark Saison […]
For thousands of years, cultures around the world have connected certain beers with birth months and zodiac signs. Bible historians, for example, have long associated the 12 beers present at the Last Supper with the various months of the year. […]
Upon first glance at a bottle of Twin Sails Brewing and Quebec’s Brasserie Dunham’s recent collaboration, Biére de Crabe, you might naturally ask yourself, “Is this beer really made with crab? Crab beer? Is that a thing now?” First thing’s […]