B.C.'S CRAFT BEER AND CIDER GUIDE
A brewery and tasting room is coming to Hop Creek Farms on Government Road in Squamish. At a July 4 regular business meeting, Squamish council members unanimously approved a development permit to add a brewery and tasting room to the Brackendale […]
SILVER – Best Weird Beer // The Jeffery BRONZE – Best East Coast IPA // Widowmaker BRONZE – Best Branding/Packaging Squamish’s Backcountry Brewing is known for some of the longest beer names in the business, and indeed, pop culture references […]
Here’s what we’re pouring in our Cheerios this week… Endeavour by Morrow Beer Co. Hazy pale ale • 5.4% ABV • 473 mL tall cans Salmon Arm’s newest craft brewery opened this week and launched its first flagship beer. Morrow […]
Here’s what we’re toasting the coming of spring with this week… Headbanger by Strathcona Brewing Triple IPA • 9.5% ABV • 30 IBU • 473 mL tall cans The 2021 edition Headbanger Triple India Pale Ale by East Vancouver’s Strathcona […]
Squamish’s oldest craft brewery has changed hands. Howe Sound Inn and Brewing has been bought by the Viaggio Hospitality Group. In a statement issued to The Squamish Chief on Dec. 23, the group said that it intends to keep things […]
Here’s what we’re blowing our EI cheque on this week… Sandbar by Camp Beer Co. Fruited gose • 4.7% ABV • 473 mL tall cans This salted sour wheat ale with strawberry and lime by Langley’s Camp Beer Co. will […]
Squamish’s Backcountry Brewing is honouring the memory of local artist Chili Thom and raising money for cancer research at the same time. The brewery released Suck It Cancer this week, a double dry-hopped pale ale (5.5% ABV, 28 IBU) with […]
Here’s what we’re assaulting our senses with this week… It’s Not Me, It’s You by Backcountry Brewing 6.5% ABV • 25 IBU • 473 mL tall cans The latest in a line of Seinfeld-referencing beers by Backcountry Brewing in Squamish, […]
Here’s what we’re looking forward to pouring down our pie hole this week! SEXTUPLE! By Dageraad + Sooke Brewing Co. (9.0% ABV, 473 mL tall cans) Brewed in collaboration with Sooke Brewing Co., Dageraad’s SEXTUPLE! is an abbey tripel […]
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 […]