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B.C. craft breweries highlight the mighty haskap berry this month

Rob Mangelsdorf • July 25, 2019

You’ve probably never heard of it, and likely haven’t tried it, but B.C. breweries want you to fall in love with the haskap berry. Also known as the edible blue honeysuckle or honeyberry, and originating in Japan, haskap berries cultivated […]

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B.C. craft breweries could be forced from communities they helped create, thanks to rising real estate and property taxes

Rob Mangelsdorf • February 28, 2019

Do you remember what Vancouver’s much-loved Yeast Van brewery district was like, before all the breweries moved in? In a word, it was stabby. Twenty years ago, the run-down industrial area was replete with vacant buildings and empty storefronts. Thanks […]

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