B.C.'S CRAFT BEER AND CIDER GUIDE
Being “unexpectedly closed for a couple [of] weeks is tough for any small business in Vancouver.” It’s been a tempestuous few weeks for Vancouver’s Storm Brewing, after a “clerical error” led to its temporary closure at the end of April. At the time, […]
It’ll be a stormy spring for the business One of Vancouver’s oldest independent breweries is closed for a while. Storm Brewing has announced it will be closed for several weeks (likely through the spring) after a clerical error. “Due to a […]
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 […]
The beer gear and rats will stick around The tempest around Storm Brewing’s mural appears to have quelled. At a meeting on July 25, city council voted unanimously to have the mural “be grandfathered and allowed to stay in place.” […]
The mural has been there for almost 10 years. As city politicians aim to kill Vancouver’s reputation as ‘No Fun City’ bylaw officials have told an East Van brewery its nearly decade-old mural will have to be painted over. Storm Brewing, founded in […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]