B.C.'S CRAFT BEER AND CIDER GUIDE
The Great Canadian Beer Festival returns to Victoria’s Royal Athletic Park on Sept. 7 and 8 with more than 75 breweries taking part. Obviously, you’re not going to be able to visit all the booths—nor should you try—so we’re here […]
Despite the fact that the sun has been reduced to an amorphous, vaguely glowing patch in the billowing smokescreen we used to call the sky, it is still very much summer, and I want some sunshine, dammit. Since I can’t […]
Esquimalt’s Lighthouse Brewing is celebrating a pretty significant milestone this year: 20 years of producing of quality craft beer. Part of the second wave of B.C. craft breweries, Lighthouse launched in 1998 and its flagship Race Rocks Ale soon became […]
Tickets to the B.C. Beer Awards go on sale today (as in, right now) with VIP passes and discounted early bird general admission tickets available for the Oct. 20 event. The ninth annual event returns to the Croatian Cultural Centre […]
I gotta say, I love it when I discover something I like, and find out there’s a crazy story behind it. Case in point: Longwood’s Quinceotica. Although ostensibly categorized as a beer, Quinceotica is actually an obscure kind of beer/cider […]
Old Abbey Ales reopens It’s been a rocky road for Abbotsford’s Old Abbey Ales over the past year, with the sudden passing of owner Don Piccolo, and the subsequent sale and closure of the brewery. Thankfully, the brewery has found […]
If you’re on the hunt for new options in craft beer, Vancouver has a number of options for the discerning beer lover. Because craft beer can be pricey, many like to get feedback from other beer lovers before buying craft […]