Volume 26 Issue 5. Containing 52 pages with 16 stories and features, including an Editor’s Choice Year In Review retrospective of the top BC Craft Beer stories of 2016. Plus, the debut of the What’s Brewing Tasting Panel, BC’s first ongoing publication-based beer rating panel, spotlighting Winter Ales.
New to What’s Brewing: our Tasting Panel! In concert with our partner, Legacy Liquor Store, we’ve selected products from five breweries located around BC that you will find fairly widely available during the winter months. We think comparing products in…
A crash course in cellarmanship, Part V: Cask Troubleshooting Guide In the final part of my series on casks, I present a troubleshooting guide. The first four parts are available in back issues of What’s Brewing online, here. There are…
A s a kid, I looked forward to the chocolate advent calendar. You know the one—Mom bought it for 99 cents and the chocolates tasted like cardboard dipped in waxy chocolate syrup. It was glorious. Now that I’m a bigger…
Welcome to Portland, Oregon, whose nine bridges span the Willamette River and fan out into historic east side neighborhoods, providing easy access to unique beer experiences. With more than 70 breweries within the city limits and another 105 in the…
Frank Appleton’s new book Brewing Revolution has immediately become a must-read for fans of BC craft beer. Aside from the simple fact that this story from the pioneer days of BC craft beer needed to be told in greater depth…
Karen and I return to Britain every three or four years, and we had another great trip there in May 2016. The weather was good and the sights and the beers were excellent. We traveled by train and bus, staying…