Victoria Brewery & Distillery Standing Up to the Titans of Whisky
What’s Brewing gets an update from Graeme Macaloney on Victoria Caledonian’s battle with the Scottish Whisky Association.
Year: 2021
The West Coast Women Brewing Craft Kombucha
Hard kombucha is one of the growing beverage trends in the BC craft scene, and unlike beer, women are well represented right out of the gate!
Farm-Based Locality Becomes Langley’s Eighth Craft Brewery
They can grow their own barley, wheat and rye. They can malt their own grain. They produce their own honey and berries for brewing with, and there’s a hop yard out back. Meet the team behind Locality Brewing, making and serving super-solid beers as they grow towards being Langley’s field-to-glass brewery.
Tim LaHay and Langley’s Barley Merchant: The Journey Home
With the impending opening of Langley’s newest and most impressive 50-tap craft beer bar, it’s time to look at the amazing progress made in the past month of construction, and tell the story of The Barley Merchant’s journey.
Meet Robin Miles of Dog Mountain Brewing
I first met Robin in 2018 at a VanBrewers meetup. Right from this first meeting Robin struck me as a high energy go-getter who knew what she wanted and knew how to get it.
Frank Appleton: Brewer. Writer. Gentle Man.
FRANK APPLETON: BREWER. WRITER. GENTLE MAN.
A toast is raised in honour of a multifaceted, talented, opinionated, gentle man: Mr. Frank Millington Appleton, who passed on April 25th at the age of 80.
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We know that Frank, working alongside John Mitchell, was Canada’s founding craft brewer. Additionally, as a publication that has highlighted many very good writers including those noted above, we tip our cap to Frank for the combination of writing and brewing skills that made him a true dual threat, and ultimately a pioneer of the BC commercial brewing, homebrewing, and beer appreciation communities.
A Natural History of Beer
Our in-house beer book reviewer Ted Child turns in a review of this interesting book, which he says will have immense appeal for the science buff who likes beer. Find out what he thinks beer fans might think.
Uorren’s Imperial Stout
Colder months are generally more suited to beers that are stronger in both flavour and alcohol. I have talked about barley wine in past columns, so this year I thought I would suggest an Imperial Stout.
Cream Of The Crop: The North Island’s Cream Ales
As a recent transplant to the North Island community of Comox, I had fun in the fall, social-distance visiting the local breweries. I noticed that a big seller was cream ale—both Gladstone Brewing and Land & Sea Brewing were serving it as fast as they could make it. Even Dave Paul’s nano-operation Love Shack Libations in Qualicum keeps a cream ale as one of his four core beers.
Northern Craft In Changing Times
These are most certainly challenging times for independent craft breweries in Prince George and Northern BC. Yet many have stepped up in order to keep the spirit of the #BCCraftBeer community alive!
That's All There Was!
That's All There Was!