Rusted Rake: Nanoose Bay’s Surprising Family Farm Brewery
Rusted Rake Farm-To-Tap Brewery: one of the best stops on the Beer Seekers’ 34-brewery Vancouver Island summer tour.
Author: Beer Seekers
Beer Seekers Dave and Ivana Smith have been touring for craft beer since 1999. Join Ivana and Dave in search of the next perfect pint in BC and around Cascadia.
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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.
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Kelowna’s Emerging Beer (and Cider) Districts, Part II
In Part I of this beer travel guide, we completed our walking tour of inner Kelowna. In Part II of this story, we take you on a Northeast Kelowna road trip, learn about the Lakeshore beer tour, and find beer and cider on both the West and ‘Yeast’ banks of Okanagan Lake.
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Kelowna’s Emerging Beer Districts, Part I
With five breweries within essentially a one-block radius, Kelowna’s North End is the new BC brewery cluster to rival Port Moody Brewer’s Row. Then, with 15 breweries and counting in city limits, Kelowna has as many breweries as Yeast Van. If you’re on the fence about a BC beer staycation in the Okanagan, start packing.
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Victoria Caledonian: Distilling success at one of BC’s hidden gem breweries
Last month, just before the world changed, two members of the What’s Brewing team stopped by the Victoria Caledonian Distillery & Twa Dogs Brewery. We learned a few things about this underestimated member of BC’s craft beverage clan that are worth sharing. * Featuring an interview with founder Dr. Graeme Macaloney *
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Ontario Beer Tour Part I: Toronto
Some of Canada’s best breweries reside in that darned, smug Ontario. If only grudgingly, one must admit that one might want to stop in and check some of them out, if one happened to find oneself in or around Universe Central. The Beer Seekers faced just that type of temptation this past summer and caved in readily.
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Ontario Beer Tour Part II: Cottage Country Calling
Heading north from Toronto, Hwy 400 zooms through the city of Barrie, the gateway to Ontario’s vast Lake Country recreational region. The highway is busy every Friday afternoon as endless numbers of urbanites make their way toward the peace and quiet of their cottages. As the map indicates, whether you choose to head west from Barrie or continue north into Muskoka, you can easily find breweries to explore.
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Rails, Trails & Ales: exploring beer in Eugene, Oregon
The name ‘BeerSeekers’ was born six years ago when, after our umpteenth brew tour in Oregon, the two of us thought “this trip was really interesting, and we just have to tell people about it.”
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Budweiser: Europe’s Biggest Craft Brewery?
Here’s the story of how perhaps the world’s most famous name in massive, corporate beer also belongs to what might be one of Europe’s best and largest guardians of the craft ethos.
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Prague: Old & New
In Czechia, as it’s alternatively known, you will find beer culture that is completely unlike ours. These people are, famously, the most fanatical consumers of beer (per capita) anywhere.
That's All There Was!
That's All There Was!