Author: Dave Smith

Editor of What's Brewing Magazine and Beer Me BC. Past contributor to Northwest Brewing News, The Publican/Quarterly Pour and BC Ale Trail. Became a craft beer evangelist in 1999, a CAMRA BC member in 2005, and an accredited member of the BC Association of Travel Writers in the 2010s. Along with wife Ivana, Dave travels Cascadia as half of the beer duo BeerSeekers.
How The History of BC Craft Beer is Especially Relevant in 2020
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How The History of BC Craft Beer is Especially Relevant in 2020

ByDave Smith

WHAT’S BREWING 30TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE TELLS STORY OF BC CRAFT BEER
| | What’s Brewing Vol. 30 No. 2 Summer 2020, released June 1st, celebrates the publication’s 30th Anniversary.  For this special issue, we’ve reached out to 30 craft beer community leaders for stories and memories. We’ve compiled a new history of BC Craft Beer with previously-unpublished images and vignettes, formatted chronologically into a seamless story arc, along with a special ‘roll call’ tribute acknowledging every microbrewery opened in this province since 1982.

Thanks, Labatt: When Canadian Big Beer Shot Itself in the Foot
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Thanks, Labatt: When Canadian Big Beer Shot Itself in the Foot

ByDave Smith

Big Beer in Canada had it good when I was a kid, and I didn’t know any better than to drink their stuff. But thanks to a recent conversation with a Vancouver brewery chief, I can now pinpoint the moment that a giant brewer set me on the path to craft beer evangelism…by selling me the first beer I really enjoyed.

Cultivating BC’s Taste for Craft Cider
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Cultivating BC’s Taste for Craft Cider

ByDave Smith

When it comes to the cider scene in BC, those who operate fruit orchards tend to stick together. Based primarily in the province’s pastoral belts, these small operators make cider, at least in part, from their own fruit. Founded in 2016, the BC Farm Crafted Cider Association acts as a voice for these land-based cider producers.

I Need BC Beer: How beer takeout & delivery enhances your enforced cocooning
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I Need BC Beer: How beer takeout & delivery enhances your enforced cocooning

ByDave Smith

As INeedBCBeer.ca debuts, we take a look at BC craft beer online ordering and delivery, and how craft beer enhances your “enforced cocooning” experience.

Pass this link along and support your #BCCraftBeer vendor: www.INeedBCBeer.ca
Other online beer ordering & delivery links enclosed as well, including these What’s Brewing outlets:
https://www.whatsbrewing.ca/find

In Profile: Darren Adam & Cumberland Brewing Company
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In Profile: Darren Adam & Cumberland Brewing Company

ByDave Smith

The tourism magnet known as the #ComoxValley is recently one the hottest areas in BC for new breweries. But nearby, hidden in the hills of mid-northern Vancouver Island, lies an oasis of civility known as the village of Cumberland BC. And in the middle of that oasis, you will find a tiny slice of Paradise named the Cumberland Brewing Company.

That's All There Was!

That's All There Was!