A Guilded Existence: The Career of Ken Beattie, Part II
In Part I of our biography, the kid from Marpole grew up to run some of the biggest sales territories in…
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.
A Guilded Existence: The Career of Ken Beattie, Part I
He might be the most important person in BC craft beer. In Part I of our biography, a kid from Vancouver’s…
End of an Era for Great Canadian Craft Beer Legends
This past Monday, the Great Canadian Beer Festival Society announced the passing of the torch from the current Directors (including co-founders) of GCBF to the Victoria Beer Week Society. It’s a bittersweet feeling knowing that this day has finally come. But it had to come, given that GCBF began a quarter century ago.
Ken Beattie: Addressing A Brewing Controversy
Back in March 2016, the BC Liquor Control and Licensing Branch asked the BC Craft Brewers Guild why ‘contract brewing’—the act…
Odd Fellows Come In Pairs
There was a time when it would have been tough to convince a bystander that strangers Iain Hill and Aaron Jonckheere would be able to engage in a fruitful merger.
Expedia’s list of Canadian Beer Towns: the What’s Brewing review
Once again, Expedia has come out with their list of top beer towns in the nation. The four from BC they picked are all definitely legit. Some others, maybe not so much. As somebody who travels only for beer, and only for beer, here’s my Editor’s Take on this list of theirs.
Top Ten Reasons to visit Victoria’s Great Canadian Beer Festival
We’ve just seen and enjoyed the Vancouver Craft Beer Week Festival at the PNE Fairgrounds as it celebrated its 9th year….
Central City’s consumer-friendly pricing move: a peek into the near future of BC beer?
Buried in the blizzard of beer news and events this Vancouver Craft Beer Week is an announcement by Central City Brewing…
The Making of a Cover Story: Behind The Scenes at Doan’s Craft Brewing
You never know what’s liable to happen when you set out to pry into people’s personal lives while simultaneously capturing the potentially-awkward occasion on camera.
The Brothers Doan: A Modern Folk Tale
The wall mural at Doan’s Craft Brewing was inspired by German folklore. It’s representative of the brewery’s fairytale-like origin story. So what did it take to make this family dream come true?
That's All There Was!
That's All There Was!