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.
Community Spotlight
Safeguarding the Revolution: SFU Steps Up To Preserve BC Beer History
BC Craft Beer Month is the perfect time to reveal a monumental development in the story of BC Craft Beer. Please welcome: the BC Beer History Archive.
Let’s All Go to #BCBeerCon 2022
For the first time since 2019, the annual BC Craft Brewers Conference (aka BCBeerCon) will take place in person. This year’s event moves to New Westminster’s classy new Anvil Centre on Tuesday November 8th and Wednesday the 9th.
Greater Vancouver Craft Brewers Unite for Ukraine
Craft brewers from Port Coquitlam, Langley, North Vancouver and East Van joined together on March 24th to support Ukraine in their own unique way.
Rick Dellow, Head Brewer at PoCo Brothers Brewing, recently acquired an award-winning recipe for a Ukrainian Golden Ale donated by Pravda Beer Theatre in Lviv, Ukraine.
Their new collaboration, a Ukrainian Golden Ale, will be released at eight participating breweries in the next three weeks. Proceeds from keg sales as well as $2 per pint sold will be donated to World Central Kitchen to help feed displaced citizens from the Ukraine.
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.
A Conversation With Samantha Lindeman from Wildeye Brewing
In late May of 2019, Wildeye Brewing opened their brewery/tasting room in North Vancouver, an area that has definitely become a destination craft beer hub. The owner and conceiver is Samantha Lindeman, and she is not even thirty!
Kelowna’s Longest-Serving Craft Brewery Is Reborn
In the Fall issue of What’s Brewing magazine, we told you that Freddy’s Brewpub of Kelowna had closed for remodelling during 2020. It turned out to be a good use of time during the onset of the pandemic, and now Freddy’s is back and ready to roll. Check out the impressive list of changes made to Kelowna’s original brewpub.
COVID Comebacks: Mighty Peace Brewing
In our Fall issue, What’s Brewing talked to BC breweries about their 2020 experiences. Here’s the full conversation with Fort St. John’s Mighty Peace Brewing Co. Let’s hear about how 2020 has gone from Sales Manager Megan Durno.
A Year Like No Other for Whitetooth Brewing
For BC’s breweries, 2020 has been a year like no other. But most haven’t ridden the roller coaster like Whitetooth Brewing.
Surviving the pandemic was the primary focus during Spring 2020. Half a year later, Golden BC’s craft brewery became the most golden of them all, winning three gold medals and five total at the 2020 Canadian Brewing Awards.
Let’s hear what 2020 been like directly from brewery founder Kent Donaldson.
That's All There Was!
That's All There Was!