BC Craft Beer Profiles Archives - What’s Brewing Magazine

Pioneering BC Craft Beer Couple Battles Cancer Together [Fundraiser]

By Dave Smith

February 19, 2023

This weekend, we learned that a beloved Lower Mainland craft beer couple is in trouble. In a shocking turn of events, longtime BC Brewmaster Tony Dewald and his wife Andy Brown were diagnosed with cancer only months apart.

Gladstone’s Love Potion Benefits Children’s Charities in Honour of Local Hero

By Adam Chatburn

February 1, 2023

On February 14th, BC Brewery of the Year Gladstone Brewing is bringing back Love Potion, a collaboration beer from 2018, just a few days shy of what would have been Comox doctor, brewer and fundraiser Brad Harris' 50th birthday. Proceeds will benefit the Comox YANA society.

Okanagan Fest Of Ale Comes Back Home For 2023

By Dave Smith

December 1, 2022

Early Bird tickets for the 2023 Okanagan Fest of Ale are officially on sale. This is significant to BC beer enthusiasts for reasons we outline in this Event Preview and primer on one of BC's most-loved beer traditions.

Let’s All Go to #BCBeerCon 2022

By Ted Child

October 25, 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.

Women Of Beer: Tessa of Land & Sea Brewing

By Lundy Dale

September 6, 2022

Tessa Gabneiewicz is Head Brewer & Brewing Operations at Land & Sea Brewing in Comox BC. In this Women Of Beer feature interview, Tessa tells our Lundy Dale about opening a brewery, being invited to brew in England and her overall noteable career to date.

VCBW Behind the Scenes: Evolving BC’s Biggest Beer Event

By What's Brewing

June 15, 2022

@VCBW Fest is back under new management! There are a number of ways that the event planned for 2022 has grown over the past year of planning. We find out from organizer Adam Bloch what’s coming in July. Spoiler: it's more than we thought

The Triumphant Return of Victoria Beer Week

By Ted Child

May 5, 2022

After two long years, April 2022 marked the triumphant return of Victoria Beer Week. Many brewers, owners, and industry heavyweights were present, happy to chat and eager to show off their new brews. Humans are social beings and beer is the great facilitator of socialising and community. If there is a beer event being held near you, I would suggest you take a chance and go, because if it is anything like Victoria Beer Week 2022 was for me, you won’t regret it.

Victoria Brewery & Distillery Standing Up to the Titans of Whisky

By Dave Smith

September 16, 2021

What's Brewing gets an update from Graeme Macaloney on Victoria Caledonian's battle with the Scottish Whisky Association.

The West Coast Women Brewing Craft Kombucha

By Erica Timmerman

September 13, 2021

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

By Beer Seekers

August 5, 2021

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.