BC Craft Beer Profiles Archives - What’s Brewing Magazine

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.

Tim LaHay and Langley’s Barley Merchant: The Journey Home

By What's Brewing

July 23, 2021

With the impending opening of Langley’s newest and most impressive 50-tap craft beer bar, it’s time to look at the amazing progress made in the past month of construction, and tell the story of The Barley Merchant's journey.

Meet Robin Miles of Dog Mountain Brewing

By Lundy Dale

July 8, 2021

I first met Robin in 2018 at a VanBrewers meetup. Right from this first meeting Robin struck me as a high energy go-getter who knew what she wanted and knew how to get it.

Four Winds Brewing Co.

By Navin Autar

February 26, 2021

We are a small craft brewery in Delta BC focusing on West coast, Belgian and innovative styles of beers. New world innovation while staying true to old-world techniques. Family owned and operated.

A Conversation With Samantha Lindeman from Wildeye Brewing

By Lundy Dale

January 12, 2021

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!

Issue: Winter 2020-21

#BCBeerCon Goes Virtual: Q&A With Ken Beattie

By What's Brewing

December 17, 2020

The BC Craft Brewers Guild is set to present their fourth annual BC Craft Brewers Conference in early February 2021 in virtual format. Tickets are on sale now. To find out more about how the conference will work, we had a word with the Guild's Executive Director, Ken Beattie.

Issue: Winter 2020-21

Northern BC Community, Collaboration And Craft

By Adam Arthur

November 25, 2020

It has been quite the unusual year in Northern BC. Normally there would be craft beer festivals taking place. To counteract the COVID-19 blues, people are finding new ways to engage in the spirit of community, collaboration and craft.

Issue: Fall 2020