BC Craft Beer Profiles Archives - What’s Brewing Magazine

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.

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.