Breweries & Cideries Archives - What’s Brewing Magazine

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.

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.

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

Copper Brewing

By Navin Autar

October 13, 2020

Local brewery focused on crafting high quality and highly drinkable beer.

Welton Brings British Beer Back To BC

By Adam Chatburn

September 24, 2020

A few months back, What’s Brewing reported that Kelowna’s Boundary Brewing had closed. It was a sad day, but a second act was about to begin, as Welton Brewery poured their first newly-brewed beers in their tasting room last month. Let's have a word with the proprietor, Simon Welton.

Issue: Fall 2020

Getting Reel in Kelowna with Susi Foerg

By Lundy Dale

September 22, 2020

From the first time I read about Susi Foerg back in 2017, I was I intrigued! The owner and operator of the now one-year old Rustic Reel Brewing Co. seemed different, as did her approach to opening a brewery. It was a woman’s approach.

Issue: Fall 2020

BC BEER TOURING IN A TIME OF CHANGE

By Brian K. Smith

September 15, 2020

I had always believed that BC would one day be the beer mecca of North America. We seemed so close, then COVID-19 struck. So I ventured out to talk to brewers, managers, and owners about their experience during this pandemic. Would it destroy us or make us stronger? My quest was to find out and, of course, drink some fresh craft beer along the way!

Issue: Fall 2020