Events make up an important pillar of the craft beer movement. As part of our Summer 2020 Special Issue, we present a few words from people like Leah Heneghan, Rick Green, Amanda Barry-Butchart and Lundy Dale who helped establish some of BC’s most important event traditions between 2010-2011.
Since 2016, the semi-annual Coquitlam Craft Beer Festival has brought great beer tasting events to the Tri-Cities. This Spring’s event will be held on March 7th at the event’s long-time home: the Westwood Plateau Golf & Country Club.
The 4th annual BC Cider Festival comes to #NorthVancouver’s Shipyards Brewery District as part of BC Cider Week 2020 on Sunday, May 24th. This year they’ve expanded outside the beautiful Pipe Shop building to add a family-friendly public area with music, food, activities and cider!
A couple of years ago, one of the more innovative beer events in Canada debuted in the form of Hopwired Festival, billed as The Festival of Craft Beer & Artisan Coffee.
Our journey started over two years ago when we took a serious leap from home cider production to a fully-fledged cidery, using apples from city trees. For the past three summers we’ve cycled up and down alleyways, mapping apple trees.
Victoria Beer Week debuted in 2014 as a celebration of modern beer culture in Canada’s original craft beer town. To find out more about what to expect at some of this year’s events, we connected with BC beer writer and longtime VBW team member Joe Wiebe.
We’ve had a full year of beer and cider events under our belts. From panicked purchases of festival equipment to interesting encounters with patrons, it’s been a nutty but all-round solid learning experience for us.
Straight from the man himself, we get the inside scoop on GCBF 2019, and on taking over a renowned festival from…
Greetings to all who follow What’s Brewing and those who I see all around the beer scene. It’s been a grand summer sampling so many BC craft beers.
CNN Travel recently published a list of 15 great beer cities around the world. Some of it is highly debatable, since…
That's All There Was!
That's All There Was!