Volume 26 Issue 3. WB presents Staycation BC: the Summer Travel Issue. Containing 50 pages with 19 stories and features, this jam-packed issue focuses on beer travel right here in beautiful British Columbia.
Now that summer is upon us, and our minds are turning to summer vacations, many local craft beer lovers are exploring the idea of a craft beer “staycation”, touring from brewery to brewery to enjoy the wide array of amazing…
So in our 26th season, What’s Brewing is steadfast in getting to all the events around. Every year now the scene will be bigger, bolder, wiser in beer. It is worldwide now; craft is King and Queen. At Events this…
It might seem unfair to criticize a book’s subtitle, but when the book is as engaging, appropriately earnest, and well written and researched as The Brewers Tale, what else can you do. The full title of the book is The…
A crash course in cellarmanship, Part III - Venting and Tapping In this ongoing series I hope to broaden knowledge about real ale, its history, practice and relevance. The first two parts were about the history and use of casks.…
In Women In Beer, Lundy interviews female members of the craft beer industry NAME & POSITION AT BREWERY? Julia Hanlon, Head Brewer at Steamworks Brewing Co. HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN IN THE POSITION? 1 Year WHAT BROUGHT YOU INTO THE…
A few years back, I consciously made the choice to “stay-cation” in my own back yard. I tailored my jet-setting ways into a lower fossil-fuel-consumption, higher-economy-boosting and British-Columbia-packed exploration of what I truly love: craft beer and my Mother: Nature.…
Brewmaster beginnings: notes from the Coastal Ale Trail I usually take some vacation time in the spring each year, typically in April. In the past I would most often end up in Portland. This year with the difference between the…
With a few exceptions, notably Baldwin and Cooper’s Best Bitter from Howe Sound, the BC craft brewing industry was reluctant to use the word bitter for about the first 20 years of its history. Many of the pale ales produced…
When you live close to the 49th parallel, day trips to Bellingham are an easy 60-ish minute drive from Vancouver. And when the beer scene is pretty damn fantastic, one may make more trips for the beer than for a…
While the calendar says it is spring, it already feels like summer here in the Okanagan. Patios are open, gardens are blooming and people are out exploring the region by foot, bike and boat. I’ve lived in the Okanagan for…
Leg 1: Gulf + Cowichan For most people, a Spring Break Island get-away would mean going someplace warm and sunny, like Hawaii or Mexico, and laying on a beach relaxing. For BeerSeekers, it means a BC Ferry rather than a…
Meet Chloe Smith, hailing from Saskatoon. Today, she manages a brewery with a prominent place in the BC craft beer scene. As bright young woman, she could probably have done anything she wanted in life. She always knew she didn't…
Hidden in the hills of mid-Northern Vancouver Island is an oasis of civility called Cumberland. In the middle of that oasis you will find a tiny slice of Paradise named the Cumberland Brewing Company. In order to frame this story,…
Okanagan Fest of Ale has been held for 21 years in Penticton, B.C., making it one of the longest running beer festivals in the Pacific Northwest. I’ve been going for over 10 years, although in the early years my reason…
British Columbia is a massive land mass and craft beer spans East to West and North to South. The pace of change in Vancouver craft has been massive but the focus on such a small geographic area does not pay…