Insider tips for your Okanagan beer fest getaway, Part II
What’s Brewing spent some serious quality time visiting Kelowna in 2016. Here are some beer visitor tips that we brought back with us.
Spring 2017
Volume 27 Issue 1 is the Craft Beer Community issue. Within its 48 pages, we pin down what Community means to BC’s small breweries and heroes. Also: Spotlight on Callister Brewing, Fruit Beer Showcase, Spring major event previews and a total of 19 stories and features.
The orchard cidery that grew out of ALR red tape
Tod Creek Craft Cider began when Chris Schmidt bought an old rundown dairy farm to house his construction company.
Women In Beer: Diana McKenzie
I first met Diana McKenzie at the Central City Winter Cask Festival in January 2015. This was Callister Brewing’s first event,…
The Importance of Clean Lines
The hoses that connect beer kegs and casks to taps—the lines—need regular cleaning. Dirty lines adversely affect the flavour of beer. Contamination in the lines can also lead to foaming the beer and unexpected hangovers!
Heroes Of Beer
In celebration of our BC Craft Beer Community, we invited some of the many public-minded BC brewing industry folks we have the pleasure to know, to tell us more about their relationship with their local community, and within the brewing community. Their responses were voluminous and passionate. We’ve excerpted them here. We welcome yours too.
Sea to Sky Vacation Adventure
We in BC are blessed with one of the most spectacular scenic drives in the world. In the early years of my travels to Whistler, Highway 99 North was known as the most dangerous road in the province. After many upgrades, including the pre-Olympic mega-upgrade, the Sea to Sky highway is now a marvel of engineering that leaves you free to appreciate the beauty that surrounds you. I recently took a four-day shoulder season craft beer trip from Vancouver to Pemberton. Here’s how it went.
Fest of Ale 2017: Behind the Scenes
I love beer festivals. They are an integral part of the craft beer culture that has captivated our province. And what…
Tasting Panel Spring 2017: Warm Weather Pt I: Fruit Beers
After the winter we’ve had, it probably seemed impossible that there would ever be warm weather again, but it’s coming. If it’s not, this issue’s Fruit Beer Spotlight feature will be pointless, and here at What’s Brewing we don’t do pointless stuff. Much.
Fest Of Ale pocket guide: must-have and off-menu brews
We’ve been saying that the 2017 iteration of the Okanagan Fest Of Ale, BC’s second-longest-running beer event, is looking particularly compelling….
Ullage & Spillage: a decade of community service
When I think about pillars in the BC craft beer community, the first person to emerge from my random-access memory is What’s Brewing’s very own Monica Frost. In 2017, she celebrates ten years of craft community service. Here’s how she got her start.
That's All There Was!
That's All There Was!