Volume 27 Issue 2 is the Travel & Touring issue. Its 48 pages contain 20 stories and features on topics ranging from BC breweries to global beer destinations to homebrewing. Our Tasting Panel spotlights Saisons.
Just south of White Rock, BC, across the border in the state of Washington is the city of Bellingham with about 85,000 residents, many of them students attending Western Washington University, and home to a thriving and dynamic craft beer…
Summer is the season for saisons Traditionally, saison is a rustic, artisanal ale made with local farm-grown ingredients. This beer would be brewed for consumption during the active farming season by the French-speaking farmers in Belgium. A typical table saison…
Gulf Island Beer Hopping on a Hybrid E-Bike In the current age of technology and an abundance of great craft beer, there is an opportunity to combine both to create an amazing vacation. It is an experience that allows you…
Book by Jonathan Hennessey and Mike Smith. Art by Aaron McConnell Why read a comic book about beer? It might seem unnecessary considering the many conventional books, magazines, blogs, documentaries and YouTube channels already featuring beer. Firstly, you might have…
Marten Brewing and Naked Pig BBQ The South Okanagan has been my home for over a decade. While I’ve explored many iconic and hidden gems within the South and Central Okanagan, generally the furthest north I go is to the Kelowna…
Pink Boots Brew Day 2017 On International Women’s Day in 2015 a group of us from the BC Craft beer industry met up at Dogwood Brewing (not yet open at the time) to brew together for the first Pink Boots/Big…
Pubbing Around BC Spinnakers is completely open again after the "Black Wednesday" fire of November 23. The reopening of the upstairs pub drew dozens of fans who packed the pub on Friday, February 17. In the poster advertising the reopening,…
Excerpted from TheBeerRater.com Warm days are upon us friends! The days are getting longer, the animals are getting frisky and beer fests have started to hide their morning wood after a long hibernation. We’ve toughed it out; our reward is just…
Four of BC’s brew tour companies talk about their beer tourism businesses If you consider yourself a craft beer tourist, you're probably familiar with the experience of researching your holiday by Googling the breweries, beer bars and brewpubs available in…
The 25th Annual Great Canadian Beer Festival will take place on Friday/Saturday, September 8th & 9th, 2017. Canada’s longest-running beer festival is fortunate to have had amazingly stable leadership over the years. Founding organizers like industry veteran Gerry Hieter, original CAMRA…
Asheville NC: The Booming South If you’re wondering why so many beer conferences are headed to North Carolina, their 200+ breweries and brewpubs may be the answer. Asheville, Charlotte and Raleigh boast the largest percentage of breweries in the state…
Reclaiming the 'B Word' In this ongoing series I hope to broaden knowledge about real ale, its history, practice and relevance. In this article I hope to demystify the fear that many people have of my favourite beer style: Bitter.…
What's Brewing has been known, in advance of selected beer festivals, to profile an especially tasty taplist review for the sip planning benefit of lucky attendees. Once again we present to you a preview of what's pouring, this time at…
Spring Events Roundup We continue to hit the trail, going to local, regional, and provincial beer events. What’s Brewing cares about the movement more than ever. We get a rush doing our thing; it’s always cool for whatsbrewing.ca. Of course,…
Instinctual Beer Tourism in Seoul So, the Daedonggang this British-Canadian was sipping in an Italian restaurant in D-Cube City was not produced by the North Korean regime, as Google had suggested, but was in fact a Danish-Belgian collaboration brewed in Seoul. And…
There are few places left in the world that haven’t been hit with an explosion of interest in craft beer. For the beer-minded traveller such as myself, it’s nice have options beyond the pale national beers, which while cheap are…