Oh Beautiful Beer spotlights Riot Brewing
Oh Beautiful Beer, publishers of an amazing book about beer labels, design and artwork, have profiled Chemainus BC's Riot Brewing on their website.
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.
Issue: Spring 2017
Ratebeer Names Driftwood, Steamworks, Spinnakers, Brassneck, Boombox and others in their Best of 2016
International beer website RateBeer.com has published a "Best Of" list for 2016, broken down by geographic subregion. British Columbia is included in its listing.
Brewing Revolution: an Introduction
Frank Appleton’s new book Brewing Revolution has immediately become a must-read for fans of BC craft beer. Aside from the simple fact that this story from the pioneer days of…
Book Review: 150 Years of Canadian Beer Labels
Any book about Canadian beer history would naturally be of interest to What’s Brewing, but this one has a subtle BC connection. The publisher is TouchWood Editions, based in Victoria—the city…
Tasting Panel: Winter Beer Spotlight
New to What’s Brewing: our Tasting Panel! In concert with our partner, Legacy Liquor Store, we’ve selected products from five breweries located around BC that you will find fairly widely…
Books In Review
Reading Fiction #1: The Misfortunates The front cover of The Misfortunates, written by Belgian Dimitri Verhulst, depicts four small, indistinct men floating in a gigantic glass of beer. As they…
On Aging Beer
Vintage Beer, by Patrick Dawson, came along at the perfect time for me, with a half dozen or so of my cellared beers getting close to the year-old stage.
Issue: Spring 2016
Barley Mowat 2015 Beerdies
I had a great New Year’s Eve. I got to spend time with some friends I haven’t seen in a while, see my buddy Tim sabre a champagne bottle right…
On Fermentation
Review of: True Brews by Emma Christensen There is a time in every homebrewer’s life when their very perception of the world changes. You begin to look at everything slightly…