Here is the latest original writing and reporting from the contributors to What’s Brewing.
HOMEBREW HAPPENIN'S | recipe
Super Cider Me!
March 31, 2020
Whenever anyone asks me about getting into brewing, I suggest they try cider first. It’s a different process but quick, easy, cheap, shows the basic steps of sanitising and fermenting, and is much easier than making beer.
Issue: Spring 2020
COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT
I Need BC Beer: How beer takeout & delivery enhances your enforced cocooning
March 26, 2020
As INeedBCBeer.ca debuts, we take a look at BC craft beer online ordering and delivery, and how craft beer enhances your "enforced cocooning" experience. Pass this link along and support your #BCCraftBeer vendor: www.INeedBCBeer.ca
Other online beer ordering & delivery links enclosed as well, including these What's Brewing outlets:
https://www.whatsbrewing.ca/find
TASTING PANEL
Cider vs. Cider II: A BC Craft Cider Showdown
March 24, 2020
Every three months, What’s Brewing gets together with JAK’S Liquor Stores to create a new installment of our Tasting Panel series. Just over a month ago, for the second time ever, we reviewed a batch of BC Craft Ciders! JAK’S took us on a wild ride of cider styles, including the ones seen here. Some of these ciders are available for home delivery. Check out who took our blue ribbon in our Spring Tasting Panel:
https://www.whatsbrewing.ca/panel/2020-01
Issue: Spring 2020
COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT
Heralding Victoria’s Newest Brewery-To-Be (with photo tour)
March 19, 2020
Here's a story that swims against the stream this month: rather than gloomy news about taps being closed off, it's…
Beers, Beaches and Breweries | Regional Report
Craft Beer Capital to host 25th Annual Beer Fest and 4th Annual Beer Run
March 11, 2020
The Okanagan Fest of Ale, one of BC’s longest running beer festivals, is celebrating 25 incredible years this year. The milestone anniversary Okanagan Fest of Ale is “Kickin’ it Old School”, taking things back to 1996 in what promises to be the biggest craft beer celebration the Okanagan has ever seen.
Issue: Spring 2020
A VIEW FROM THE CELLAR | opinion
THE DEATH OF CAMRA VANCOUVER?… and my part in its downfall
March 10, 2020
The craft beer enthusiasts group CAMRA Vancouver came into being in 2003. It was one of the most motivated and dynamic groups of people I’ve ever had the privilege to work with. So how has a branch with close to 1,500 paid members at one point now become largely defunct?
Issue: Spring 2020
MAGAZINE RELEASE
What’s Brewing Spring 2020 Issue Showcases BC Craft Cider
March 3, 2020
The latest issue of What's Brewing magazine is now in market. The Spring 2020 edition has been designated 'The Cider Issue'. Its 48 pages include a 24-page section devoted to craft cider—almost certainly the most ever said about BC cider in one magazine.
Issue: Spring 2020
EVENT PREVIEW
Getting Back To Their Roots: Coquitlam’s Beerfest returns home
February 29, 2020
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.
EVENT PREVIEW
BC’s Biggest Celebration of Cider Expands Outdoors
February 21, 2020
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!
EVENT PREVIEW
What’s percolating in the mind behind BC’s beer & coffee festival
February 20, 2020
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.
An In-cider’s View | Column
Harvesting The Urban Orchards
February 19, 2020
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.
Issue: Winter 2019-20
Ullage & Spillage | opinion
SELF-SERVING IT, RIGHT?
February 11, 2020
Self-serve craft beer bars, as seen in the USA, are great for those of us not endowed with patience to wait for a server to come by our table. But self-service of liquor is not permitted in British Columbia, so don’t look for self-serve beer walls in this province any decade soon.
Issue: Winter 2019-20