One of What’s Brewing’s favourite opportunities to enjoy Darby’s Pub is during their annual Rare Brews event, during which some of BC’s best breweries are invited to really showcase what they can do with one-off and rare creations.
BC’s own BarSight Restaurant Systems is becoming known for its comprehensive software that is well suited for craft brewery staff scheduling and front-of-house operations management.
After two long years, April 2022 marked the triumphant return of Victoria Beer Week. Many brewers, owners, and industry heavyweights were present, happy to chat and eager to show off their new brews.
Humans are social beings and beer is the great facilitator of socialising and community. If there is a beer event being held near you, I would suggest you take a chance and go, because if it is anything like Victoria Beer Week 2022 was for me, you won’t regret it.
Craft brewers from Port Coquitlam, Langley, North Vancouver and East Van joined together on March 24th to support Ukraine in their own unique way.
Rick Dellow, Head Brewer at PoCo Brothers Brewing, recently acquired an award-winning recipe for a Ukrainian Golden Ale donated by Pravda Beer Theatre in Lviv, Ukraine.
Their new collaboration, a Ukrainian Golden Ale, will be released at eight participating breweries in the next three weeks. Proceeds from keg sales as well as $2 per pint sold will be donated to World Central Kitchen to help feed displaced citizens from the Ukraine.
The opening of North Langley’s Barley Merchant Taproom, between Dead Frog Brewery and Smugglers’ Trail Brewery, has created a very convenient beer crawl! We review it on the BC Ale Trail.
What’s Brewing gets an update from Graeme Macaloney on Victoria Caledonian’s battle with the Scottish Whisky Association.
Hard kombucha is one of the growing beverage trends in the BC craft scene, and unlike beer, women are well represented right out of the gate!
They can grow their own barley, wheat and rye. They can malt their own grain. They produce their own honey and berries for brewing with, and there’s a hop yard out back. Meet the team behind Locality Brewing, making and serving super-solid beers as they grow towards being Langley’s field-to-glass brewery.
With the impending opening of Langley’s newest and most impressive 50-tap craft beer bar, it’s time to look at the amazing progress made in the past month of construction, and tell the story of The Barley Merchant’s journey.
I first met Robin in 2018 at a VanBrewers meetup. Right from this first meeting Robin struck me as a high energy go-getter who knew what she wanted and knew how to get it.
That's All There Was!
That's All There Was!