Rebecca Kneen & the Sunflower Field Epiphany
...or, how the right choices created Left Fields Talk about 'brand', and the owners of Crannóg Ales get just a titch uneasy. The word has a connotation that isn't aligned…
Staycation BC Part I: South Okanagan, Craft Leader
In the summer of 2016, What's Brewing (in the form of editor Dave Smith and wife Ivana, aka the BeerSeekers) embarked on a massive tour of the BC Okanagan & Interior…
Staycation BC Part III: the Kootenay Loop
In the summer of 2016, What's Brewing (in the form of editor Dave Smith and wife Ivana, aka the BeerSeekers) embarked on a massive tour of the BC Okanagan & Interior…
Cannery Brewing
Penticton has been known as a craft beer town for years, and Cannery Brewing is probably the most well-known of its breweries. Having opened in 2001, with extremely stable, community-minded…
Trippin’ Out: Staycation BC heads to the Okanagan and Interior
In our Summer issue, we served up a batch of stories about the beer scene on the Island and Coast, featuring an 'Ale Trail' beer loop that a few of our regular writers travelled during the spring. Now, in the spirit of Staycation BC, we're embarking on a much bigger loop: the entire South BC Interior, including the Thompson/Okanagan, Kootenays and Rockies regions.
Issue: Summer 2016, Fall 2015
Dreams Do Come True – A Craft Beer Judging Experience
Okanagan Fest of Ale has been held for 21 years in Penticton, B.C., making it one of the longest running beer festivals in the Pacific Northwest. I’ve been going for…
Why Beer Drinkers Come to Cumberland
Hidden in the hills of mid-Northern Vancouver Island is an oasis of civility called Cumberland. In the middle of that oasis you will find a tiny slice of Paradise named…
A View from the cellar
A crash course in cellarmanship, Part III - Venting and Tapping In this ongoing series I hope to broaden knowledge about real ale, its history, practice and relevance. The first…
Out and About
So in our 26th season, What’s Brewing is steadfast in getting to all the events around. Every year now the scene will be bigger, bolder, wiser in beer. It is…
There’s Chloe for You
Meet Chloe Smith, hailing from Saskatoon. Today, she manages a brewery with a prominent place in the BC craft beer scene. As bright young woman, she could probably have done…