Rusted Rake: Nanoose Bay’s Surprising Family Farm Brewery
Rusted Rake Farm-To-Tap Brewery: one of the best stops on the Beer Seekers' 34-brewery Vancouver Island summer tour.
Safeguarding the Revolution: SFU Steps Up To Preserve BC Beer History
BC Craft Beer Month is the perfect time to reveal a monumental development in the story of BC Craft Beer. Please welcome: the BC Beer History Archive.
Let’s All Go to #BCBeerCon 2022
For the first time since 2019, the annual BC Craft Brewers Conference (aka BCBeerCon) will take place in person. This year's event moves to New Westminster's classy new Anvil Centre on Tuesday November 8th and Wednesday the 9th.
Greater Vancouver Craft Brewers Unite for Ukraine
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 West Coast Women Brewing Craft Kombucha
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!
Farm-Based Locality Becomes Langley’s Eighth Craft Brewery
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.
Uorren’s Imperial Stout
Colder months are generally more suited to beers that are stronger in both flavour and alcohol. I have talked about barley wine in past columns, so this year I thought I would suggest an Imperial Stout.
Issue: Winter 2020-21
To The Pacific Rim: Exploring The Breweries of BC’s Far West
In these times of social distancing and closed borders, we still have opportunities to explore in our own backyard. Brian K. Smith takes you on a four-day trip to Vancouver Island’s west coast to check out the recent arrivals in the craft beer scene, easily and affordably.
Issue: Winter 2020-21
A Conversation With Samantha Lindeman from Wildeye Brewing
In late May of 2019, Wildeye Brewing opened their brewery/tasting room in North Vancouver, an area that has definitely become a destination craft beer hub. The owner and conceiver is Samantha Lindeman, and she is not even thirty!
Issue: Winter 2020-21
WINTER IN THE OKANAGAN
Despite the challenges of COVID-19 restrictions, regulations and rules, the South Okanagan craft beer industry has adapted and pivoted.
Issue: Winter 2020-21