Your Votes Count! The Best in BC Craft Breweries, Beer and Events for 2014.
2014 Beer Me BC Craft Beer Survey Results Part 3
In this year’s Beer Me BC Craft Beer Survey we asked for your opinion on the best beers, breweries and events in British Columbia. With more than 1500 respondents the results took some time to calculate but the final tabulations are in. You may notice some oddities in categorization such as a Winter Seasonal Beer having been released in the summer. These results were not filtered and have been published as voted on by survey respondents. The only category that has been edited is ‘Best New BC Craft Brewery’. In this category all breweries which opened prior to November 1, 2013 were eliminated from contention.
Here are the results of this year’s survey and the People’s Choice for craft beer in BC for the year of 2014.
It’s a fun exercise for sure. I disagree personally with a large majority of it but that is to be expected. Tastes are wildly different person to person. I will agree on the best new breweries though. Congrats to Steel & Oak for best new brewery!
Agreed, Preferences vary greatly. There are some expected and unexpected results in the list but overall a very interesting mix.
One of the ones that always comes out on top still floors me every time. But hey I must be wrong.
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The results are interesting and show the wide audience that this site draws! As a certified beer nerd, I am surprised to see Phillips doing so well because I haven’t been impressed by much from them for a long time. Bomber beating Yellow Dog makes no sense, except that most probably haven’t been able to try YD’s wares yet. GI Winter Ale is geared towards the casual drinker and thus a bit surprising to see at the top.
My whole-hearted support for Brassneck, Four Winds, Steel & Oak, and Yellow Dog, and glad to see them at least on the board!
Looking at the results makes me think that these results have been swayed by the average craft beer beginner not the beer nerd. Just my observation.
The ‘Beer Nerds” out there will likely contest many of these results but you can not overlook the more mainstream options. This is where the quantity of beer is sold and any shift in this represents an overall trend. The Granville Island Winter Ale is a favourite for many and is often a gateway to other big winter beers.
Thanks mikescraftbeer and beerscout for the comments.
Happy to see Hoyne and Four Winds getting lots of recognition! And of course it’s wonderful to see that Fat Tug is holding strong as a favourite in BC. Thanks for putting together this survey, Beerme BC!
What’s that called — a “grandfather clause?” While I’m sure the inclusion of Lions Winter Ale leaves a bad taste in some beer nerds’ mouth, it still tastes like winter to me and has since long before Molson got involved.
Fret not about the placings of your various favourites, instead marvel at the bountiful array brewed in B.C.
Wow, Bomber #2, really? Is this a list of the worst or the best?
And GIB Winter beat Singularity. I don’t want to live on this planet anymore. I hope this survey doesn’t influence any brewery decisions. Go S&O, Yellow Dog and Dageraad! Keep being awesome and ignore this stupid thing.
Bomber doesn’t even hold a candle to most on this list. And GIB is made for the sheeple
why is GIB even considered “craft” beer? I feel like if you sell out to the big boys you should have your status revoked
And why isn’t Shock Top on this list. If Molson can make “craft”, Anheuser-Busch can too, amiright?
The conversation is great here Ilikebeermore and Beerlover. Your opinions are great but these are the results as craft beer drinkers in BC voted. Everyone is entitled to their opinions but this is an amalgamation of 1500 different people’s thoughts on the matter.
We are all different and have different tastes. Let’s give it another year and see how things shape up then!
I completely agree that everyone has a right to an opinion, even if it is wrong ;)
My comment around GIB not being a “craft” beer is based on the definition of such. Small, Independent, Traditional. At what point does a Molson owned, large scale operation cease to be considered craft?
Hey ilikebeermore i personally only consider the Bombers made by Granville Island Brewery craft as they are crafted on the island in false creek. Don’t forget size is probably not a good measurement though as look at American craft such as New Belgium Brewing, Stone Brewing, Sierra Nevada to name a few. They are all huge but independent and also awesome. Look at Brewdog in Scotland it is massive with bars all over the world now but is owned by the people that work there and fans that buy in the “equity for punks” deal. I think the definition has to fall more into the ingredients used and their quality first. Next places like Granville Island, Goose Island, Boulevard Brewing and the likes that were purchased by Molson or AB-Imbev have roots in quality craft while things like shock top are low quality shadow brands created by Macro Companies trying to dupe people into thinking it’s craft.
I’m sure John Molson and John Labatt once made what we would consider “craft” beer. How far back does this grandfather clause go?
Granville Island has been around 30 years and have changed dramatically. If you look at Storm for instance, who’ve been around 20 years, they still hold true to the nature of craft beer brewing
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