BC Craft Beer News

  • Navigating Uncharted Waters: Ken Beattie on guiding BC’s Craft Brewers in 2020

    BC’s fledgling craft brewers cope with an industry crisis ranking alongside historic labour disputes and wartime During the past decade, legislation allowing tasting lounges in BC breweries enabled a new “craft beer culture” to develop around the province. It was rooted in the value of these new rooms as community gathering places. The sudden societal…

  • Outgrowing Growth – A look at the explosion of craft beer in British Columbia

    Breweries & Beer Volume Growth in British Columbia – A Closer Look The growth of craft beer drives headlines around North America. Boasting strong double digit volume growth quarter by quarter, the good news waterfall has spurred brewers, investors and beer geeks alike to pool their money and wander down the path of opening a…

  • Victoria Caledonia – Twa Dogs Melodie Raspberry Kolsch

    Twa Dogs – Melodie Raspberry Kolsch  review The Melodie is a Raspberry Kolsch from Twa Dogs. This beer comes in 650ml bottles and is a mellow 5.0% alcohol. Pouring the beer it is a reddish-amber colour with one finger of pinkish head that settles quickly and without a trace. The aroma from this beer is…

  • Trading Post Brewing – Belgian Style Blonde Ale

    Trading Post Brewing – Belgian Style Blonde Ale Review Langley’s Trading Post Brewery has released a Belgian Style Blonde Ale that is 7.1% alcohol and 16 IBUs. The beer is golden-blonde in colour and has a very thin finger of head which settles quickly and without a trace. The aroma is rich with Belgian yeast…

  • Strathcona Beer Co. – Rye ESB

    Strathcona Beer Co. – Rye Extra Special Bitter Review Vancouver’s Strathcona Beer Co. has ventured into canned beer with the release of their Rye ESB. While Chris Hadfield may not have endorsed this brew there is a somewhat odd Canadian Space Program reference on the label. Cracking open this decaled 473ml can it is lightly…

  • The 2017 Fest Of Ale Returns to Penticton April 7th & 8th!

    Okanagan Fest Of Ale – The 2017 Event Is Just Around The Corner! Craft Beer has been a part of British Columbia since the mid 1980’s but really it is only in the past 5 years that it has hit the masses. Craft beer has shifted from being on the fringes to being a part…

End of content

End of content