Tag Archive for ‘British Columbia’
Review: Maple Cream Ale
Beer: Beer Name Brewery: Granville Island Brewing (Vancouver, British Columbia) Style: Flavoured Cream Ale Alcohol: 5.0% ABV Adding maple to a beer usually goes one way or another. Either it’s a beautiful beer that emphasizes the maple along with the malts and hops. Or it’s worth a drainpour. I’ve experienced both extremes and very few… Read More ›
Vancouver Craft Beer Week goes all in with poker theme
The minds behind Vancouver Craft Beer Week are clever. I’ll give ‘em that. As this year’s nine-day-long event nears, the event organizers have been putting a poker theme behind its marketing. The fourth Vancouver Craft Beer Week is celebrating those who go all in. In other words, those brave few who risk financial destruction for… Read More ›
Powell Street, Great Lakes take top Canadian Brewing Awards honours
Top honours at this year’s Canadian Brewing Awards went to Powell Street Craft Brewery and Great Lakes Brewery — from British Columbia and Ontario, respectively. Toronto’s Great Lakes walked away with the Brewery of the Year Award, while at the same time Vancouver’s Powell Street picked up the Beer of the Year Award for its… Read More ›
Phillips assembles cross-Canada beer collaboration around Canadian Brewing Awards
Phillips Brewing is taking advantage of the upcoming Canadian Brewing Awards ceremony being held in Victoria. The British Columbia brewery is planning a cross-Canada beer collaboration project with other breweries from B.C., Manitoba, Ontario, Alberta, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Phillips is calling it “the first national beer collaboration,” and it will involve 25 breweries… Read More ›
Russell Brewing prepped to open test brewery in China
Vancouver-based Russell Brewing is heading west to China to set up a test brewery and brewpub. The brewery is scheduled to open this summer in Hefei, China, a city of 5.7 million people in the Anhui Province of Eastern China. Creating an international presence as a Canadian microbrewery isn’t easy, and surely this expansion would… Read More ›
Fernie Brewing plans Beer Makers Dinner for May 29
It’s still a month off, but seats are limited for what promises to be a fun night of beer and food pairings. If you’re in the Banff area in late May, mark May 29th down on your calendar for Fernie Brewing‘s Beer (Makers) Dinner. The Fernie, British Columbia-based brewery has partnered with Banff’s The Bison… Read More ›
Vancouver Island Brewery partners to clean up Island beaches
It’s good to see breweries take an interest in the environment. And this week, it’s Vancouver Island Brewery that is making waves with a partnership with Surfrider Foundation Vancouver Island, an organization with the goal of protecting and enjoying oceans, waves and beaches. Together with Surfrider, Vancouver Island Brewery will be working with Combing the… Read More ›
Vancouver councillor aims to loosen craft brewery restrictions
It looks like the Vancouver craft brewing scene has a friend in city councillor George Affleck. A News 1130 story reported that Affleck has put forward a motion to loosen up the city’s laws when it comes to craft breweries that reside on industrial land. Affleck hopes to give breweries in industrial sections of the… Read More ›
Something’s brewing at UBC
It’s some years away from opening, but the University of British Columbia (UBC) will be opening its own micro-brewery. Don’t start lining up yet for the first UBC brews, though. The West Coast university doesn’t plan to complete the project until 2017. According to a story by 640 Now, the brewery was initially planned for… Read More ›
CAMRA aims to stop new B.C. growler tax
As British Columbia gets ready to introduce a new tax that will increase the price of beer sold in growlers, the Campaign for Real Ale Society (CAMRA) of British Columbia is stepping up to the fight and hoping to get the new tax eliminated before it goes into effect. The British Columbia Liquor Distribution Branch… Read More ›