The Growler B.C. • Volume 4 Issue 4 • December 2018-February 2019

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AN EXCLUSIVE CANADIAN HOP We’re proud to introduce BC Hop Company’s trademarked hop, Lumberjack™. It has a predominately bitter aroma with notes of melon, sweet citrus and spices like clove and allspice. A slight earthiness softens this hop, producing a pleasant mouth-feel in the beer.

We grow and supply Canada’s highest quality hop. AROMA: floral, herbal, citrus FLAVOUR: floral, herbal, spicy Lumberjack™ is perfect for saison, lager, witbier and pilsner. REPLACEMENT FOR: Saaz, Perle, Hallertau Blanc, or other noble hops. We deliver volume and customer service. Buy our Canadian grown and processed hops direct from sales@bchop.co. You can also purchase through our distribution partners at hopscentral.ca.

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BRITISH COLUMBIA NORTHERN B.C.

SEA TO SKY/ SUNSHINE COAST VANCOUVER ISLAND

LOWER MAINLAND VANCOUVER VICTORIA

eDiTOR Rob Mangelsdorf editor@thegrowler.ca 778-840-5005

pRODUcTiON & DeSiGN MANAGeR Tara Rafiq tara@thegrowler.ca cONTRiBUTiNG DeSiGNeR Juliana Sauvé pHOTOGRApHY Rob Mangelsdorf Dan Toulgoet Lara Zukowsky cOVeR iLLUSTRATiON Cai Sepulis SOciAL MeDiA Danielle Boileau DiSTRiBUTiON Craig Sweetman (Newsstand) Debbie Tang (Direct) orders@thegrowler.ca SUBScRipTiONS bc.thegrowler.ca/subscribe Copyright © The Growler 2018 No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the written permission of the publisher. Every effort is made to avoid errors and omissions. If you notice an error, please accept our apologies and notify us. pUBLiSHeD BY Glacier Media Group thegrowler.ca | @thegrowlerbc

KOOTENAYS

FRASER VALLEY

pUBLiSHeR Gail Nugent gnugent@thegrowler.ca

cONTRiBUTiNG WRiTeRS Ted Child Kristina Mameli Rob Mangelsdorf Joe Wiebe

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THe GROWLeR cRAFT BeeR AWARDS TRAVeL: ReVeL-STOKeD GiFT GUiDe: ALe Be HOMe FOR cHRiSTMAS THe FAULT iN OUR BeeRS BReWeR VS BReWeR: THe BeLGiAN eDiTiON BeeR cRiMeS ceLLAR DWeLLeRS cRAFT BeeR eVeNTS cALeNDAR LAGeR LiT: MUST-ReAD BeeR BOOKS STOUTS AND pORTeRS Recipe: BeeR AND cHeDDAR SOUp B.c. BReWeRY LiSTiNGS BeeR TO THe GROUND

Breweries by Region

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LEGEND GROWLER-APPROVED BADGE Keep an eye out for our 10 favourite beers this winter!

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FRASER VALLEY

GROWLER FILLS

SEA TO SKY / SUNSHINE COAST

BOTTLES / CANS

VICTORIA / GULF ISLANDS

KEGS

VANCOUVER ISLAND

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THOMPSON OKANAGAN

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Editor’s Note This past year has been an exciting one in Growler Land. We’ve launched our very own collaboration beer series, redesigned our website and our magazine to bring you more great content, and celebrated the opening of another 20 breweries across the province. Well, hold on to your butts, because we have even more big news!

This issue, we’re also excited to announce the first-ever Growler Craft Beer Awards, AKA the Growlies! Unlike other craft beer awards and contests, the Growlies are decided by you, the beer-drinking public. We tallied up tens of thousands of votes and you can see the results, along with profiles of some of the winning beers and breweries, starting on page 6. We hope you’ll join us and celebrate everything that makes the B.C. craft beer scene such a beautiful, delicious thing.

Speaking of delicious things, ‘tis the season for dark, malty beers, so Joe Wiebe looks at the history of porters and stouts, and what, if any, the difference is between the two (pg. 30). If you’re thinking about cellaring some of the boozy year-end releases that are out right now, we have a handy guide so you won’t get soaked by gushing bottles of poorly stored beer (pg. 24). We’ve also got lots of seasonally appropriate, non-denominational fun, from gift guides (pg. 16) and winter reading lists (pg. 28), to a recipe for yummy beer soup (pg. 32) that will warm your soul, and your liver! So enjoy the holidays, and whatever you’re drinking, please drink responsibly. —Rob Mangelsdorf, editor

GLUTEN-FREE BOOZE OPTIONS

Suggested Glassware STANGE

Kolsch Marzen Bock

PILSNER Lager Pilsner Witbier

NONIC PINT

Stout Pale ale Most ales, actually

WEIZEN

Hefeweizen Weizenbock Fruit beer

TULIP

Saison IPA Strong ales

GOBLET

Berliner weisse Quad Tripel

SNIFTER

Barleywine Sours Anything weird

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Growlies have landed!

HERE ARE THE WINNERS OF THE 2018 GROWLER CRAFT BEER AWARDS

elcome to the inaugural Growler Craft Beer Awards, AKA, the Growlies!

This year, The Growler is launching its first ever craft beer contest, celebrating all of the awesomeness that is B.C. craft beer. Unlike traditional beer awards, the Growlies have been decided by YOU, the beer-drinking public. B.C.’s 165+ craft breweries produced an estimated 5,000+ different beers this year. So with the help of our panel of craft beer experts, we narrowed the field down to between five and 10 nominees in each category. Then the public had their say, with more than 40,000 votes being cast online during B.C. Craft Beer Month in October. So now, without further ado, we present the very best of B.C. craft beer, according to those who love it most. Cheers, Rob Mangelsdorf, editor >>

FOUR WINDS BREWING CO. GOLD – Beer of the Year // Juxtapose Wild IPA GOLD – Best Sour Ale // Quadrennial IV GOLD – Best Belgian-Style Ale // Triplicity GOLD – Best Light/Golden Lager // Elementary Lager GOLD – Best Fruit Beer // Raspberry Jam GOLD – Best Barrel-Aged Beer // Pequeño Cabo GOLD – Best Social Media SILVER – Brewery of the Year SILVER – Most Innovative/Creative Beer // Vinland Saison SILVER – Best branding/packaging BRONZE – North American-Style Ale // Velo Where do you even begin with this medal haul? Four Winds Brewing Co. absolutely dominated the inaugural 2018 Growler Craft Beer Awards, picking up 11 medals, including a whopping seven golds. It’s hardly surprising, however. Since opening in 2013, the Delta brewery has built a reputation for exceptional, trendsetting beers and über hip branding, earning it Brewery of the Year honours at the 2015 Canadian Brewing Awards, and then Beer of the Year honours in 2016 for its Nectarous Dry-Hopped Sour. Today, there’s hardly a liquor store, bottle shop, restaurant, bar or pub in this province that’s

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worth your time and money that doesn’t carry Four Winds’ beers. Founded by brothers Adam and Brent Mills and their father Greg, the brewery is still very much a family affair, with cousins and uncles all part of the team. The family will soon be growing, too, with a new brewery and restaurant planned for Tsawwassen’s Southlands development. Whether it’s session-strength light lagers, barrel-aged sours, or mixed fermentation IPAs, as this year’s Growlies proves, Four Winds seems to be able to do no wrong.

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BEER OF THE YEAR | 1 | Four Winds Brewing Co. // Juxtapose Wild IPA | 2 | Driftwood Brewing // Fat Tug IPA | 3 | Backcountry Brewing // Widowmaker IPA BREWERY OF THE YEAR | 1 | Field House Brewing Co. | 2 | Four Winds Brewing Co. | 3 | Yellow Dog Brewing Co. BEST SOUR ALE | 1 | Four Winds Brewing Co. // Quadrennial IV | 2 | Fuggles and Warlock Craftworks // Shiori Peach Sour | 3 | Field House Brewing Co. // Viognier Farmhouse

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GOLD – Strong Beer // Hermannator Few beers are as ubiquitous in this province as the mighty Hermannator, Vancouver Island Brewing’s 9.5% ABV gentle giant. The beer was first launched 31 years ago as a holiday treat for original VIB brewmaster Hermann Hoerterer’s friends and family, becoming the province’s first and longest-running seasonal beer release. The German-style eisbock, or ice bock, is a strong dark lager that takes more than three months to make. Bursting with flavours like rum-soaked Christmas cake, molasses, dried fruits, hazelnuts, port, tobacco, coffee and cocoa, Hermannator is surprisingly smooth for its robust strength. “It’s a unique style,” says current brewmaster Ralf Pittroff. “The beer is frozen to condense the flavours.” Over the years the recipe was been tweaked here and there. The standard two-row pale malt was switched to Canadian Superior Pilsner malt, and a new yeast strain was adapted to ferment the beer. But as this year’s gold medal for Strong Beer in the Growler Craft Beer Awards proves, Hermannator is only getting better with age. Sponsored content

BEST UK-ST YLE ALE | 1 | Driftwood Brewing // Naughty Hildegard ESB | 2 | Persephone Brewing Co. // Goddess Golden Ale | 3 | Riot Brewing Co. // Working Class Hero Dark Mild BEST NORTH AMERICAN-ST YLE ALE | 1 | Twin Sails Brewing Co. // Dat Juice | 2 | Brassneck Brewery // Passive Aggressive | 3 | Four Winds Brewing Co. // Velo BEST INDIA PALE ALE | 1 | Driftwood Brewing // Fat Tug IPA | 2 | Yellow Dog Brewing // Play Dead IPA | 3 | Backcountry Brewing // Widowmaker IPA BEST DARK ALE | 1 | Hoyne Brewing // Dark Matter | 2 | Crannóg Ales // Back Hand of God | 3 | Field House Brewing Co. // Salted Black Porter BEST STRONG BEER | 1 | Vancouver Island Brewing // Hermannator | 2 | Driftwood Brewing // Singularity | 3 | Steel & Oak Brewing Co. // Chazwazza DIPA BEST BELGIAN-ST YLE ALE | 1 | Four Winds Brewing Co. // Triplicity | 2 | Dageraad Brewing // Antwerpen | 3 | 33 Acres Brewing Co. // 33 Acres of Euphoria

BEST LIGHT/GOLDEN L AGER | 1 | Four Winds Brewing Co. // Elementary Lager | 2 | Steel & Oak Brewing Co. // Simple Things | 3 | Fuggles & Warlock Craftworks // Pixel Pils BEST DARK L AGER | 1 | Moon Under Water Brewery // Creepy Uncle Dunkel | 2 | Tofino Brewing // Dark Lager | 3 | Steel & Oak Brewing Co. // Dark Lager BEST FRUIT BEER | 1 | Four Winds Brewing Co. // Raspberry Jam | 2 | Fuggles & Warlock Craftworks // Kiwami Plum Sour | 3 | Bomber Brewing // Park Life

BEST WHEAT BEER | 1 | Parallel 49 Brewing // Jerkface 9000 | 2 | Dageraad Brewing // White | 3 | The Parkside Brewery // Dimwit BEST BARREL-AGED BEER | 1 | Four Winds Brewing Co. // Pequeno Cabo | 2 | Strange Fellows Brewing // Reynard | 3 | Spinnakers Brewpub // Malus BEST COLL AB | 1 | Yellow Dog Brewing & Powell Brewery // Stop, Collaborate and Listen | 2 | Field House Brewing Co. & Ravens Brewing Company // Pink Guava Gose | 3 | Fuggles & Warlock Craftworks & Moody Ales // Pears in White Satin >>

DAGERAAD BREWING SILVER – Best Belgian-Style Beer // Antwerpen SILVER – Best Wheat Beer // White A lot of breweries in B.C. make Belgian-inspired beers, but there’s something different about Burnaby's Dageraad Brewing that makes their beers unique. So when it was named Brewery of the Year at the Canadian Brewing Awards a few months ago, absolutely no one in the craft beer community was surprised. Ben Coli, Dageraad’s owner, brewmaster and resident Belgophile, says part of what sets the brewery apart is their patience and attention to authenticity. “We derive so much of our character from fermentation, rather than malt and hops,” he says. “We ferment all of our beer with special strains of yeast originating in breweries in Belgium.” The fermentation continues in the bottle itself, as all of Dageraad’s beers are bottle conditioned—meaning the beers are naturally carbonated. “Bottle conditioning adds a lot of time and expense to the process, but the second fermentation adds character to the beer,” Coli says.

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“Because yeast is excellent at soaking up oxygen, it preserves the beer's freshness and improves shelf-life.” The end result? Exceptional beer, and a mantle full of awards.

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town in Canada, and a lot of the credit for that goes to Cannery Brewing. For almost 20 years, the brewery has been quenching thirsts and delighting local palates, helping to form the cornerstone of the Okanagan craft beer scene. Despite being one of the veterans of the B.C. craft beer industry, Cannery has always managed to stay ahead of the curve. It was one of the first breweries in the province to package a New England IPA—its Hop Chowdah IPA— and its recent seasonal tall can series has been getting attention thanks to eye-popping label illustrations by artist Skyler Punnett. Contributed photo

CANNERY BREWING SILVER – Unsung Hero Tucked between the lakes and mountains in the heart of the Okanagan Valley, Penticton has long been a destination for happy hedonists. Earlier this year, Expedia.ca named it the second best beer

In 2015, Cannery moved downtown to a spacious new 12,000-sq.-ft. facility, complete with a tap room, growler fill station and kitchen. The modern brewery has quickly become a social hub, welcoming the masses with live music, old school board games and a dog-friendly patio. The extra space has meant more freedom for the brewing team, too. Regularly on Fridays, they release a new beer as part of their ExBEERimental test batch series. Cannery might not get the attention and hype some of its Big City counterparts do, but they continue to do everything right.

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MOST INNOVATIVE/CREATIVE BEER | 1 | Field House Brewing Co. // Viognier Farmhouse | 2 | Four Winds Brewing Co. // Vinland Saison | 3 | Category 12 Brewing // Raw Ale

MOST KNOWLEDGEABLE TASTING ROOM STAFF | 1 | Brassneck Brewery | 2 | Phillips Brewing and Malting Co. | 3 | Strange Fellows Brewing

BEST NEW BREWERY | 1 | Electric Bicycle Brewing Co. | 2 | BREWHALL | 3 | Vice and Virtue Brewing Co.

BEST BRANDING/PACKAGING | 1 | Driftwood Brewing | 2 | Four Winds Brewing Co. | 3 | Phillips Brewing and Malting Co.

UNSUNG HERO | 1 | Townsite Brewing (Powell River) | 2 | Cannery Brewing (Penticton) | 3 | Gladstone Brewing Co. (Courtenay)

BEST SOCIAL MEDIA | 1 | Four Winds Brewing Co. | 2 | Phillips Brewing and Malting Co. | 3 | Backcountry Brewing

BEST BREWERY TASTING ROOM | 1 | Field House Brewing Co. | 2 | Phillips Brewing and Malting Co. | 3 | Parallel 49 Brewing

BEST LOCAL HOMEBREWING STORE | 1 | CBDB'S (Vancouver, AKA Dan's Homebrew) | 2 | Beyond the Grape (Port Moody) | 3 | Barley's Homebrewing (New Westminster) BEST CRAFT BEER SELECTION (LIQUOR STORE) | 1 | Legacy Liquor Store (Vancouver) | 2 | Brewery Creek Liquor Store (Vancouver) | 3 | B.C. Liquor Store 39th and Cambie (Vancouver)

BEST CRAFT BEER SELECTION (RESTAURANT/BAR) | 1 | The Alibi Room (Vancouver) | 2 | CRAFT Beer Market (Vancouver) | 3 | The Drake Eatery (Victoria) BEST BEER EVENT/FESTIVAL | 1 | Vancouver Craft Beer Week | 2 | Great Canadian Beer Festival (Victoria) | 3 | Whistler Village Beer Festival j

PHILLIPS BREWING & MALTING CO. SILVER – Best Brewery Tasting Room SILVER – Most Knowledgeable Tasting Room Staff SILVER – Best Social Media BRONZE – Best Branding/Packaging Victoria’s Phillips Brewing and Malting Co. has long been a trendsetter in the B.C. craft beer scene, but for the longest time it was missing one thing: somewhere of its own that it could actually serve its own beer. That changed at exactly 4:11 p.m. on April 27, 2018, when Phillips officially opened its new tasting room at the corner of Government and Discovery in downtown Victoria. The 100-seat tasting room features 16 taps of craft beer, cocktails made with Phillips’ spirits and the entire line of Phillips’ craft sodas available for the kids. Inside, the walls are festooned with an eclectic array of quirky handpainted art. The far wall features four gigantic windows into the packaging hall, where dancing beer bottles make their way along the production line— you might even glimpse a Lavern & Shirley moment or two. “We’re happy to embrace our Willy Wonka-esque qualities here,” says Dan Reid, Phillips’ marketing coordinator.

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In addition to being a central gathering space for Victoria’s craft beer community, the tasting room has also allowed Phillips to tackle beer styles it would otherwise not be able to release. “We’ve done everything from a schwarzbier to a lychee sour,” says Reid. Despite having been open for less than a year, the tasting room managed to win two silver medals in the Growler Craft Beer Awards, one for Best Tasting Room and one for Most Knowledgeable Tasting Room Staff. There’s even more to come next year, with further renovations planned for the retail space. “We’ve got a few things up our sleeve,” says Reid.

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by Rob Mangelsdorf

or years, Revelstoke wasn’t much more than a place to fill your tank or pull over to rest for the night on the way to Calgary— so you could be forgiven if you've never strayed from the highway to explore the town itself. For much of its existence, Revelstoke has been a diesel-soaked blue-collar town, thanks to the CPR Rail Yard and the various mills and mines providing local employment. But all that changed with the opening of the Revelstoke Mountain Resort 10 years ago. In that span, the community has transformed itself from a resource-focused backwater to a sophisticated mountain destination. Today, Revelstoke is growing. Long-boarded up heritage buildings are being restored, there’s new restaurants, breweries and distilleries. Meanwhile, increasing numbers of savvy Vancouverites and Calgarians are coming to visit, many of them deciding to stay. While most come for the snow, it’s only part of the Kootenay town’s newfound appeal.

The beer Revelstoke has always been ahead of the curve when it comes to craft beer. When Bart and Tracy Larson decided to open Mt. Begbie Brewing Co. in Bart’s hometown back in 1996, craft beer was far from the sure bet it is today, especially somewhere so remote. But Mt. Begbie’s award-winning beers won the locals over and have inspired a loyal following—it was even named Brewery of the Year at the 2017 Canadian Brewing Awards. Two years ago, Mt. Begbie moved to its fancy new digs on the edge of town, overlooking the confluence of the Illecillewaet and Columbia rivers and facing its namesake mountain across the valley. With more space comes more variety, and in addition to Mt. Begbie’s line of core beers, there’s an ever-changing rotation of one-offs and experiments on offer at its sleek tasting room. The mildly tart and floral Narcissus Berliner Weisse (4.5% ABV, 9 IBU) is served in the traditional German manner with your choice of four fruit syrups, while the spicy and malty Our Daily

Mt. Begbie Brewing's new taproom (on left) is a great place for some aprés pints and bites. Craft Bierhaus features 24 taps of B.C. beer and cider and is a favourite of the locals for good reason. Rob Mangelsdorf photos

Bread (3.8% ABV, 20 IBU) is made with leftover bread from the Revelstoke Food Recovery Program, with proceeds going to the local food bank and school breakfast program. The new brewery also has a full-service kitchen, so you can forget the typical tasting room offerings of greasy cheese sticks and desiccated pepperoni. Mt. Begbie has pizzas, tacos, charcuterie and rotating specials, like the delicious pork cutlet with panzanella salad I had during my most recent visit—much needed sustenance after a day on that beast of a mountain. Heading downtown, I paid a visit to Revelstoke’s newest brewery, Rumpus Beer Co. It’s so new that it’s not even open yet, but owners Fred and Dana Orndorff were kind enough to show me around the cosy storefront tasting room on First Street. The focus here will be wild yeasts, sours, mixed fermentation and farmhouse ales. “I think a four per cent saison is the solution to most problems in life,” says Fred.

When it comes to educating the locals about craft beer, much of the credit goes to the Craft Bierhaus. Since it opened in 2015, its 24 taps of B.C. craft beer and cider have been exposing Revelstoke to the wonders of hazy IPAs, barrel-aged sours and Russian imperial stouts. Even on a weeknight in the middle of the off-season, the place is packed with locals getting cosy at the large communal wood tables.

The spirits Unlike many ski resort towns, Revelstoke doesn’t have that master-planned Disney-esque feel to it. Walking around the historic town centre, past the many small, family-owned businesses, it’s apparent that this is still a hard working community, and many of the people who live here have local roots going back generations. As a result, great respect has been paid to the city’s architectural history. Take Jones Distilling, for example. Located in a 104-year-old former elementary school facing the Columbia River, owner Gareth Jones has gone to extraordinary lengths to restore the building to its former glory. The open concept distillery fills up the west side of the building’s main floor, with high ceilings and impossibly tall windows affording spectacular views of the surrounding mountains. Meanwhile, the east side of the building is home to the newly opened (and appropriately named) Old School Eatery, which serves up “sophisticated comfort food” in case you’ve had one vodka too many. Despite only having started production in January, Mr. Jones Premium Vodka (named for Jones’ >> Rumpus Beer Co. owner/brewer Fred Orndorff hopes to have his craft brewery in downtown Revelstoke open in the new year. Rob Mangelsdorf photo

“Almost everything we use is sourced within 100 miles of here,” says McLafferty. A rooftop apiary supplies the bar with honey, while much of the botanicals used in their sublime Ethos Gin are foraged locally, including the huckleberries, spruce tips, juniper, wildflowers and pine needles. Hot tip: try the barrel-aged Negroni. Made with Odd Society Bittersweet Vermouth, Woods Amaro and Monashee’s own Ethos Gin, then aged for nine months in a rye barrel and served with a slice of dried blood orange and sprinkled with dehydrated Campari—it might be the best cocktail I’ve had this year.

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Top: Bartender Mike Hallman prepares a cocktail at Monashee Spirits Craft Distillery. Bottom: Jones Distillery's Mr. Jones Vodka has only been on the market for less than a year but has already earned international accolades. Rob Mangelsdorf photos

rogue-ish father) has already picked up a bronze medal for its barley-based vodka at the International SIP Awards, beating out hundreds of other distilleries. Smooth and sweet with a pleasant cereal note, it stands out against most commercial vodkas by actually having some flavour. “It’s a proper David and Goliath story,” says Jones. And much of the credit for that goes to head distiller Megan Moore. While the vodka is the only product Mr. Jones currently offers, Moore says a line of gin, including a series of single botanical releases, is in the works. A few blocks away at Monashee Spirits Craft Distillery on Revelstoke’s main drag of MacKenzie Street, owner/distiller Josh McLafferty and bar manager Mike Hallman serve up cocktails made with Monashee’s ever-growing line of certified organic spirits and house-made bitters. Made from organically-grown trinticale—a hybrid of wheat and rye—Monashee’s base spirits have a unique bready spice note to them.

Since it opened last year, the Quartermaster Eatery has filled an important niche in Revelstoke’s growing restaurant scene—that of hip casual fine dining. The room is tasteful and modern and wouldn’t look out of place in Downtown Vancouver—nor would the menu, featuring maple duck confit drumsticks or vegetarian house-made morel mushroom sausages. There’s even a private bar in the basement where you can sip whisky in the building’s former boiler room.

The snow Obviously any trip to Revelstoke should include a few days cutting fresh tracks at Revelstoke Mountain Resort, located just a few minutes from downtown. It’s still one of the underappreciated gems of the B.C. ski and snowboard scene, despite boasting the most vertical terrain of any resort in North and South America. Even on the weekends, the runs are largely uncluttered and lineups are minimal. Thanks to its massive size, the terrain varies wildly depending on what part of the mountain you’re on—as do the conditions—offering something for all skill levels. If you’re brave enough, finish your day with a leg-burner from the top of the Stoke Chair all the way down to the village, covering all 1,713 metres of vertical terrain over the 15km run. I had to stop twice as my legs had unfortunately turned to jelly, but by the time I reached the base I was in the perfect mood for some après action. And Revelstoke does not disappoint. The snow is hardly the only reason to visit Revelstoke, however. With so much great food and drink, stunning scenery and charm, you might not find time to hit the slopes at all. j • Rob Mangelsdorf was a guest of Tourism Revelstoke.

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Questionable gifts for the beer lover in your life by Michael Kissinger

eer not only does a body good, it easily fills up Christmas wish lists for family, friends and co-workers too lazy to get to know the real you. From gun-inspired glassware and phallic-shaped cooling devices to the latest in beer koozie fashion, there’s something for just about everyone in the vast beer-offshoot universe. Keep that in mind when you’re stumped with what to get what’s-their-name.

1 BEER JELLY

Handmade in Vermont, probably by a guy who wears suspenders and has one of those unnecessary handlebar moustaches, Potlicker beer jellies are infused with craft brews such as oatmeal stout, black IPA, porter and apricot ale. On the downside, they all contain gluten—so Chloe and Colton will totally have to wait forever until Cider Jelly comes out. UncommonGoods.com

2 FOAM BLOWN BEER GLASS

You had me at “foam blown.” Handcrafted to always appear full of your favourite emotion regulator, these fun-loving grog glasses are perfect for those nights when you’re lying on the sofa

drinking alone and you catch a glimpse of your reflection in the computer screen and for a second mistake it for a bloated corpse. Oh, they’re also handmade in Mantua, Ohio. UncommonGoods.com

3 CORKCICLE CHILLSNER BEER CHILLER

Two puns for the price of one, the Corkcicle Chillsner Beer Chiller employs “proprietary cooling gel” within its stainless-steel phallus to keep your barley sandwich cold while you discuss IBUs, lactic fermentation and how the last Iron and Wine album put you to sleep. But in a good way. Or you could always drink your beer in a reasonable, non-childish length of time. MrBeer.com

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4 BEER BOTTLE CAP HOLDER SHADOW BOX

a little firearm obsessed—with a bottle opener fashioned out of a .50 caliber bullet. Made from upcycled military ammunition, these beer liberators can also be engraved and, I’m guessing, make going through airport security a real “adventure.” GroomsmenCentral.com

Whether you’re playfully documenting your descent into alcoholism or your inability to let go of the past—sometimes it can be both—this charming accent piece will go with just about any furniture you’ve purchased from the Brick or Canadian Tire. Plus it looks better the more you drink and use it. Amazon.com

9 SIX SHOOTER PINT GLASS

Is that wet-hopped ale not dangerous enough for you? Want to inject some bad-assery into your fruited rye saison? Don’t we all. Then park your baby-soft tush in front of one of these puppies. Made to resemble a Colt revolver cylinder, each six shooter pint glass is “CNC machined from anodized aluminum.” What does that mean? I have no idea, but it sure sounds tough—a lot tougher than that apricot hefeweizen you’ve been suckling on like a breastfeeding infant. GroomsmenCentral.com

5 BEER AROMA BOOSTER

Using “ultrasonic vibrations and two teaspoons of water,” the Sonic Foamer is not only my next band’s name but it ensures that your beer always has a sudsy, fragrant head even when everyone in the brewery is staring at you and your overpriced contraption with disdain. Amazon.com

6 SKELETON BEER BONG

Beer bongs don’t get more metal than this. Seriously, you pour your beer into its skull cap and drink from the end of a spinal cord… the way nature intended. Hail Satan! BoozinGear.com

10 UKEG 64 PRO PACK

Become the brewery dandy you’ve always aspired to be with these steampunk-looking growler kegs. Stainless steel, copper plated, matte black or black chrome—you decide the level of insufferableness you want to evoke. Each vessel also comes with a pressure gauge, dispenser tap, interchangeable tap handle, sight glass, CO2 cartridge, monocle, pocket-watch and book of useful phrases, such as “Tut, tut, that’s a jolly good dunkleweizen” and “You call that a hazy IPA? I had more IBUs in the last opium den I frequented while on shore leave from my ship, the Galilee.” I may have made a few of those up. GrowlerWerks.com j

7 GIANT FIST GLOVE KOOZIE

In another era, the giant fist glove koozie could have been humankind’s wheel, fire or tear-away track pants. As it turns out, it’s just a foam glove that looks like a giant fist and can perfectly cradle a 12 oz. can of beer while impressing friends, loved ones and the Foodora delivery guy named Doug or something. BoozinGear.com

8 .50 CALIBER BULLET BOTTLE OPENERS Tell the world you’re a straight shooter—and

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by Kristina Mameli

ver had a beer that was just, well… off ? When good beer goes bad, it can feel like a tragedy. Off-flavours are a scourge that affects every style, and without sensory training, it can be difficult to find the words to adequately describe why you’re blubbering into your pint. Being able to recognize and diagnose common off-flavours is extremely important for brewers and craft connoisseurs (read: “beer nerds”) alike. Sensory training is training—or perhaps, retraining—your palate and other senses to critically evaluate beer, recognize certain flavours, and pinpoint what may have caused these flaws.

ALCOHOLIC Tastes/Smells Like: Overpowering alcohol, paint thinner (yum!), or acetone (think nail polish remover). This is definitely one that’ll put hair on your chest! Likely Culprit: Fusel alcohols; basically things with names that sound like they are what gasoline is comprised of. These alcohols are caused by fermentation occurring at too high of a temperature.

ASTRINGENT Tastes/Smells Like: Sucking on a teabag, essentially. If astringency is present, you get a dry kind of puckering mouthfeel and may taste tannins just as you would from the teabag. Go ahead, try. I’ll wait.

Unfortunately, the best way to learn is to experience these flavours for yourself…but, dear reader, I wouldn’t subject you to that! So, alternatively, here’s an abbreviated cheat sheet with much less sciency technical jargon that’ll improve your homebrew and have you sounding like a Cicerone in no time.

Likely Culprit: Astringency has a variety of causes including tannins found on the husks of grain or skins of fruit steeping for too long, as well as over-hopping.

ACETALDEHYDE

Likely Culprit: Chlorinated water or sanitizer. It may seem crazy, but using tap water to brew or rinse equipment can negatively influence the flavour of beer. Filtered water is king.

Tastes/Smells Like: Green or rotten apples, or, oddly enough, freshly cut pumpkin; not to be confused with “pumpkin spice” which, in my opinion, also has no place in beer. Likely Culprit: Acetaldehyde is naturally produced by yeast during fermentation. Over time, the chemical is converted into ethanol alcohol. This process can take longer in higher alcohol beers or if not enough yeast has been used. So, if you taste green apples in your beer, it’s probably best to give the poor yeast a little more time to work.

CHLOROPHENOL Smells/Tastes Like: Plastic or iodine (medicine).

DIACETYL Tastes/Smells Like: Butter, rancid butter, or butterscotch complete with a slick mouthfeel. If this is what they meant by “Butterbeer” in Harry Potter, then childhood me is seriously disappointed. Likely Culprit: Yeast (hot tip: it’s always the yeast). Diacetyl is naturally produced by all yeast during fermentation and is then reabsorbed. If not, it’s

likely the result of weak or mutated yeast or low fermentation temperature.

OXIDIZATION

DIMETHYL SULFIDE (DMS)

Likely Culprit: Before sensory training I never once thought, “I wonder what wet cardboard tastes like?” Now it haunts my dreams. Oxidization occurs when too much oxygen has been introduced to the beer, especially while the wort is still warm or after fermentation is complete. It can also occur from too much headspace in bottles.

Tastes/Smells Like: Cooked vegetables, especially corn, cabbage, tomato and sometimes even shellfish; none of which you want in your beer. Likely Culprit: Under-boiling or infection. DMS is essentially a by-product of the malting process and is created whenever wort is heated. It typically evaporates when that wort is boiled.

ESTERY/FRUITY Tastes/Smells Like: Fruit, especially banana, pear, strawberry, raspberry, and grapefruit. Likely Culprit: This one is a bit tricky. Esters are naturally produced by yeast during fermentation. Sometimes those lovely naturally occurring fruit flavours are even supposed to be there, such as in a hefeweizen—but in a lager? Not so much.

GRASSY Tastes/Smells Like: Exactly as it sounds: like freshly cut grass, or musty straw. Likely Culprit: Moldy ingredients are usually at fault here. Always be sure to check for freshness before brewing!

METALLIC Tastes/Smells Like: Iron, pennies or blood—you’ll feel this one on your teeth. Likely Culprit: This is caused by beer or ingredients coming into contact with unprocessed metals, or in packaging via bottle caps or kegs.

Tastes/Smells Like: Stale, wet cardboard, sherry, pineapple, decaying vegetables.

SKUNKY Tastes/Smells Like: Skunk, burned rubber, or cat musk. Likely Culprit: Light. Beer skunks when hops are exposed to UV light and react with the yeast. Science, science, science, this reaction creates mercaptan—literally the same chemical skunks secrete when they spray.

SULFUR / HYDROGEN SULFIDE Tastes/Smells Like: Sulfur, rotten eggs, raw sewage, or a beautiful combination thereof. Likely Culprit: This chemical is naturally produced by all yeast during fermentation. CO2 carries most of it away during conditioning or lagering.

SWEET Tastes/Smells Like: Overly sweet or sugary; sweet wort; cloyingly sweet. Likely Culprit: The yeast clocked out early. What did I say? It’s always the yeast. j

BREWER

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Dan Toulgoet photos

The Belgian Edition

by Rob Mangelsdorf

he country of Belgium has long been home to one of the finest beer cultures on Earth. From the Trappist monks and their abbey ales to champagne-like barrel-aged sours, the country has so much more to offer than chocolate, Tintin, tiny green vegetables that smell like farts and that Colin Farrell movie where he karate chops the racist dwarf. And Jean Claude Van Damme. Can't forget about the Muscles from Brussels.

But what makes Belgian beer so Belgian? Is it the yeast? The acidity? The propensity for strong beers with bold flavours? To find out, we brought together two of B.C.’s preeminent producers of Belgian-style beer. Iain Hill is the co-founder of Strange Fellows Brewing and one of the first brewers in the province to make a proper Belgian beer. Cédric Dauchot is the award-winning brewer/co-owner at Townsite Brewing in Powell River, and an honest-to-God Belgian. The two sat down at Faculty Brewing where they were on hand to brew The Growler’s latest B.C. Brewer Collaboration Series release: Poire Blanche, a Belgian witbier made with local pears (available Dec.1!).

DAUCHOT THE GROWLER: Tell me about growing up in Belgium. How did you develop your love for the beer there? CÉDRIC DAUCHOT: My neighbor was a beer distributor. So they would fill the truck with cases of beer and on the weekends I would go over with my neighbour’s kids and help put the cases on the truck. At the end of the day, they wouldn’t pay us, but we’d get a little glass of Hoegaarden or Belle-Vue. GROWLER: How old were you? DAUCHOT: I was, I think, 12. GROWLER: Amazing. DAUCHOT: I wasn’t drinking, it was mostly… tasting. So I learned how to drive a forklift and put cases on a pallet… IAIN HILL: When you were 12? DAUCHOT: Yes. And then I discovered the

There is no one Belgian tradition of brewing: there is a tradition of drinking good beers and making good beers. —Cédric Dauchot

science behind the beer. When I was 14 there was a classroom science project, and I asked teacher if I could make it about beer, and he said yes. So I brought beer to class for everyone. GROWLER: What a country! What about you, Iain? When did you first discover Belgian beer? HILL: I was homebrewing in university, and I knew it was a thing, Belgian beer was this really important thing. But I had all these incorrect preconceived notions about it—and it’s the same stuff you hear all the time: Belgian beer is strong! Belgian beer has fruit! Belgian beers are sour! But of course, as I discovered, Belgian beer is this tremendously broad category. DAUCHOT: Could you find Belgian beers here? HILL: Yes, you could. You could get La Mort Subite, Belle-Vue. There was a time in the ‘90s where you could get Giradin raw lambic, uncarbonated, here in Vancouver. I have no idea why it was here, but I remember I bought it and it was so weird to me, because it was flat. DAUCHOT: Even in Belgium that’s very odd. HILL: Overall, I think my strongest reaction to Belgian beers—besides the fact that it’s this really cool romantic thing—is my background, my biochemistry degree. I’m really interested in cultures, bacteria, yeast, and how can I turn this up. And Belgian beer, as far as beer goes, is the coolest, most interesting beer. And that’s not even a stretch. German brewing culture has its own things going on, but how many styles are there? Compared to Belgian beer, not that many. It’s not even close.

own. Look at pilsner malt, and how that led to blondes and tripels. But it didn’t displace the styles that came before it. DAUCHOT: I think that’s true, up to the ‘60s and ‘70s, when lager became popular. But there is no one Belgian tradition of brewing: there is a tradition of drinking good beers and making good beers. GROWLER: It’s really like this huge mix of styles, but there's a lot of specialization that exists with each brewery, it seems. You won’t see a Belgian brewery do a blonde, an oud bruin, a stout, and an IPA. DAUCHOT: No, that’s something that’s very North American. Breweries in Belgium do one or two beers. In Canada, we have so much freedom. I can do a small batch that will sell in a month and never do it again. But I was back in September and there are new breweries opening and they are doing big IPAs, beers in cans. It’s a full circle now. North America is influencing Belgian beer now. I like the fact that Belgium can be influenced like that by different traditions, and make it our own. GROWLER: If there’s any commonality amongst the disparate styles, I think it would be bold flavours, but balanced bold flavours. You don’t get the subtlety that you would see in a German pilsner, say. That’s not the Belgian palate. DAUCHOT: Yeah, I think that’s true. HILL: In North America, it’s all very punk rock, kick the door down, push the boundaries, crank up the volume. IPAs in the ‘90s, or even like 10 years ago, were honestly unbalanced. It was all about how bitter you could make it. Fortunately in the last five years that’s all changed. DAUCHOT: It’s the same with sours [in North America]. HILL: Jesus, yes! j

DAUCHOT: I didn’t realize that when I was in Belgium, but now that I’m away, I see there is a tradition of making good beer, but mostly every brewery does its own thing. GROWLER: In Belgium, they seem to take the best ideas from everywhere, and make them their

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The weirdest and worst beers ever brewed by Rob Mangelsdorf

n the race to be first with a new flavour or style in craft beer, sometimes mistakes are made. Sometimes brewers are so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they don't stop to think if they should. The result is beer that is ill conceived and, quite frankly, often not fit for human consumption. And sometimes a brewery is so desperate for attention they’ll come up with the stupidest gimmick imaginable in the hopes that someone will talk about their brand (you’re welcome). Here’s our list of unusual and largely undrinkable beer, most of which should have never existed. Because sometimes when you swing for the fences, you strike out. Hard.

VOODOO DOUGHNUT MAPLE BACON ALE BY ROGUE ALES I must admit, I got sucked into this one. The bottle was a bright pink colour, Rogue is a great brewery and Voodoo Doughnuts is one of my favourite

places for a late night snack in Portland. I was intrigued, so I bought myself a bottle. Big mistake. The beer was smoky, meaty, sickly sweet and kind of oily. Every flavour was competing with every other flavour, except there were no winners here, just losers: namely, me and my poor mouth. Maybe some people like beer that tastes like stale cigarettes and flop sweat, but I’m not one of them.

SPAGHETTI GOSE BY WELDWORKS BREWING With the growing popularity of salted and sour beers, we’re seeing more savoury flavours creep into the craft brewer’s palette. This is ridiculous, though. Made with tomatoes, pasta and dryhopped with basil and oregano, the brewery claims Spaghetti Gose was meant to “evoke vitriolic reactions from the Reinheitsgebot purists” and “incite rage the likes of which have never been seen.” By all accounts it tastes like carbonated V8 juice, so I guess all WeldWorks proved was that they make revolting beer and they need to resort to shitty gimmicks to get noticed.

ANDARES BY CERVECA CEREX

HVALUR 2 BY BRUGGHÚS STEÐJA

Jamón ibérico is the Spanish version of prosciutto, made from black Iberian free-range pigs that are fed a diet of acorns from the oak forests that border Spain and Portugal. But it belongs on a plate—preferably thinly sliced, on toast with tomato and a drizzle of olive oil—not in a beer. But why stop at jamón ibérico! Why not put foie gras in your beer? How about caviar and gold leaf ? Why not take a suitcase full of money, set it on fire, and dry-hop the beer with the ashes?

Oh, Iceland. I guess if your country is largely devoid of edible vegetation you have to get creative with the local ingredients you feature in your beer. Naturally, Brugghús Steðja decided to make their Hvalur beer with whale testicles smoked with sheep dung. You read that correctly: they put shitsmoked whale balls in their beer. Again with the testicles! Seriously, why do all these dudes insist on putting testicles in their beer?

BEARD BEER BY ROGUE BREWING I should have learned my lesson with the Voodoo Doughnut abomination, but the dude on the bottle of Beard Beer looked exactly like my buddy Sean, so I had to give it a try. Said dude-on-bottle is none other than Rogue brewer John Maier, who cultured the yeast used in this beer from his own beard. Gross. Well, not quite. The beer was actually not terrible! Kinda like a tropical saison with a very dry finish. Easily the best beer on this list, not that that’s anything to be proud of.

GHOST FACE KILLAH BY TWISTED PINE BREWING COMPANY Billed as the “Hottest beer this side of hell,” Ghost Face Killah is made with six different kinds of chili pepper, including the notorious bhut jolokia, AKA, the ghost pepper. Chili beers are generally pretty awful, but this beer seems designed to be a bad time. “Utter agony for most, but absolute euphoria for a fiery few.” Much like its Wu Tang Clan namesake, this beer ain’t nuthing ta fuck wit.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN OYSTER STOUT BY WYNKOOP BREWING Oyster stout is a legit beer style that uses real oysters to impart a briny quality to the beer, while the shells act as a fining agent to clarify it. The Rocky Mountain oyster isn’t a mollusk, however. It’s bull testicles. While considered an aphrodisiac by some, they’re usually served up as a prank to naïve tourists in town for the convention. This beer apparently began as an April Fool’s joke, and should have stayed that way.

MAMMA MIA! PIZZA BEER There is no better combination in Heaven and Earth than pizza and beer. But that doesn’t mean the two should actually be combined. Only Ninja Turtles with fake IDs should be drinking this garbage.

THE ORDER OF YONI BY BOTTLED INSTINCT Much like Rogue’s Beard Beer, The Order of Yoni is fermented with micro-organisms harvested from the human body, in this case lactobacillus bacteria from a supermodel’s va-jay-jay (“Yoni” is Sanskrit for vagina, apparently). Just listen to this absolutely batshit sales pitch (apologies in advance for the broken English, and, well, everything else): “Just imagine woman of your dreams, your object of desire. Her charm, her sensuality, her passion… Try how she tastes, feel her smell, hear her voice… Now imagine her giving you a passionate massage and gently whispering anything you'd like to hear. Now free your fantasies and imagine all of that can be closed in a bottle of beer. A golden drink brewed with her lure and grace and flavored with wild instincts. Imagine a beer which every sip offers a rendez-vous with this hot woman of your dreams… she hugs you and kisses you gently, looking straight into your eyes… How much would you give for such a beer?” [sic] But wait, there’s more! “The secret of the beer lies in her vagina. Using hi-tech of microbiology, we isolate, examine and prepare lactic acid bacteria from vagina of a unique woman. The bacteria, lactobacillus, transfer woman’s features, allure, grace, glamour, and her instincts into beers and other products, turning them into dance with lovely goddess.” [sic] Wow. Just… wow.j

Cellar dwellers cellaring The dos and don'ts of hoarding beer. by Rob Mangelsdorf

hile the vast majority of commercial beers we drink are designed to be consumed as fresh as possible, some can actually benefit from some added time—provided it’s under the right conditions. Like wine, some beers can be cellar-aged to improve their flavour. But if you screw it up, you’re going to have gushing bottles and a wet, sticky mess to clean up. So don’t screw it up. Here’s how.

DO… Read the label. If you see things like “Brewer’s Reserve,” “Vertical” or the vintage year is listed on the label, this is a good indication the beer is designed to be cellar aged. Other beers, like Granville Island’s totally legit Cellar Series, spell it out for you pretty plainly. If there’s a clearly-marked expiration date on the beer, drink it ASAP.

DON’T… Cellar a beer without drinking one first. I’ve developed the habit of buying two bottles of any beer I find I think might benefit from an extended stay in the cellar—one for now, one for later. That way I can determine if it’s appropriate for aging and I

can see how the flavour changes over time. Take some tasting notes while you're at it.

DO… Consider aging these beers. Strong beers (7% ABV and higher), malt-forward beers, barrel-aged beers, Brett-fermented beers, imperial stouts, barleywines, pretty much anything Belgian, traditional sours (as opposed to kettle sours), beers with lots of residual sweetness, bottle-conditioned beers and beers that explicitly tell you to age them.

DON’T… Age these other beers. Hop-forward styles like IPAs, anything hazy, light lagers, beers that are lower in alcohol, very dry beers, anything fresh hopped, most commercial beer.

DO… Look for bottle-conditioned beers. Bottle-conditioned beer gets a little added kick of yeast and sugar to carbonate the beer in the bottle. These beers are ideal for aging, as the yeast will continue to ferment (at a glacial pace, mind you) and eat up any oxygen that might sneak past the bottle cap. Most Belgian beers are bottle conditioned, which

is why they have such long shelf lives. Naturally, so is Dageraad’s entire lineup.

a gusher with these beers. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t experiment with them, though.

DON’T…

Let your beer get too warm (or too cold). The optimal temperature for aging beer is between 10 C and 15 C, with high ABV beers (7% and above) towards the top end of that range. Because the beer you’re storing is likely unpasteurized, that means the yeasts will still be working away. If stored at too high a temperature, like a closet that gets hot in the summer, the yeasts will become active, chewing up any residual sugars and pooping out more alcohol and carbon dioxide. That’s a recipe for a gusher. You do not want to wear the contents of a bottle of cherry lambic all over your nice white shirt. Meanwhile, store the beer in too cold a temperature, and nothing will happen at all. It’s all about consistently staying in that Goldilocks zone. Personally, I keep my beers in an unheated corner of my basement where the temperature stays a balmy 12 C all year round.

Lie your bottles flat. Beer isn’t wine, so you don’t need to keep it in contact with the cork. Keeping the bottle upright will allow the yeast to settle out of the beer at the bottom over time. Even if the beer bottle has a cork, keep it upright, as it may take on flavours of the cork if the beer is in contact with it.

DO… Serve the beer at the temperature you’ve stored it at. You want to be able to taste the complexity of the beer, after all, and flavour diminishes with temperature. If you serve a Westvleteren 12 that’s been aged for five years at 2 C, I’m going to find you, and I’m going to slap you.

DON’T… Expect radical changes in flavour. Typically, the changes that occur with aging are subtle, but significant. Barrel-aged beers will generally mellow with age, with tannic astringency becoming less pronounced. Hop bitterness will fade, while beers fermented with Brettanomyces will tend to clean up and dry out over time. You might notice more balance to the beer’s flavour; sours taste less acidic, roasted malts become less acrid and beers with a high alcoholic content will become less “hot.” But don’t expect a completely new beer.

DO… Look for established releases. Beers that have been around for years like Vancouver Island Brewing’s annual run of Hermannator or most Belgian beers have well demonstrated shelf stability. The new brewery down the street with its first-ever barrel-aged release? Not so much. You have a higher likelihood of getting

DO… Open your beer over the sink. Sometimes, despite all your best efforts to treat your beer right, it just doesn’t want to behave and you’re left with a gusher. It happens. Cellaring beer is unpredictable, especially with unstable cellaring temperatures or new releases. Aim away from the face.

DON’T… Expose your beers to light. Beer is photosensitive and glass bottles let in light, so box up those beers and turn off the lights unless you want that Founders KBS to taste like Pepé LePew’s butthole.

DO… Share your beers! The best part of aging beers is discovering how the beer’s flavour has changed over time. So invite some friends over, crack a few bottles, and share the experience. Better yet, do a monthly bottle share! Fun!

DON’T… Leave your bottles for too long. Age your cellar-appropriate beers for at least a year, but beyond that, it’s up to you. But don't go crazy. Most will hit their sweet spot at around three years. Some Belgian varieties like lambic or gueuze can be aged for 10 years or more. But once again, beer is not wine. An imperial stout that’s been aged for decades will probably taste like wet cardboard and meaty farts.

DO… Experiment! Aging beer isn’t an exact science, so have some fun with it! j • Rob Mangelsdorf is a Certified Cicerone, BJCP beer judge and editor of The Growler. He also enjoys hoarding beer in his basement until he can force it on unsuspecting houseguests and talking about himself in the third person.

Everything you need to know about everywhere you need to be! NOVEMBER 30-DECEMBER 1 Christmas Craft Beer Festival (Victoria) Victoria’s Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre plays host to the third annual edition of the Christmas Craft Beer Show, with close to 50 B.C. breweries and cideries taking part. Live music courtesy of Super Sauce, and tons of food options available. Tickets start at $40 for a one-day pass, or $70 for a two-day pass. ChristmasCraftBeerShow.com

DECEMBER 6-8 Krampusnacht 2018 (Vancouver) Strange Fellows Brewing is partnering with OH Studio to present an Old World inspired Kristmas market at the brewery, complete with a visit by everyone’s favourite holiday goat-demon, Krampus! Get your photo taken with Krampus (Dec. 6, 7-9pm), peruse the odd and exquisite offerings by local artisans at the Krampusmarkt (Dec. 7, 5-11pm, Dec. 8, 12-11pm), ditch the little ones at the kids table, and help yourself to lots and lots of beer. StrangeFellowsBrewing.com

DECEMBER 16 Brawnywine (Vancouver) Barleywine might be one of the most polarizing beer styles out there, but if you like your beer to have a kick and be somewhat flammable, then this one’s for you. Parallel 49’s annual barleywine festival features 12 different versions on tap, including four of their own creation. But for the love of God, drink responsibly (ha!) and don’t even think about driving. Parallel49Brewing.com

DECEMBER 20 The Growler presents the 12 Beers of Christmas (Victoria) Celebrate the holiday season with this unique food and beer journey through Victoria’s craft beer scene. Twelve unique and limited edition beers are

paired with a 12-course tasting menu courtesy of Toque catering at this roving long table dinner, with stops at breweries all over Victoria. Learn about the beer from the brewers themselves with Growler editor Rob Mangelsdorf (hey, that’s me!) as your guide. WestCoastBreweryTours.ca

DECEMBER 22 Wheelhouse Brewing Turns 5 (Prince Rupert) Five years is a big milestone in B.C.’s ever-growing craft beer scene—especially when you’re all the way up in Prince Rupert. If you’re in town, make sure to swing by and raise a pint in honour of this northern trailblazer. WheelhouseBrewing.com

JANUARY 12 Weathered Beer Celebration (Vancouver) The people behind Farmhouse Fest are putting on this first-time festival at Heritage Hall on Main that combines art and beer. It’s going to be fancy, and the beers are going to be sublime. We’re talking beers from Mikkeller, Jester King, Tilquin, Cantillon, 3 Fonteinen, Alesmith, Firestone Walker, to name a few, as well as a host of local standouts. WeatheredBeer.com

FEBRUARY 23 Hopwired Festival (Vancouver) This celebration of coffee-infused beers at the Croatian Cultural Centre will have you buzzing. Make sure you eat a good breakfast! HopwiredFest.com

FEBRUARY 25 KPU Brewing Career Fair (Langley) Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s annual brewing career fair welcomes the public to check out their Brewery Lab, sample the beers made by the students and learn about B.C.’s only two-year diploma program for brewing. KPU.ca/brewing-career-fair j

THE GROWLER B.C. BREWERS COLLABORATION SERIES

Poire Blanche 4.8% ABV / 21 IBU

White as winter snow and fruitier than a partridge in a pear tree, Poire Blanche is what happens when two of B.C.’s foremost makers of Belgianstyle beer—East Vancouver’s Strange Fellows Brewing and Powell River’s Townsite Brewing Brewing—team up for a brew. This witbier is brewed with B.C. pears and features Sterling and Cascade hops for a West Coast twist on Ask the Belgian classic. for it at Subtle pear and your favourite floral notes are independent complemented li quor store in by a light citrus B.C. character that’s sure to get you through the winter.

Lager Lit The Growler's guide to beer books by Ted Child

he world of beer has never been more exciting and it has never been a better time to be a beer lover. As the world of beer continues to grow and deepen, so has the quality and insight of the books being written about it. So, if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never read a book about beer, if you want to know what to read next, or if you are just looking for the perfect Christmas gift, let The Growler be your guide to the incredible world of beer books. For the beer lover just stepping into the world of beer books, one place to start is How to Have a Beer by Alice Galletly. Clocking in at just over a hundred pages, this concise read is a self-deprecating beer nerd writing with wit and without pretension. A perfect gateway beer book that will have you wanting to read more while making you laugh out loud, specifically the chapter on the author brewing a cock ale with her father.

If you read one book this year make it Barrel-Aged Stout and Selling Out: Goose Island, Anheuser-Busch and How Craft Beer Became Big Business. Award winning journalist Josh Noel tells the tale of how Goose Island founder John Hall, with the help of his son, Greg, built one of the most important and well respected breweries in all of craft beer only to agree to one of its most scandalous sales. Well researched, highly detailed but compulsively readable, clear your schedule and stock the fridge with non-AB InBev brewed stout before you crack this impressive work of beer journalism. For an insiders look at the early craft beer movement in B.C., plus a whole lot more, the must read book is Brewing Revolution by Frank Appleton. Appleton was an instrumental part of bringing craft beer to B.C. and his story definitely

needed to be told. This lively book also pulls no punches as Appleton recounts his early days at one of Canada’s “Big Three” industrial breweries, consulting on the brewhouses of many early B.C. craft breweries, and his insights on certain craft beer titans, such as Jim Koch of Samuel Adams fame. For beer travelers, the first place to look is with Canadian beer writer Stephen Beaumont. Two of his books, Best Beers and The World Atlas of Beer (both co-authored with Tim Webb) have been recently revised and expanded. Beaumont’s newest book, Will Travel for Beer, will give you the lowdown on the most iconic beer tourism spots across the globe but also some lesser well known places to get great beer. Also this book has what might be the single best chapter title in all of beer literature: “Fuck Alexander Keith.” Since beer writer great Michael Jackson is unfortunately no longer able to update his classic book, The Great Beers of Belgium, the next best thing might be Trappist Beer Travels. Written by a trio of beer writers, this book is, like the Trappists themselves and the beer they produce, one of the more contemplative beer books around. Enjoy it while sipping on a goblet of Orval or Rochefort. If there has been an explosion of great beer books recently then it is even truer of homebrewing books. Of all the great books on homebrewing out there, there are a few that are especially deserving of your attention. One such read is Jeff Alworth’s (author of the Beer Bible) The Secret of

Master Brewers. Alworth follows a recent trend of the author not supplying the recipes but in this case getting recipes from brew masters of some of the world's most iconic and well loved breweries. Arguably, the reader doesn’t even need to be a homebrewer to find tons of insider knowledge of world-class breweries to nerd out about. Also check out The Brew Your Own Big Book of Homebrewing. No matter how much experience you have this book will make you a better brewer. Lastly, if Randy Mosher’s Tasting Beer wasn’t essential reading for serious beer drinkers before than the newly updated 2nd edition certainly is. A full hundred pages longer than the original, this is the book you need to get very serious about that strange creature in your glass. The beer literature universe is expanding with ever increasing speed. It is exciting to read great authors writing about the world's most interesting subject with passion, knowledge and skill. Other great beer books to check out are Beeronomics: How Beer Explains the World, the books of Patrick E McGovern, and Pascal Bauder’s The Wildcrafting Brewer, which will teach you how to make your next hike into alcohol. The experience of drinking beer can only be deepened by reading about it. Hopefully you now have some idea of which book to pick up next. j

STOUTS PORTERS & EVOLUTIO

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So what exactly is the diﬀerence between a porter and a stout, anyways? As it turns out, not that much, according to Sean Hoyne of Hoyne Brewing, and creator of Finnegans Irish Stout. Lara Zukowsky photo

by Joe Wiebe

sk a range of people what the difference is between porters and stouts and you might get as many answers as the number of people you ask. Conducting a blind tasting might be just as unproductive as the styles tend to overlap considerably. To try to figure out what the difference is—if there even is one—I sat down with Sean Hoyne who has been brewing beer professionally in Victoria since 1989 and has considered himself a student of beer history for even longer than that. Fittingly, I sipped from a glass of Hoyne’s Finnegans Irish Stout while we chatted. In order to understand porter and stout, Hoyne said we have to look at the way beer evolved in Britain. The earliest ales were brown beers made from malted barley that was lightly roasted over hardwood fires. This resulted in a brownish malt that was very

inconsistent in quality. It was slightly smoky and some of the kernels would have torrified (popped like popcorn), adding a burnt-caramelized flavour. Brewers generally made two styles. “Mild beer was fresh beer: beer that hadn’t been aged,” Hoyne explained, while brown beer would typically sit in a vat anywhere from four months to a year, during which it would become dry and acidified from bacteria in the vat. “They called it ‘stale beer,’ but not in a negative connotation. ‘Stale’ just meant it had been kept longer.” Apparently, a certain sourness was a desired flavour. The myth of porter’s birth (according to the Oxford Companion of Beer) states that in 1722, a brewer named Ralph Harwood decided to create a special blended beer for “a publican who ran the Blue Last, a working-class watering hole on Shoreditch’s

WHAT'S THe DIFF? According to the Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) Style Guidelines, porter is “a moderate-strength brown beer with a restrained roasty character and bitterness. May have a range of roasted flavours, generally without burnt qualities, and often has a chocolate-caramel-malty profile.” Meanwhile, Irish Stout is described as “a black beer with a pronounced roasted flavour, often similar to coffee.” To confuse matters, however, there are other categories for Baltic porter, sweet stout, oatmeal stout, foreign extra stout, and tropical stout, as well as a whole separate section for American porter and stout. Great Eastern Street.” The pub was frequented mostly by so-called porters, strong men whose job was to carry goods unloaded from ships at the docks to markets, shops and warehouses in the heart of London. The new beer was a hit and came to be named after the porters who loved it. Beer historians have largely debunked this origin story, arguing that porter wasn’t created in one day, but rather evolved as the population of London swelled and new technological advancements allowed for breweries to grow larger and larger. Porter was certainly a blended style at first, but as it grew in popularity, breweries came to brew it in a single batch as they would with any other beer. Some of these porter breweries built enormous aging vats that would dwarf even the biggest fermentation tanks used today. The largest on record held about 32,500 hL (over three million litres). To put that in context, Hoyne believes the biggest in the world currently is a 1,500-barrel (1,760 hL) vessel at Coors in Colorado. The giant porter vats built in the early 1800s were so big that breweries held promotional dinner parties for dozens of people inside them when they were empty. Sadly, in October 1814, a full tank burst, resulting in a flood of porter that killed eight people. Porter took England by storm in the 18th century and well into the 19th century. One of the many brewers who made it was Arthur Guinness in Dublin, which finally brings us to stout. Guinness made a strong version called stout porter, but Hoyne pointed out that “all that ‘stout’ referred to was the gravity of the beer: if it was stout it was

considered a stronger beer.” And at this point both versions were still brown beers, not black. Two technological advances helped to change that. One was the brewer’s hydrometer, which arrived on the scene in the late 1700s. Prior to that, brewers could only guess at the efficiency of the malts they used, with the results varying considerably from batch to batch. Hoyne explained that using a hydrometer showed brewers that they could get much better extract out of pale malt than from the brown malt they mainly used. Then in 1817, Daniel Wheeler patented a new process of roasting barley in a metal cylinder similar to a coffee roaster. The result was black patent malt, and brewers could use it to give porter a dark colour and roasted flavour without having to use as much brown malt—instead relying on the more efficient pale malt to make up the majority of the grain bill. Porters and “stout porters” gradually got darker in colour. Eventually, with the advent of pale styles like IPAs and pilsners in the late 1800s, porters and stouts faded away in popularity. In the early 20th century, British beers became dominated by lower alcohol styles like milds and bitters, and porters disappeared almost entirely. At some point, Guinness dropped the “porter” part of the name and kept making a stout, but paradoxically with a lower alcohol content, and this became the standard to which all stouts were compared. Whether today’s stouts and porters resemble the original versions from 200 years ago is doubtful, but who cares? Find your favourite version of each and there you have the perfect example of the style—for you. j

Required drinking Driftwood Brewing // Blackstone Porter Hoyne Brewing // Finnegans Irish Stout Nelson Brewing Co. // Blackheart Oatmeal Stout Persephone Brewing Co. // Brewing Dry Irish Stout Townsite Brewing // Perfect Storm Stout Yellow Dog Brewing // Shake A Paw Smoked Porter East Van Brewing Co. // When It Rains It Porters

Recipe

Beer and Cheddar Soup with Strange Fellows Brewing White IPA By Roy Flemming, executive chef for Tuc Craft Kitchen

orn in the UK and raised in the Caribbean, New York City and Montreal, Tuc Craft Kitchen executive chef Roy Flemming has spent more than two decades in the kitchen, blending classical techniques with inspiration from the rustic flavours and family traditions of the far-flung locales he has lived. At Vancouverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tuc, Roy has created a menu that is seasonally informed, locally sourced and showcases his signature brand of nourishing comfort food that is artfully prepared and plated.

Photos by Dan Toulgoet

Why do you love this recipe? Is there a personal anecdote behind it you can share? I created this beer and cheddar soup for our fall menu at Tuc with the intention of celebrating all that this season brings. As a child, I used to go apple picking in the fall and our family would make pies, crumble and apple cider. One of my favorite snacks growing up was apples with cheddar cheese; I took inspiration from this combination and created a hearty cheddar soup featuring apple cider and a great craft beer. Tell us why you chose this beer? What sort of foods does it pair well with? I chose Strange Fellows Brewing White IPA I N g r ed i ents

because of its aromatic intensity, balance and mild hoppiness. I find this beer quite versatile, pairing nicely with a hearty salad or pasta as well as a few bar snacks like spicy wings or a Tuc favourite, pork belly with star anise red wine reduction. What are some general tips you have for cooking with beer, specifically with soups or sauces? Always cook with a beer that you like to drink as the characteristics will be evident in the final product. Beer with a higher alcohol content will be more bitter than one with a lower alcohol content so go easy when pouring to ensure balance. IPAs, stouts and pale ales tend to go with hearty foods while lagers and pilsners typically pair best with lighter foods.

3. Pour in beer and cook for five more minutes.

For the soup • ¾ cup canola oil • 3 onions (minced) • ¾ cup flour • 2 cups Strange Fellows Brewing White IPA • 4 cups apple cider • ½ cup Dijon mustard (not grainy) • 8 cups chicken stock • 8 sprigs of thyme (stems removed) • 2 tsp nutmeg • 1 tsp ground cloves • 1 tsp cayenne pepper • 6 bay leaves • 2 cups 35% whipping cream • 1 tbsp kosher salt and pepper • 1 cup cheddar cheese (shredded)

4. Add apple cider, Dijon mustard, thyme, nutmeg, cloves, pepper and bay leaves to soup mixture and simmer on medium heat for one hour.

For the oat crumble • 1 cup old fashioned oats • 2 tbsp flour • ¼ tsp kosher salt • 1 tsp cinnamon • 2 tbsp brown sugar • 6 tbsp unsalted butter (softened)

4. Spread oat mixture evenly onto a baking sheet.

5. Add whipping cream and salt and pepper to the soup and simmer on low heat for 30 minutes.

6. Remove from the stovetop and allow soup to cool to 70 C within two hours and 40 C within four hours.

7. Serve and garnish with oat crumble (see recipe below) and a large pinch of shredded cheddar cheese. Preparing the oat crumble 1. Pre-heat oven to 350 F.

2. In a bowl combine the oats, flour, brown sugar, cinnamon and salt.

3. Add the softened butter and use your fingers to crumble it into the oat mixture until everything is moist and the butter is evenly distributed. 5. Bake for 20 minutes, stirring halfway through cooking, until crisp and golden brown. j

Recipe makes four litres of soup d i r ecti o ns Making the soup 1. Add oil and onions to a pot and cook for 15 minutes on medium heat.

2. Add flour and stir and cook for three minutes.

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RED TRUCK BEER CO.

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33 ACRES BREWING CO.

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BIG ROCK URBAN BREWERY & EATERY

ANDINA BREWING CO.

1507 Powell St. | AndinaBrewing.ca

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The first brewery in Canada to use Chilean malts to produce beer is still getting creative with plaintain nachos made from chips flown directly from Colombia.

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BOMBER BREWING CO.

BRASSNECK BREWERY

1488 Adanac St. | BomberBrewing.com

2148 Main St. | Brassneck.ca

The tasting room is always bumping at this Yeast Van craft brewery thanks to its perennially award-winning beers.

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BREWHALL

CALLISTER BREWING CO.

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COAL HARBOUR BREWING CO.

CRAFT COLLECTIVE BEERWORKS

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In operation since 2011 and infamous for their simple, clean lager, the East Van spot has slowly started dabbling in some more creative batches.

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DOCKSIDE BREWING CO.

DOGWOOD BREWING

1253 Johnston St. | DocksideVancouver.com

8284 Sherbrooke St. | DogwoodBrew.com

Not your typical taproom experience, but maybe clean yourself up a little and check out this reinvigorated longtime Granville Island spot.

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20 E. 4th Ave. | ElectricBicycleBrewing.com

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FACULTY BREWING CO.

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School is in session, so grab a beer and get educated—and make sure to check out brewer Jacquie Loehndorf ’s experimental pilot brews every Thursday.

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LUPPOLO BREWING CO.

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403 East Hastings St. | PatsPub.ca

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MAIN STREET BREWING CO.

OFF THE RAIL BREWING

1351 Adanac St. | OffTheRailBrewing.com

261 E. 7th Ave. | MainStreetBeer.ca

One of the most bumping tasting rooms in the city, Main Street is also one of the few places where you can still get a hand-pulled cask ale.

Celebrate four successful years in business at Off the Rail’s anniversary party on Feb. 15. Cheers to many more years of creative, awardwinning beer.

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VANCOUVER

PARALLEL 49 BREWING CO.

POSTMARK BREWING

1950 Triumph St. | Parallel49Brewing.com

55 Dunlevy Ave. | PostmarkBrewing.com

Do you open all the flaps in the Alpine Adventure pack on Dec. 1 or will you patiently wait to be surprised each day?

Although the brand was recently acquired by Craft Collective, it’s still business as usual at Postmark’s original Railtown brewery, which shares its space with yummy Belgard Kitchen.

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R & B BREWING CO.

POWELL BREWERY

1357 Powell St. | PowellBeer.com

54 E. 4th Ave. | RAndBBrewing.com

Fully embracing craft’s canning revolution, Powell’s bold designs pop from the shelves. What goes in the cans pops just as vibrantly, including a certain World Beer Cup-winning Old Jalopy.

At R&B, if it’s not broke, don’t fix it. That’s the philosophy behind 21 years of brewing awardwinning beers in the same East Van location.

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VANCOUVER

STEAMWORKS BREW PUB

STORM BREWING LTD.

375 Water St. | Steamworks.com/Brew-Pub

310 Commercial Dr. | StormBrewing.com

Converting the masses to craft since 1995, Gastown’s only craft brewery is home to Canada’s first steam-powered brewhouse.

No trip to Yeast Van is complete without a visit to the funky little brewery that started it all. You might even catch a glimpse of owner/brewer James Walton in his platform KISS boots!

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VANCOUVER

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8.0% N/A

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5.0% N/A

VANCOUVER

STRATHCONA BEER CO.

YALETOWN BREWING CO.

895 E. Hastings St. | StrathconaBeer.com

1111 Mainland St. | MJG.ca/Yaletown

In one of Vancouver’s oldest neighbourhoods stands this relatively new spot that has built a solid brand on some wonderfully wacky labels.

Vancouver’s original brewpub is still a great place for food and beer—the core list is solid and the seasonals are always worth checking out.

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Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

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Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

5.0% 40

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

8.2% 31

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

6.5% 70

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BREW PUBS

3 Dogs Beere Black Kettle Bridge Britannia Central City Dageraad Dead Frog Deep Cove Foamers' Folly Four Winds Fuggles & Warlock Green Leaf Hearthstone KPU Maple Meadows Mariner Moody Ales Northpaw Parkside Ridge Russell Silver Valley Steamworks Steel & Oak Streetcar Taylight Trading Post Twin Sails White Rock Beach White Rock Yellow Dog

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DAGERAAD BREWING

114 - 3191 Thunderbird Cres. | DageraadBrewing.com MON-WED 12-9PM ^ THU 12-10PM ^ FRI-SAT 11AM-10PM SUN 11AM-9PM EST. 2014 If you thought Canada’s reigning brewery of the year would rest on its laurels, you’ve never met Ben Coli, Dageraad’s owner and yeast wrangler-in-chief. Coli and his team have been exploring every nuance of Belgian beer and it’s been quite a ride—with no sign of stopping.

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BELGIAN GOLDEN STRONG ALE

B E L G I A N DA R K S T R O N G

Availability: Seasonal

ABV

8.5%

IBU

ABV

Celebrate another year in the bottle with this divine pear-, coriander- and brett-infused golden ale.

8.9%

IBU

Fabulously complex with alluring malt and stone fruit depths, yet refreshingly crisp thanks in part to a subtle lactic tartness.

ANTWERPEN

LEKKERS

A B B E Y- S T Y L E T R I P E L

DA R K B E L G I A N A L E

Availability: Seasonal ABV

8.5%

IBU

Availability: Seasonal

ABV

Gracefully hopped, elegantly smooth, tantalizingly spiced and cripplingly quaffable. Antwerpen is a liquid wonder.

5.5%

IBU

Caramelized sugar and orange peel add some zip to Lekkers, which will be available in cans this time around.

Yeast unleashed Hops are all very well and flavourful, but the Belgians learned centuries ago that you can get way more expression—fruity, earthy, spicy and… barnyardy— from yeast. True to its mission as B.C.’s only all-Belgian-style brewery, Dageraad lets the yeast do most of the talking in its beers, mostly with the Chimay and Ardennes strains. 50

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FOUR WINDS BREWING

4 - 7355 72nd St. | FourWindsBrewing.ca

SUN-WED 11AM-7PM ^ THURS-SAT 11AM-9PM EST. 2013 Plans are in the works for a second Four Winds facility as part of the Southlands development in Tsawwassen, which will include a new brewery and adjoining restaurant. Back at the original HQ in Tilbury, the kitchen is now serving up tapas and tacos all day long starting in December!

LA MAISON

OAT PORTER

WILD SAISON

P O RT E R

Availability: Year-round ABV

4.5%

IBU

Availability: Seasonal

ABV

Deceptively flavourful for such a low-ABV beer, this boasts notes of pepper and tropical fruit.

5.5%

IBU

This rich, dark porter is smooth and creamy with cocoa and roasted coffee tones.

TRIPLICITY

OPERIS

BELGIAN-STYLE TRIPEL

BRETT SAISON

Availability: Small batch

ABV

9.0%

IBU

33.3

ABV

Three malts, three hops and three different sugars go into this Growlie-winning fruit- and spice-laden tripel.

7.0%

IBU

Aged in Okanagan red wine barrels and invigorated with wild Brettanomyces yeast for an earthy, funky flavour.

Hard core logo Four Winds’ original logo and packaging was created by none other than celebrated painter, Juno-nominated artist and former musician Andy Dixon. One of Dixon’s works even hangs in the brewery’s tasting room! 52

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RICHMOND

MONKEY 9 BREWING CO.

14200 Entertainment Blvd. | Monkey9.ca

MON-FRI 2PM-12AM ^ SAT 11:30AM-12AM SUN 11:30AM-10PM EST. 2017 A year since reopening under new management, Richmond’s bowling alley brewpub has definitely upped its game in the beer department. Brewer Travis Lang has everything dialed in—he even took home an award at the B.C. Beer Awards in October.

MALTY PAPA

JITTER MONKEY

EXTRA SPECIAL BITTER

C O F F E E P O RT E R

Availability: Year-round ABV

7.0%

IBU

Availability: Seasonal

ABV

A classic ESB with a big malt backbone and a mild hoppy bitterness.

7.5%

IBU

If you like your coffee cold, bubbly and boozy, check out this collab with the folks at Steveston Coffee Co.

JAMES BROWN

SILVERBACK

B R OW N A L E

S TO U T

Availability: Year-round ABV

6.0%

IBU

Availability: Year-round

ABV

Nutty and roasty, this brown ale won a bronze medal at the 2018 B.C. Beer Awards.

5.9%

IBU

This stout has a big roasted malt character. Ask for it on nitro.

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MARINER BREWING

1100 Lansdowne Dr. | MarinerBrewing.ca

3845 William St. | Steamworks.com

The Burnaby brewery’s taproom is a beautiful, spacious, laid-back environment in which to savour the skill of brewmaster Julia Hanlon’s exceptional beer.

An exploratory batch is available every Thursday, usually a one-off cask to keep the juices flowing, both in the brain and the belly.

PREMIUM CRAFT LAGER

AFTERGLOW CHESTNUT BROWN ALE

VENTURE STRAWBERRY RHUBARB SOUR

B R OW N A L E Availability: Seasonal

SOUR ALE

AMERICAN LAGER

NITRO STOUT S TO U T

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

Availability: Seasonal

5.0% 15

ABV IBU

4.5% 30

LANGLEY

ABV IBU

5.5% 20

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

5.0% 5

LANGLEY

DEAD FROG BREWERY

KPU BREWING LAB

105 - 8860 201st St. | DeadFrog.ca

20901 Langley Bypass | KPU.ca/Brew

There are now 20+ beers on tap at the new Langley location, some of which are gluten free, alongside a full menu and your pup is welcome, too.

Unleashing a pack of undergrads in a brewery might sound like a recipe for diacetyl. But under instructor Alek Egi, KPU is actually producing some award-winning beer.

REDRUM SPICED RED ALE

NUTTY UNCLE PEANUT BUTTER STOUT

KPU BOYSENBERRY PORTER

RED ALE

S TO U T

P O RT E R

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

5.0% 18

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

6.1% 24

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

5.0% 15

KPU DARK LAGER LAGER Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

4.5% N/A

LANGLEY

MAPLE RIDGE

TRADING POST BREWING

107 - 20120 64th Ave. | TradingPostBrewing.com

MAPLE MEADOWS BREWING CO.

22775 Dewdney Trunk Rd. | MapleMeadowsBrewing.com

A second eatery is slated for Abbotsford by year’s end, the third location of the locally-owned and operated Lower Mainland spot.

Just in time for Christmas, Carlo Baroccio’s brewery is packaging at last: bottles are for sale at the brewery and will soon have distribution.

RUSSIAN IMPERIAL STOUT

TART CRANBERRY BEER

AMBER EARS

I M P E R I A L S TO U T Availability: Seasonal

KETTLE SOUR Availability: Seasonal

ABV IBU

8.5% 40

ABV IBU

AMBER ALE Availability: Seasonal

5.9% 7

MAPLE RIDGE

ABV IBU

THE CAPTAIN WEST COAST ALE PA L E A L E

5.3% 29

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

5.5% 36

MAPLE RIDGE

RIDGE BREWING CO.

SILVER VALLEY BREWING

22826 Dewdney Trunk Rd. | RidgeBrewing.com

#101 - 11952 224 St. | SilverValleyBrewing.com

The first Tuesday of every month is open mic night at this popular Maple Ridge haunt. If you can’t make it, no worries—Ridge’s beer is now available in tall cans, as well as bombers.

This place has strong ties to the community with regular monthly yoga and crafting nights, as well as trivia nights, live music and Brewmaster’s Dinners.

DARK SCIENCE

WIND & SEA

A M E R I C A N S TO U T

N O RT H W E S T PA L E A L E

HIGHWAY LAGER

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

5.0% 50

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

5.0% 33

FROZEN POND ENGLISH STRONG ALE

LAGER Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

5.5% 20

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

7.0% 40

NEW WEST

NORTH VAN

STEEL & OAK BREWING CO.

BEERE BREWING COMPANY

1319 3rd Ave. | SteelAndOak.ca

312 E. Esplanade | BeereBrewing.com

If you haven’t visited S&O’s warm and welcoming tasting room, its eclectic vinyl collection might entice you to do so. And the beer’s good too!

With a surname like Beere, it wasn’t a matter of if they would open a brewery, but when. And we’re so glad they did. #HaveABeere.

SMOKED HONEY DOPPELBOCK

BALTIC

CHERRY WILLIS

BA LT I C P O RT E R

I M P E R I A L S TO U T W I T H DA R K C H E R RY A N D CACAO Availability: Seasonal

DOPPELBOCK Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

Availability: Seasonal

7.9% 20

ABV IBU

7.6% 28

NORTH VAN

ABV IBU

8.1% 30

IMAGINARY FRIEND D O U B L E D RY H O P P E D I N D I A PA L E A L E Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

6.5% 20

NORTH VAN

BLACK KETTLE BREWING

BRIDGE BREWING CO.

106 -720 Copping St. | BlackKettleBrewing.com

1448 Charlotte Rd. | BridgeBrewing.com

Making it pour on the North Shore, the pair behind this operation opened with just one single brew—a pale ale.

Bridge’s diminutive wood-panelled tasting room is a cosy place to sample some of head brewer Sean Kellock’s inventive brews—and a taco or three.

ONCE UPON A PALE ALE

CASCADIAN DARK ALE

PA L E A L E

DA R K A L E

UGANDA SIPI COFFEE BROWN ALE

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

5.4% 30

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

6.0% 33

C O F F E E B R OW N A L E Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

6.0% 20

THE GRINCH S P I C E D P O RT E R Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

6.5% 20 59

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DEEP COVE BREWERS AND DISTILLERS

GREEN LEAF BREWING CO.

123 Carrie Cates Crt. | GreenLeafBrew.com

170 - 2270 Dollarton Hwy. | DeepCoveCraft.com

In addition to tasty craft beer, Deep Cove also makes a wide range of spirits. Look for a special release from its four-year-old whisky program soon.

Green Leaf now offers an extensive whisky list alongside its fresh beer; in fact, it even offers beer and whisky pairing suggestions.

LUMINESCENT

METHOD

LOLO STOUT

W E S T C OA S T PA L E A L E

S TO U T

C H O C O L AT E C O C O N U T P O RT E R

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

5.8% 32

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

5.0% 28

NORTH VAN

BRONZE AGE LAGER AMBER LAGER

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

5.5% 35

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

5.0% 18

NORTH VAN

HEARTHSTONE BREWERY

1015 Marine Dr. | HearthstoneBrewery.ca

STREETCAR BREWING

123A East 1st St. | StreetcarBrewing.ca

With a comfortable, welcoming room and one of the more innovative menus around, both in terms of food and beer, Hearthstone has it all going on.

The North Shore is exploding with breweries right now and Streetcar looks to stand out in Lower Lonsdale with its hoppy, citrus-forward beers.

CHOCOLATE MILK STOUT

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CITRUS WHEAT ALE

M I L K S TO U T A G E D O N C O C OA N I B S Availability: Year-round

EXTRA SPECIAL BITTER

A M E R I C A N W H E AT A L E

ABV IBU

5.5% 19

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

4.5% 30

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

4.8% 25

VITAMIN C DOUBLE INDIA PA L E A L E Availability: Small batch ABV IBU

7.0% 40

PITT MEADOWS

PT. COQUITLAM

NORTHPAW BREWING

FOAMERS’ FOLLY BREWING CO.

19221 122A Ave. | FoamersFolly.ca

2150-570 Sherling Pl. | NorthpawBrewCo.com

With 20 taps pouring an ever-changing lineup of beer, there’s always something new to try— including Foamers’ first foray into barrel-aged beers.

If you find yourself thirsty in Fremont Village, these guys have got you covered. And the first Monday of every month is LGBTQ night, Queers and Beers.

RASPBERRY GIN & SPRUCE SOUR ALE

BIG HAT NO CATTLE

JAMAICAN PALE ALE

P O RT E R

PA L E A L E

S O U R ALE

GHOST TRAIN OA K - A G E D E N G L I S H BA R L E Y W I N E

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

Availability: Seasonal

7.0% 17

ABV IBU

8.5% 60

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

4.8% 23

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

5.2% 30

PT. COQUITLAM

TAYLIGHT BREWING

402-1485 Coast Meridian Rd. | TaylightBrewing.com

You wait for years for a brewery to open in PoCo, then two come along at once. Taylight skews to the hoppier side of the flavour wheel. ROLLING STOCK IPA

LOCO POCO CZECH PILSNER

I N D I A PA L E A L E

PILSNER

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

6.5% 58

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

5.0% 27 61

PORT MOODY

MOODY ALES

THE PARKSIDE BREWERY

2601 Murray St. | MoodyAles.com

2731 Murray St. | TheParksideBrewery.com

Moody Ales is always a good time with 14 taps of craft beer to choose from. Make sure to check out trivia night every Wednesday.

Vern Lambourne and the folks at Parkside know a thing or two about making great beer, and the hip, airy tasting room is a great place to sample them any time of year.

LUSTY VIENNA AMBER CHOCOLATE LAGER OATMEAL STOUT A M B E R L A G E R S TO U T

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

5.6% 23

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

5.5% 19

PORT MOODY

ATTACK OF THE CHERRY STOUT I M P E R I A L S TO U T Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

8.3% 60

HUMANS, AN IPA FOR THE PEOPLE I N D I A PA L E A L E Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

6.3% 35

PORT MOODY

TWIN SAILS BREWING

YELLOW DOG BREWING CO.

2821 Murray St. | TwinSailsBrewing.com

1 - 2817 Murray St. | YellowDogBrew.com

Fresh from its clean sweep of the prestigious Hazy IPA category at the B.C. Beer Awards, Twin Sails is always innovating and experimenting.

The brewery that started it all on Brewers Row managed to pick up three medals at the Growlies, including bronze for Brewery of the Year.

SINGLE WHAMMY

DAT JUICE

SHAKE A PAW

PLAY DEAD IPA

C I T R A PA L E A L E

SMOKED ENGLISH P O RT E R

I N D I A PA L E A L E

I N D I A PA L E A L E Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

6.5% 56

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

5.2% 25

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

5.0% 24

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

6.8% 75

RICHMOND

BRITANNIA BREWING CO.

110-12500 Horseshoe Way | BBCO.ca

FUGGLES & WARLOCK CRAFTWORKS

103-11220 Horseshoe Way | FugglesWarlock.com

Brewmaster’s dinners are a regular staple at Britannia’s Steveston restaurant and taproom, on the first Sunday of each month.

First stop Richmond, next stop the world! The deliciousness of #fuglife has now spread east to five provinces and across the Pacific to South Korea.

ADRIFT BLONDE ALE

ASHORE RYE PORTER

PALE ALE

DARXIDE

B L O N D E PA L E A L E

B R I T I S H P O RT E R

H A Z Y PA L E A L E

RUSSIAN IMPERIAL S TO U T

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

Availability: Year-round

4.7% 24

ABV IBU

5.1% 32

SURREY

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

Availability: Seasonal

4.5% 20

ABV IBU

9.9% 40

SURREY

CENTRAL CITY BREWERS + DISTILLERS

BIG RIDGE BREWING CO.

5580 152 St. | MJG.ca/Big-Ridge

11411 Bridgeview Dr. | CentralCityBrewing.com

Surrey’s original brewpub is still pumping out the hits almost 20 years later with rotating seasonals, weekly cask nights and trivia every Wednesday.

Now available coast to coast, Central City is the only Canadian craft brewery to have its beer in every province in the country.

OLD SULLIVAN PORTER

RODEO RED ALE

RED RACER AFTER HOURS

N I T R O P O RT E R

RED ALE

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

4.9% 31

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

5.0% 14

E X T R A PA L E A L E

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

6.5% 35

RED RACER FIRESIDE WARMTH SPICED APPLE SAISON Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

6.5% 25 63

SURREY

WHITE ROCK BREWING

RUSSELL BREWING CO.

202 - 13018 80th Ave. | RussellBeer.com

13 - 3033 King George Blvd. | WhiteRockBrewing.ca

This place might be one of the grizzled vets of the craft beer scene, but that doesn’t mean the beer isn’t good. Try it again.

If you like your beer in red Solo cups (and who doesn’t!) then this charmingly unpretentious U-brew-turned-nanobrewery is for you.

OATMEAL STOUT

MOUNTAIN ALE

OCEAN LAGER

AMBER ALE

LAGER

SIMCOE/ MOSAIC DRY HOPPED SOURS

S TO U T Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

S O U R A L E T W I N PA C K Availability: One-off

4.7% 25

ABV IBU

Availability: Year-round

5.5% 10

WHITE ROCK

ABV IBU

Availability: Year-round

5.0% 33

ABV IBU

5.0% 22

WHITE ROCK

3 DOGS BREWING

15214 North Bluff Rd. | 3DogsBrewing.com

WHITE ROCK BEACH BEER CO.

15181 Russell Ave. | WhiteRockBeachBeer.com

Tucked away in a corner of White Rock, these homebrewers turned their craft into a business last year and haven’t even had the time to look back.

Rent out the taproom for a party of your own making or just stop in for a sip and a snack from local Hillcrest Bakery that uses spent grains from the brewery’s beers.

BLACKIE THE BROWN DOG

DOUBLE DOG DARE IPA

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I N D I A PA L E A L E

H A Z Y I N D I A PA L E A L E

BA LT I C P O RT E R

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

5.5% 28

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

8.9% 85

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

6.5% 80

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

6.2% 29

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Catered platters featuring our smoked meats, & award-winning sausages, carefully arranged for your events. Much like craft beer, we believe Lepp Farm raised, gourmet meats are

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ABBOTSFORD

FIELD HOUSE BREWING CO.

2281 West Railway St. | FieldHouseBrewing.com

LOUDMOUTH BREWING

103 – 2582 Mt. Lehman Rd. | LoudmouthBrewingCompany.ca

Brewing Co.

Keep an eye out for limited barrel releases featuring blends of mixed fermentation sour beer aged for more than a year.

Nicolas Mielty’s brewery near YXX is taking flight, with a new beer planned every week. Home of the “pizza flight,” beer-yeast pie topped with four glasses of in-house brews.

BARREL AGED GOOSEBERRY GOLDEN SOUR

LEMON CORIANDER BARREL

NORTHWEST HOP FARMS COLLAB. BREW

WILD SOUR ALE Availability: One-off

SAISON

H A Z Y I N D I A PA L E A L E Availability: Seasonal

ABV IBU

7.0% 0

@FIELDHOUSEBREWING

Availability: One-off ABV IBU

6.5% 30

ABV IBU

ISL INDIA SESSION LAGER

5.7% 45

@FIELDHOUSEBEER

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

5.0% 32

ABBOTSFORD 2018 A-LIST WINNER

OLD ABBEY ALES

30321 Fraser Hwy. | OldAbbeyAles.com

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OLD ABBEY ALES Est. 2013 Old Abbey is back and better than ever with cider and craft soda on tap. as well as pool and foosball in the tasting lounge. PURPLE DRAANK

DANK TANK IPA2

B L U E B E R RY S O U R A L E

DOUBLE INDIA PA L E A L E Availability: Year-round

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

6.0% 10

ABV IBU

9.5% 70

THANK YOU ABBOTSFORD!

Our award-winning Head Brewmaster skillfully crafts each batch of beer by hand using only fresh, local ingredients. We invite you to drop by for a glass of beer or sample flight. Our tasting room offers over 20 beers on tap, take home bottles, cans or get a refillable growler. Open 7 days a week!

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RAVENS BREWING CO.

FLASHBACK BREWING CO.

2485 Townline Rd. | Ravens.beer

1 - 9360 Mill St. | ChaosAndSolace.com

Buoyed by its World Beer Cup win for its Corvus Lingonberry Lime Gose, Ravens continues to experiment alongside its strong core lineup of beers.

Chaos and Solace founder Gord Gagne has rebranded his downtown Chilliwack craft brewery and tasting lounge with a new name, new look and new beers.

CORVUS LINGONBERRY LIME GOSE

ALLFATHER OAKED CASSIS DARK SOUR

MY RED MAC

GOSE

SOUR

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

4.5% 10

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

6.0% 12

CHILLIWACK

RED ALE Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

BACK IN THE DAY IPA W E S T C OA S T I N D I A PA L E A L E Availability: Year-round

5.0% 25

ABV IBU

6.3% 60

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MISSION SPRINGS BREWING COMPANY

OLD YALE BREWING CO.

404 - 44550 South Sumas Rd. | OldYaleBrewing.com

7160 Oliver St. | MissionSprings.ca

Now with double the tasting room! Celebrate with a visit during the 12 Days of Beermas (Dec. 12-23), which will feature a unique beer every day.

At Mission’s favourite watering hole, there’s a lot more going down than the beer in your glass. Rustic sign night gets crafty and the Redneck Christmas Tailgate Buffet is coming soon.

HIMALAYAN SALTED CARAMEL PORTER

SASQUATCH STOUT

MCLENNAN’S SCOTCH ALE

S TO U T

S C OT C H A L E

P O RT E R

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

6.0% 20

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

5.0% 15

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

8.0% 30

FAT GUY OATMEAL STOUT OAT M E A L S TO U T Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

5.6% N/A

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GIBSONS TAPWORKS

537 Cruice Lane | GibsonsTapworks.com

1009 Gibsons Way | The101.ca

Small batch brews from a small coastal town have developed into distilled spirits here, where live music is a staple at this converted former auto mechanic shop.

There’s always something poppin’ at Gibsons— Monday is trivia night, Tuesday is Growler Day, Saturday means live music and the beer’s good, too!

UNCLE BILL’S PILS

STORMRIDER

HWY 102

NEW ENGLAND INDIA PA L E A L E

OAT M E A L S TO U T

PILSNER Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

5.7% 30

OUTBOARD MOTOR OATMEAL PORTER OAT M E A L P O RT E R Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

Availability: Year-round

5.5% 12

GIBSONS

ABV IBU

6.1% 62

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

4.8% 26

PEMBERTON

PERSEPHONE BREWING CO.

1053 Stewart Rd. | PersephoneBrewing.com

PEMBERTON BREWING CO.

1936 Stonecutter Pl. | PembertonBrewing.ca

It’s still the best kept secret on the Sunshine Coast that mostly everyone knows about, where events like Yoga on Tap and a rotating Speaker Series keep things as fresh as the hops grown nearby.

PBC’s wood-hewn aesthetic is more than fitting for this corner of the world, where the wilderness is just steps away. Thankfully, there is also the civilizing influence of delicious beer.

BARREL AGED DOPPELBOCK

BLACKWATER STOUT

TRAPPER AMBER ALE

D RY S TO U T

AMBER ALE

DOPPELBOCK Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

7.4% 25

HOPPY’S PRIVATE RESERVE T R I P L E I N D I A PA L E A L E Availability: Seasonal ABV 11.8% IBU 55

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

5.0% 21

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

4.9% 16

PEMBERTON

POWELL RIVER

THE BEER FARMERS

TOWNSITE BREWING

8324 Pemberton Meadows Rd. | TheBeerFarmers.com

5824 Ash Ave. | TownsiteBrewing.com

PEMBERTON, BC

This Pemberton brewery’s tasting room is located in the middle of an active organic farm where they grow their own barley and hops.

Powell River has long been one of B.C.’s best kept secrets, but Townsite’s burgeoning reputation as one of the province’s best breweries is changing that. Damn them and their delicious beer!

BLACK SHEEP STOUT

FARMER’S DAUGHTER

SENTINEL RIDGE

C O F F E E S TO U T

B I È R E D E TA B L E

BELGIAN SINGLE

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

6.0% N/A

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

4.3% N/A

BIERE D’HIVER BELGIAN DUBBEL

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

5.2% 25

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

7.5% 29

BREWERY JEWELLERY HOMAGE TO THE CRAFT BEER INDUSTRY

Hand-Crafted Jewellery MADE IN VANCOUVER lunanegra.ca | hello@lunanegra.ca

+196244

SQUAMISH

BACKCOUNTRY BREWING

A-FRAME BREWING CO.

38927 Queens Way | AFrameBrewing.com

#405-1201 Commercial Way | BackcountryBrewing.com

As cosy as its cabin namesake. This communityoriented brewery offers a warm welcome and a range of skillfully made beer for locals and Sea to Sky travellers alike.

It’s a bold statement to make, but the crew here says their pizza actually rivals the beer, which this year includes a brew hopped exclusively with 2018 Galaxy hops.

SKULL LAKE IMPERIAL STOUT

BEN REEDER

TRAILBREAKER

GALAXY INDIA PA L E A L E

PA L E A L E

S TO U T

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

8.3% 55

LASLUI LAKE BLACK IPA B L A C K I N D I A PA L E A L E Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

6.5% 50

SQUAMISH

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

6.6% 28

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

5.0% 35

WHISTLER

HOWE SOUND BREWING CO.

37801 Cleveland Ave. | HoweSound.com

BREWHOUSE HIGH MOUNTAIN BREWING

4355 Blackcomb Way | MJG.ca/BrewHouse

After more than 20 years, still one of the Seato-Sky’s best eating and drinking spots—with the added benefit of rooms if you have one too many.

When you’re done on the slopes, make sure to try Derrick Franche’s beers at this classic après brewpub, located right next to Whistler’s Olympic Plaza.

DIAMOND HEAD

SCHNELL CHEERIO ESB KRISTALLWEIZEN E X T R A S P E C I A L B I T T E R

SKY PILOT N O RT H W E S T PA L E A L E

OAT M E A L S TO U T Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

5.0% 25

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

5.0% 30

K R I S TA L LW E I Z E N

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

5.5% 30

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

5.3% 25

WHISTLER

COAST MOUNTAIN BREWING CO.

WHISTLER BREWING CO.

2 - 1212 Alpha Lake Rd. | CoastMountainBeer.ca

1045 Millar Creek Rd. | WhistlerBeer.com

This craft brewery in Function Junction continues to focus exclusively on the Whistler market, often collaborating with local businesses on special beers and events.

Saddle up and drink up!* WBC is supporting Sea-to-Sky mountain biking associations with partial proceeds from four-packs of Hazy Trail. (*Not at the same time, obvs.)

DAY DREAMER

WOODNUTT BROWN

HAZY TRAIL PALE ALE

WINTER DUNKEL

A M E R I C A N B R OW N A L E

PA L E A L E

DUNKEL

H A Z Y I N D I A PA L E A L E Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

6.0% 25

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

5.5% 30

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

5.0% 35

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

5.0% 24

BREWERY TASTING ROOM KITCHEN

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VANCOUVER ISLAND BREWERY

2330 Government St. | VanIslandBrewery.com TUES-THU 11AM-6PM ^ FRI-SAT 11AM-7PM EST. 1984 Vancouver Island Brewing has finally completed its second rebrand in as many years, and based on the reaction from the beer community, it got it right this time. The expanded beer lineup with more seasonals and collabs is getting a lot of attention, too.

MISTHORN W I N T E R I N D I A PA L E A L E

CHAMPAGNE POWDER (GLADSTONE COLLAB)

Availability: Seasonal

BELGIAN BRUT Availability: One-off

ABV

6.5%

IBU

ABV

Citrusy, spicy and warming, this burnished rye IPA boasts an orange and pine focused hop blend.

6.2%

IBU

The first in VIB’s new collaboration series, this brilliant Belgian brut IPA is inspired by Mt. Washington’s snowy slopes.

HERMANNATOR

FALLER

ICE BOCK

N O RT H W E S T PA L E A L E

Availability: Seasonal ABV

8.5%

IBU

Availability: Year-round

ABV

This annual winter release is the perfect beer to enjoy over the holiday season with notes of chocolate, coffee and brandied plums.

5.4%

IBU

A hoppy beer that isn’t too bitter and provides a hearty malt base that lingers into the finish.

WHat’s in a name? Vancouver Island Brewing opened up all the way back in 1984 in Central Saanich as Island Pacific Brewing, and was one of only four microbreweries in the province at the time. The brewery moved to downtown Victoria in 1996 and wisely changed its name to reflect its Vancouver Island roots. 76

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SAANICH

TWA DOGS BREWERY AT VICTORIA CALEDONIAN

761 Enterprise Cres. | VCaledonian.com SUN-WED 12-7PM ^ THU-SAT 12-9PM EST. 2016

If you find yourself between the ferry and downtown Victoria, head here where craft brews are on tap alongside single malt whiskies distilled onsite.

MYSTIC KNOT

REBEL RUN

W H I T E C O F F E E S TO U T

EXTRA SPECIAL BITTER

Availability: Seasonal

ABV

5.0%

IBU

N/A

ABV

Coffee and vanilla are paired with biscuity Marris Otter malt and creamy oats and lactose.

5.4%

IBU

N/A

A proper U.K. bitter with rich toffee and caramel notes balanced with earthy bitterness and fruitiness.

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VICTORIA

CANOE BREWPUB

DRIFTWOOD BREWERY

450 Swift St. | CanoeBrewpub.com

450 Hillside Ave. | DriftwoodBeer.com

Tucked away in a corner of downtown Victoria, right on the water, this hoppin’ spot was once used as the power generation station for the city’s street lights when it was built in 1894.

After more than 10 years, Driftwood still manages to keep it fresh with new beers, new labels and, for the first time ever—tall cans for its core lineup.

AMBER

HELLES

DA R K R U B Y A L E

BAVA R I A N L A G E R

WINDCATCHER

NAUGHTY HILDEGARD

BA R R E L - A G E D SOUR ALE Availability: One-off

EXTRA SPECIAL BITTER

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

Availability: Year-round

5.5% 18

ABV IBU

4.8% 12

VICTORIA

101-2740 Bridge St. | HoyneBrewing.ca

With nearly 30 years of experience, Sean Hoyne knows how to brew a pitch-perfect lager, stout, dark ale, pale ale, ESB... you get the idea. GRATITUDE

FINNEGAN’S

W I N T E R WA R M E R

I R I S H S TO U T

ABV IBU

9.0% N/A

IBU

7.3% N/A

ABV IBU

6.5% N/A

VICTORIA

HOYNE BREWING CO.

Availability: Small batch

ABV

Availability: Year-round

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

5.1% N/A

ÎLE SAUVAGE BREWING CO.

2960 Bridge St. | IleSauvage.com

This long-awaited brewery is focusing on Belgian-style wild and sour beers, so expect lots of Lactobacillus, Brettanomyces, Pediococcus and secondary fermentations with fruit. ACHTUNG BERLINER WEISSE

CERISE SOUR RED

BERLINER WEISSE Availability: Small batch ABV IBU

3.5% N/A

SOUR RED ALE W/ RASPBERRIES AND C H E R R I E S Availability: Small batch ABV IBU

6.5% N/A 79

VICTORIA

MOON UNDER WATER BREWERY

PHILLIPS BREWING & MALTING CO.

The Moon would be a cracking boozer even without Clay Potter’s damn fine beer… and the new distillery, whose tasting room should open sometime this century (thanks, City of Victoria!)

You can expect to find small batch beers on tap in this raucous tasting room you can’t try anywhere else, along with a range of Phillips’ standards.

DARKSIDE OF THE MOON

THE VICTORIOUS!

BLACK MAGIC

SWEET TART

OAT M E A L S E S S I O N S TO U T Availability: Seasonal

WEIZENBOCK

DA R K A L E

PA S S I O N F R U I T G O S E

350B Bay St. | MoonUnderWater.ca

ABV IBU

4.2% 30

2010 Government St. | PhillipsBeer.com

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

Availability: Seasonal

8.2% 22

VICTORIA

ABV IBU

Availability: Seasonal

5.3% 20

ABV IBU

4.8% 0

VICTORIA

SPINNAKERS BREWPUB

SWANS BREWPUB

308 Catharine St. | Spinnakers.com

506 Pandora Ave. | SwansHotel.com

North America’s oldest continuously operating brewpub is where the craft beer revolution started and it’ll soon be celebrating its 7,000th brew!

Swans is celebrating 30 years of craft beer excellence in 2019 and will be undergoing renovations in time for Victoria Beer Week in March.

BOURBON BLACK LAGER

CHAI BROWN ALE

FLAMMENBEER

OA K - A G E D B L A C K LAGER Availability: Small batch

B R OW N A L E

ABV IBU

4.5% 20

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

5.2% 15

RAUCHBIER Availability: Small batch ABV IBU

6.0% 21

REGAL STANDARD SCOTCH ALE

W E E H E AV Y Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

8.0% 20

CENTRAL SAANICH

ESQUIMALT

CATEGORY 12 BREWING

LIGHTHOUSE BREWING CO.

C - 2200 Keating Cross Rd. | Category12Beer.com

2 - 836 Devonshire Rd. | LighthouseBrewing.com

If you’re visiting C12, maybe ensure you have a designated driver because once you start sipping the creative, well-engineered beers produced here you’ll have trouble stopping.

Twenty years of brewing and a brand new taproom make for some good excuses to get tipsy in Esquimalt, where a new feature hop keeps every batch of Numbskull worth tasting.

DISRUPTION

CONVERGENCE

B L A C K I N D I A PA L E A L E

OLD ENGLISH BRETT S TO C K A L E

SEAPORT VANILLA STOUT

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

6.7% 77

Availability: Small batch ABV 10.3% IBU N/A

S TO U T

NIGHTWATCH COFFEE LAGER LAGER

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

5.5% 7

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

5.1% 8.2

LANGFORD

AXE & BARREL BREWING CO.

2323 Millstream Ave. | AxeAndBarrel.com

Langford’s brewery is celebrating its recent wins at the B.C. Beer Awards (for the beers highlighted here) with the release of its core lineup in bombers. LANGFORD LAGER

WEST SHORE IPA

AMERICAN PILSNER

W E S T C OA S T I N D I A PA L E A L E Availability: Year-round

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

4.8% 10

ABV IBU

6.8% 85 81

MAYNE ISLAND

NORTH SAANICH

MAYNE ISLAND BREWING CO.

HOWL BREWING

490 Fernhill Rd. | MayneIslandBrewingCo.com

1780 Mills Rd.

Tiny Mayne Island is home to one of the smallest breweries in the province, but that didn’t stop it from winning bronze at the 2018 B.C. Beer Awards.

This small batch nanobrewery nestled away on a farm in North Saanich uses 90 per cent homegrown ingredients. Look for Howl at the Christmas Craft Beer Show, Nov. 30 and Dec. 1.

EVENTIDE OAT STOUT

SILVER RILL LANDS END IPA BLACK CURRANT I N D I A PA L E A L E SAISON

S TO U T

BRITISH BOY B R OW N A L E

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

Availability: Year-round

6.5% N/A

ABV IBU

5.4% N/A

SALT SPRING

SAISON

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

Availability: Year-round

6.0% 18

ABV IBU

6.0% 48

SOOKE

SALT SPRING ISLAND ALES

270 Furness Rd. | SaltSpringIslandAles.com

BAD DOG BREWING COMPANY

7861 Tugwell Rd. | BadDogBrewing.ca

This bucolic brewery is one of the few that can boast their own freshwater mountain spring— piped directly to the brewhouse—as a water source for its beer.

This great little brewery in the middle of nowhere is celebrating its first anniversary by getting to work on an extension to its tasting room and retail space.

EARL GREY IPA

OCTODOG APOCALYPSE

I N D I A PA L E A L E W I T H B E R G A M OT Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

7.0% 45

CRÈME BRÛLÉE VANILLA MILK STOUT S TO U T

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

8.0% 54

S Q U I D I N K S TO U T Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

4.8% 22

DOG’S BREAKFAST

H A Z Y I N D I A PA L E A L E Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

6.5% 22

SOOKE

SOOKE BREWING CO.

2057 Otter Point Rd. | SookeBrewing.com

SOOKE OCEANSIDE BREWERY

1-5529 Sooke Rd. | SookeOceansideBrewing.com

Only a year old in November, this awardwinning brewery picked up Rookie of the Year and Best Tasting Room at this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s B.C. Beer Awards.

Its location next to a gas station on the highway might not look like much, but SOB is making great beer and racking up awards.

BELGIAN BLOND

GRAVEYARD OF THE PACIFIC

POSSESSION POINT

DOUBLE RED ALE

P O RT E R

BARLEYWINE BA R L E Y W I N E

BELGIAN ALE Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

Availability: Seasonal

6.0% 50

ABV IBU

11% 70

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

7.5% 25

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

6.2% 35

VIEW ROYAL

4 MILE BREWING CO.

199 Island Hwy. | 4MileBrewingCo.com

Traditional English ales are the specialty here where the secret weapon is the Peter Austin Brick Kettle Brewing System, a simple way to conjure up some solid brews. WINTER ALE

BEST BRITISH

WINTER ALE

SESSION ALE

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

6.9% N/A

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

4.3% N/A

Local.Beer.Here.

777 courtney st victoria bc smithspub.com

Van cou v e r Is l a nd

CAMPBELL RIVER

BREWERIES 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14

Beach Fire Cumberland Forbidden Gladstone Longwood LoveShack Mount Arrowsmith Red Arrow Riot Small Block Tofino Twin City White Sails Wolf

85 86 85 86 87 89 88 86 85 87 89 88 88 88

BREW PUBS 15 Craig Street 16 Longwood

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03 04

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12 11

TOFINO

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05 13 14

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86 87

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CAMPBELL RIVER

CHEMAINUS

BEACH FIRE BREWING

RIOT BREWING CO.

594-11th Ave. | BeachFireBrewing.ca

101A - 3055 Oak St. | RiotBrewing.com

This fabulous restaurant and brewery—boasting an ever-changing, hyper-local food menu and well crafted beer perfect for pairing—makes the trip to Campbell River more than worthwhile.

It’s ironic that a brewery called Riot has had a runaway success with a mild. Nevertheless, the Riot squad is tearing it up with many other styles, too.

TANTRUM BELGIAN DUBBEL

WHEELBENDER STOUT

WORKING CLASS HERO

D RY I R I S H S TO U T

DA R K M I L D

BELGIAN DUBBEL Availability: One-off ABV IBU

6.7% 20

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

4.5% 35

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

3.8% 19

JUNK PUNCH I N D I A PA L E A L E Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

6.0% 75

COURTENAY

FORBIDDEN BREWING CO.

1590 Cliffe Ave. | ForbiddenBrewing.com

It may have been cute, but Forbidden’s dinky six-kettle U-brew setup has finally been replaced by a 10-hL system, meaning plenty more beer for the people of Courtenay. FORBIDDEN PALE ALE E N G L I S H PA L E A L E Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

5.0% 45

BLACKOUT DOUBLE BLACK INDIA PA L E A L E Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

8.5% 85

FACULTY BREWING CO.

Ask for us at your local liquor store. 1830 ONTARIO STREET VANCOUVER, BC www.facultybrewing.com

COURTENAY

CUMBERLAND

GLADSTONE BREWING CO.

CUMBERLAND BREWING CO.

244 4th St. | GladstoneBrewing.ca

2732 Dunsmuir Ave. | CumberlandBrewing.com

This downtown Courtenay brewery has a big following on the Island thanks to its impressive array of beers and Taqueria Guerilla located next door.

Cumberland Brewing recently finished its renovations, adding more seating and brewing space. Look for more beers on tap and more experimentation from brewer Anders Petersson.

BEST BITTER

FOREST FOG

BEST BITTER

CZECH DARK LAGER DA R K L A G E R

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

A M E R I C A N W H E AT A L E

Availability: Seasonal

4.5% 29

ABV IBU

Availability: Year-round

6.0% 25

ABV IBU

DUNCAN

4.3% N/A

LONG TIME COMING BA R L E Y W I N E Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

9.5% N/A

DUNCAN

CRAIG STREET BREW PUB

RED ARROW BREWING CO.

25 Craig St. | CraigStreet.ca

5255 Chaster Rd. | RedArrowBeer.ca

Downtown Duncan is a cute community thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s found an anchor in this cozy brewpub, housed in a 1940s building. Lots of options when it comes to seating, food and beer.

Make sure to pull off the Island Highway on your way through Duncan and visit this delicious roadside attraction, housed in a charming brick building covered in hops.

MT. PREVOST PORTER

ARBUTUS PALE ALE

KUSTOM KOLSCH

P O RT E R

E N G L I S H PA L E A L E

KO L S C H

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

5.0% 26

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

5.0% N/A

IDLE HANDS OAKED ORANGE ALE

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

5.0% 25

B R OW N A L E Availability: Seasonal ABV 6.66% IBU 35

DUNCAN

NANAIMO

SMALL BLOCK BREWING CO. LONGWOOD BREWERY

203-5301 Chaster Rd. | SmallBlockBrewery.com

101A-2046 Boxwood Rd. | LongwoodBeer.com

Duncan’s newest brewery is up to some innovative stuff, including brewing beer from unused bread courtesy of the Cowichan Green Community.

All of Longwood’s beers are vegan—even the Honey Hop Pale Ale features honey malt, not actual honey, so no bees were affected or offended.

RYECYCLED PALE ALE

GREEN GOBLIN IRISH RED ALE

CAKE

WINTER’S OWN

FRESH HOPPED RY E A L E Availability: Seasonal

IRISH RED ALE

C H O C O L AT E R A S P B E R RY S TO U T

WEIZENBOCK

ABV IBU

5.4% 58

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

5.4% 15

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

5.0% 32

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

6.5% 18

NANAIMO

LONGWOOD BREWPUB

5775 Turner Rd. | LongwoodBrewpub.com

It’s chilly outside so why not warm your bones next to the fire at this classic English-style brewpub in North Nanaimo and treat yourself to a proper pint. ESB

SCOTTISH ALE

EXTRA SPECIAL BITTER

W E E H E AV Y

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

5.5% 26

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

6.2% 11 87

NANAIMO

WOLF BREWING CO.

WHITE SAILS BREWING

125 Comox Rd. | WhiteSailsBrewing.com

940 Old Victoria Rd. | WolfBrewingCompany.com

Three years old and winning national and international beer awards left and right, White Sails is a must-visit if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re passing through the Hub City.

This Nanaimo operation has kegs for rent, and regularly accepts submission from artists for label designs.

GALLOWS POINT CHOCOLATE PORTER

COLLIERY DAM BELGIAN BLACK

C H O C O L AT E P O RT E R Availability: Seasonal

BELGIAN STRONG ALE Availability: One-off

ABV IBU

5.4% 30

ABV IBU

8.7% 25

PARKSVILLE

SCOTCH ALE

BLACK & TAN

S C OT C H A L E

DA R K A L E

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

7.4% 34

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

5.5% 25

PORT ALBERNI

MOUNT ARROWSMITH BREWING CO.

TWIN CITY BREWING

109-425 East Stanford Ave. | ArrowsmithBrewing.com

4503 Margaret St. | TwinCityBrewing.ca

Head brewer Dave Woodward brings 16 years of craft experience back to his hometown after stints at Whistler and Tofino Brewing.

Racking up awards from Vancouver Craft Beer Week and the B.C. Beer Awards is just one more push to get you to the Island because these brews are only available onsite.

BRIX & PLATO

LOW PRESSURE

BELGIAN DUBBEL

P O RT E R

PORTER ALBERNI

Availability: One-off ABV IBU

7.8% 20

VANISHING ACT PINEAPPLE COCONUT SOUR

D RY P O RT E R Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

7.5% 20

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

5.5% 27

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

5.9% 13

QUALICUM

TOFINO

LOVESHACK LIBATIONS

TOFINO BREWING CO.

1 - 4134 Island Hwy. West | LoveShackLibations.com

691 Industrial Way | TofinoBrewingCo.com

Wednesday is the night you want to hit up this spot where a new beer is released every week and the brews you take home are hand bottled and bottle conditioned.

This brewery has been an important part of the Tofino community for a long time, employing locals and brewing beer for locals and tourists alike.

DINGO NUT BROWN ALE

COSMIC WAVE

DAWN PATROL

DOUBLE INDIA PA L E A L E

C O F F E E P O RT E R

B R OW N A L E Availability: Small batch ABV IBU

5.0% 21

VANILLA BOURBON STOUT S TO U T

Availability: Small batch ABV IBU

7.6% 18

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

9.0% N/A

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

6.5% 40

Bottle Decoration. For Every Season.

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TO VANCOUVER

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KELOWNA 21 5A

SUMMERLAND

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PENTICTON 33 3

OLIVER

BREWERIES 01 02 03 04 05 06

Bad Tattoo BNA Boundary Cannery Crannรณg Detonate

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Firehall Highway 97 Iron Road Kettle River Kind Marten Red Bird

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14 Red Collar 91 15 Tin Whistle 95 16 Tree Brewing Beer Institute

17 Vice and Virtue 93 18 Wild Ambition 93

BREW PUBS 19 20 21 22 23

Barley Mill Barley Station Elevation 57 Freddy's The Noble Pig

94 95 91 92 91

BIG WHITE

KAMLOOPS

ELEVATION 57 BREWING COMPANY

IRON ROAD BREWING

980 Camosun Crs. | IronRoadBrewing.ca

20 Kettleview Rd. | SessionsTapHouseAndGrill.com

Visit Canada’s highest brewery located at the Sessions Tap House and Grill, a ski-in/ski-out pub at the Big White Ski Resort near Kelowna.

Trust two geologists to research the lay of the land before opening a brewery. Kamloops is clearly crazy for beer, as evidenced by Richard Phillips and Jared Tarswell’s ever-busy taproom.

INVOLUNTARY DISMOUNT

PATROLLER PASSION

EAST INDIA PORTER

LOCOMOTIVE LAGER

W E S T C OA S T I N D I A PA L E A L E Availability: Year-round

F R U I T E D W H E AT B E E R

P O RT E R

LAGER

ABV IBU

6.2% 65

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

4.9% 10

KAMLOOPS

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

Availability: Year-round

4.2% 60

ABV IBU

5.0% 30

KAMLOOPS

RED COLLAR BREWING CO.

THE NOBLE PIG BREWHOUSE

355 Lansdowne St. | RedCollar.ca

650 Victoria St. | TheNoblePig.ca

The 12 days of Christmas take on new meaning here where tasting room deals run for the 12 days leading up to Dec. 24. And don’t forget—it’s $2 off growlers every day between 1 and 3 p.m.

Brewpubs that serve creative, fresh, wellcrafted food are sadly still a rarity in B.C. Kamloops is lucky to have one of the few that excel.

SHARE THE RYE’D

BLACK DOG QUAD

TIME AFTER TIME

MOCHA PORTER

RY E A N D G I N G E R PA L E A L E Availability: Seasonal

B E L G I A N Q UA D R U P E L

HEFEWEIZEN

E N G L I S H P O RT E R

ABV IBU

5.0% 18

Availability: Seasonal ABV 11.7% IBU 35

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

5.5% 17

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

5.5% 34 91

KELOWNA

BNA BREWING CO.

BOUNDARY BREWING

1250 Ellis St. | BNABrewing.com

2-455 Neave Crt. | BoundaryBrewing.beer

A beautiful building, arcade games, a bowling alley, amazing food—you might think the beer was an afterthought. But it turns out it’s the best part!

Oliver Gläser’s gemütlich brewery offers a fine line of German-style beer brewed in what’s believed to be the only oak kettle system in Canada.

TENNESSEE

SUPREME

B O U R B O N BA R R E L A G E D I M P E R I A L M I L K S TO U T

PILSNER

BOURBON BARREL BALTIC PORTER

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

Availability: Small batch

8.5% 30

ABV IBU

5.0% N/A

KELOWNA

ROGGENBIER L A G E R E D RY E A L E

BA LT I C P O RT E R Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

Availability: Small batch

8.9% 25

ABV IBU

5.5% 38

KELOWNA

FREDDY’S BREWPUB

KETTLE RIVER BREWING CO.

124 McCurdy Rd. | McCurdyBowl.com

731 Baillie Ave. | KettleRiverBrewing.ca

There’s definitely a Big Lebowski vibe to this bowling alley brewpub—they even named a beer after the Dude himself.

One of the anchor breweries in Kelowna’s North End, Kettle River is known for creative experimentation as well as its attention to detail.

LEBOWSKI LAGER

HARKRIDER

CINNABUN

RED LAGER

PA S T RY S TO U T

LAGER Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

5.0% 9

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

5.0% N/A

COUGAR’S HAND RED RED ALE

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

6.0% 20

Availability: Small batch ABV IBU

5.5% 30

KELOWNA

RED BIRD BREWING

TREE BREWING BEER INSTITUTE

1086 Richter St. | RedBirdBrewing.com

1346 Water St. | TreeBrewingBeerInstitute.com

It feels like Red Bird only just opened, and now an expansion is already in the works. Clearly the brews are going down well with Kelownians.

While the original brewery is no longer, Tree’s downtown microbrewery and tasting room is still going strong with fresh beers, great food and daily tours.

PARAMOUNT PORTER

TOMB STOUT

HOPHEAD IPA

PILSNER

S TO U T

I N D I A PA L E A L E

PILSNER

P O RT E R Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

Availability: Seasonal

5.5% 22

ABV IBU

4.5% 44

KELOWNA

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

Availability: Year-round

5.6% 63

ABV IBU

4.9% 22

KELOWNA

VICE AND VIRTUE

WILD AMBITION

1033 Richter St. | ViceAndVirtueBrewing.ca

1 - 3314 Appaloosa Rd. | WildAmbition.beer

They’re calling Kelowna’s North End the Brewery District, and V&V is its newest member. Inventive beer and a locally, seasonally driven food menu.

This brewery focused on “rustic ales with a bit of a wild side” just opened, but its first batch of barrel-aged beers is already starting to mature.

THE BRUTE

WHITE LIE

GLUTEN-REDUCED C H A M PA L E

PILSNER

IMAGINAL PHASE

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

6.7% 7

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

4.2% 27

PAINTED CAVES

B R E T T- C O N D I T I O N E D RY E S A I S O N Availability: One-off ABV IBU

5.0% 22

BA R R E L - A G E D O U D BRUIN Availability: Small batch ABV IBU

6.7% 8 93

OLIVER

PENTICTON

BAD TATTOO BREWING CO.

FIREHALL BREWERY

6077 Main St. | FirehallBrewery.com

169 Estabrook Ave. | BadTattooBrewing.com

Firehall’s Beer Shop & Social has a busy calendar filled with trivia nights and jam sessions. Also watch out for a bourbon-barrelaged stout coming out soon!

A tourist draw in its own right, this impressive, custom-built brewery and restaurant packs them in with the promise of great pizza and beer.

STOKED EMBER ALE

HOLY SMOKE STOUT

WYLD MANGO IPA

EXTRA SPECIAL BITTER

S M O K E D S TO U T

BRETT SOUR FRUIT I N D I A PA L E A L E Availability: Small batch

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

5.0% 35

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

4.7% 25

ABV IBU

PENTICTON

BLACK INK RUSSIAN IMPERIAL STOUT RUSSIAN IMPERIAL STOUT Availability: Small batch

6.8% 65

ABV IBU

8.0% 60

PENTICTON

BARLEY MILL BREW PUB

CANNERY BREWING

2460 Skaha Lake Rd. | BarleyMillPub.com

198 Ellis St. | CanneryBrewing.com

This popular community brewpub has a welcoming atmosphere, tasty food and delicious beer. Celebrate New Year’s Eve at a dinnerdance with music by the Hillside Outlaws.

Cannery is ramping up the fundraising, with movie nights for local charities, Santa visits for the kids with proceeds of Power Chord Pilsner donated to the Canadian Mental Health Assn.

MUSTANG

CABALLERO CERVEZA

HEIST MAPLE STOUT

POWER CHORD PILSNER

MEXICAN LAGER

S TO U T

PILSNER

PA L E A L E Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

5.0% 50

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

5.0% 10

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

5.5% 40

Availability: Limited ABV IBU

5.0% 35

PENTICTON

HIGHWAY 97 BREWERY

THE TIN WHISTLE BREWING CO.

954 Eckhardt Ave. | Hwy97Brewery.com

112-1475 Fairview Rd. | TheTinWhistleBrewery.rocks

Pull off the highway to check out this familyrun open-concept brewery, where you can sample the pints right next to where the beer’s being brewed.

Long thought of as kicking off the craft movement in the Okanagan back in 1995, everything you sip on here is preservative and chemical free.

FRESH TRACKS WINTER CREAM ALE

BUMBLE BERRY PIE SAISON

CHOCOLATE CHERRY

COYOTE BLONDE ALE

M I X E D B E R RY S A I S O N

P O RT E R

BLONDE ALE

SPICED CREAM ALE Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

5.6% 25

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

6.0% 25

SALMON ARM

20 Shuswap St. N. | BarleyStation.com

You’re not going to get the newest, trendiest beer fads at Barley Station, but you will get well-crafted, classic beer styles brewed as they were meant to be.

B R OW N A L E Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

5.2% 16

ABV IBU

6.0% N/A

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

5.0% 10

BEST DARK ALE

BARLEY STATION BREW PUB

BUSHWACKER BROWN ALE

Availability: Seasonal

STATION HOUSE BLONDE ALE BLONDE ALE Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

5.1% 14

BACK HAND OF GOD

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SORRENTO

SUMMERLAND

DETONATE BREWING

CRANNÓG ALES

706 Elson Rd. | CrannogAles.com

#104-9503 Cedar Ave. | DetonateBrewing.com

The brewery’s associated farm, Left Fields Coop, is the only place you’ll find an indigenous hop variety called Sockeye.

It may have B.C.’s smallest tasting room, but Detonate has some pretty big beers. Worth a detour if you’re passing through Summerland.

OLD PUDDIN’ HEAD

THE RISING ESB

BIG BLAST

WHITE IPA

EXTRA SPECIAL BITTER

KETTLE SOURED B R OW N A L E

W H I T E I N D I A PA L E A L E

WINTER ALE Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

7.5% 18

Availability: Rotating ABV IBU

4.8% 28

VERNON

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

Availability: One-off

5.8% 27

ABV IBU

6.3% 69

WEST KELOWNA

MARTEN BREWING CO.

KIND BREWING

2933A 30th Ave. | MartenBrewpub.com

2405 Main St. | Facebook.com/KindBrewer

After re-introducing Vernon to craft beer (OK Spring was an early pioneer, after all), Marten is getting playful with barrel releases and other unusual styles.

West Kelowna’s only craft brewery is always a fun time with live music, a full kitchen, games nights and happy hour deals from 3-6pm.

OL’ SCOTT

BALTIC PORTER

BLONDE ALE

BA LT I C P O RT E R

BLONDE ALE

BACK IN BROWN

BA R R E L - A G E D S C OT C H A L E Availability: One-off ABV IBU

9.0% 30

M I L K B R OW N P O RT E R W I T H L I C O R I C E R O OT Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

4.7% 45

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

7.7% N/A

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

5.0% N/A

KOO T E NAYS 93

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A L B E R T A 11

LAKE LOUISE

GOLDEN 23

BANFF

REVELSTOKE

TO KA M LO O P S

B R I T I S H C O L U M B I A

INVERMERE

31A

KASLO

KIMBERLEY

95A

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NELSON 3

CRANBROOK ROSSLAND

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BREW PUBS

BREWERIES Angry Hen Arrowhead Backroads Fernie Mt. Begbie Nelson

100 100 101 98 102 101

FERNIE 93

ROSSLAND

01 02 03 04 05 06

07 08 09 10

Over Time Rossland Torchlight Trail Beer Refinery 11 Whitetooth

101 102 102

12 Fisher Peak 100 13 The Savoy 101

102 100

FERNIE

FERNIE BREWING CO.

26 Manitou Rd. | FernieBrewing.com

MON-THU 11AM-7PM ^ FRI -SAT 11AM-8PM SUN 11AM-6PM EST. 2003 As the snow falls, the fun in Fernie picks up—and the town's brewery is a top spot to round out another day on the slopes. A recent clean, colourful rebranding and Limited Release IPA series in 473mL cans means the takeout options are appealing, too.

FIRST TRAX

PROJECT 9

B R OW N A L E

PILSNER

Availability: Year-round ABV

5.0%

IBU

Availability: Year-round

ABV

A Fernie classic, with eight specialty malts lending notes of chocolate and hazelnuts.

5.0%

IBU

Clean and crisp as a bluebird day, with a restrained, balancing bitterness.

SAP SUCKER

SNOWBLIND

M A P L E P O RT E R

B E L G I A N - S T Y L E I N D I A PA L E A L E

Availability: Small batch ABV

5.5%

IBU

Availability: Small batch

ABV

A sumptuous winter treat that Canadianizes a British classic with a judicious hit of maple syrup.

7.9%

IBU

Galaxy and Vic Secret hops add passionfruit and grapefruit notes to fruity Belgian yeast esters.

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CRANBROOK

GOLDEN

FISHER PEAK BREWING CO.

WHITETOOTH BREWING

821 Baker St. | TheHeidOut.ca

623 8th Ave. N. | WhitetoothBrewing.com

Fisher Peak’s award-winning beers are available at the Heid Out Restaurant and Brewhouse, where the food is made by its team of Red Seal chefs.

Tucked away in tiny Golden, Whitetooth is finally getting the recognition it deserves with a pair of gold medals at the 2018 B.C. Beer Awards.

HELLROARING SCOTTISH

WHITE WOLF IPA

THE GOLDEN BLACK

S C OT T I S H A L E

I N D I A PA L E A L E

B E L G I A N S TO U T

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

6.8% 30

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

5.5% 60

INVERMERE

Availability: Small batch ABV IBU

7.5% 32

TRUTH DARE CONSEQUENCE NORDIC IMPERIAL STOUT Availability: Year-round ABV 10.0% IBU 90

KASLO

ARROWHEAD BREWING CO.

ANGRY HEN BREWING

481 Arrow Rd. | ArrowheadBrewingCompany.ca

343 Front St. | AngryHenBrewing.com

This kitschy spot in scenic Invermere serves up classic West Coast craft styles in its ‘50s gas station-themed tasting room.

Kaslo’s craft brewery located on the shore of Kootenay Lake celebrates its first year in operation on Dec. 15. Time flies when you’re having fun!

SATURDAY KICK ASS NIGHT'S ALRIGHT C O F F E E C R E A M A L E FOR FIGHTING R A S P B E R RY DA R K A L E Availability: Small batch ABV IBU

100

5.6% N/A

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

5.1% N/A

HAZY IPA

LIL RED HEN

I N D I A PA L E A L E

IRISH RED ALE

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

6.5% 55

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

5.0% 35

KIMBERLEY

NELSON

OVER TIME BEER WORKS

BACKROADS BREWING CO.

136A Wallinger Ave. | OverTimeBeer.ca

460 Baker St. | BackroadsBrewing.com

In the province’s highest city you’ll find the warmest people and the coldest beer—lots of small batches to be had, but only on tap so you’ve gotta come hang.

Good news! This Baker Street brewery is expanding its capacity by adding 10 new tanks so that they can better keep up with local demand.

RIGHT ABOUT NOW

FRESHLY SQUEEZED

I N D I A PA L E A L E Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

6.5% 70

COPPER TOP R E D W H E AT A L E Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

4.8% 35

NELSON

JOLENE

BLOOD ORANGE INDIA PA L E A L E Availability: One-off ABV IBU

B O U R B O N BA R R E L A G E D S M O K E D BA LT I C P O RT E R Availability: Seasonal

6.6% 60

ABV IBU

6.9% 32

NELSON

NELSON BREWING CO.

THE SAVOY BREWERY

512 Latimer St. | NelsonBrewing.com

198 Baker St. | SavoyHotel.com

When the brewery was first built in 1892, Ward Creek was diverted to run through it as a water source. NBC doesn’t use it for brewing, but the creek still runs right through the brewhouse.

Billed as a mini-resort in the heart of effortlessly awesome Nelson, the Savoy Hotel’s many facilities include a nanobrewery that services its other venues.

PRINCE OF DARKNESS

FACEPLANT WINTER ALE

STOUT 'N' ABOUT

SPRUCEY GOOSEY IPA

C O F F E E S TO U T

WINTER ALE

N I T R O S TO U T

I N D I A PA L E A L E

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

5.5% 33

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

6.0% 19

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

4.0% 35

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

6.0% 48 101

NELSON

REVELSTOKE

TORCHLIGHT BREWING CO.

MT. BEGBIE BREWING CO

125 Hall St. | TorchlightBrewing.com

2155 Oak Dr. | Mt-Begbie.com

Say goodbye to bombers, because Torchlight’s beers are now available exclusively in tall cans. You can always try them on draft at the brewery, along with great food, sodas and craft bar syrups.

Experimental beers are released every couple of weeks in the tasting room only, making it a popular stop for locals and visitors alike.

MOUNTAIN KING

ELEVENTY-ONE

STOKED

I M P E R I A L S TO U T

WINTER ALE

G O L D E N S TO U T Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

Availability: Seasonal

5.5% 20

ABV 10.0% IBU 60

ROSSLAND

GROND: HAMMER OF THE UNDERWORLD

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

I M P E R I A L I PA Availability: Seasonal

6.0% 20

ABV 10.0% IBU 88

TRAIL

ROSSLAND BEER CO.

TRAIL BEER REFINERY

1990 Columbia Ave. | RosslandBeer.com

1299 Bay Ave. | TrailBeerRefinery.ca

Craft beer might be a relatively new scene but this small mountain town has been brewing since the late 1800s when 10 breweries were pouring thanks to the mining boom.

The Trail Smoke Eaters hockey team has a storied history so it’s pretty cool that this brewery makes the official canned beer sold at the arena.

HELTER SMELTER AMBER ALE

SEVEN SUMMITS MILK STOUT

COLUMBIA CREAM ALE

AMBER ALE Availability: Year-round

M I L K S TO U T Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU

102

5.0% 18

ABV IBU

5.9% 36

GOLDEN CREAM ALE Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

5.0% 20

SIXTY-ONE LAGER Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

5.0% 18

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BEARD’S BREWING CO.

10408 Alaska Rd. N. | BeardsBrewing.ca

Keith Jackson is a DIY kinda guy—he brews the beer, serves the beer, built the patio himself and even roasts his own coffee beans for his Giddy Up Brunette coffee ale.

Life is brewtiful in the northeast where Hump Day means Whiskey Wednesday and 12 different varieties of B.C. grown hops means a taste of something for everybody.

WRANGLER IPA

GIDDY UP BRUNETTE

MILKSTACHE IPA

PEACE ISLAND PILSNER

DA R K A L E W I T H C O F F E E

MILKSHAKE INDIA PA L E A L E Availability: Small batch

PILSNER ALE

I N D I A PA L E A L E Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

Availability: Year-round

6.5% 60

ABV IBU

4.6% 28

FORT ST JOHN

ABV IBU

7.2% 64

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

4.8% 34

PRINCE GEORGE

MIGHTY PEACE BREWING CO.

CROSSROADS BREWING

10128 95th Ave. | MightyPeaceBrewing.ca

508 George St. | CrossroadsCraft.com

All those Site C workers are bound to be working up a mighty thirst, so it’s just as well Mighty Peace came on line in June. Now in cans!

Downtown Prince George’s hottest spot even in the middle of winter, thanks to solid brews and killer wood-fired pizzas.

CHOCOLATE HAZELNUT PORTER

GEORGE ST. BROWN

DARK DAYS PORTER

B R OW N A L E

N I T R O P O RT E R

P O RT E R

Availability: Semi-regular ABV IBU

104

6.0% 26

OKTOBERFEST MÄRZEN Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

5.3% 19

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

5.0% 19

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

6.1% 35

PRINCE GEORGE

PRINCE RUPERT

TRENCH BREWING & DISTILLING

WHEELHOUSE BREWING CO.

217 1st Ave. E. | WheelhouseBrewing.com

399 2nd Ave. | TrenchBrew.ca

One part East Van-style brewery, one part distillery and one part community centre, with trivia, movies, board games, yoga, live music and DJs featured on any given evening.

This plucky little brewery at the edge of the world turns five on Dec. 21. It ran out of beer five days after it first opened, but that won't happen again thanks to a recent brewhouse upgrade.

CALEDONIA COFFEE ALE

RAVEN SCHWARZBIER

COFFEE ALE

S C H WA R Z B I E R

SMOKEHOUSE PORTER

TENNENBAUM SPRUCE TIP STOUT

SMOKED ALE Availability: Seasonal

S TO U T

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

Availability: Small batch

6.0% 18

ABV IBU

5.5% 30

QUESNEL

ABV IBU

6.3% 40

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

5.0% 30

LOVE CRAFT?

BARKERVILLE BREWING CO.

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185 Davie St. | BarkervilleBeer.com

The 52 Foot Stout is an award-winner from this northern gem also voted Business of the Year by the Quesnel Chamber of Commerce. 52 FOOT STOUT S TO U T

PRESCRIPTION PORTER P O RT E R

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

7.0% 52

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

5.2% 30

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SMITHERS

BULKLEY VALLEY BREWERY

SMITHERS BREWING CO.

3860 1st Ave. | BulkleyValleyBrewery.ca

3832 3rd Ave. | SmithersBrewing.com

This community-focused brewery was founded by two Smithereens with a passion for the Northern B.C. lifestyle of skiing, boarding, fishing and biking in unexplored wilderness.

A purpose-built brewery with stunning views of the surrounding mountains and an inventive line of beer.

RIPPY RED ALE

OLD MAN WINTER

RED ALE Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

ULLR'S OATMEAL STOUT OAT M E A L S TO U T Availability: Seasonal

5.2% 22

ABV IBU

W E E H E AV Y Availability: Seasonal

6.0% 25

TERRACE

VANILLA BOURBON PORTER

ABV IBU

OA K - A G E D P O RT E R Availability: Small batch

7.8% N/A

ABV IBU

6.7% N/A

VALEMOUNT

SHERWOOD MOUNTAIN BREWHOUSE

THREE RANGES BREWING CO.

101 - 4816 Hwy. 16 West | SherwoodMountain.beer

1160 5th Ave. | ThreeRanges.com

Crafting German-style brews from the great north of B.C. was the brainchild of a craft beer industry veteran and his science-minded partner.

Having brewed the best beer in the northern Rockies for five years now, Three Ranges recently got province-wide recognition with a gold at the B.C. Beer Awards.

MUNICH LAGER

35 IN DOG YEARS

LAGER

RED ALE Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

106

LAVA BED RED ALE

5.1% 12

Availability: Year-round ABV IBU

4.9% 18

SIDEHILL GOUGER

W E E H E AV Y

Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

7.2% 40

DOUBLE INDIA PA L E A L E Availability: Seasonal ABV IBU

8.0% 98

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Just when you think the craft beer revolution might be slowing down, another dozen breweries pop up out of nowhere. We’re working overtime to keep up with them all!

ANOTHER BEER CO.

New Westminster (early 2019) This one has been on the drawing board for a while now, but it looks like ABC is creeping closer to reality with a facility on Capilano Way in Sapperton. AnotherBeerCo.com

THE BAKERY BREWING CO.

Port Moody (summer 2019) Can Murray Street handle another brewery? Moody Ales’ Adam Crandall thinks so, and judging by the lineups on a Saturday night (or a Tuesday, for that matter), we think so too.

CLOVERDALE BREWING

Surrey (spring/summer 2019) Located near 176th St. and 64th Ave., the team behind this craft brewery has started construction and hopes to be pouring early in the new year.

DOG MOUNTAIN BREWING

of the new Southlands development. The new, purpose-built Four Winds brewery will feature a bigger tasting room, more taps and an expanded kitchen featuring local ingredients. Be still my beating liver! FourWindsBrewing.ca

FRASER MILLS FERMENTATION CO.

Coquitlam (late 2019) The centerpiece for the new waterfront Fraser Mills development in South Coquitlam. Expect beer, wine, cider, mead, spirits and delicious food—everything you could ever want, really. FraserMillsFermentation.com

HATCHERY BREWING

Penticton (summer 2019) This welcome addition to the Penticton beer scene will feature an open concept tasting room with seating for more than 250, barrel-aged beers and a food program to rival any restaurant in town. HatcheryBrewing.com

Port Alberni (summer 2019) The Twin City’s second craft brewery is looking to open shop in the heart of Port Alberni’s historic downtown at Third and Argyle. Brewer/owner Robin Miles is hoping to offer sessionable classics and mixed fermentation experiments. DogMountainBrew.com

THE HERALD STREET BREW WORKS

FARM COUNTRY BREWING

North Vancouver (spring 2019) This brewery is going to get funky with its wild and Brett-fermented ales. The doors aren’t open yet, but cans of Funky Street, its recent collab with Streetcar, have already popped up in North Van. HouseOfFunkBrewing.com

Langley (summer 2019) The first craft brewery in the City of Langley (Trading Post is technically in Langley Township), Farm Country hopes to open its tasting room (complete with patio!) next to the Cascades Casino by the summer. FarmCountryBrewing.com

FOUR WINDS BREWING CO.

Tsawwassen (2019) Delta’s favourite sons are bringing their operation back to their hometown with this impressive brewery at the centre

Victoria (2019) The good folks at The Drake Eatery and Steel & Oak Brewing are teaming up to make this brewery just north of downtown a reality. Given the people involved, it’s safe to say this place is going to be friggin’ sweeeeeet.

HOUSE OF FUNK BREWING

JACKKNIFE BREWING

Kelowna (late 2019) Kettle River brewer Brad Tomlinson is moving right next door and opening his own brewery, promising a heavy metal edge and big weird beers.

LAND & SEA BREWING CO.

Comox (early 2019) Beer industry veteran Tessa Gabiniewicz is behind the beers at this hotly anticipated brewery. Should be open any day now... LandAndSeaBrewing.ca

MERRIDALE BREWERY AND CIDERY

Victoria (fall 2019) Merridale’s spiffy new purpose-built boozatorium at Dockside Green in Vic West will feature a brewery, cidery, distillery, full-service restaurant, tasting room and retail space. This one is going to be spectacular. Merridale.ca

MOUNTAINVIEW BREWING CO.

Hope (2019) One of the last craft beer holdouts in the Fraser Valley will hopefully get its first brewery next year. Mountainview will be located on the Old Hope Princeton Highway at Fourth Ave. MountainviewBrewing.ca

NEIGHBOURHOOD BREWING COMPANY

Penticton (2019) This new project from Yellow Dog’s Mike Coghill will be located at the corner of Westminster and Winnipeg, smack dab between Bad Tattoo and Hatchery Brewing. Penticton was named the second best Beer Town in Canada this year by Expedia, and it looks like it’ll be gunning for No. 1 in 2019.

NEW TRADITION BREWING

Comox (spring 2019) Located at the Comox Centre Mall, New Tradition is just steps away from the former site of the Lorne Hotel, B.C.’s oldest licenced drinking establishment before it burnt down in 2011. NewTraditionBrewing.com

RED BIRD BREWING

Kelowna (2020) This little tasting room at Baillie and Richter is set to take flight in 2020 with a new brewery right around the corner with a 10hL brewhouse and food options. RedBirdBrewing.com

RUMPUS BEER COMPANY

Revelstoke (spring 2019) This funky little brewery and tasting room is opening up in downtown Revy and is going to focus

on farmhouse ales and session-strength beers. RumpusBeerCo.com

RUSTIC REEL BREWING COMPANY

Kelowna (summer 2019) An ethically and socially conscious brewery focussed on creating community around craft beer. Also home to The Tackle Box, an artisan market featuring local crafts and goods from the Okanagan and beyond. RusticReel.com

STANLEY PARK BREWPUB

Vancouver (summer 2019) The historic Fish House restaurant in Stanley Park is currently being renovated by the eponymous beer brand owned by AB-InBev and will feature a full-service kitchen, tasting room and small batch beers brewed on site. StanleyParkBrewing.com

SUPERFLUX BREWING

North Vancouver (2019-ish) Everyone’s favourite IPA-makers are working on getting a brewery of their own on the North Shore. No timeline yet for when that will happen, though. SuperfluxBeer.com

TIN SHED BREWING

Port Coquitlam (2019) The craft beer floodgates have opened in PoCo. After being the largest municipality in Metro Vancouver without a craft brewery, the ‘burb saw two open last year and Tin Shed is poised to be the third. Conveniently located just around the corner from Northpaw Brewing on Sherling Place. TinShedBrewing.ca

UCLUELET BREWING CO.

Ucluelet (summer 2019) Located in a former church, Ukee’s first craft brewery hopes to have a full beer and food lineup ready to go for the tourist season. UclueletBrewing.ca

WILDEYE BREWING

North Vancouver (early 2019) This Seylynn brewery plans to have its own cider and housemade craft sodas on tap alongside its beer. Expect a full kitchen, too. WildeyeBrewing.ca j • Got a hot brewery tip? Let us know at editor@thegrowler.ca!

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