The Growler B.C. • Volume 3 Issue 3 • Fall 2017

B.C. CRAFT BEER guide

Explore 15 Ale Trails across British Columbia. Let the BC Ale Trail be your guide.

Breweries by Region

10 60 39 70 77 90 99 110 121

VANCOUVER

LOWER MAINLAND

FRASER VALLEY

SEA TO SKY / SUNSHINE COAST

VICTORIA / GULF ISLANDS

VANCOUVER ISLAND

THOMPSON OKANAGAN

KOOTENAYS

NORTHERN B.C.

e season of the hop is upon us, so let us rejoice the amazing properties of this tiny, delicious ower.

As we celebrate the annual hop harvest, it’s important to know just which beer deity we should be worshipping. ankfully, we have a handy eld guide to recognizing the gods of beer (pg.32).

Fresh-hopped ales are all the rage this season and we have everything you need to know about getting your lips on this ephemeral beer (pg.44).

Some hop varieties are getting harder and harder to nd, however. at’s because corporations that have developed certain hop strains have chosen to patent them, in some cases requiring farmers to hand over a portion of their crops. Rebecca Whyman looks at this controversial practice and what it means for craft brewing (pg.92).

Hops, of course, would be nothing without the other critical elements of beer; namely water, yeast and grain. Jan Zeschky takes a look at these components in his four-part Elemental Series, exploring the importance of each ingredient and how it contributes to your favourite brew (pg.20). is issue, he begins the series with the most overlooked but arguably the most important ingredient in beer: water!

–Rob Mangelsdorf, editor

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Keep an eye out for our 10 favourite beers this autumn!

Brewery Details

GROWLER FILLS

BOTTLES / CANS KEGS

TASTING ROOM

ON-SITE KITCHEN OR FOOD TRUCK

TOURS

KID FRIENDLY

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

BREWER BREWER

New School vs. Old School

A.K.A. The Comox Valley edition

by Rob Mangelsdorf

The craft beer industry in B.C. has come along way since Frank Appleton rst started making beer in converted dairy equipment at the now defunct Troller Pub in Horseshoe Bay more than 35 years ago.

Michael Tymchuk, 54, has been around pretty much from the beginning. e Cumberland Brewing Company co-owner and brewmaster got his start in the 1980s at Spinnakers, the country’s oldest brewpub, and has had a hand in setting up craft breweries across Western Canada and Asia. For much of his brewing career, Tymchuk and his contemporaries were on the frontlines of the craft beer revolution, liberating drinkers from the evil clutches of zzy macro swill.

Meanwhile, Gladstone Brewing Co.’s Tak Guenette, 28, is one of a new breed of brewers that has bene tted from the pioneering work of those who have come before them. With the hard work of converting the masses to craft already done, Guenette and his ilk have instead been able to focus their attention on experimentation, reviving obscure styles and pushing the limits of brewing.

While both brewers have very di erent backgrounds, both ended up in the Comox Valley, and both are big believers in the community craft brewery model. We sat them down at Cumberland Brewing to pick their brains about where craft beer started, where it’s going, and how it’s going to get there.

GROWLER: So how did you get into brewing?

MICHAEL TYMCHUK: I started at Spinnakers, but as a sous chef. at was 1987, and I was there for ve years, two and a half cooking and two and a half brewing.

GROWLER: It’s interesting that your background was cooking initially.

TYMCHUK: Hey, it is just a big pot of soup you have to look after carefully. It’s an ingredient combination; it’s really not that di erent... So then I founded Wild Rose Brewing in Calgary in 1996, and in between I helped start up 16 di erent breweries. Came out here and opened a pizza shop because I needed a break from beer for a few years, and that’s when [business partner] Darren [Adam] found me. We met him and his family, and as the story goes, he got in his car that night and told his wife, “I’m going to open a brewery with that guy.”

GROWLER: What about you Tak?

TAK GUENETTE: I’m just a homebrewer that got lucky! I started homebrewing in 2010 with VanBrewers [homebrewing club] and my rst job was with Steamworks Brewpub under Conrad Gmoser in 2012. Conrad left after about a year for Brassneck, so I took over for about a year and eight months. I just got married and I was looking for something a bit di erent and Parallel 49 was looking for a new brewer, so that was fortuitous. It was a change of pace going from a small 10-barrel system to a 25 hL brewhouse and production facility. A whole di erent set of skills and mentality of how to approach brewing. I did that for about a year and a half then moved out here without a job and kind of lucked out that there was a position available at Gladstone.

GROWLER: Michael, tell me about some of the changes you’ve seen in the craft beer industry over the past 30 years?

TYMCHUK: All the old styles are used up, so we’re making up new ones as we go. It’s the fearlessness of Tak’s generation. ey have an idea and they’re just like, let’s do it! When I was training, Lactobacillus, Pediococcus, are you kidding me? ey were absolutely verboten in a brewery. It was death! And now they are goo ng around with them like it’s candy. at’s the biggest change. I’ve virtually handed o the brewing to [assistants] Anders [Petersson] and Caitlyn [Carlisle], they

are doing the heavy lifting here. It’s awesome because I’ve had my day in the sun, so it's time for these kids to shine.

GROWLER: Tak, tell me about the e ect you’ve seen of the craft brewers that came before you.

GUENETTE: Without the older guard we wouldn’t have the younger generation with a lot of stu in place, like people interested in beer, or the training. Moving to the tasting lounge model has actually made it viable for small breweries. e revenue is one thing, but also having people sit down and try beers they haven’t had before, the social aspect of that. It’s a better model. You also have complete control over everything, so the beer’s always going to be fresh.

TYMCHUK: e growler, that vessel has changed everything. We don’t have to package beer anymore, and 38 per cent of our beer leaves the building in glass, and that is a game-changer.

GROWLER: So what do you see for the future of craft beer in B.C., ve, 10 years down the road? What kind of arc are we on in this province?

GUENETTE: I think if you look at Portland, you see a lot more niche breweries. Breweries that are just doing sours, for example. Vancouver is already getting to that point where there’s a saturation of breweries that are doing a bit of everything, and I think we’ll start to see breweries that are strictly IPAs, or strictly sours, or strictly strong beers. I’d like to see someone do a cask-centric brewery at some point, because that’s a personal favourite of mine.

TYMCHUK: With the tasting room model, it’s sustainable, so there’s no reason why every town couldn’t have its own brewery. at’s what we’d like to see on every Main Street; the butcher, the baker and the brewery. j

Meghan Kirkpatrick photos.

VANCOUVER

33 ACRES BREWING CO.

15 West 8th Ave. | 33AcresBrewing.ca

MON-FRI 9AM-11PM ^ SAT-SUN 10AM-11PM

EST. 2013

Between b33r and co 33 it’s a wonder if there’s a delicious beverage 33 Acres can’t make and also spell with numbers. Oh yeah, they also make a tasty cid3r.

33 ACRES OF LIFE

CALIFORNIA COMMON

Availability: Year-round

A BV I BU 4.8%30

A light and balanced brew that’s lager fermented at ale temperature. Flavorful and crisp.

VANCOUVER

33 ACRES OF ECHO

I NDIA SESSION ALE

Availability: Year-round

A BV I BU 4.5%40

Light-bodied with hop notes of citrus peel, tropical fruit and pine. You’ll want another…then another…

AN D INA BREWING CO .

1507 Powell St. | AndinaBrewing.ca

DAILY 11AM-11PM

EST. 2016

Andina’s big, bright yellow building stands out in its Yeast Van location, as do their South American-inspired beers and food o erings.

AY AY AY

A MERICAN PALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

A BV I BU 5.0%36

Pine and citrus hops power this pale ale made with Belgian yeast.

TOTUMA

KOLSCH

Availability: Year-round

A BV I BU 4.5%22

Clean, crisp and refreshing with a slightly dry nish. Makes a good match with ceviche.

BIG ROCK URBAN

B REWER Y & E AT ER Y

310 West 4th Ave. | BigRockBeer.com

SUN-THU 11AM-11PM ^ FRI-SAT 11AM-12PM

EST. 1985

While it is Canada’s largest independent craft brewery, dividing it up into three locations – Vancouver, Calgary and Etobicoke – keeps it feeling like your neighbourhood pub. O ering brewery tours, a full menu, live music, and a beer shop. It’s also a great spot for weekend brunch!

MIDNIGHT RHAPSODY

Availability: Seasonal

It begins with currant aroma, rounds into soft bitterness and ends with a smooth nish.

Availability: Year-round

Boasting the same recipe since 1985, it is all toasty sweet caramel and nutty nish.

Availability: Year-round

is well-rounded pilsner features just the right amount of hop bitterness to nish clean and dry.

Availability: Year-round

e taste of summer is available year-round thanks to this refreshing citrus- and fruit-tinged wheat ale.

Beerlicious!

Executive chef Sam Omdal has created a brand new menu for the Big Rock Urban Brewery + Eatery, with many dishes incorporating Big Rock’s beers. e diabolical “Beeramisu” is a must-try, featuring espresso stout chocolate lady nger, vanilla mascarpone, dark chocolate, chocolate malts.

a unique brewspective BIG ROCK URBAN BREWERY & EATERY

- B.C Brewmaster, Jody Hammell

VANCOUVER

BOMBER BREWING CO .

1488 Adanac St. | BomberBrewing.com

DAILY 12-11PM

EST. 2014

e tasting room at Bomber has been a neighbourhood favourite since 2014. Swing by on a Wednesday to sample the sta ’s one-o cask creations.

ABSOLUTE HORIZON

C ASCADIAN D AR K A LE

Availability: Seasonal

A BV I BU 6.5%72

Hoppy and malty and winner of a silver medal at the Canadian Brewing Awards.

VANCOUVER

BOMBER ESB

EXTRA SPECIAL B ITTER

Availability: Year-round

A BV I BU 5.2%40

Flavours of roasted co ee, chocolate and molasses are balanced by a bright hop bitterness.

BRASSNECK BREWER Y

2148 Main St. | Brassneck.ca

MON-FRI 2-11PM ^ SAT-SUN 12-11PM

EST. 2013

e only thing that changes at Brassneck is the beer lineup (frequently) and we wouldn’t have it any other way.

BRASSNECK ALE

E NGLISH P ALE A LE

Availability: Year-round

A BV I BU 5.0%N/A

A simple delight, with a lightly sweet biscuit base and oral, leafy hops.

PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE

DOUB LE PALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

A BV I BU 7.0%N/A

One mighty bastard of a pale ale, with sturdy malt and a powerful tropical/citrus hop presence.

VANCOUVER

CA LLIS T ER B REWING CO .

1338 Franklin St. | CallisterBrewing.com

MON-THU 2-9PM ^ FRI 2-10PM ^ SAT 1-10PM ^ SUN 1-8PM

EST. 2015

is brewery incubator has already introduced us to Boombox, Super ux, Real Cask Ales and Lightheart, and now welcomes MorningStar and Night Owl.

NEMESIS (MORNINGSTAR)

BELGIAN DUBBEL

Availability: Seasonal

A BV I BU 7.0%20

From MorningStar comes this rich abbey ale brewed with specialty grains and Belgian candi sugar.

VANCOUVER

COA L HARBOUR BREWING CO

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1967 Triumph St. | CoalHarbourBrewing.com

HOURS N/A

EST. 2010

311 HELLES LAGER

HELLES LAGER

Availability: Year-round

A BV I BU 5.0%19

German lager brewed in the traditional helles style of Munich brewers, it’s a classic.

FREE

AGENT (NIGHT OWL)

I NDIA P ALE A LE

Availability: Seasonal

A BV I BU 6.5%N/A

Night Owl Brewing o ers up this hoppy IPA for your imbibing pleasure.

Coal Harbour is doing just ne sticking with a production-only model., although it sounds like a tasting room may be on the way.

SUNRISE GUAVA GOSE

GOSE

Availability: Seasonal

A BV I BU 3.8%9

Coriander and pink guava puree help add a refreshing and tart tropical punch.

by Jan Zeschky

It’s fair to say we all take water for granted. Turn on the tap and there it is.

It’s only when restrictions kick in during extreme dry spells, or the city cuts the supply as it ushes the damn sewer without telling us (again) that we realize our dependence on the H2O.

Similarly, water is the most underappreciated of beer’s ingredients. Which is kind of crazy when it constitutes by far the greatest part of beer. We’re talking as much as 95 per cent, depending on how strong the beer is and how many pineapple and papaya chunks, cocktail umbrellas and crazy straws you throw in your glass to gussy up your Fruit Punch Bellini Milkshake IPA.

But, meh, water is all the same, right? Neutral, avourless?

Come on people, let’s not stereotype our liquids. is is the 21st century, after all.

Wherever water is sourced from – be it from an artesian well, a watershed-draining reservoir, or (bless Kokanee’s marketing team) the snow from the peaks of seven Western Canadian mountains –it contains a di erent amount of dissolved minerals in the form of ions.

E ectively, water has terroir, with the level of these minerals determining the water’s softness (low mineral content) or hardness (high mineral content).

In this way, water has played a signi cant role in the history of beer styles. Before the 20th century, brewers didn’t know how to manipulate their water and brewed with whatever they pulled from the well/river/lake/swamp. is led to the rise of region-speci c styles, de ned by the area’s water composition.

e dark beers of Dublin and Munich came about because of their water’s high amounts of bicarbonate, which increases alkalinity. When brewers in those cities realized that dark malts reduce alkalinity, stout and dunkel were born.

e world’s rst golden beer was made possible by the soft water of Plzen, which helps give Czech pilsner its juicy quality and soft, rounded hop character.

Even the origins of the craft-conquering IPA lie in water composition. e rst pale ales, created in Burton-upon-Trent in England’s Midlands in the late 18th century, owed their bold, crisp bitterness

Part 1 of a four-part series exploring the basic building blocks of beer, and how they combine to make something so wonderful.

to the unusually high levels of calcium sulphate in the area’s water, which accentuated the hop pro le.

Many brewers since have attempted to replicate classic styles by manipulating their brewing water to mimic the water at source; many today still “Burtonize” their water to boost their beer’s hop pro le. In B.C., we’re pretty damn lucky to have blissfully soft drinking water, with low mineral levels across most of the province. It makes things easy for brewers to build up the water pro le they need for each style they make (or just brew as is).

“Because our water is so devoid of minerals, we have this wonderful opportunity – there’s nothing there, so we can decide how much to put in,” says Iain Hill, brewmaster at Vancouver’s Strange Fellows Brewing.

is is a subtle art form in itself that’s not to be underestimated.

“A lot of times the di erence between a good beer and a great beer are those little details, that ne touch,” says Mike Kelly, brewmaster and co-owner of Backroads Brewing in Nelson. “When you’re starting with this soft water, the water treatment is in that ne-tuning realm.”

Water pro le is most critical in determining the pH of the mash. Adding calcium, by means of calcium chloride and calcium sulphate, lowers the mash pH, with a target range for many styles

around 5.2-5.3. is is where enzymes converting starches into yeast-feasts of fermentable sugars are at their most e cient.

Calcium also contributes to a beer’s stability and, as well as magnesium and zinc, is a vital nutrient for yeast during fermentation.

As for other additives, sodium and/or chloride can add body and mouthfeel; chloride has even been said to add a certain sweetness. Hill says he adds calcium carbonate to his stouts for a certain chalky pro le. And don’t forget those sulphates that make the hops pop.

Even where the water is harder in B.C. – in Interior cities such as Quesnel, for example – mineral levels are manageable. Russ Ovans, owner of Barkerville Brewing in Quesnel, says the slightly alkaline local water “hits all the marks” for making good beer.

e biggest water concerns for most B.C. brewers are turbid supplies following heavy rain, and ltering out any additives to municipal water, such as chlorine, chloramine and uoride.

ltering out any additives to municipal water, such

at’s still a long way o from the expense

water is unforgivably hard. Many have no option

at’s still a long way o from the expense incurred by breweries around the world where the water is unforgivably hard. Many have no option but to treat all their brewing water with reverse osmosis to deionize it. Slightly more pricy than turning on the tap. j

E ectively, water has terroir, with the level of these minerals determining the water’s softness (low mineral content) or hardness (high mineral content).

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D OAN’ S CRAF T

BREWING CO .

1830 Powell St. | DoansCraftBrewing.com

SUN-THU 2-9PM ^ FRI 2-11PM ^ SAT 12-11PM

EST. 2015

What this comfortable tasting room lacks in size, it makes up for in distinctive artwork, well-brewed German style beers and boardgames!

OKTOBERFEST FEST B IER

Availability: Seasonal

A BV I BU 6.5%28

It’s fall, who doesn’t want to drink a tasty local version of traditional Oktoberfest beer?

VANCOUVER

D OGWOO D BREWING

8284 Sherbrooke St. | DogwoodBrew.com

WED-THU 3:30-8PM ^ FRI-SUN 12-8PM

EST. 2015

RYE STOUT

STO UT

Availability: Year-round

A BV I BU 6.2%53

ose Doan brothers love rye! Dark, roasty, hints of chocolate and lots of rye spiciness.

Dogwood is Vancouver’s only all-organic brewery, crafting sustainable beers from B.C. malt and hops and using only vegan ning agents.

FEST FEST B IER

Availability: Year-round

A BV I BU 6.9%20

Brewmaster Claire Wilson started with a 300-yearold recipe and re ned it to create this malty marzen.

LONDON FOG

SPECIALTY LAGER

Availability: Seasonal

A BV I BU 4.3%10

Earl Grey tea and vanilla give this light lager an English twist.

VANCOUVER

EAST VAN BREWING

1675 Venables St. | EastVanBrewing.com

HOURS TBD

EST. 2016

Set to open any day now, EVBC is promising a 60-seat lounge with a full bar and retail space.

COMMUNITY HELLES LAGER

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 4.5%20

A crisp, clean, classic take on the Munich lager, featuring Canadian malt and noble hops.

VANCOUVER

ORIGINAL PALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 5.2%40

With a West Coast hops pro le and a dash of crystal malt, Original will likely prove popular.

FACULTY BREWING CO.

1830 Ontario St. | FacultyBrewing.com

MON-FRI 2-11PM ^ SAT-SUN 11AM-11PM

EST. 2016

With a catalogue of beers to explore and a mini-library of beer books in its tap room to peruse, getting a higher education in beer has never been easier.

802 TRIPEL

STRONG GOLDEN ALE

Availability: Seasonal

ABV IBU 7.6%43

Fruity nose with herbal notes. Strong, complex malts with a deceivingly light pro le.

516 CENTENNIAL ESB

EXTRA SPECIAL BITTER

Availability: Seasonal

ABV IBU 4.8%30

A smooth, roasty ESB with to ee notes, complimented with woodsy Centennial hops.

G RAN VI LL E IS L AN D

BREWING

1441 Cartwright St. | GIB.com

DAILY 11AM-9PM

EST. 1984

Any trip to Granville Island should include stopping by one of the rst craft breweries in the province – and all of Canada for that matter. Check out brewer Kevin Emms’ latest small batch creations in the place where it all began back in 1984.

JAPANESE BIÈRE DE

Availability: Small batch

An East-meets-West farmhouse ale with Sorachi Ace hops and Belgian saison yeast.

Availability: Small batch

Big West Coast citrus and grapefruit hop notes shine in this bright hop-bomb.

Availability: Year-round

A laidback and balanced pale ale with slight fruity tangerine and pineapple notes.

Availability: Seasonal

Brewed with a fresh schwack of Centennial hops straight from B.C.’s Satori Cedar Ranch.

Ace in the hops

When it comes to hops, the Japanese-developed Sorachi

Ace is both unique and obscure. Developed as a cross between Brewer’s Gold, Saaz and Beikei, Sorachi

Ace can impart notes of citrus and dill, and is only produced in limited quantities. Granville Island brewmaster Kevin Emms was lucky enough to get his hands on some for his Japanese Bière de Garde.

So-Cal Style. bc Brewed.

Bright citrus and grapefruit notes dominate this audacious brew thanks to an epic dose of West Coast hops. Available now at liquor stores and bars.

NEXT RELEASE: MOCHA

Porter

MID-OCTOBER

LUPP OLO B REWING C O.

1123 Venables St. | LuppoloBrewing.ca

MON 3-10PM ^ TUES-THU 3-11PM ^ FRI 2-11PM SAT 11AM-11PM ^ SUN 11AM-10PM

EST. 2016

Italian sandwiches, snacks and sodas served alongside award-winning beers – in a beautiful tasting room. “At the table one does not grow old.” Indeed.

TART WILD ALE WITH APRICOT

WILD ALE

Availability: Small batch

A BV I BU 5.0%20

Fermented with lacto and brett, with organic apricots from Naramata – light and tart. Mmmm!

Availability: Small batch

A BV I BU 7.7%35

Cloudy and juicy, with avours and aromas of citrus and tropical fruits, and low bitterness.

MAIN S T REE T BREWING C O.

261 East 7th Ave. | MainStreetBeer.ca

MON-THU 2-11PM ^ FRI-SUN 12-11PM

EST. 2014

Main Street’s popular Brewery Creek tasting room is a must-visit for craft beer nerds and casual beer fans alike. e atmosphere is inviting and there’s always something interesting on tap. e room recently got a makeover as part of Main Street’s sponsorship of the Vancouver Mural Festival.

Availability: Small batch

Single-hopped with Hallertauer Blanc hops and fermented with French and Belgian saison yeasts.

Availability: Seasonal

Made from locally-sourced fresh hops from the Fraser Valley for tons of avour and aroma.

Availability: Year-round

Brewed with Saaz hops, the result is a clear, easy drinking beer that nishes crisp and clean.

Availability: Year-round

A complex malt bill of Canadian, English, and German malts, with wheat, oats and molasses.

L ife is brewtiful!

Artist Victoria Sieczka (@badbloodclub on Instagram) is responsible for the colourful new artwork in the brewery’s tasting room, part of Main Street’s partnership with the Vancouver Mural Festival.

VANCOUVER

OFF T HE RAI L BREWING

1351 Adanac St. | O eRailBrewing.com

SUN-THU 12-8PM ^ FRI-SAT 12-10PM

EST. 2014

Good, honest beer and a cosy tasting room that feels like a friend’s parlour. Another three CBA awards has the brewery more con dent than ever.

BELT UP ESB

E XTRA S PECIAL BITTER

Availability: Year-round

A BV I BU 5.5%46

More in the classic English style, with a deep, earthy and nutty maltiness and just enough bitterness.

VANCOUVER

PARALL EL 49 BREWING CO.

1950 Triumph St. | Parallel49Brewing.com

DAILY 11AM-11PM

EST. 2012

CRAZY TRAIN IPA

INDIA PALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

A BV I BU 6.5%75

Resin, pine and fruit hops with a big backbone of bready-caramel and grainy malt avours.

Lots of breweries boast food trucks, but only P49 has one inside its new Street Kitchen. It also has 40 taps serving core beers and one-o creations.

LOST SOULS

CHOCOLATE P U MP K IN PORTER

Availability: Seasonal

A BV I BU 6.5%17

Pumpkin beers not your thing? ink again – this one is ghoulishly good!

FILTHY DIRTY

I NDIA P ALE A LE

Availability: Year-round

A BV I BU 7.2%76

Subtly sweet malt avour backs up huge orange, grapefruit, pine and oral aromas.

VANCOUVER

P OS T MARK BREWING

55 Dunlevy Ave. | PostmarkBrewing.com

MON-FRI 11AM-11PM ^ SAT-SUN 10AM-11PM

EST. 2014

Whether it’s kayaking, hiking or yoga on the beach, brewer Dominic Giraldes has crushable beer to pair with almost any West Coast activity you can nd.

STOUT STO UT

Availability: Seasonal

A BV I BU 4.8%30

Balanced, smooth and easy to drink with hints of chocolate, co ee and caramel.

VANCOUVER

P OWELL BREWER Y

1357 Powell St. | PowellBeer.com

DAILY 12-10PM

EST. 2012

OKTOBERFEST FEST B IER

Availability: Small batch

A BV I BU 5.7%23

German malts make a smooth ode to the Bavarian beer festival. Lederhosen not required.

Powell’s meteoric rise from nano to the best beer in Canada was no one-hit wonder. ey’re still hitting it out of the park with old faves and new.

DIVE BOMB

DAR K ALE

Availability: Year-round

A BV I BU 5.0%33

One of Powell’s original beers, it’s light and refreshing, with to ee and chocolate avours.

OLD JALOPY

PALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

A BV I BU 5.5%40

2013’s best beer in Canada keeps winning awards. A Northwest twist on traditional English pale ale.

THE GROWLER

THE GODS OF BEER

by Rob Mangelsdorf

There’s something very charming about the old gods. ey just seem a little more relatable, a little more human. No unattainable images of perfection to which me must aspire, but can never reach. e old gods were awed, just as we are awed.

Pan, the Greek god of shepherds, was an infamous prankster, chronic masturbator and a lover of goats (like, literally). Baron Samedi, the voodoo god of the dead, loved drinking rum, smoking cigars, chasing women and swearing profusely.

Pretty much every culture on earth that has discovered how to make beer has also chosen to venerate some lucky deity for this wonderful elixir. e beer gods are indeed a motley bunch, so here’s a eld guide to spotting these many mischief-makers and ne’er-do-wells should you encounter them in the wild.

Dionysus

is Greek god is more commonly associated with wine, but beer de nitely falls into his area of expertise. As the son of Zeus, the exceptionally handsome Dionysus spends most of his time completely shit-faced with a devoted following of sycophantic, booze-loving cultists in tow. Basically he’s the trust fund-rich kid-frat boy who throws all the craziest parties at his huge house that his parents bought him and has never worked a day in his life.

Ninkasi

e Sumerian goddess of alcohol was borne of pure spring water and is responsible for “satisfying the desire of the heart.” Amongst the earliest examples of preserved human writings are clay tablets containing the “Hymn to Ninkasi,” which is actually a recipe for making the nastiest beer imaginable. Seriously, people have tried making this stu and it resembles boozy oatmeal. Gross.

Inari Ōkami

e Japanese Shinto god of rice and sake is variously depicted as an old man, a young female goddess or an androgynous Buddhist monk. Like a lot of other gods working the beer portfolio, Inari Ōkami is also pulling double duty, serving as the god of fertility as well as the god of foxes. Fertility makes sense; there’s a lot of cross-over between the consumption of alcohol and unplanned pregnany. But foxes?

Mamlambo

living waters, Mamlambo is the patron god of beer

sexual appetite and a pesky

e South African Zulu goddess of rivers and living waters, Mamlambo is the patron god of beer and brewing. She has a head of a crocodile and the body of a snake and is said to have an insatiable sexual appetite and a pesky habit of eating peoples faces and sucking out their brains. So, you’ve been warned.

Ragutiene and Ragutis

Ragutiene and Ragutis

e Lithuanian goddess and god of beer, respectively. is happy couple was revered by pagans in Eastern Europe and in recent years have become folk heroes in their native land. ey are usually spotted partying with their pal Raugupatis, a notorious thirdwheel demi-god responsible for fermentation.

partying Raugupatis, a notorious third-

Strap in, this is going to get crazy. e ancient Aztecs didn’t have just one god of booze, they had 400! e 400 Drunken Rabbit Gods each represented the many di erent methods one could use to get drunk, and the varying levels of drunkenness one could attain. ey were led by Tepoztecatl (literally, “Two Rabbit”), who was the god of alcohol and fertility (noticing a trend?). It was all fun and games for the rabbits until they accidently killed the mother of Huitzilopochtli, the Aztec war god. What followed was a truly epic bloodbath resulting in A LOT of dead bunnies. j

Tepoztecatl & the 400 Drunken Rabbit Gods

Inari Ōkami an

VANCOUVERVANCOUVER

R & B BREWING CO.

54 East 4th Ave. | RAndBBrewing.com

SUN-TUE 11AM-11PM ^ WED-SAT 11AM-12AM

EST. 1997

One of the originators of the craft beer scene in Vancouver, R&B remains an innovator as it celebrates its 20th anniversary this year.

20TH ANNIVERSARY BRETT SAISON

BRETT SAISON

Availability: One-o

ABV IBU 8.8%32

is bottle-conditioned farm ale is fermented with saison yeast, then aged with brett for four months.

VANCOUVER

VANCOUVER SPECIAL IPA

INDIA PALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 6.0%50

is IPA is big and sturdy, just like the omnipresent box-like East Van homes it’s named after.

RED TRUCK BEER CO.

295 East 1st Ave. | RedTruckBeer.com

MON-THU 11AM-10PM ^ FRI-SAT 10AM-11PM

SUN 10AM-10PM

EST. 2005

Red Truck is purring along, smooth as ever with a growing list of seasonals. Soon there’ll be a U.S. model too, with the purchase of Fort Collins Brewery.

BLACKBERRY BOURBON ALE

FRUIT ALE

Availability: Seasonal

ABV IBU 5.3%25

Deliciously marries the tartness of blackberries and depth of Kentucky bourbon without getting cloying.

PILSNER

PILSNER

Availability: Seasonal

ABV IBU 5.0%25

A more bracing lager than Red Truck’s agship, with elevated hops and a refreshing dry nish.

ST ORM BREWING LTD.

310 Commercial Dr. | StormBrewing.com

TUE-SAT 10AM-6PM ^ SUN 1-6PM

EST. 1994

Enter through the loading door and go behind the scenes at Vancouver’s longest running craft brewery. is gritty little brewery is de nitely worth a stop.

HIGHLAND SCOTTISH ALE

S COTTISH ALE

Availability: Year-round

A BV I BU 5.0%25

A creamy, nutty, malty amber ale with a hint of smoke from peated malt.

VANILLA WHISKY STOUT

IMPERIAL STO UT

Availability: Year-round

A BV I BU 6.0%60

Known as the VW among regulars, this big beer is dangerously smooth, rich and roasty.

(LRS)

ST RANGE FELLOWS

BREWING

1345 Clark Dr. | StrangeFellowsBrewing.com

DAILY 12-11PM

EST. 2014

Like a ne (yet strange) wine, things at this Yeast Van brewery are only getting better with age. Speaking of which, the tasting room now o ers a vintage bottle list, featuring some of Strange Fellows’ best creations.

Oak foudre-aged, it’s tart with a dry nish and cherry and plum aromas.

36 VANCOUVER

COUP POPINJAY W EST C OAST SO U R ALE NOCTURNUM D AR K I NDIA P ALE A LE

Availability: Seasonal

Availability: Seasonal

A BV I BU 6.0%N/A A BV I BU 4.5%28 A BV I BU 4.5%N/A A BV I BU 6.565

A golden beauty that’s slightly tart and nicely hopped with Citra and Vic Secret.

Rich, soft roastiness and chocolaty with a touch of sweetness from lactose sugar.

Availability: Seasonal

With a rich, robust backbone and a crisp hop bite, this IPA is a fall favourite.

Sour batch kids

STRAT HCONA BEER C O.

895 E. Hastings St. | StrathconaBeer.com

DAILY 12-11PM

EST. 2016

e tasting room and branding are de nitely design-oriented; the beers are award-winning and the commitment to their neighbourhood is deep-rooted.

PREMIUM PILSNER PILSNER

Availability: Year-round

A BV I BU 5.0%32

A well-balanced, smooth, crisp lager. is traditional pilsner is available on tap and in cans.

BRITISH IPA I NDIA PALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

A BV I BU 6.0%60

An award-winning English-style India pale ale with subtle notes of dried fruit, citrus and spice.

BL ACK KE TTLE BREWING

106 -720 Copping St. | BlackKettleBrewing.com

MON-SAT 11AM-7PM ^ SUN 1-5PM

EST. 2014

Tucked away next to the railway tracks o the beaten path, this oftoverlooked North Van brewery is well worth seeking out.

SESSION ALE

SESSION ALE

IPA INDIA PALE ALE

Availability: Year-round Availability: Year-round

A BV I BU 4.2%20

e tropical fruit-forward avours in this crushable ale come courtesy of Mosaic hops.

NORTH V AN

A BV I BU 6.4%60

Floral hop aroma and citrus avour take centre-stage in this lively IPA

BRI D GE BREWING C O.

1448 Charlotte Rd. | BridgeBrewing.com

DAILY 11AM-11PM

EST. 2012

Maybe you choose to cross the bridge for this brewery’s diverse beer list and delicious tacos, but another reason to love Bridge is its focus on sustainability.

SIDE KICK

INDIA SESSION ALE

THE FUZZ

MIL K SHA K E INDIA PALE ALE

Availability: Small batch Availability: Seasonal

A BV I BU 4.2%32

is smooth and cloudy ISA is packed with notes of melon, berries and stone fruit.

A BV I BU 6.0%45

e addition of lactose and oats gives this hoppy IPA its creamy milkshake quality.

DEEP COVE BREWERS AND DISTILLERS

170 - 2270 Dollarton Hwy. | DeepCoveCraft.com

DAILY 12-11PM

EST. 2013

With their new canning line, Deep Cove beer is even more readily available. Better yet, check out their taproom and get it from the source!

HARVEST

FRESH-HOPPED PALE ALE

Availability: One-o

ABV IBU 5.5%40

Keeping it local with fresh hops from Chilliwack and raw rye from the Peace River Valley.

METHOD

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 5.0%28

eir newest core brand has lots of oats and fruit-forward hops to tickle your fancy.

GREEN LEAF BREWING CO.

123 Carrie Cates Crt. | GreenLeafBrew.com

SUN-THU 11AM-10PM ^ FRI-SAT 11AM-11PM

EST. 2013

Green Leaf has quietly been producing quality beers – including a growing roster of sours and aged beers – at Lonsdale Quay since 2013.

PIE HOLE PALE ALE

NORTHWEST PALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 5.6%36

Crisp, clean, fruity and hoppy – you’re going to want to stu your pie hole with this pale ale.

WISENHOWER HEFEWEIZEN

Availability: Seasonal

ABV IBU 5.0%60

is refreshing wheat ale is perfect for a sunny day at Green Leaf’s Lonsdale Quay beer garden.

HEAR T HS T ONE BREWER Y

1015

Marine Dr. | HearthstoneBrewery.ca

SUN-WED 11AM-10PM ^ THURS-SAT 11AM-12AM

EST. 2014

Hearthstone has turned heads with creative recipes, thanks to brewer George Woods, formerly of legendary Scottish beermakers, BrewDog.

RIZZLA RICE LAGER

GLU TEN-FRIENDLY LAGER

Availability: Year-round

A BV I BU 4.5%18

is Asian-style rice lager is all killer and no ller (or gluten, for that matter).

HIGH SCHOOL SWEETHEART DARK SOUR

FRU IT SO UR

Availability: One-o

A BV I BU 6.0%0

is dark ale is kettle-soured and fermented with blackcurrant and cranberries.

Just a few paces north of the steam clock, we are a friendly place to grab a bite, hoist a pint and relax in good company. Open

D AGERAA D BREWING

114 - 3191 underbird Cres. | DageraadBrewing.com

SAT-THU 12-8PM^FRI 12-9PM

EST. 2014

Many breweries attempt Belgian-style beers, but no one seems to nail it quite like Dageraad does. e newly-opened tasting room, located just steps from Production Way-University SkyTrain station, is the perfect place to sample the goods, too.

BLONDE IPA

BELGIAN BLONDE / I NDIA P ALE A LE

Availability: Seasonal

e classic Belgian blonde ale gets the West Coast treatment with fruity Amarillo hops.

OSCAR

Availability: Small batch

One of a pair of beers brewed to mark the rst birthday of owner/brewer Ben Coli’s twin children.

Availability: One-o

Dageraad’s second twin beer, Louise is a bright, citrusy, refreshing Belgian blonde ale.

Availability: Small batch

Lightly soured then fermented with an “unusual strain” of yeast that produces lovely plummy esters.

Movin’ on up!

Dageraad’s new nine-tap, 50-seat tasting room opened back in May and it nally received its lounge endorsement in July, so now you can have two beers in a row!

(finally)

Near Lougheed Highway

A 5 minute walk from Production Way Skytrain

Discover the eeting magic of fresh-hopped beer

by Rob Mangelsdorf

There’s something truly magical about a fresh-hopped beer. In terms of avour, the use of fresh hops – that is, hops that have been picked that day and put immediately into the brew – imparts wonderfully oral aromatics and intense bright avours.

But that’s only part of the appeal.

Because fresh-hopped beers need to be brewed immediately upon harvesting the hops, there’s only a narrow window in which to make them –three to four weeks in September at most.

e compounds that produce those incredible aromatics are also incredibly volatile, so fresh-hopped beers have to be drunk as fresh as possible. Once it’s a couple weeks old, all that magic is gone.

“ e absolute seasonality of fresh-hopped beers is so, so awesome,” says Iain Hill, brewmaster at Strange Fellows Brewing in Vancouver. “You have to make it the day it’s picked… and then you have two weeks to drink it and that’s it. It lives for such a short time.”

While many people associate hoppy beers with the intense bitterness of West Coast IPAs, freshhopped beers don’t have that burn.

“ e hop avour is more intense and perfume-y, but it’s not more bitter,” Hill explains.

Traditionally, hops are kiln-dried, then pelletized, vacuum-sealed and frozen to extend their shelf life. at way brewers can brew with hops yearround. e trade-o , though, is that some of the

volatile compounds responsible for the intense aromatics can be lost.

e key to capturing the essence of the fresh hop is a tricky process, however. Along with those intense avour brewers want, fresh hops can also bring tannins and other compounds that can give a beer a vegetal avour, if you’re not careful. (Imagine soggy green pepper that’s been left in the fridge for a week. Yuck!)

More often then not, fresh-hopped beers fall somewhere on the pale ale or IPA spectrum. Hill says he prefers them to be dry, with little residual sweetness and malt character, in order to provide a blank canvas for the hops.

“It’s all about the hops,” he says, “so you don’t want anything competing with those avours.”

Since the hops have to go into the brew immediately, brewers are forced to use hops that are grown nearby. In the case of Strange Fellows’ Hopdevil, the Cascade hops Hill uses are picked early in the morning at Maple Bay Hop Farm on Vancouver Island, sent over on the ferry, and are added to the brew by the early afternoon.

Weather conditions have a huge impact on harvest times, so Hill might only get a couple days notice that his hops are coming, if he’s lucky.

“You have to be ready for them when they get here,” he says.

By forcing brewers to source their hops locally, fresh-hopped beers are among the best examples of terroir in craft beer.

“You can’t use Vic Secret, or some fruity Australian hop, you have to go local,” Hill says. “ at allows you to make something that’s pretty unique and it’s a great way to connect with the land.”

For the most part, you’re only going to nd freshhopped beers like Strange Fellows’ Hopdevil in the tasting room. Driftwood was the rst B.C. craft brewery to o er a bottled fresh-hopped beer with its Sartori Harvest IPA, but if you’re lucky enough to snag a bottle, make sure you drink it immediately!

ere is a third option, however. Go to the source! Donna Dixson is the brains behind the B.C. Hop Fest, which takes place Sept. 30 in Abbotsford, on an actual working hop farm. e festival features 36 B.C. craft breweries, each pouring a freshhopped creation, so it’s easily the best place to experience the magic of this ephemeral beer.

“It’s a pretty unique experience, because it’s right on the farm, so you can see where the hops come from,” says Dixson. ere will be farm tours, displays on the history of hop production in the Fraser Valley (which used to be one of the largest hop-producing regions on Earth!), live music, food, vendors selling hop-related products, the whole works.

Not surprisingly, people from across North America ock to the event. is year, 1,500 people are expected to attend.

“Like a Beaujolais Nouveau, fresh-hopped beer is something you can only get once a year,” Dixson says. “And once it’s gone, it’s gone! j

B.C.HopFest

1-6pm, Saturday, Sept. 30, 2017

1905 Cole Rd., Abbotsford

Info and tickets at BCHop.ca/events/hop-fest

e compounds that produce those incredible aromatics are also incredibly volatile, so fresh-hopped beers have to be drunk as fresh as possible. Once it’s a couple weeks old, all that magic is gone.

ST EAMWORKS BREWING CO .

3845 William St. | Steamworks.com

SUN-WED 12-10PM ^THU-FRI 12-11PM

EST. 1995

Steamworks might just be B.C.’s most consistent brewery, with an interesting and varied lineup of excellent beer.

BLACK ANGEL IPA

CASCADIAN DAR K ALE

Availability: Seasonal

A BV I BU 7.0%70

Huge notes of tropical, oral and spicy hops, deftly balanced by caramel malt.

NEW WEST

FLAGSHIP IPA

N ORTHEAST I NDIA P ALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

A BV I BU 6.7%65

Will Flagship retain its B.C. Beer Awards best in show crown? It’s still got that tropical juice down pat.

ST EE L & OAK BREWING CO .

1319 3rd Ave. | SteelAndOak.ca

SUN-MON 12-8PM ^ TUE-WED 12-9PM ^ THU-SAT 1210PM

EST. 2013

A strong community presence and attention to detail has paid o for Steel & Oak. Its popular tasting room is always hopping thanks to an eclectic beer list.

RED PILSNER

AMB ER LAGER

Availability: Year-round

A BV I BU 5.0%35

is full-bodied, copper-coloured lager has a thick white head and a oral hop aroma.

ROSELLE

WHEAT ALE

Availability: Year-round

A BV I BU 5.5%22

Belgian yeast, hibiscus and rosehips give this beer notes of banana, raspberry and spice.

MOO DY A L ES

2601 Murray St. | MoodyAles.com

MON-TUE 3-9PM ^ WED 1-9PM ^ THU 1-10PM

FRI 12-11PM ^ SAT 11AM-11PM ^ SUN 12-8PM

EST. 2014

ere’s always something interesting going down at this Brewers Row haunt. It’s not just the award-winning beer either – there’s yoga and trivia, too.

VIENNA LAGER

V IENNA LAGER

Availability: Year-round

A BV I BU 5.5%26

is style was originated in Vienna in the 1840s, lost popularity in Europe, then thrived in Mexico.

MOODY

LUSTY CHOCOLATE STOUT

C HOCOLATE O ATMEAL M IL K S TO UT

Availability: Seasonal

A BV I BU 5.8%38

Brewed with chocolate malt and cocoa, then conditioned on cocoa nibs for an intense chocolate avour.

THE PARKSI DE BREWER Y

2731 Murray St. | eParksideBrewery.com

MON-WED 12-10PM ^ THU-SAT 12-11PM ^ SUN 12-10PM

EST. 2016

Over one full year in operation, ex-Granville Island brewer Vern Lambourne has more than demonstrated his brewing chops.

GRAFFITI

I NDIA PALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

A BV I BU 6.9%60

A bold and balanced hop bomb brimming with pithy grapefruit, pine and oral hop notes.

DUSK

PALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

A BV I BU 5.3%30

is is a solid, hop-forward pale ale that ts the bill for any occasion.

T WIN SAI L S

BREWING

2821 Murray St. | TwinSailsBrewing.com

SUN-WED 12PM-10PM ^ THU-SAT 12-11PM

EST. 2015

No visit to Brewers Row is complete without a stop at Twin Sails, where traditional beer styles line up next to envelope-pushing creations.

TWIN SAILS PILSNER

Availability: Year-round

is light-bodied German-style pilsner nishes crisply. Generous noble hops make it mildy spicy.

Availability: Small batch

Like real horchata, this rich milk stout is brewed with cinnamon and vanilla. Mucho gusto!

YE LL OW D OG BREWING CO .

1- 2817 Murray St. | YellowDogBrew.com

MON-SAT 11AM-11PM ^ SUN 11AM-10PM

EST. 2014

Named for the founders’ golden lab, Chase, this brewery has built up a big following of adoring fans for its wide range of award-winning beers.

CHASE MY TAIL

A MERICAN PALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

is West Coast (i.e. hoppy!) pale ale is an easy-drinking thirst quencher.

SHAKE A PAW

ENGLISH PORTER

Availability: Year-round

5.0%24

Dark, smooth and complex with a subtle smokiness and hints of co ee and chocolate.

MARINER BREWING

1100 Lansdowne Dr. | MarinerBrewing.ca

MON-THU 2-10PM ^ FRI-SAT 12-11PM ^ SUN 12-9PM

EST. 2016

is brand new brewery, with its 50-seat tasting room and steamred brewhouse, is a welcome addition to the Tri-Cities brewing scene.

NORTHEAST IPA

INDIA PALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 7.5%67

For fans of the hazy and juicy India pale ale –we’re talking intense tropical avour!

BRITANNIA BREWING CO.

110-12500 Horseshoe Way | BBCO.ca

MON-SAT 11AM-6PM

EST. 2016

AMBER ALE

AMBER ALE

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 5.1%30

Mild co ee and fresh bread meet warm spicy hops in this rich caramel amber ale.

Britannia’s taproom is a hop, skip and a 10-minute drive away from their Steveston restaurant, where you can also try their brews alongside fresh eats.

WAVE CRUSADER

XPA

EXTRA PALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 5.7%45

British pale ale meets West Coast IPA: resiny citrus hops balanced with U.K. crystal malts.

SEA MAIDEN SOUR ALE

SOUR ALE

Availability: Seasonal

ABV IBU 4.2%4

Fermented with lactobacillus, this light sour ale promises to be refreshingly tart.

FUGG L ES & WAR L OCK CRAF T WORKS

103-11220 Horseshoe Way | FugglesWarlock.com

SUN-WED 12-9PM ^ THU 11AM-11PM ^ FRI-SAT 11AM12AM EST. 2012

“Keeping beer weird” is their motto, bringing geek culture to thirsty people is their destiny. Expect adventurously tasty brews and pop culture references.

PIXEL PILS

ME UP

Availability: Year-round Availability: Year-round

A BV I BU 5.0%30

An un ltered pilsner that is crisp and refreshing, with a nice hop bite.

A BV I BU 5.7%18

Made in collaboration with Notch Co ee, this espresso stout is smooth and creamy.

FOUR WIN D S BREWING

4 - 7355 72nd St. | FourWindsBrewing.ca

DAILY 11AM-7PM

EST. 2013

FW’s six-packs of its low ABV-yet-super- avourful Notus series kept us hydrated over summer, and that’s not looking to change as we head into fall.

VELO

AMERICAN PALE ALE

NECTAROUS

D RY-HOPPED SO U R ALE

Availability: Seasonal Availability: Year-round

A BV I BU 4.5%45

A bright, citrusy hazy pale ale conditioned with fresh lemon zest and pink Himalayan salt.

A BV I BU 5.5%6

Last year’s Canadian beer of the year still shines, nishing with a clean tart nish.

C EN T RA L C I TY B REWERS + DIS TI LLERS

e tank forest is always full, the brewpubs are busy and Central City’s spirits keep picking up awards. Pro tip: Gary Lohin’s beer is pretty awesome, too.

SUPER SOLAR

Availability: Year-round

What do you get if you combine Gary Lohin with Citra and Mosaic hops? Your favourite new IPA.

RED RACER PALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

ere’s been a whole lotta tweakin’ goin’ on here recently, but this pale ale remains a bold classic.

RUSSELL BREWING CO.

202 - 13018 80th Ave. | RussellBeer.com

MON-FRI 6:30AM-2:30PM

EST. 1995

Established in 1995, Russell brews a plethora of beer styles, readily available in stores. Which is handy as they don’t have a tasting room!

A WEE ANGRY SCOTCH ALE

SCOTTISH ALE

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 6.5%30

A strong dark ale brewed with specialty Scottish malts for a subtle smoky avour

SURREY

WHITE ROCK BREWING

BLOOD ALLEY

EXTRA SPECIAL BITTER

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 5.5%50

Named for the infamous alley in Gastown, and brewed with English malts and American hops.

13 - 3033 King George Blvd. | WhiteRockBrewing.ca

MON-SAT 11:30AM-7PM ^ SUN 11:30AM-5PM

EST. 2015

It may be attached to a U-Brew, but ey Brew to a professional standard. Don’t let the dinky brewing rig in the tasting room fool you.

WHITE ROCK

OCEAN LAGER

LAGER

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 5.0%22

Converting South Surrey lager lovers to craft beer since 2015.

U-13 PROHIBITION IPA

INDIA PALE ALE

Availability: Seasonal

ABV IBU 7.0%90

Make way, there! is full-blooded hop bomb is packed with explosive citrus and pine avour.

WHI TE ROCK BEACH

BEER CO .

15181 Russell Ave. | WhiteRockBeachBeer.com

WED-THU 4-8PM ^ FRI 4-9PM^SAT 12-8PM

SUN 10AM-5PM

EST. 2014

Big things are happening for White Rock’s only craft brewery, with a new tasting lounge and a new 18 hL brewhouse.

WEST BEACH

AMERICAN PALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

A BV I BU 5.0%36

Centennial hops give this thirst-quenching crowd pleaser a citrusy, grapefruit avour.

BORDER

B ALTIC PORTER

Availability: Seasonal

A BV I BU 6.2%29

Big malty aromas with chocolate notes alongside sweet fruitiness make for a satisfying autumn pint.

F OAMERS ’ F O LLY

B REWING C O.

19221

122A Ave. | FoamersFolly.ca

SUN-THU 11AM-11PM ^ FRI-SAT 11AM-12:30AM

EST. 2015

is brewery stands out not only for its unusual name, but also because of its way cool tasting room with 20 taps, pizza, board games, and a streetside patio. Easily the best thing Pitt Meadows has going for it.

Availability: Small batch

Tart and fruity with a subtly spiced and dry nish, this berry-infused beer is refreshing.

Availability: Year-round

A medium-bodied ale enhanced by wheat malt and a fruity, citrus hop pro le.

Availability: Small batch

Hazy and creamy with big tropical fruit avours boosted by the addition of real mangoes.

Availability: Small batch

Rich bergamot and lavender are balanced with biscuity, caramel malt avours. Creamy and delicious.

two brews better than one

We can all agree, two is better than one, right? Foamers’ Folly certainly thinks so, that’s why they have not one, but two brewhouses. e main system, at 2000 litres, produces the brewery’s mainstays, while the smaller 500-litre system is used for experimental small batch beers for the tasting room.

Indeed, some of B.C.’s brewers have been purposely adding acid to their beers for a while now – lactic acid, that is. e sour beer craze is only getting bigger and bigger, but while some sours taste just slightly tart, others come across as mouth-puckeringly sour. With such a big di erence from beer to beer, perhaps it’s time for a sourness scale similar to ABV and IBU to better inform the consumer.

Michael Kuzyk, founder and brewer at Category 12 Brewing, certainly thinks so.

over months and years. e contemporary kettle souring method is much faster, but brewers generally use just Lactobacillus because Pediococcus can produce o avours that require aging, blending and other interventions.

To learn more about total acidity, I visited Kuzyk at his brewery in Saanichton, just north of Victoria. I brought along a clutch of di erent sour beers. Category 12 sacri ced a bottle of Cantillon Kriek that was in its fridge – luckily we only needed 30 mL for the test so everyone working that day got to have a taste. And I included some lemonade as a baseline test.

how sour

their beer is.”

“IPAs all have IBU ratings on them to give an idea of how bitter the beer is,” he explained. “With the rise of sour beers in the B.C. beer scene, we wanted to let people know

As such, along with the usual ABV and IBU, the label for Category 12 Brewing’s Dry-Hopped Sour also lists the beer’s total acidity (TA) as 4.3 g/L.

Brewers don’t just dump lactic acid into their beers to sour them; it is generated by useful bacteria as part of the brewing process. In the traditional Belgian method of barrel-aging sours, Lactobacillus and Pediococcus bacteria do the work slowly

We set up in the brewery’s lab. Kuzyk has a PhD in microbiology and biochemistry. As he poured out the beers into some C12-branded beakers (which are also used in the tasting room), he described the procedure.

“We measure the levels of lactic acid in our wort as it comes out of the kettle before it has had any fermentation or any acidity, and that’s the baseline,” Kuzyk explained. “And then you measure it

Hey dude, did you know there’s acid in your beer?!

by Joe Wiebe

again when it’s nished and that net change is due to the presence of lactic acid.”

Kuzyk said the baseline for their Dry-Hopped Sour is 1.1 g/L. We couldn’t measure the baseline acidity for the other beers we tested, but Kuzyk explained that most beers would fall within the 1-1.1 g/L range so the slight di erence would not a ect our nal numbers much.

First, because dissolved carbon dioxide can skew the test results, we had to decarbonate each sample by pouring it back and forth until it was at. en, we would measure the pH of each beer and slowly add sodium hydroxide (NaOH) until the pH rose to 8.2. Based on how much was required to neutralize the beer’s acidity we could then compute each beer’s nal acidity.

Total acidity is measured in grams per litre. e range of total acidity in beer is approximately 0 to 15 g/L.

“Anything above 15 g/L will stress the yeast out too much,” Kuzyk stated.

Time to let the acid testing begin! After we donned safety goggles, Kuzyk measured the pH in the rst beaker containing lemonade as 2.45. en he began adding drops of sodium hydroxide in a slow trickle and we watched as the numbers on the pH meter began to climb. We tasted the lemonade and agreed that it didn’t taste very sour, but that’s because it was heavily sweetened with sugar.

“I get a lot of joy out of nding the science in this,” Kuzyk commented as he worked. “When I rst embarked on the path to leave research behind it kind of felt like I was leaving science behind.”

According to his wife, Karen, who manages the brewery, “He’s in his element in the lab.” ey have been slowly gathering more and more lab equipment for him to use. “We just shut the door and ignore him,” she joked.

Soon, we had our rst result: 26.6 mL of NaOH added. Kuzyk punched this value into a spreadsheet, and presto, we learned that the lemonade’s total acidity was 6.6 g/L.

Over the next 90 minutes we tested a wide range of sour beers. e pH did not necessarily re ect

"He’s in his element in the lab,” says Michael Kuzyk's wife, Karen. “We just shut the door and ignore him.”

the beer’s total acidity – several beers had virtually identical pH readings of 3.24-3.26, but their TA levels ranged from 4.3 to 8.4.

Empirically, the actual sourness of the beers was not necessarily re ected in what we tasted. For instance, Bridge’s Quaywi (6.4 TA) tasted more sour than Nectarous (9.1 TA). We gured that was because Nectarous has a fruity sweetness from dry hopping that counteracts some of the sourness. And even though Cantillon’s Kriek had a TA of 8.4, the second highest we measured, it didn’t come across as extremely sour. Similarly, Moon Under Water’s Tempus Corvi’s sourness seemed more subtle and nuanced. is might be explained by the fact that both were barrel-aged rather than soured in the kettle, which results in more complex avours.

As expected, the gose with its salty tartness (4.0 TA) and the lighter Berliner Weisse (4.9 TA) had relatively low ratings, but so did Category 12’s, which registered as second lowest at 4.3. Kuzyk explained that is intentional: “We want it to be an introductory sour for people.”

introductory sour for people.”

At this point, Category 12 is lists total acidity on its labels.

its place alongside ABV and

At this point, Category 12 is the only brewery in B.C. that lists total acidity on its labels. Some, including Four Winds, do measure it for their own purposes, but we will have to wait and see if TA will nd its place alongside ABV and IBU on craft beer labels. j

MAPLE MEADOWS BREWING CO.

22775 Dewdney Trunk Rd. | MapleMeadowsBrewingCo.com

TUE-THU 2-7PM ^FRI-SAT 12-8PM ^SUN 12-6PM

EST. 2014

Maple Meadows may be the quieter of Maple Ridge’s two breweries, but it’s always worth stopping by Carlo Baroccio’s taproom.

DARK RED ALE RED ALE

HOPPY MEADOWS

INDIA PALE ALE

Availability: Seasonal Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 5.5%27

A mysteriously mild-hopped dark red ale that pairs well with autumn weather.

MAPLE RIDGE

RIDGE BREWING CO.

ABV IBU 6.1%71

Carlo’s signature IPA doesn’t hold back on the hop-bursting goodness.

22826 Dewdney Trunk Rd. | RidgeBrewing.com

MON-THU 2-7PM ^ FRI 2-8:30PM ^SAT 11AM-8:30PM SUN 11AM-5:30PM

EST. 2015

e only brewery where you can get a glass of Hairy Donut, Ridge is creating interesting brews with equally interesting names.

CORE SAMPLE

NORTHWEST INDIA PALE ALE

CAFÉ MORENA

ENGLISH BROWN ALE

Availability: Limited Availability: Seasonal

ABV IBU 6.6%66

A strong malt backbone with bright citrus hop avours and little bitterness.

ABV IBU 4.8%18

An English brown ale with rich dark co ee notes, best served at cellar temperatures.

KP U B REWING L AB

20901 Langley Bypass | KPU.ca/Brew

WED 12-4PM ^ FRI 1-5PM

EST. 2016

is 4,500-sq.-ft. pilot brewery is where the next generation of brewers is learning their craft. Stop by for a sample or a growler ll.

Availability: Small batch Availability: Small batch

A BV I BU 5.0%N/A

A dry, dark German lager with notes of co ee and a roasted malt edge.

LANGLEY

A BV I BU 5.0%N/A

A refreshing, golden-coloured ale with medium hop avour and malt character.

TRA D ING POS T B REWING

107 - 20120 64th Ave. | TradingPostBrewing.com

MON-WED 12-10PM ^ THU-SUN 12-11PM

EST. 2015

TP is hip and modern but still honours the fur trading past of Fort Langley. is doesn’t mean you can pay for a growler ll with beaver pelts, though.

CAPTAIN COOPER’S TART CRANBERRY ALE SOU R ALE

THREE BEARS BREAKFAST STOUT STO UT

Availability: Seasonal Availability: Year-round

A BV I BU 6.7%40

A kettle sour wheat ale with lactobacillus. A medium malt body with bold cranberry tartness.

A jet black, hearty oatmeal stout featuring beans

KPU SCHWARZBIER

KPU PALE ALE

from Fort Langley’s Republica Roasters.

D EA D FROG BREWER Y

1 - 27272 Gloucester Way | DeadFrog.ca

MON-FRI 10AM-5PM ^ SAT 12-4PM

EST. 2005

Head brewer Cole Smith is starting to stamp his own style at Dead Frog, where the inventive lineup always features several surprises.

C.R.E.A.M. KEY LIME

MILKSHAKE IPA

M IL K SHA K E INDIA PALE ALE

TIP HOP SPRUCE WHITE IPA

W HITE INDIA PALE ALE

Availability: Limited Availability: Limited

A BV I BU 6.5%45

Just enough key lime zest adds some refreshing acidity to this creamy-sweet tropical concoction.

ABBOTSFORD

A BV I BU 6.5%55

Fresh spruce tips are paired with Simcoe hops for a tangy pine pro le supported by toasty malt.

F IE LD H OUSE B REWING CO .

2281 West Railway St. | FieldHouseBrewing.com

TUE-THU 12-10PM ^ FRI-SAT 12-11PM ^ SUN 12-10PM

EST. 2016

With exceptional beers and an über-cool tasting room (complete with outdoor “beer lawn”), Field House is well worth a trip out to the Valley.

DUTCH SOUR WIT

SOU R WIT B IER

DRY-HOPPED HAZY

SOUR DOUBLE IPA

SOU R INDIA PALE ALE

Availability: Seasonal Availability: Seasonal

A BV I BU 6.0%18

is Dutch treat is brewed with dried orange peel and coriander, soured with lacto then dry-hopped.

A BV I BU 7.5%22

Dry-hopped, lacto-soured and brett-fermented –there’s a lot going on with this juicy wild ale.

LD ABBEY AL ES

1A - 30321 Fraser Hwy. | OldAbbeyAles.com

DAILY 11AM-8PM

EST. 2015

is tasting room always has 20 beers on tap, ranging from the traditional to edgier West Coast styles, sours and Belgians.

DANK TANK IIPA

DO UBLE I NDIA P ALE A LE

Availability: Year-round

A BV I BU 9.5%70

Hazy and golden with notes of fruit and pine and a big dank hop character.

A BBOTSFORD

ALTERNATIVE

ZEN IPL

I NDIA P ALE L AGER

Availability: Year-round

A BV I BU 5.0%30

Big doses of whirlpool hops give this un ltered golden lager a citrusy hop aroma.

RAV ENS BREWING CO.

2485 Townline Rd. | Ravens.beer

TUE-THU 12-7PM ^ FRI 2-8PM ^ SAT 12-8PM SUN 12-6PM

EST. 2015

It’s well worth the trek through west Abbotsford’s sprawling industrial zone to nd this oasis of calm, friendliness and splendid beer.

RAVENS IPA

I NDIA PALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

A BV I BU 7.0%70

A robust hop showcase full of classic pine and tropical and citrus fruit avours and a sturdy bitterness.

DRY IRISH STOUT

DRY IRISH STO UT

Availability: Seasonal

A BV I BU 4.8%33

A cracking stout with just enough notes of co ee and roastiness, and a satisfying, dry nish.

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We are now over 300 acres and growing! We carry over 120 varieties of hops that we ship out daily to over 15 countries.

We love growing hops. You love brewing with great hops. Contact us—we’re here to help.

CHILLIWACK HOP FARMS

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MISSION SP RINGS BREWING COM PAN Y

7160 Oliver St. | MissionSprings.ca

MON-SAT 11AM-10PM ^ SUN 10AM-10PM

EST. 1996

If you’re on a mission to Mission, there’s only one place to stop for craft beer. Mission Springs has been quenching thirsts for more than 20 years and has the loyal local following to prove it. It’s a brewery, a pub, a restaurant, a liquor store and so much more.

P ILSNER FAT GUY OATMEAL STO UT

Availability: Year-round

A BV I BU 4.5%17

Brewed for drinking after a hard day of mountain biking, this pilsner is crisp, refreshing and well-balanced.

LEMON GINGER RADLER RADLER

Availability: Year-round

A BV I BU 3.0%17

With a refreshing lemon nish and light ginger zing, this radler goes great over ice. Who says summer has to end!

LOUGHEED LAGER

Availability: Year-round

A BV I BU 4.5%15

A perfectly simple, yet refreshing beer created as an introduction into the world of craft.

Availability: Year-round

A BV I BU 4.5%22

is sessionable oatmeal stout is all co ee and chocolate and roasty maltiness – delicious!

BLUE COLLAR PALE ALE

P ALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

A BV I BU 5.3%30

is is a no-nonsense, full-bodied pale ale brewed in the Old World and designed to be enjoyed any time of the year.

CHERRY BOMB

FARMHO U SE ALE

Availability: Seasonal

A BV I BU 5.5%23

is Belgian-style farmhouse ale is fermented with just the right amount of sour cherries. Exceptionally sessionable.

LAGER

C HAOS & SOL ACE C RAF T

B REWING C O.

1 - 9360 Mill St. | ChaosAndSolace.com

DAILY 11AM-7PM

EST. 2016

With 20-plus years of homebrewing experience, Calvin Quaite has a solid selection of brews on tap at his hip taproom in historic downtown Chilliwack.

FIVE CORNERS IPA

I NDIA PALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

A BV I BU 6.5%75

is is one for all the hop-heads, featuring fresh local hops from Chilliwack.

C HILLIWAC K

PARAMOUNT PORTER

PORTER

Availability: Year-round

A BV I BU 6.3%38

A roasty aroma compliments the equally roasted malts in this strong dark brew.

LD YAL E BREWING CO .

404 - 44550 South Sumas Rd. | OldYaleBrewing.com

DAILY 11AM-9PM

EST. 1999

Brewer Nick Fengler has landed at this award-winning brewery. Head to the tasting room for a close encounter with a mysterious Sasquatch (stout).

BC BACKYARD LAGER

RYE LAGER

Availability: Year-round

A

Brewed with local ingredients, including barley, rye blend and local hops. Light and straightforward.

KNOTTY BLONDE ALE

B LONDE ALE

Availability: Year-round

5.0%15

Made with old and new world hops, it’s clean, crisp with a subtle grapefruit avour.

C re business

B.C. breweries get hip to cider trend

by Kristyn Anthony

Growing up on an apple orchard and then becoming a brewer of beer may seem a bit counterintuitive, but it comes in handy when the craft world starts experimenting with cider, as it has in the past few years.

For Dave Varga, an Okanagan kid turned Vancouver brewmaster, 20 years of producing lagers, ales and stouts had him interested in branching out to o er those in the tasting room at 33 Acres a di erent option.

“Dave’s commitment to making clean and balanced drinks made us very con dent that the rst batch was going to be exactly what we were looking for,” says Dustin Sepkowski, operations manager at 33 Acres Brewing Company.

Sepkowski says they saw an opportunity to reach folks who aren’t able to drink beer – celiacs, for example, or those who subscribe to a gluten-free

diet. e response to their house apple cider was so great that they quickly made it available for growler lls and in six packs. e initial batch only required a few small adjustments to arrive at the dry, hazy, pale blonde version they now o er.

e process, however, was not without its challenges. Making cider is much more expensive than brewing beer, Sepkowski explains. It requires a separate wine license to ferment fruit on its own, as opposed to a grain-based beverage like beer, and the fermentation and conditioning process is time consuming.

“Some traditional ciders are more in line with wine-making timelines,” he says.

Currently, the B.C. Liquor Control and Licensing Branch groups cider with wine and taxes it similarly, too. A higher tax means a higher markup for a consumer not necessarily versed in the

di erence between a craft cider and one saturated with sugar, arti cial avours and apple juice concentrate. Together that adds up to a considerable cost for a small business like a craft brewery.

“ e biggest challenge is taxation,” says Dustan Sept of Surrey’s Central City Brewing. “Coming up with a competitive product at a reasonable price is quite challenging.”

grapefruit cider radler and a tart cherry version.

Altering the avour pro le is generally the job of the apples, which both breweries source from B.C. and Washington, one of the largest apple producing regions in the world. e avour pro le uctuates mainly on a scale from dry to sweet as a result of the type of apples used, Sept says, and having a consistent supply of quality apples is a key driver in sourcing fruit.

“Buying [apples] in B.C. is very di cult with the amount of cideries that exist here, and the fact that the number of orchards has greatly declined over the last 20 years,” Sepkowski says.

“We hope to see that change now that cider is becoming much more popular.”

- Dustin Sepkowski, 33

Central City released their Hopping Mad Cider in March 2015, full of Yakima hops to turn a traditional cider into something the bitter-brew-loving West Coast crowd would crack open.

“We are best known for hoppy beers like the Red Racer IPA,” Sept says. “It made logical sense to take that inspiration to cider. It also allows us to be creative and o er a point of di erence to the consumer.”

Sept says building Central City’s cider portfolio was a way for brewmaster Gary Lohin and the brewing team to explore a new area of craft and reach a non-traditional craft customer. ey’ve expanded their line-up to include a wood-aged imperial cider, a dry-hopped seasonal batch, a

With close to 150 craft breweries currently operating in B.C., and only a handful making cider, there is room for growth. While licensing and taxes create a barrier for small breweries to get in the cider game, Sepkowski says he sees a lot of interest and things are changing. is past November, Vancouver held its rst Craft Cider Festival and in April, B.C. Cider Week returned for its third year. And at breweries like Steel & Oak in New Westminster, which is not brewing its own cider, it’s o ering space on guest taps to showcase ciders from across the province on a rotating basis.

Despite only a few weeks left of summer, there’s no need to worry about getting your hands on local craft cider. At 33 Acres, Sepkowski hints at more experimenting for cider lovers and who knows, you may just kick your IPA addiction in the process. j

Some traditional ciders are more in line with wine-making timelines.

Acres Brewing Company

A-FRAME BREWING CO.

38927 Queens Way | AFrameBrewing.com

MON-THU 2-10PM ^ FRI-SAT 10AM-11PM ^ SUN 12-8PM

EST. 2016

ey don’t bottle their beer, so you’d better get yourself over to the cabinstyle tasting room to drink your ll of A-Frame’s tasty lake-named beers.

MAGIC LAKE PORTER PORTER

Availability: Year-round

A BV I BU 6.0%30

Dark, smooth and rich (like a good Tinder date), with chocolate, smoke and co ee notes.

BACKCOUN TR Y B REWING

OKANAGAN LAKE

CREAM ALE

CREAM ALE

Availability: Year-round

A BV I BU 5.0%15

As pale as spun gold, sweet like landing your rst sh, and smooth like butter.

#405-1201 Commercial Way | BackcountryBrewing.com

TUE-WED 3-10PM ^ THU 3-11PM ^ FRI-SAT 12PM-12AM SUN 12-10PM

EST. 2017

If the lineups out the door are any indication, Squamish has fully embraced its newest brewery. Why? Excellent beer, amazing pizza and a sexy taproom.

RIDGERUNNER

PILSNER

Availability: Year-round

A classic, crisp and dry German pilsner hopped with Saphir and Spalt Select hops.

WIDOWMAKER N

Availability: Year-round

6.7%50

Brewed with a truckload of Citra and Mosaic hops, this beer is intensely juicy.

October

Beere Brewing Co | Black Kettle Brewing | Bridge Brewing Co | Deep Cove Brewers & Distillers | Hearthstone Brewery | Streetcar Brewing

H OWE SOUN D BREW I NG CO.

37801 Cleveland Ave. | HoweSound.com

DAILY 11AM-12AM

EST. 1996

Howe Sound has played its cards well from the start, with a cosy pub, gorgeous patio, 20-room inn and a consistently impressive beer lineup.

PUMPKINEATER

FILLER

Availability: Seasonal Availability: Seasonal

8.0%19

Cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg and star anise bring the spice to this hefty sipper.

W HISTLER

C OAS T M OUN TAIN B REWING C O.

9.0%65

Still one of B.C.’s nest imperials. Stu ed with malt for a rich, thick, co ee-and-chocolate-laced experience.

Unit 2 1212 Alpha Lake Rd. | CoastMountainBeer.ca

MON-WED 12-10PM ^ THU-SAT 11-12AM ^ SUN 11AM10PM

EST. 2016

e appropriately-named Kevin Winter decided on the skiing town of Whistler to set up his brewery and tasting room last year.

WILD CREATURES

A MERICAN F ARMHO U SE A LE

FORECAST WEST

COAST PALE ALE PALE ALE

Availability: Seasonal Availability: Year-round

BU 5.5%25

is brett-fermented farmhouse is brewed with rye for a bit of spiciness and dry-hopped with Mosaic.

5.6%30

e weatherman is calling for juicy Amarillo hops in this smooth pale ale.

WHISTLER

WHISTLER BREWING CO.

1045 Millar Creek Rd. | WhistlerBeer.com

WED-THU 1-8PM ^ FRI 1-10PM ^ SAT-SUN 1-8PM

EST. 1989

A lot’s changed since Whistler brewed its rst beer in 1989, but they’re still fresh, from their Function Junction taproom to their unique seasonals.

CHESTNUT ALE ALE

FUNCTION JUNCTION

PALE ALE

PALE ALE

Availability: Seasonal Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 5.0%25

An amber-hued award-winner. Brewed with roasted chestnuts, it pairs well with fall.

GIBSONS

THE 101 BREWHOUSE + DISTILLERY

1009 Gibsons Way | e101.ca

HOURS TBD

EST. 2016

ABV IBU 4.8%38

Seven hop varieties balance nicely with the malt backbone, making for an approachable brew.

Gibsons’ newest brewery is set to open any minute now with a range of crowd-pleasing craft beer o erings, as well as vodka and gin.

IPA INDIA PALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 6.5%45

A light bodied, light colored IPA that is relatively low on bitterness and high on avour and aroma.

WEIZENBOCK

WEIZENBOCK

Availability: Seasonal

ABV IBU 7.0%16

Rich in malt avour backed by strong yeast esters and some alcoholic warmth.

GIBSONS TAPWORKS

537 Cruice Lane | GibsonsTapworks.com

SUN - THURS 12-10PM ^ FRI-SAT 12PM-12AM

EST. 2016

Tucked just around the corner from Molly’s Reach in Gibsons Landing, this delightful taproom is worth missing the ferry for.

LOWER G BROWN ALE

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 5.0%26

is full-bodied ale features roasted malt avours and a smooth nish.

ONE SAILING WAIT

INDIA PALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 6.9%53

Crisp and clear, refreshing and aromatic, this citrus-forward IPA doesn’t want summer to end.

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P ERSE P HONE BREWING CO .

1053 Stewart Rd. | PersephoneBrewing.com

MON-WED 11AM-7PM ^ THU-SUN 10AM-9PM

EST. 2013

Making and selling beer on a working farm makes sense. Let’s hope the new government gures that out and Persephone is allowed to continue brewing.

AMARILLO PILSNER W EST COAST PILSNER

Availability: Limited

A BV I BU 5.0%25

A traditional pilsner gets all hopped up! Amarillo hops provide intriguing tangerine and peach notes.

OKTOBERFEST MARZEN

Availability: Limited

A BV I BU 5.8%27

‘Tis the season for Oktoberfest beers! Bring on the malty body and subtle spicy hoppiness.

T OWNSI T E BREWING

5824 Ash Ave. | TownsiteBrewing.com

DAILY 11AM-9PM

EST. 2012

B.C.’s rst brewery with its own Economusée showcasing the craft of brewing in its expanded tasting room. Now’s the time for a trip to Powell River.

CHARLESTON BELGIAN T RIPLE

SOUR

BLACKBERRY SOU R WHEAT ALE

Availability: Seasonal Availability: Seasonal

A BV I BU 9.0%34

Bottle conditioned for a smooth and creamy mouthfeel, this big beer is deceptively qua able.

A BV I BU 5.5%18

e sour blackberry wheat ale won a gold medal at the 2017 Canadian Brewing Awards.

POWELL RI V ER

CANOE BREWPU B

450 Swift St. | CanoeBrewpub.com

DAILY 11:30AM-LATE

EST. 2002

Paddle into the Upper Harbour and park your vessel here for lunch or dinner. e pub is huge, the food excellent and the beer consistently great.

MARZEN MARZEN

WITBIER WITBIER

Availability: Seasonal Availability: Year-round

AB V IB U 5.5%18

A sumptuous, clean amber lager with lightly sweet crusty-bread malt avours.

AB V IB U 4.5%8

Lemon and orange, along with earthy, citrusy coriander seed, are added to this light, refreshing brew.

DR IFTWOO D B REWER Y

450 Hillside Ave. | DriftwoodBeer.com

MON-SAT 11AM-6PM

EST. 2008

Long considered one of B.C.’s best breweries, it’s too bad that Driftwood doesn’t have a tasting room. Good thing its beers can be found everywhere.

FARMHAND ALE

Availability: Year-round Availability: Seasonal

AB V IB U 5.0%20

One of the rst Belgian saisons brewed in B.C., this is still one of the best.

AB V IB U 5.0%40

is is brewed in the North German style with classic Tettnanger hops and extended lagering.

HOY NE B REW IN G CO .

101-2740 Bridge St. | HoyneBrewing.ca

MON-FRI 12-6PM ^ SAT 11AM-6PM EST. 2011

Owner/brewer Sean Hoyne has seen it all, from helping start one of B.C.’s rst brewpubs at Swans in 1989 to pushing the limits of craft beer today.

Availability: Seasonal

A delightfully fragrant, amber-coloured West Coast pale ale, brewed with gobs of fresh local hops.

Availability: Seasonal

Everything you would expect from a rich and dark Irish stout, plus the added jolt of espresso!

AB V IB U 5.7%N/A

AB V IB U 5.7%30

the

Craft Beer PEDESTAL

rarity vs greatness

by Rob Mangelsdorf

Ithink every craft beer nerd probably has a bucket list; a list of beers they want to try before they kick said bucket.

Last year, I had the opportunity to cross one o of my list. My wife and I were in Amsterdam to celebrate our anniversary and we ended up in one of the many amazing “brown cafés” – the tiny, historic beer and gin bars that are tucked into every nook and cranny of that incredible city. After sampling a Cantillon gueuze with euphoric delight, the bartender asked me if I was interested in trying something o the menu. My hair stood on end, because I had a feeling about what he was going to o er me.

“I have a few bottles of Westvleteren 12,” he said in a hushed tone.

For those unfamiliar, “Westy 12” as it’s known, is one of the world’s most highly sought after beers, and generally considered to be among the best. It’s brewed by a trappist monastery in Belgium, and only released once a year. ose who want to purchase Westvleteren 12 must line up at the monastery’s door and may only purchase a single case of 24 each.

“Y-y-yes, please,” I whimpered, sweat now beading on my forehead.

Now, technically this whole transaction is a big no-no. e monks expressly forbid the resale of Westvleteren 12, and if you are lucky enough to purchase a case at the monastery, you must also agree that you will not sell it. e di culty in attaining it has only helped grow its mystique.

e modest, plain brown bottle arrived, with only a yellow cap to identify it. e bartender poured the dark hazy elixir into a goblet and the head dissipated almost immediately. I inhaled deeply, letting the sweet plummy aroma ll my nose. I took a sip and was ooded with complex avours of dried fruit, caramel and molasses, and nally a bracing rush of characteristic alcoholic warmth (this a quadrupel, after all, clocking in at 10.2% ABV).

It was… merely fantastic. I’ll be honest: I was disappointed.

Don’t get me wrong, it was a truly incredible beer. But in my mind I had built this beer up to be something more. I was expecting a transcendental experience, an epiphany, orgasms and reworks. And that’s a lot to ask of a beer.

Now, that’s not the fault of the good monks at the Abbey of Saint Sixtus, of course. It’s on me for having such unrealistic expectations of this beer. I had put it on a pedestal, and by doing so, ensured that it would only disappoint me.

A friend of mine had a similar experience after he managed to track down a bottle of Russian River’s Pliny the Elder – arguably the beer responsible for the entire West Coast’s obsession with IPAs. With much anticipation, he poured himself a glass and was greeted with what he felt was a rather uninspiring beer. Again, there were no orgasms or reworks. Only disappointment.

He’s since convinced himself the bottle was old or possibly light-struck, which it may very well have been. So he’s decided that to experience this beer in all its glory, he’s going to get it from the source and make a pilgrimage to Russian River Brewing in Santa Rosa, Calif. I truly hope it’s worth the trip.

e funny thing is, when I think about my best beer memories, none of them involve beers that are likely to end up on anyone’s bucket list.

ere’s the cold pint of Coopers Sparkling Ale I had with my dad after a hot day spent walking through his old haunts in Sydney, Australia, where he grew up. ere were the endless Big Rock Grasshoppers I shared with my wife and in-laws backstage at the Edmonton Folk Festival one summer. ere was that time my mom and I both shotgunned cans of Lucky together at my 30th birthday (and she spilled beer all over herself because she had no idea what she was doing).

Good company, good thirst and good times seem to be the constants, as is the complete absence of expectation. ere may be a lesson in there somewhere. j

I was expecting a transcendental experience, an epiphany, orgasms and reworks.

M OON UN D ER WAT ER B REWER Y

350B Bay St. | MoonUnderWater.ca

SAT-THU 11:30AM-11PM ^ FRI 11:30AM-12AM

EST. 2012

e Moon has been on the rise for ve years now. To celebrate, a distillery is being incorporated into the brewery, which also has plans for a cocktail lounge.

PUMPKIN PEARZEN

WEIZEN

Availability: Small-batch

AB V IB U 7.0%14

A pumpkin beer that’s actually worth seeking out. Full of fresh local squash and pears.

VICTORIA

PHILL I PS BREW ING & MALTI NG C O.

2010 Government St. | PhillipsBeer.com

MON 10AM-5PM ^ TUE-WED 10AM-6PM

THU-SAT 10AM-7PM

EST. 2001

CREEPY UNCLE

DUNKEL

MU NICH D U NKEL

Availability: Year-round

AB V IB U 5.4%18

e very well adjusted love-child of Munich malt, decoction mashing and long lagering.

Phillips is the only brewery in Canada to malt their own barley. Soon to join their at least 42 beers is a 42-seat tasting room. 42 is the answer.

HOPOCALYPSE MEOW

ANNIVERSARY ALE

IMPERIAL I NDIA PALE A LE

Availability: One-o

AB V IB U 9.2%90

A di erent brew every year, this year’s anniversary ale has tropical hops over crisp malts.

CROOKEDER TOOTH

B ARREL-AGED P UMPKIN A LE

Availability: Seasonal

AB V IB U 7.3%15

It’s a big barrel-aged vanilla bourbon punch, right to your crooked jack-o-lantern smile.

SPI NNAKERS BREWPU B

308 Catharine St. | Spinnakers.com

DAILY 9AM-11PM

EST. 1984

Spinnakers has the honour of being the oldest operating brewpub in Canada. As the craft beer scene has grown and changed, Spinnakers has kept pace.

ORTEGA BEER/WINE BLEND

Availability: One-o

AB V IB U 5.5%0

A white wine and light ale blend that pushes the boundaries of what beer is.

CASCADIA

BLACK IPA

BLACK I NDIA PALE ALE

Availability: Seasonal

AB V IB U 6.5%55

Feeling a bit chilly? is black ale with piney hops will warm you up!

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SWANS BREWPU B

506 Pandora Ave. | SwansHotel.com

MON-FRI 11AM-1AM ^ SAT-SUN 10AM-12AM

EST. 1989

Victoria’s venerable hotel-brewery features sweet rooms, an atmospheric pub and a beer lineup that’s always evolving thanks to brewer Chris Lukie.

VICTORIA FOG

W ITBIER

Availability: Limited

AB V IB U 5.3%21

Lavender from James Bay, vanilla and Silk Road Earl Grey tea make this a distinctly local cuppa.

VICTORIA

VANCOU V ER I SLAN D B

REWER Y

FLAMMENBEER

O KTOBER FEST

Availability: Limited

AB V IB U 6.4%19

is collab with White Sails was lagered for two months for a clean pro le with hints of smoke.

2330 Government St. | VanIslandBrewery.com

TUES-THU 11AM-6PM ^ FRI-SAT 11AM-7PM

EST. 1984

e new VI has been reaching out to a younger audience with a strong lineup of core beers. e brewery is starting to release some new seasonal beers, too.

ROYSTON RYE IPA

R YE I NDIA PALE A LE

Availability: Seasonal

AB V IB U 6.5%60

Brewed with rye and a blend of hops, this beer is ideal for the fall.

HERMANNATOR

EIS BOCK

Availability: Seasonal

AB V IB U 9.5%25

ree decades in this is still one of B.C.’s most anticipated seasonal releases every year.

LIGHTHOUSE B REW IN G CO .

2 - 836 Devonshire Rd. | LighthouseBrewing.com

MON-TUE 9AM-4:30PM ^ WED-FRI 9AM-6PM

SAT 11AM-6PM

EST. 1998

Established way back in 1998, Lighthouse has been consistently brewing avourful craft beers since before most of us knew what craft beer was.

RACE ROCKS

AMBER A LE

Availability: Year-round

AB V IB U 5.3%21

Its original agship ale won a gold medal at the recent U.S. Beer Open.

150 HERITAGE ALE

STRONG ALE

Availability: Limited

AB V IB U 6.3%14

In honour of Canada’s 150th birthday, a strong beer brewed with maple, smoke and rye.

4 MI LE B REW ING CO.

199 Island Highway | 4MileBrewingCo.com

DAILY 11AM-11:30PM

EST. 2014

e beers at 4 Mile have been steadily improving, including a recent foray into hazy and sour styles. e historic brewpub’s as charming as ever.

MOSAIC SESSION IPA

I NDIA SE SSION A LE

Availability: Year-round

AB V IB U 4.5%50

A satisfyingly hoppy session beer with notes of tropical fruit, blueberries and dankness.

SWEET POTATO HARVEST ALE

SP ICED ALE

Availability: Seasonal

AB V IB U 6.5%20

Pumpkin beers are so 2010 – try this malty and spicy sweet potato beer instead!

VIEWVICTORIA R OYAL

TWA DOGS BREWERY AT VICTORIA CALEDONIAN

761 Enterprise Cres. | VCaledonian.com

SUN-TUE 12-7PM ^ WED-SAT 11AM-8PM

EST. 2016

Inspired by Robbie Burns’ poetry, Twa Dogs aims to connect souls and make the most out of life. A visit to its tasting room easily accomplishes that!

HOLY WILLIE’S ROBUST PORTER STOUT

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 6.5%25

Stout or porter? Either way it sure is robust – and malty, chocolatey and creamy, too!

JOLLY BEGGAR’S PALE ALE

WEST COAST PALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 4.7%20

Flavours of lemongrass and tropical fruit grace this pale ale made with Hallertau Blanc hops.

CATEG OR Y 12 B REW ING

Unit C - 2200 Keating Cross Rd. | Category12Beer.com

MON-SAT 12-6PM ^ SUN 12-4PM

EST. 2014

With two certi ed cicerones on the sales team, you know these folks know beer! Be sure to check out the beers in their Elemental Series – raw ale anyone?

ZOMBIE REPELLANT ALE

B ELGIAN PALE AL E

Availability: Seasonal

AB V IB U 5.0%30

We don’t know how it repels zombies, but we’re undying to nd out!

A XE AN D BARREL BREW ING CO.

2323 Millstream Ave. | AxeAndBarrel.com

DAILY 11AM-7PM

EST. 2015

SUBVERSION

Availability: Seasonal

AB V IB U 8.8%85

Re-formatted to be even more dangerously delicious. Drink it and live on the wild side!

Brewer Andrew Tessier has established a solid core of delicious beer at this Langford barbecue joint, all of which pair well with the smokehouse menu.

SPEEDWAY RPA

Availability: Year-round

AB

Spicy, earthy rye nds a counterpoint in the bright, citrus hops avour and aroma.

WEST SHORE IPA I

IB U 4.0%45

87 LANG F ORD C ENT. SAANICH

S OOKE O CEANSID E B REWERY

1-5529 Sooke Rd. | SookeOceansideBrewing.com

WED-SUN 12-6PM

EST. 2016

Sometimes you have to start small before you can achieve your dream. SOB is currently based at a gas station, but it aims to be a waterfront brewpub soon.

SPRINGBOARD IPA

I NDIA PALE A LE

Availability: Year-round

AB V IB U 6.5%55

is malt-forward North American IPA has a subtle bitterness with a juicy nish.

SALT S P RING

BRAMBLE AM

B LACKBERRY S AI S ON

Availability: Seasonal

AB V IB U 6.5%25

A dry saison that was aged on locally harvested blackberries. Sure to be yummy.

SALT S PR ING ISLAN D A LES

270 Furness Rd. | SaltSpringIslandAles.com

DAILY 12-5PM

EST. 1998

is cottage brewery is one of the harder breweries to get to, but it’s so worth the e ort for its bucolic setting and exceptional ales.

WHALE TAIL ALE

AM BER ALE

Availability: Seasonal

AB V IB U 5.0%45

Brewed with Salt Spring’s own fresh, whole-cone, estate-grown Mount Hood, Cascade and Nugget hops.

APPLE BELGIAN

B ELGIAN ALE

Availability: Seasonal

AB V IB U 6.0%13

is laid-back summer ale nishes crisp and clean with hints of spice and malt sweetness.

MAYNE ISLAND BREWING CO.

490 Fernhill Rd. | MayneIslandBrewingCo.com

FRI-SAT 1-5PM

EST. 2016

One of the smallest breweries in B.C., this weekend-only operation is run by a husband-and-wife team – he brews the beer and she does everything else.

BEET BUCK WINTER BOCK

Availability: One-o

ABV IBU 6.8%8

Ever had a beet beer? Well, now you can try one. Goes well with chevre.

BRITISH BOY BROWN ALE

NORTHERN BRITISH BROWN ALE

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 5.6%24

Named for the brewer who hails from Northern England, this is a proper brown ale.

RED ARROW BREWING CO.

5255 Chaster Rd. | RedArrowBeer.ca

SUN-THU 11AM-6PM ^ FRI 11AM-8PM ^ SAT 11AM-6PM

EST. 2015

Housed in a beautiful red brick building that used to be a motorcycle shop, Red Arrow rolls out nely tuned beers are nding fans across the Island.

MIDNIGHT UMBER ALE BROWN ALE

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 5.1%33

A smooth and rich, malt-forward ale with noticeable hits of fruity hops.

KUSTOM KOLSCH

KOLSCH

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 5.0%25

A fairly sweet kolsch with a pronounced grainy avour and honey notes.

DUNCAN

RI OT BREW ING C O.

101A - 3055 Oak St. | RiotBrewing.com

SUN-WED 11AM-9PM ^ THU-SAT 11AM-11PM

EST. 2016

ey’ve got a patio and re-pit. Kid-friendly, dog-friendly, plus board games and giant Jenga? It’s like they want you to spend all your time there.

LIFE PARTNERS

PALE ALE

N ORTHWE S T P ALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

AB V IB U 5.0%32

It’s an easy-drinking, hop-forward pale ale with little sparks of citrus.

NANAI MO

JUNK PUNCH IPA

I NDIA PALE A LE

Availability: Year-round

AB V IB U 6.0%70

Bold hops give this ale its citrus and tropical fruit avours and aromas.

LON G WOO D B REWER Y

101A-2046 Boxwood Rd. | LongwoodBeer.com

WED-FRI 2-6PM ^ SAT 12-5PM

EST. 2013

Look no further if you want to experience the true taste of Vancouver Island. Longwood puts an emphasis on terroir by only brewing with local ingredients.

40 KM ISLAND SESSION ALE

FRE S H-HOPPED I NDIA SE SS ION ALE

Availability: Small batch

AB V IB U 4.2%26

All ingredients – including freshly picked hops –were sourced within 40 km of the brewery.

FULL PATCH

PUMPKIN ALE

SAI S ON

Availability: Seasonal

AB V IB U 9.0%30

A big boozy Belgian-style saison brewed with pumpkin and loaded with pumpkin pie spices.

Big, bold hop avours are one of the most important contributions to brewing the New World has made. It seems rather tting then, that North America has its economic paws all over hops. Trademarks, patents, royalties – how are these business-y things having their way with our beloved hops? It must be big beer's fault!

by Rebecca Whyman

Iunderstand why you’d want to make hops proprietary – it takes time, e ort and money to painstakingly develop a new hop, test it eight ways to Sunday, and devote acreage to propagating it. It can take 15-20 years before any money starts coming in, and then on only a fraction of your experiments. But do you really need 20 years of royalties to recoup that investment? O the backs of your growers and the lovely brewers who exalt your wonder-hop? C’mon, only big beer would do such a greedy thing.

Experimental breeding has brought us wonder-hops that can do it all: higher yields, greater alpha acid content (meaning fewer hops are required per batch), plus increased bitterness and aromatics. But why aren’t these wonder-hops available royalty-free like the U.S. Department of Agriculture-developed varieties are? Are the USDA the heroes here?

Bloody big beer – hosing the little guy again!

had fallen in love with it, though, and Cascade took its place as one of the three C’s.

And it was big beer who asked for higher alpha acid varieties. Higher alpha acids provide more bang with fewer hops, leading to more e ciency and lower costs. Which is great for big beer with the volume of hops they require. It can also make all the di erence for small brewers with tiny pro t margins.

Trademark Vs Patents

Big beer has no use for the wonder-hops though. All they wanted was a more e cient hop, not these marvellous aroma hops that evolved. Heaven forbid their beers have avour or aroma! So crap, not only can I not blame big beer for hop-patenting, I actually want to thank them for leading us into this era of wonder-hops. I need a hoppy beer to help me come to terms with this revelation.

Trademarks provide ownership of a name, not of genetic material. No one else can market a hop with that name, but they could take the hop variety and sell it under another name. Patents, on the other hand, confer ownership of the form of genetic material of a particular plant – allowing only the owner the right to dictate the sale and use of the plant.

Oh, hang on... It was Anheuser-Busch who encouraged the USDA to breed new hop varieties – the very same hops that the USDA lets anyone grow, royalty-free. Dr. Al Haunold, a now-retired geneticist at Oregon State University, created Willamette for AB, who wanted a higher-yield replacement for Fuggles. Al, bless him, dovetailed their need very neatly with his altruistic desire to breed hops domestically to save homebrewers from having to pay premium prices for imported hops. And it was Coors who encouraged the USDA to commercialize Cascade, which had been discovered in the ’50s but was mouldering in warehouses through the ’60s, just waiting for someone to brew with it. Coors was running short of Hallertau Mittlefruh, so when they heard that Cascade could replace it, they paid a premium to anyone who would grow Cascade for them. After that big outlay they discovered Cascade was too aromatic to be a direct replacement for Hallertau. Other brewers

ere are talented public hops available – Liberty, Mt. Hood, Sterling, Willamette and Cascade, to name-drop a few. And OSU is working on a schwack of new ones that they’re excited about. Suppliers like Cedar Valley Hop Yards are making a go of it without carrying patented hops. We don’t NEED the patented ones. We just like them.

Citra is a damned sexy hop. Mosaic is too. I freely admit that I love them. I’ve been known to go out of my way to drink beers proudly brewed with them. So long as you do too, brewers will pay extra for the hops, and growers will pay the royalties, and suppliers will source them, and developers will patent them.

So it ain’t big beer’s fault on this one folks, it’s ours. Only YOU can free the hops!

I’m indignant about patents on plants I think should be publicly available, but I ain’t so indignant that I’ll stop drinking delicious beers made with patented hops. It rankles that I only have myself (and all of you) to blame, but you’ll have to start the revolution without me. j

WHIT E SAI LS BREW ING

125 Comox Rd. | WhiteSailsBrewing.com

MON-THU 3-10PM ^ FRI-SAT 11AM-12AM ^ SUN 11AM6PM

EST. 2015

Between Pablo Picasko and is Is Spinal Cask, White Sails’ Friday night cask nights are worth a visit for the beer names alone.

SNAKE ISLAND CDA

CAS CADIAN D ARK A LE

Availability: Year-round

AB V IB U 6.5%80

World Beer Awards gold medal winner: chocolate, co ee notes with no shortage of hops.

WOL F B REW IN G CO.

YELLOWPOINT

PALE ALE

E NGLI S H PALE A LE

Availability: Seasonal

AB V IB U 5.5%35

Medium-bodied, malt-forward with caramel notes and a toasty nish with sweet, oral U.K. hops.

940 Old Victoria Rd. | WolfBrewingCompany.com

MON-THU 12-6PM ^ FRI 12-7PM ^ SAT 12-6PM SUN 12-5PM

EST. 2010

Located on the edge of town in an unassuming industrial park, Wolf brewmaster Kev Ward’s impressive beers are worth seeking out.

DARK MALT PORTER

Availability: Year-round

AB V IB U 6.0%30

Notes of espresso and cocoa with a subtle, dry nish, it pairs just as well with steak or chocolate cake.

Availability: Year-round

AB V IB U 5.5%30

is well-executed pilsner is light and refreshing with a balanced malt bill and hop character.

M OUN T ARROWSMITH B REW ING CO.

109-425 East Stanford Ave. | ArrowsmithBrewing.com

SUN-THU 11:30AM-7:30PM ^ FRI-SAT 11:30AM-9:30PM

EST. 2016

Parksville nally has its own local brewery with a snazzy tasting room and the very talented Dave Woodward brewing the beer.

JAGGED FACE IPA

INDIA P ALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

AB V IB U 7.2%70

A Woodward-esque IPA bursting with Centennial, Citra and Mosaic hops.

ARROWSMITH BLONDE

B LONDE ALE

Availability: Year-round

AB V IB U 4.8%15

is clean, crisp patio crusher will continue to entice you well into the cooler months.

TW I N CITY BREW ING

4503 Margaret St. | TwinCityBrewing.ca

SUN-WED 11:30AM-10PM ^ THU-SAT 11:30AM-11PM

EST. 2017

e craft beer revolution has reached Port Alberni and locals are ocking to Twin City, with its comfy tasting room, delicious beers and amazing pizzas.

TICKITY BRUGES

B ELGIAN PALE A LE

Availability: One-o

AB V IB U 5.5%40

Brewed with Belgian Ardennes yeast, this pale ale is fruity and delicious.

SWEDISH GYMNAST

SINGLE-HOPPED B LONDE A LE

Availability: Year-round

AB V IB U 5.5%35

“A little blonde with lots of hops.” All jokes aside, this beer will keep you sipping.

TO FINO B REW IN G CO.

Units C & D, 681 Industrial Way | To noBrewingCo.com

DAILY 11AM-10PM

EST. 2011

A new brewery and tasting room is on the way, but don’t worry, the original taproom is still pouring in the meantime.

Availability: Seasonal Availability: Seasonal

AB V IB U 4.5%25

As dark as a To no storm cloud and just as refreshing, this black lager balances rich malt with a light body.

LO V ES H ACK L IB ATIONS

AB V IB U 6.5%65

Sitka spruce tips complement the piney hop avour in this very West Coast take on a golden ale.

#1-4134 Island Hwy. West | LoveShackLibations.com

WED 5-9PM ^SAT 12-4PM

EST. 2016

is tiny family-run nanobrewery is only open two days a week, but what it lacks in size it makes up for in charm. e special ingredient is indeed love.

SUNNY BUNNY

PALE ALE

P ALE ALE

RACHEL PAUL ALE

R YE PALE A LE

Availability: Small batch Availability: Small batch

AB V IB U 5.0%31

is easy-drinking pale ale is a hare on the hoppy side, thanks to organic hops from Island Hopper Farms.

AB V IB U 6.4%51

Named for brewer Dave Paul’s wife, this RPA showcases rye malt and fruit-forward hops.

DARK LAGER SCHWARZBIER

SPRUCE TREE ALE G OLDEN

CUMBERLAN D B REW IN G CO .

2732 Dunsmuir Ave. | CumberlandBrewing.com

SUN-WED 12-9PM ^ THU - SAT 12-10PM

EST. 2014

Cumberland doesn’t ship its beer beyond the Comox Valley, nor does it plan to, so you’ll need to make the trip to try it. Like you need another reason to go.

DANCING LINEBACKER

O AT M EAL STO UT

Availability: Year-round

AB V IB U 5.2%N/A

Like the name implies, this big fella packs a lot of avour, but he’s light on his feet.

COU RTENAY

FOREST FOG

AMERICAN W HEAT ALE

Availability: Year-round

AB V IB U 4.2%N/A

Proceeds of Forest Fog sales are donated to the Cumberland Community Forest, more than $20,000 so far!

F ORBIDDEN B REW IN G CO.

1590 Cli e Ave. | ForbiddenBrewing.com

WED-THU 12-10PM ^ FRI-SAT 12PM-12AM ^ SUN 1210PM

EST. 2015

Named for nearby Forbidden Plateau, this brewery based in the Westerley Hotel has a stylish tasting room and an always changing rotation of beers.

ORGANIC PALE ALE

E NGLI S H P ALE A LE

Availability: Year-round

AB V IB U 4.5%40

Forbidden strives to brew some organic beers, including this malty and refreshingly crisp ale.

WILD WIT

WITBIER

Availability: Seasonal

AB V IB U 5.0%15

Citrus, spice and a wild yeast make for a refreshing and memorable witbier.

G LA DST ONE B REW IN G CO.

244 4th St. | GladstoneBrewing.ca

DAILY 11AM-12AM

EST. 2015

Named for the street where the original garage brewery stood, Gladstone has turned its humble roots into a community hub of Old and New World styles.

Availability: Seasonal

AB V IB U 5.2%32

Ruby red in colour, with citrus and oral Simcoe hop avour and a smooth nish.

CAMP BELL RI V ER

Availability: Seasonal

AB V IB U 6.0%22

A German festival lager... Hmm, wonder which festival this was brewed for?

BEAC H F I RE B REW ING

594 - 11th Ave. | BeachFireBrewing.ca

TUE-SUN 11:30AM-8PM

EST. 2016

e inventive food menu changes every day at the Island’s most northerly craft beer outpost, which has brought much more than lager to the local loggers.

HIGH TIDE PALE ALE

WES T C OA S T PALE A LE

Availability: Year-round

AB V IB U 5.5%40

No messing about here: a full- avoured, robust pale ale singing with citrus and tropical fruit avours.

Availability: Year-round

AB V IB U 4.5%40

Surprisingly light yet full avoured, with roasty and chocolate notes and an airy, dry nish.

RED ALE RED ALE FESTBIER

IRON ROAD BREWING

980 Camosun Crs. | IronRoadBrewing.ca

MON-WED 11:30AM-9PM ^ THU-SAT 1130AM-12AM SUN 11:30AM-8PM

EST. 2017

e light’s at the end of the tunnel for this railroad-themed brewery. Iron Road’s on track with eight crushable beers on tap, plus yummy Mexican food!

LOOP LINE IPA

INDIA PALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 6.5%50

A hop-forward but balanced brew that chugs along, staying on the right track.

KAMLOOPS

RED BRIDGE

PALE ALE

AMERICAN PALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 5.5%40

Named after the city’s iconic bridge, this ale is built to be avourful and sessionable.

RED COLLAR BREWING CO.

355 Lansdowne St. | RedCollar.ca

TUE-FRI 3-10PM ^ SAT 1-10PM

EST. 2014

Red Collar is a beer love letter to Kamloops. David and Annamarie Beardsell travelled the world before choosing it as their brewery location.

REVOLVER

INDIA PALE LAGER DUBBEL DUBBEL

Availability: Seasonal

ABV IBU 4.5%41

A European pilsner with New World ingredients, this single-hop IPL features di erent hops every time

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 6.3%18

is dark ale is brewed using their own Belgian yeast strain - chocolately, co ee-y, dried fruity.

C RANN ó G ALES

706 Elson Rd. | CrannogAles.com

THU-SAT 8:30AM-4:30PM

EST. 2000

Since 2000, Brian MacIsaac and Rebecca Kneen have been brewing inventive, organic and sustainable beers from the comfort of their idyllic farm.

GAEL’S BLOOD

POTATO ALE

R ED A LE

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 5.2%48

Organic potatoes are brewed in this malty Irish red ale with a slight hop nish.

INSURRECTION IPA

INDI

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 5.4%54

Made with fresh Cascade, Chinook and Goldings hops. Having your very own hopyard pays o .

M ARTEN BREWING C O.

2933A 30th Ave. | MartenBrewpub.com

SUN-FRI 3PM-LATE ^ SAT 12PM-LATE

EST. 2014

is brewpub’s interior was hand-built by owners Stefan and Pearl Marten. e focus here is the local community, but guests are treated like visiting royalty.

COOKIE MONSTER

NITRO STOUT

WORD TO THE WEIZEN

Availability: Seasonal

ABV IBU 5.1%40

HEFEWEIZEN is local favourite served on nitro is blacker than black and smoother than smooth. Me want cookie!!

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 4.5%18

ree di erent Germans named Stefan approved this recipe so you know this weizen is authentic.

BNA BREWING C O.

1250 Ellis St. | BNABrewing.com

SUN-WED 12AM-12AM ^ THU-SAT 11AM-12AM

EST. 2015

With its brick walls and exposed beams, BNA embraces its building’s past life as the British North American Tobacco Company.

Availability: Seasonal

ABV IBU 5.0%5

Soured with probiotic yoghurt. Raspberries and blackberries balance the tartness and colour it purple.

KELOWN A

Availability: Seasonal

ABV IBU 6.0%20

Oktoberfest! BNA is keeping it all German with their seasonals this fall. Prost!

B OUN D AR Y B REWING

2 - 455 Neave Crt. | BoundaryBrewing.beer

WED-FRI 3-7PM ^ SAT 12-7PM ^ SUN 12-5PM

EST. 2016

Oliver Glaser pays tribute to his roots by brewing what B.C. needs more of: well crafted German beer. e tasting room is cosy, friendly and busy.

ALTBIER A LT B IER

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 5.0%35

Lagering for several weeks makes for a re ned alt with a sturdy malt presence and a crisp bitter nish.

DUNKEL LAGER

DA RK L A GER

Availability: Seasonal

ABV IBU 5.0%28

A roasty pro le and distinct dryness are down to the roasted barley used in this medium-bodied dunkel.

OKTOBERFEST MA RZEN

K ETTLE R IV ER B REWING CO .

731 Baillie Ave. | KettleRiverBrewing.ca

WED-SUN 3-8PM

EST. 2016

e total height of their brewers is 57.5 tall cans. Hopefully they gured this out mathematically and not by standing all the brewers on top of each other.

BATCH #300: TRIPLE

CHOKESLAM IPA

T RIPLE I NDI A PA LE A LE

Availability: One-o

ABV IBU 9.0%300

As 300 IBUs may lead you to guess, this is a big avoured, fruity hop-bomb.

GRAM’S CHAI PORTER

PORTER

Availability: Small batch

ABV IBU 4.5%30

It’s a light, dry porter with hints of botanical chai – happy hour meets tea time!

Craft beer taps into Comic-Con culture in San Diego

by Ryan Ingram

From Wonder Women to Jedis, San Diego’s annual Comic-Con is a celebration of all things nerdy, so it’s only tting that craft beer geeks are also joining in the festivities.

More than 130,000 people travel from around the world to ll up the Southern Californian convention centre for the overwhelming four-day pop culture party. Comic-Con has gotten so big that it now uno cially spills out into San Diego’s downtown, which plays host to many o -site events. And two of these events – completely unsanctioned by Comic-Con – are aimed squarely in the middle of the Venn diagram for people that await a new season of Game of rones as much as new seasonal releases from their favourite brewery.

e rst event is Hop-Con, founded by nerd-celebrity Wil Wheaton, Stone Brewing’s Greg Koch and Fark.com’s Drew Curtis. A spino of Wheaton’s annual live variety show w00tstock,

Hop-Con was created to “merge beer nerdiness with geeks of all kinds, anyone with uber-enthusiasm,” explains Lizzie Younkin, PR manager for Stone Brewing.

An exclusive brew, w00tstout, has been made for each Hop-Con and this year’s edition of the event, dubbed Hop-Con 5.0, featured a vertical tasting of all ve year’s brews, plus arcade games and fundraising for a comic book industry charity.

e other craft beer event tapping into the Comic-Con enthusiasm is Heroes Brew Festival: a beer fest where costumes are highly encouraged. Organizer Jesse Williams says the origin story of his festival, which donates funds to a local veteran’s charity, encourages “people to dress up as their favourite ctional heroes to celebrate our military heroes.”

Going into its fth year, Heroes Brew kept its

costume contest but upped it nerd cred by adding comic book artists and interactive augmented reality exhibits, capping the event o with a DJ set by Games of rones’ actor Kristian Nairn (Hodor!).

e festival looks exactly like you’d expect if someone mixed Comic-Con with a beer festival: a probably-buzzed Superman wearing a pretzel necklace sips on a sample while talking to a group of girls wearing Care Bears-themed dresses. It’s also where Game of rones references meet outhouse etiquette when someone shouts, “Hold the door!” at another person quickly ducking out of a stall.

During the beer tasting portion, there are line-ups for SoCal breweries, like Belching Beaver, Lost Abbey and Resident. Bringing Comic-Con-style events to a beer fest comes at a cost: beer tasters are only available for the rst two hours of the event before Hodor starts DJing. And one of the billed artists is unable to make the event due to a scheduling mix-up and is trapped at the convention.

Heroes Brew may be an ideal alternative event for those who want to let their geek ag y without battling hordes of Comic-Con attendees but there are some that want the best of both worlds. At a shaded table, friends hang out: some in cosplay, some still wearing their convention badges. Among them, Slimer.

Ricardo, impressively dressed as Ghostbusters’ green ghoul, rst attended Heroes Brew in 2014. “I love comics. I love beer,” he says, “and [Heroes Brew] was a merging of all these things that I love.”

Recalling 2014’s fest, Ricardo says he reveled in beer samples while dressed as Spaceball’s Barf, then headed back to the convention centre that

night to watch an orchestra play the iconic Star Wars score – a perfectly geeky day.

is year, he attended the convention with a di erent costume for each day but also made time for the beer festival.

While the cosplay of Heroes Brew is one example of bringing together the worlds of nerd culture and craft beer, you don’t have to go very far in the Craft Beer Capital of America to con rm that the overlap between the two isn’t spandex deep.

Jacob McKean, founder of Modern Times, is wellversed in both both worlds. One of his tasting room walls is decorated with pages ripped from his comic collection and the brewery also creates custom comic tap handles during Comic-Con.

McKean sees a link speci cally between craft beer culture and comic book culture.

“Until recently, craft beer wasn't a particularly design-oriented world,” he says. “But that's changing rapidly and an appreciation for great art and design is de nitely uniting the two.”

He also sees a deeper connection

“ e love for passionate, indie producers runs strong in both worlds,” he notes.

Stone’s Younkin also agrees that it’s the passion that connects all these fandoms – craft beer and Comic-Con culture alike.

“ ere’s something very anti-mainstream about both cultures,” she says. “Craft brewers are ghting against corporate beer practices and the Comic-Con audiences invest in alternative genres. When we nd others with the same passions as us, we rejoice. We nerd out.”j

Photos: Heroes Brew Fest

TREE BREWING BEER INSTITUTE

1346 Water St. | TreeBrewingBeerInstitute.com

DAILY 11AM-11PM

EST. 2014

is is where brewmaster Dave Gokiert gets to make his small-batch experiments. You can savour them with top-notch pizzas steps from the beach.

GRAPEFRUIT RADLER RADLER

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 2.5%0

Radler doesn’t just have to be for summer. Pink grapefruit carries this radler into a dry, tart nish.

KELOWNA

TREE BREWING CO.

1083 Richter St. | TreeBeer.com

DAILY 11AM-5PM

EST. 1996

MELLOW MOON PINEAPPLE HEFE

HEFEWEIZEN

Availability: Seasonal

ABV IBU 5.0%20

Like the fruit in question, open one up and you’ll nd it’s far from spiky in character.

It’s got a lock on many Okanagan hearts but Tree has never stopped changing things up, with small-batch releases getting good distribution.

AMIGO

MEXICAN AMBER LAGER

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 4.0%22

An assertive malt pro le leads into a crisp, refreshing nish in this luscious amber lager.

HOP HEAD IPA

INDIA PALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 5.6%64

It’s always worth returning to Hop Head, B.C.’s original IPA, to remind yourself how awesome it is.

DETONATE BREWING

#104 - 9503 Cedar Ave. | DetonateBrewing.com

THU-SUN 2-7PM

EST. 2017

Detonate’s tasting room might be the smallest in B.C., but owner/brewer Nathan Rosin has big plans for Summerland’s only craft brewery.

SUNDAY FUNDAY BREAKFAST STOUT STOUT

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 5.8%32

Co ee, chocolate and caramel avours for those hairof-the-dog mornings after a rough Saturday night.

PENTICTON

CITRA

STATION

PALE ALE

PALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 5.0%26

An easy-drinking session ale with hints of tropical fruit coming from the Citra hops.

BAD TATTOO BREWING CO.

169 Estabrook Ave. | BadTattooBrewing.com

SUN-THU 11AM-10PM ^ FRI-SAT 11AM-12AM

EST. 2014

In its rst three years, Bad Tattoo has already brewed over a million litres of beer and red up over 150,000 pizzas for its patrons.

MIDNIGHT HOPMARE

CASCADIAN DARK ALE

Availability: Seasonal

ABV IBU 6.6%80

Packs a resinous, piney and citrus hop punch with a toasty malt backbone.

DIA DE LOS MUERTOS

CERVEZA FUERTE

BELGIAN QUAD

Availability: Seasonal

ABV IBU 9.2%20

An ABV that might raise the dead complemented with plum and raisin notes.

CANNER Y BREWING

198 Ellis St. | CanneryBrewing.com

MON-FRI 12-9PM ^ SAT-SUN 11AM-9PM

EST. 2000

Cannery’s big tasting room/patio is a great spot to sip a beer any day of the week, and on Sunday evenings they have free live music by local musicians.

ANARCHIST

AM B ER ALE

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 5.5%27

Named for nearby Anarchist Mountain, this amber ale is balanced, medium-bodied, and delicious.

NARAMATA NUT

BROWN ALE

BROWN A LE

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 5.5%25

Cannery’s founders ran a restaurant in nearby Naramata before starting the brewery, hence the name.

HIGHWAY 97 BREWERY

954 Eckhardt Ave. | Hwy97Brewery.com

DAILY 11AM-9PM

EST. 2016

Situated on its namesake highway, Penticton’s newest brewery has caught the eye and slaked the thirst of many an Okanagan traveller.

APRICOT HEFEWEIZEN

HEFEWEIZEN

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 4.5%10

When life in the Okanagan gives you apricots, make a fruit-infused hefeweizen.

EXTRA SPECIAL BITTER

EXTR A SPECI A L B ITTER

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 7.5%40

is monster of an ESB is rich with malt but its sweetness remains balanced.

T HE T

IN

W HISTLE B REWING CO .

112-1475 Fairview Rd. | eTinWhistleBrewery.rocks

DAILY 11:30AM-5:30PM

EST. 1995

Penticton’s rst brewery has been chugging along since 1995. eir current line-up features six year-round beers and seasonals using local orchard fruit.

MOSAIC EXPRESS IPA

I NDI A PA LE ALE

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 6.6%60

Un ltered, light and smooth malt backbone with a tropical and citrus hop punch.

FIREHALL BREWER Y

6077 Main St. | FirehallBrewery.com

SUN-THU 12-9PM ^ FRI-SAT 12-10PM

EST. 2012

FRESH HOP

FRES H-H OPPED P A LE A LE

Availability: Seasonal

ABV IBU 5.5%40

Made only with fresh hops straight from Abbotsford, expect juicy citrus avour and aroma.

Firehall takes its theme from its location in an old rehouse, with rethemed beer names, and really cute re hydrant tap handles.

HOLY SMOKE STOUT

D RY S TOUT / RAUCHBIER

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 4.5%25

Made with re-dried barley to add smoke to the roasted co ee and dark chocolate avours.

SMOKED EMBER ALE

AM B ER A LE

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 4.8%35

With citrus and evergreen aromas, this amber ale gets its to ee avour from carmelized barley.

ROSSLAND BEER CO.

1990 Columbia Ave. | RosslandBeer.com

SUN-THU 12-7PM ^ FRI-SAT 12-9PM

EST. 2012

Rossland is one of B.C.’s hidden gems and its brewery has only added to its lustre. A big expansion means you’ll be hearing more from these guys soon.

HUGH HEFEWEIZEN

HEFEWEIZEN

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 4.8%12

A traditional, hazy German wheat beer in which the yeast cranks out the fruit and spice avours.

STRAIGHT OUTTA

ROSSLAND

PALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 5.0%32

Brewers with attitude. A classic hit of Cascade hops de nes this pale ale.

TRAIL BEER REFINERY

1299 Bay Ave. | TrailBeerRe nery.ca

MON-SAT 11AM-9PM ^ SUN 12-5PM

EST. 2017

Happy Trail! Not only does it now have its own brewery, but it’s a craft brewery with classy comfort food and a bocce pit.

HOLY HEF HEFEWEIZEN

Availability: Seasonal

ABV IBU 5.5%20

A refreshing wheat beer with clove phenolics adding even more interest.

TRAIL GENIUNE DRAFT

LAGER

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 5.0%15

An approachable lager with subtle avours that’ll likely lure many a Molson drinker into the light.

World class hops. Grown in Bc.

Brewmasters are passionate about the quality of hops they use to make your favourite beer and we are equally passionate about delivering what they need. works with partner farmers to harvest locally grown hops and uses modern innovations to process the highest quality product in Canada.

BC Hop Co

One of our core values is to make our farms accessible, educational, and ultimately approachable for both brewers and their clients.

BC Hop Fest

the farm, featuring amazing BC breweries. Eat and drink among hops still on the bine, kick up your heels to live music, talk to your favourite brewmaster, and join

Join us for , an annual event on us in celebrating the hop harvest.

FRESH BEER CELEBRATION

September 30, 1-6pm

1893 Cole Road, Abbotsford

For more information, visit

bchop.ca

BACKROADS BREWING CO.

460 Baker St. | BackroadsBrewing.com

TUE-THU 12-10PM ^ FRI -SAT 12-11PM ^ SUN 12-8PM

EST. 2016

Long tables in the tasting room invite you to drink with large groups of friends, or make new ones. With no TVs, conversation is king.

MARZEN MARZEN

Availability: Seasonal

ABV IBU 5.8%23

Deep copper colour and mildly herbal aromas pull you into this smooth, malty lager.

NELSON

PALE ALE

AMERICAN PALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 4.5%21

A crowd-pleasing hop-forward pale ale. Please sir, I want some more!

NELSON BREWING CO.

512 Latimer St. | NelsonBrewing.com

TUE-SAT 12-8PM

EST. 1991

Housed in a 120-year-old building, NBC knows its history. It also knows its ingredients, having gone all-organic in 2007.

BENT POLE

INDIA PALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 6.0%55

A full- avoured West Coast IPA full of pine, citrus and oral hop notes.

NELSON AFTER DARK

BROWN ALE

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 5.2%20

An excellent, straightforward British-style brown ale with some light roasted aromas and hints of chocolate.

T OR C HLIGHT BREWING C O.

125 Hall St. | TorchlightBrewing.com

MON-TUE 12-9PM ^ WED -SAT 12-11PM ^ SUN 12-7PM

EST. 2014

is environmentally conscious brewery now sends its beers all across the province, so you can enjoy them at a bar, at home, or in the tasting room.

BROADSIDE IPA

I NDI A PA LE ALE

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 7.0%60

A crimson-coloured English-style India Pale Ale that is as malt-forward as you would expect.

STOWAWAY STOUT

OA TME A L STOUT

Availability: Seasonal

ABV IBU 5.5%30

is classic oatmeal stout pairs perfectly with falling leaves, and falling temperatures.

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F ERNIE BREWING C O.

26 Manitou Rd. | FernieBrewing.com

MON-THU 11AM-7PM ^ FRI -SAT 11AM-8PM SUN 11AM-8PM

EST. 2003

Beginning this fall, the recently renovated brewery and tasting room will be releasing a new limited release India pale ale every two months, as well as a special release paying tribute to past brewer Gord Demaniuk.

Availability: Small batch

Late brewmaster Gord Demaniuk began this recipe that’s been nished by his son/current brewer, Je .

Availability: Small batch

Clean with pine avours, it’s a liquid equivalent to walking through a forest.

Availability: Year-round

Hop-forward with strong notes of tropical fruits. Oats enhance the body and mouthfeel.

Availability: Seasonal

Stone fruit notes from the El Dorado hops are accompanied by a lemongrass citrus zing.

cheers for charity!

e people at Fernie Brewing Co. love their town, that’s why they donate all pro ts from sales of their tasting ights to the local community. So far the brewery (and its patrons!) have raised more than $55,000 for a variety of local charities, organizations and clubs.

enjoy the ride.

OVER TIME B EER W ORKS

136A Wallinger Ave. | OverTimeBeer.ca

MON-THU 12-7PM ^ FRI -SAT 11AM-8PM ^ SUN 11AM-7PM

EST. 2016

When in Kimberley, ignore the Bavarian kitsch and make a beeline for Over Time, where the beer would impress any German worth their hops.

RIGHT ABOUT NOW

INDI A P A LE A LE

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 6.5%70

e dark colour betrays a considerable malt bill that, together with dry-hopping, make for quite a fruit fest.

A RROWHEA D BREWING C O.

GOOD EVENING

B ROWN A LE

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 5.2%15

is is a ne piece of qua ery, light but with a subtle avour pro le of roast, toast, chocolate and caramel.

481 Arrow Rd. | ArrowheadBrewingCompany.ca

SUN-WED 11AM-7PM ^ THU-SAT 11AM-8PM

EST. 2012

Invermere has beautiful lakes, hot springs, skiing and this wonderfully kitschy brewery, celebrating its fth anniversary in October.

REDRUM RHUBARB

RYE-P-A

R YE I NDI A PA LE ALE

Availability: One-o

ABV IBU 6.66%50

Brewed with rye malt and locally grown rhubarb, this hop-forward beer has a unique bitterness.

PUMPKINFERNO

P UMPKIN BROWN ALE

Availability: One-o

ABV IBU 4.9%N/A

Locally grown, re-roasted pumpkins add sweetness and depth to this seasonal sipper.

CRAFT BEER CATCHES ON IN AUSTRALIA'S CULTURE CAPITAL

by Rob Mangelsdorf

There’s a funny rivalry that exists between Melbourne and Sydney. e two largest cities down under have a long history of jockeying for the world’s attention, each believing they are Australia’s greatest city. It can get a little nasty.

In recent years, you could be forgiven for thinking Sydney has come out ahead. It’s bigger, it had the 2000 Summer Olympics, it has the opera house and the bridge and the beaches and the postcard-perfect-everything. ere’s no denying Sydney is a gob-smackingly beautiful city.

But while Sydney has the good looks and overpriced real estate, Melbourne has quietly established itself as superior in almost every other way, and it knows it.

Melbourne has Australia’s best food, its best

co ee and arguably its best wine (from the nearby Yarra Valley). e city’s multicultural makeup has helped establish it as the country’s artistic capital: Melbourne is plastered with incredible street art and pretty much every Australian band that isn’t Tame Impala calls the city home.

As one might expect, craft beer has also become an important thread in the city’s cultural fabric.

“ e city's growing love for craft beer is in keeping with the spirit that makes it such an appealing place,” says esteemed Australian beer writer James Smith, of e Crafty Pint (Crafty Pint.com). “I may be biased, having chosen, along with my wife, to abandon our families in the U.K. to live in Melbourne, but it really is a wonderful city that embraces all that's good in life.” >>

Get your Goat

For decades, Melbourne’s beer drinkers su ered with zzy, avourless lagers designed to quench thirst on hot summer days and be drunk en masse. Pubs were “blokey” and not super welcoming of women.

But the many Aussies who travelled overseas soon discovered the beer culture that existed in places like Europe and North America, and wondered why they couldn’t have that at home.

Cameron Hines was one of them. It was a trip to B.C., of all places, that piqued his interest in craft beer. Hines returned to Melbourne from his travels and with his good buddy Dave Bonighton, founded Mountain Goat Brewery

“ e name comes from the fact that they had this metaphorical mountain to climb to get started,” says Mountain Goat Brewery general manager Mick Bentley.

Banks turned them down. Investors sco ed. But stubborn as the name suggests, Hines and Bonighton were able to raise $100,000 from friends and family to make their dream a reality. Today, 20 years later, Mountain Goat is one of Australia’s most widely distributed and widely recognizable craft beer brands.

e Mountain Goat Brewery stands as a monument to their e orts. Housed in a massive warehouse in the Richmond neighbourhood, the space is inviting, if somewhat cavernous, with a tasting lounge adjacent to rows of soaring fermenters. e room has plenty of personality, with robotic sculptures welded from discarded brewing equipment and a bar made to look like a precariously high stack of beer cases. On sunny days (of which there are plenty in Melbourne, don’t listen to those lying

Sydneysiders) they throw open the rolling bay doors and the party spills onto the street.

Mountain Goat may not take itself too seriously (a typically Australian trait), but the beer is seriously good. In particular, the Silence of the Rees InBreed Coconut Porter (6.3% ABV, 25 IBU) is a avour bomb of roasted coconut, chocolate and vanilla, designed by brewer Alana Rees to resemble a lamington, a traditional Australian coconut cake dessert.

Moon Dog rising

A short bike ride away in the neighbouring suburb of Abbotsford (these names starting to sound familiar?) is Moon Dog Craft Brewery, sitting in the literal shadow of the massive Carlton United Brewing complex, makers of Australians' most popular lager, Victoria Bitter.

While many craft breweries have taken a somewhat adversarial approach to the big bad macros, Moon Dog gets along quite well with its neighbour.

“ ey’ve been a big help to us, actually,” says Mark Waghorne, Moon Dog’s head of sales. “ ey’ve helped us with lab results, sold us equipment, we’ve done collabs with [CUB-owned] Matilda Bay Brewing.”

e vibe at Moon Dog is the furthest thing from corporate, though.

Located in a non-descript alley like some secret craft beer PeeWee’s Playhouse, the dive-y tasting room is festooned with palm trees, Christmas lights, random neon, old mis-matched furniture and weird shit everywhere. It’s absolutely fantastic and utterly unpretentious, so you can’t help but instantly feel at ease. is place is just a lot of fun.

e beer is a lot fun, too. Many Australian craft breweries are still pretty conservative when it comes to the beer styles the o er, but not Moon Dog. In fact, the rst beer it ever brewed was a barrel-aged imperial red ale. I was most impressed by Mr. Misto elees (6.7% ABV, 12 IBU), a wild ale aged on oak for seven months, resulting in a mildly tart beer packed with tropical fruit avours and gobs of brett funk.

“Five or six years ago there weren’t a lot of people

here who were educated in craft beer,” says Waghorne. “ e summery, fruity beers are still a big part of the market, but the younger demo is a bit more adventurous.”

Hawkers Delight

When Mazen Hajjar decided to move to Australia from Lebanon four years ago and open up Hawkers Beer, Melbourne was the only place he considered setting up shop.

“It’s 10 years ahead of Sydney,” he says. “And, the colder weather here drives better beer.”

Hawkers, located in the leafy suburb of Coburg, is betting the Australian public is ready for craft beer. e brewery is currently undergoing a massive expansion that will e ectively triple its size, and is planning to add a tasting room by the end of the year.

“Craft beer only makes up about two per cent of the market here, so we are trying to educate the public,” Hajjar says. “Most people love good beer, they just haven’t been exposed to it.”

Hawkers’ rst beer, the aggressively hopped West Coast-style Hawkers Pale Ale (5.2% ABV, 50 IBU), became a smash hit for the brewery from moment it was released in 2015.

“In two years, we’ve upgraded our capacity seven times,” he says. “I knew we’d be successful when I saw one our empty bottles in the street!”

Canada Moose

anks in part to the success of Mountain Goat (as well as other trailblazers like Cooper’s, Little Creatures and Stone & Wood), upstarts like Tallboy and Moose in Preston don’t have to do the legwork of converting the public to craft.

at said, Tallboy and Moose’s most popular beer is its lager-esque Tallboy Cream Ale (4.9% ABV).

“We consciously tried to make approachable beer in our rst few months and from there we started tinkering,” says Toronto-raised co-owner Steve Germain, a.k.a. “Moose”.

“We do a wide range of interesting things, but the cream ale is paying the bills.”

For North American craft beer drinkers, Tallboy and Moose will feel very familiar. e tasting room is uncluttered and sleekly minimalist and the beer list features everything from Berliner weisse to cask-conditioned English bitters.

One thing you won’t nd at Tallboy and Moose –or in most Australian craft beer tasting rooms – is the growler- ll station. While not completely illegal, growler- lling is fraught with legislative red tape, and many breweries opt not to bother.

Strong beers are also noticeably absent. At Tallboy and Moose, all of the beers clock in at under 6.0% ABV, again, due to restrictive Australian liquor laws.

Punitive taxes are imposed on beer based on alcoholic content, so stronger beers are generally prohibitively expensive. Wine, on the other hand, has no such restrictions in place.

“About one third of the cost of producing beer is tax,” says Germain. “If you want a pint of double IPA, it’s a $16 pint.”

e likely reason, of course, is that the notion of moderate drinking is still somewhat foreign to much of Australia (although thankfully that’s changing, and craft beer is a big part of that). e Melbourne Cricket Ground still won’t sell beer stronger than 3.5% for evening matches due to the absolute bedlam that would invariably ensue. If you’ve been to Gar nkel’s in Whistler on a Tuesday, you know what I’m talking about. j

WHITETOOTH BREWING

623 8th Ave. North | WhitetoothBrewing.com

DAILY 2-10PM

EST. 2016

It’s a Golden era for craft beer in the Kootenays, where Whitetooth is brewing up Belgian-inspired and West Coast beers. Patio and beer lawn now open.

ICEFIELDS

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 6.0%46

A Belgian-style amber pale ale with fruit and spice notes.

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 6.5%75

Major hopping that hits all the right notes, including a resinous citrus and tropical character.

MT. B EGBIE BREWING C O.

2155 Oak Dr. | Mt-Begbie.com

DAILY 9AM-5PM

EST. 1996

Mt. Begbie knows how to celebrate its 20th anniversary: open a new facility and win Brewery of the Year at the 2017 Canadian Brewing Awards.

BEGBIE CREAM ALE

CRE A M A LE

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 4.7%12

Mt. Begbie’s signature beer since 1996 won its third gold at the 2017 CBAs.

HIGH COUNTRY KOLSCH

KOLSC H

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 4.5%12

Another three-time gold medal winner, this is the beer that introduced B.C. to kolsch.

BLOWER POW

JACKSON’S SOCIAL CLUB

& BREWHOUSE

175 Cariboo Hwy 97 | JacksonsSocialClub.com

MON-THU 10:30AM-7PM ^ FRI-SAT 10:30AM-9PM SUN 10:30AM-6PM

EST. 2017

is small Cariboo brewery based in a converted gas station right on Hwy. 97 has a solid range of beers, a new patio and, on some nights, live music.

RETRO DOG

BLONDE ALE

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 4.8%18

is “good, loyal blonde” will get your tail wagging.

VALEMOUNT

THREE RANGES BREWING CO.

1160 5th Ave. | reeRanges.com

WRANGLER

INDIA PALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 6.5%60

is solid IPA is named for the local Junior B hockey team: Go Wranglers!

MON, WED-THU 3-8PM ^ FRI-SAT 1-9PM ^ SUN 1-7PM

EST. 2013

Craft beer can make you famous. Practically no one in B.C. knew where Valemount was before 2014, when ree Ranges opened. ey do now.

LITTLE BEE

HONEY ALE

HONEY PALE ALE

Availability: Seasonal

ABV IBU 5.6%29

Local honey works its magic to make this pale ale clean and crisp.

ROLL IN THE HAY

HEFE

HEFEWIEZEN

Availability: Seasonal

ABV IBU 5.5%25

A hefeweizen with Citra hops. Why has someone only just thought of this amazing combo?

BARKERVILLE BREWING CO.

185 Davie St. | BarkervilleBeer.com

MON-WED 12-6PM ^ THU 12-8PM ^ FRI 12-9PM

SAT 11AM-6PM

EST. 2014

Did you know Barkerville’s Wandering Camel IPA pays tribute to the 23 mighty camels that hauled supplies from Lillooet to Barkerville in 1862?

52 FOOT STOUT STOUT

DEMI-MONDAINE DUNKELWEIZEN

DUNKELWEIZEN

Availability: Seasonal Availability: Seasonal

ABV IBU 7.0%70

Boreal amber birch syrup adds a touch of sweetness to this 2016 B.C. Beer Award winner.

PRINCE GEORGE

CROSSROADS BREWING

508 George St. | CrossroadsCraft.com

ABV IBU 5.2%12

Notes of clove, vanilla and banana. And hey, another 2016 B.C. Beer Award winner.

SUN-THU 11:30AM-9PM ^ FRI-SAT 11:30AM-11PM

EST. 2016

While you may soon be sipping on Crossroads’ beers on tap at local PG restaurants, currently the only place to taste it is at the beautiful taproom.

CINDERS RED RYE

RED ALE

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 6.0%58

A strong malt backbone supports juicy hops, and the rye punches in some spiciness.

IRON BRIDGE

OATMEAL

OATMEAL STOUT

STOUT

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 5.0%19

An easy-drinking English-style stout, with the addition of oats for extra body.

S HERWOO D M OUNTAIN BREWHOUSE

Unit 101 - 4816 Hwy. 16 West | SherwoodMountain.beer

DAILY 12-8PM

EST. 2014

Brewer Darryl Tucker, the Friar Tuck of Sherwood Mountain, is on a mission to bring the ne folks of Terrace a dependable and tasty line of brews.

SEVEN SISTERS STOUT STOUT

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 5.7%25

Roasty with hints of dark chocolate and co ee. Finishes dry with a light bitterness.

W HEEL H OUSE

B REWING C O. 217 1st Ave. East | WheelhouseBrewing.com

COAST MOUNTAIN PILSNER PILSNER

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 5.0%N/A

Co-brewed with a German brewmaster, it’s refreshing with a fragrant, balanced hop bitterness.

TUE-WED 12-8PM ^ THU-SAT 12-11PM ^ SUN 2-8PM

EST. 2013

Prince Rupert locals love their hometown beer, but if you want to try Wheelhouse’s wares, you’re going to have to cross the 54th parallel.

FIRST MATE WHITE IPA

WH ITE INDI A P A LE A LE

VITAMIN SEA

N ORT HEA ST P A LE A LE

Availability: Seasonal Availability: Seasonal

ABV IBU 6.7%55

Juicy Citra, Mosaic and Galaxy hops are balanced by a delicate malt bill and tart Belgian wit yeast.

ABV IBU 5.0%40

Get your vitamins from this juicy, hazy pale ale copiously dry hopped with Citra and Amarillo.

Beer and Chili-Glazed Oyster Tostada with

Four Winds Pale Ale

LA MEZCALERIA

Although born in Mexico, La Mezcaleria’s chef Mariana Gabilondo has spent more than half her life in Canada. e avours of the West Coast provide a constant source of inspiration as she puts her own spin on Mexican classics at La Mezcaleria on Commercial Drive in Vancouver.

“I spent most of my time on Vancouver Island,” she says. “I came to Vancouver a year ago and have fallen in love with La Mezcaleria. I love the food and the opportunity to serve it here, and the chance to use and see the best products from B.C. on our tables.”

at includes the best B.C. craft beer, namely, Four Winds Pale Ale, which features prominently in her recipe for beer and chiliglazed oyster tostada.

“I wanted something with hop and body for a fall dish,” she explains. “Most traditional Mexican beer is lighter in the

INgredients

• 2 bottles of Four Winds Pale Ale

• 500 mL of shucked oysters

• 1 cup of agave syrup (or honey)

• 1 whole ancho chili, seeded and sliced thin

• 1 whole pasilla chili, seeded and sliced thin

• 1 serrano pepper, thinly sliced

• 4 garlic cloves

• 1 red onion, sliced thin

• 1 lime

• ½ bunch of cilantro, chopped

• 12 six-inch corn tortillas, preferably yellow corn (or better yet, a package of readymade tostadas!)

• 1 avocado

• 2 handfuls of your favourite mixed greens or shredded lettuce

• Salt and pepper to taste

To makE the chili honey glaze

Pour the beer into a small saucepan and gently bring to a boil. Simmer to get a nice, dark hoppy liquid, until it has reduced by half. Add the agave, garlic and the ancho and pasila chilies. Add a

summer or very dark for the late winter. But for the fall here in Vancouver, I love the ales, and they handle the strong rich avours of Mexican sauces beautifully.” —Rob

Mangelsdorf

pinch of pepper and a half teaspoon of salt. Cover and simmer for a few minutes to soften the chilies. Carefully pour into a blender (be careful, as the liquid is warm) and blend until the glaze is smooth. Store glaze in the fridge.

To make the oysters

Heat a little oil in a large pan. Fry the oysters at medium to high temperature. When golden on one side, turn them over and add the sliced red onion. Allow the onion and oysters to fry together for a few minutes until the oysters are fully cooked. Deglaze the pan with the chili honey glaze (use as little or as much as you like), and adjust salt to taste. Turn o the heat and add a squeeze of lime over the oysters for a nice tangy avor. Toss everything with cilantro.

To serve

Place a layer of greens and some avocado slices on a tostada or tortilla, and spoon some oysters and onions on top. Garnish with thinly sliced Serrano peppers and maybe a pinch of rock salt. Serve immediately with your favourite salsa. j

Brewpubs are institutions in this province, offering a vastly di erent craft beer experience than the brewery tasting room. e focus of the brewpub may not necessarily be on the beer itself, but instead, the food, the décor, the live music or even the hockey game. ey are often social hubs for their respective communities, functioning as the neighbourhood’s communal living room.

In many cases, the beer is secondary. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t exceptional – in fact some of B.C.’s best beers are brewed in these establishments.

Since few brewpubs bottle and keg their own beer – some don’t even o er growler lls – if you want to try what they are brewing, you’re going to have to go to the source. Seek them out, you won’t be disappointed. j

VANCOUVER HASTINGS MILL BREWING COMPANY

403 East Hastings St. | PatsPub.ca

VANCOUVER DOCKSIDE BREWING CO.

1253 Johnston St. | DocksideVancouver.com

ere’s a lot of history at the Patricia Hotel. Brewing beer is just the latest chapter in that book.

BRICKTOP PALE ALE

AMERICAN PALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 6.0%33

Red in colour, caramel in taste, Cascade in the nish.

Dockside’s patio is still one of the best in the city, or anywhere for that matter.

OLD BRIDGE DARK LAGER

DARK LAGER

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 4.9%25

is dark amber lager features mellow malt avours balanced by Hallertau and Saaz hops.

BREW

e Gastown brewpub is indeed steam-powered, but unlike a certain steamy tourist-trap down the street, it’s actually worth a visit.

HEROICA RED ALE

RED ALE

Availability: Seasonal

ABV IBU 5.6%40

Medium bodied with notes of roasted hazelnut and to ee, balanced by Centennial, Citra and Simcoe hops.

VANCOU VE R

STEEL TOAD BREWERY

97 East 2nd Ave. | SteelToad.ca

VANCOU VE R

YALETOWN BREWING CO.

1111 Mainland St. | MJG.ca/Yaletown

e beautifully restored historic Opsal building is the only place you can taste Chris Charron’s latest brews.

VIENNA LAGER

V IENN A L A GER

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 5.5%15

A golden lager inspired by the traditional Vienna style.

WHISTL E

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BREWHOUSE HIGH MOUNTAIN BREWING

4355 Blackcomb Way | MJG.ca/BrewHouse

Always interesting seasonal beers to pair with the happy hour food menu. Don’t miss their semi-annual cask festivals!

DE LA FONTAINE

FARMHOUSE APRICOT

SA ISON

Availability: Small batch

ABV IBU 5.0%19

A saison and apricot wheat beer blend – dry and refreshing.

SURR E Y

BIG RIDGE BREWING CO.

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

Always a Whistler hotspot, thanks in great part to long-running head brewer Derrick Franche and his excellent beer.

FARMHOUSE BLEND

FA RM H OUSE A LE

Availability: Seasonal

ABV IBU 6.0%25

A blend of tripel, saison and a 100-per-cent Brettanomyces-fermented pale ale.

Surrey’s original brewpub has been converting the masses to the gospel of craft beer for nearly 20 years.

RODEO RED ALE

RED A LE

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 5.0%14

Well balanced and full bodied with a distinctive hop character.

DUNCAN

CRAIG STREET BREW PUB

25 Craig St. | CraigStreet.ca

LONGWOOD BREWPUB

5775 Turner Rd. | LongwoodBrewpub.com

It’s de nitely worth venturing o the highway to visit this three-level brewpub, the centrepiece of Duncan’s attractive, historic downtown.

MT. PREVOST PORTER

PORTER

Availability:Year-round

ABV IBU 5.0%26

A smooth, dark porter with a roasted malt character – perfect on a rainy fall day.

KAMLOOPS

THE NOBLE PIG BREWHOUSE

650 Victoria St. | eNoblePig.ca

With a big food menu and a long tap list, you can always nd something tasty in this comfortable brewpub.

STOUTNIK

RUSSI A N IMPERI A L STOUT

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 7.5%35

is award-winning stout will send your taste buds into orbit.

SALMON ARM

BARLEY STATION BREW PUB

20 Shuswap St. North | BarleyStation.com

e go-to stop for food in Kamloops; how many brewpubs serve jamabalaya and sole on white bean ragu?

MOCHA PORTER

PORTER

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 5.5%35

Alluring chocolate, co ee and caramel avours. A decadent pint to ease you into autumn.

is excellent brewpub is the ideal spot for a meal and a beer as you drive the Trans-Canada Highway.

SAM MAGUIRE’S

PALE ALE

AMERIC A N P A LE A LE

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 4.6%45

A hoppy and delicious take on the classic Paci c Northwest pale ale.

KELOWNA

FREDDY’S BREWPUB

124 McCurdy Rd. | McCurdyBowl.com

BARLEY MILL BREW PUB

2460 Skaha Lake Rd. | BarleyMillPub.com

A bowling alley/brewpub with a good mix on tap, including ( ttingly) a Lebowski Lager.

SANDBAGGER BROWN

BROWN ALE

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 5.0%10

A roasty, full-bodied brown ale with chocolate and caramel malts.

Barley Mill has a handful of regular beers on tap with the occasional seasonal under brewer Shawn Voisin.

MUSTANG PALE ALE

PALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 5.0%50

Cascade hops and Munich malts make for a balanced brew.

NELSON CRANBROOK

THE SAVOY BREWERY

198 Baker St. | SavoyHotel.com

THE HEID OUT

821 Baker St. | eHeidOut.ca

e Falls Music Lounge in the Savoy Hotel is a great spot to enjoy beer right at the source.

NITRO STOUT STOUT

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 4.8%20

Smooth and creamy thanks to those tiny nitrogen bubbles.

Cranbrook’s only brewery is attached to a stellar restaurant featuring seven Red Seal chefs. Worth a long evening out.

DARK STORMY PORTER PORTER

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 5.5%34

Smooth and dry, with a distinct chocolate and co ee maltiness.

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Our beer spies have been gathering intel on up-and-coming breweries from all over the province. As always, take the estimated opening dates with a generous grain of salt.

ANGRY HEN BREWING

Kaslo (fall 2017) Angry Hen was hoping to open by the end of August, but things always take longer than expected when starting a brewery. e location couldn’t be any cooler, though: a restored heritage building dating back to 1896 right across from Kootenay Lake. AngryHenBrewing.com

ANOT H ER BEER CO.

New Westminster (late 2017) Sapperton is anxiously awaiting the opening of ABC, the rst brewery in the Brewery District since Labatt’s closed up shop a decade ago. AnotherBeerCo.com

BEERE BREWING

North Vancouver (fall 2017) Owner/brewer Matt Beere hopes to bring sessionable, hoppy beers and lots of funky stu to his tap list. Beere Brewing will be the third brewery in Lower Lonsdale, alongside Green Leaf and the soon-to-be-opened Streetcar. BeereBrewing.com

E LECTRIC BICYCLE BREWING C OMPANY

Vancouver (late 2017) Located on the same block as R&B Brewing in Brewery Creek, Electric Bicycle Brewing Company is promising to shake things up in the crowded Vancouver craft beer scene with “strange beer, great music, and fun people.”

I LE SA U VA GE BREWING C O.

Victoria (fall 2017) e newest brewery in Rock Bay will be focusing on wild ales and sours, as the name suggests (literally, “wild island” en français).

K IND BREWING

Westbank (summer 2017) By the time you read this, Kind may very well be open for business. e brewery is ready to go, and just waiting on paperwork. KindBrewing.ca

N ORT HPAW BREWING

Port Coquitlam (late 2017) e tanks are in and Northpaw is already brewing beer o site, so it won’t be long now before Port Coquitlam’s rst craft brewery is open to the public. NorthpawBrewCo.com

R ED BIRD BREWING I NC.

Kelowna (open!) Red Bird is currently open and serving beer, just not its own beer. Owner Adam Semeniuk hopes to have his beers on tap any week now.

S ILV ER VA LLEY BREWING

Maple Ridge (fall 2017) Construction is almost complete at this downtown Maple Ridge brewery. All that’s left is to get those pesky permits… SilverValleyBrewing.com

S OOKE BREWING COMPA NY

Sooke (fall 2017) Construction of SBC’s tasting room is taking longer than expected, but the space is shaping up to be pretty spectacular, so we’re being patient. SookeBrewing.com

S TREETC A R BREWING

North Vancouver (winter 2017) Yet another brewery slated for North Vancouver, Streetcar Brewing will be located on East 1st Street, not far from where the eponymous streetcars used to run on Lonsdale Avenue, close to 70 years ago. StreetcarBrewing.ca

3 D OGS BREWING

White Rock (fall 2017) Located across from the Semiahmoo Shopping Centre in the old Swirl wine shop, this brewery is hoping to be open any day now, although it doesn’t have a website or any social media yet.

T RENC H BREWING A ND D ISTILLING

Prince George (late 2017) Trench was hoping to be open this summer, but got caught up in red tape (not an uncommon occurrence in the province). Here’s to hoping they can cut their way through and open their doors before the year’s out. TrenchBrew.ca

U NN A MED BREWERY

Ucluelet (winter 2017) Housed in a former church in the middle of town, this craft brewery will feature a tasting lounge and a full kitchen. j

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