The Growler B.C. • Volume 5 Issue 2 • Summer 2019

BRITISH COLUMBIA

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LOWER MAINLAND / NORTH SHORE

VANCOUVER

VICTORIA / GULF ISLANDS

BREWER VS BREWER: THE VICTORIA EDITION

BREWING IT OLD SCHOOL

TRAVEL: CRAFT BEER COMES TO WINE COUNTRY

THE GROWLER GUIDE TO VCBW

MAGIC IN A BOTTLE

WHAT THE HAZY?

BREWING UP GENDER PARITY

MICHAEL JACKSON, BEER HUNTER

BEER TODAY, GONE TOMORROW

THE BEST MUSIC AND BEER MASHUPS

RECIPE: STOUT-INFUSED DOUGHNUTS

BREWS AND BIKES

CRAFT BEER EVENTS CALENDAR

B.C. BREWERY LISTINGS

BEER TO THE GROUND

Breweries by Region

36 71 52 74 78 88 94 103 108

VAN C OU V ER

LOWER M AINLAN D / N ORT H S HORE

FRASER VALLEY

S EA TO S KY / S UNS H INE C OAST

VIC TORIA / G ULF I SLAN DS

VAN C OU V ER I SLAN D

TH OM PSON OKANAGAN / K ELOWNA

K OOT E NAYS

N ORT H ERN B. C.

Editor’s Note

One thing that never ceases to amaze me is how the craft beer scene in B.C. is in a constant state of evolution. No where is that more apparent than in the transformation the Vancouver Craft Beer Week has seen over the past 10 years. From humble beginnings with just a handful of breweries and a smattering of attendees, VCBW has grown into a cultural force in Vancouver (pg. 13)

And then there’s Victoria. While the birthplace of craft beer in Canada has been slow to adopt the tasting room, breweries like Phillips and Île Sauvage have recently changed that (pg. 4), ushering in a new era of craft beer in the capital.

Meanwhile, in Wine Country, craft beer is booming. With three new breweries open in the past year, and another ve on the way, Kelowna is quickly becoming a craft beer destination in its own right (pg. 10). In fact, dozens of new breweries are currently being planned all over the province, many of them in mid-size cities like Kelowna, Langley and Comox Valley (pg. 112). And if you’re looking for the best way to experience them, Joe Wiebe has come up with bike tour itineraries all over the province (pg. 32).

Of course, not all craft breweries nd success, as is evidenced by the growing list of now defunct breweries (pg. 24).

But that’s all part of the ebb and ow of craft beer. e only constant, is change.

Cheers!

—Rob Mangelsdorf, editor

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

Brewery Details

GROWLER FILLS

BOTTLES / CANS KEGS

TASTING ROO M

ON- SITE KITCHEN OR F OOD TRU CK

TOURS

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G LUTEN - FREE B OOZE OPTIONS

Suggested Glassware

STANGE

Kolsch

Marzen Bock

PILSNER

Lager

Pilsner

Witbier

N ONI C P INT

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

THE VICT ORIA EDI T ION

BREWER BREWERS.

by Rob Mangelsdorf

Victoria is the undisputed birthplace of craft beer in Canada—if not North America—but after years of innovation, the beer scene seemed to stall in the past decade. While Vancouver exploded with new breweries, new brewers and new styles, Victoria was slow to adopt the tasting room model. Prior to Île Sauvage’s opening six months ago, the city hadn’t seen a new craft brewery open in more than seven years.

ankfully, that’s changing.

e capital now has its rst two craft beer tasting rooms at Phillips and Île Sauvage, with plans in the work for one at Vancouver Island Brewing, too. And there are nally new breweries on the way, with Whistle Buoy, Herald Street Brew Works, Merridale and the Hudson all expected to open in the next 12 months. With the newly formed Victoria Beer Society bringing an ever-growing calendar of craft beer events to the city—as well as taking over the Great Canadian Beer Fest—it seems Victoria is poised to regain its title as the craft beer capital of Canada.

So it seemed like a good time to sit down with craft beer visionary Matt Phillips of Phillips Brewing and Malting Co. and plucky young upstart Stephane Turcotte of Île Sauvage Brewing Co. and talk to them about where Victoria’s beer scene has come from and where it’s headed.

Meghan Goertz photos

GROWLER: Victoria has always been a big brewpub town, are people here nally coming around to tasting rooms?

PHILLIPS: Honestly, there’s not a big di erence between a brewpub and a tasting room now.

STEPHANE TURCOTTE: We can sell guest taps now, you’re not limited to just your beer.

GROWLER: You can bring your kids into most brewpubs now, too.

PHILLIPS: But brewpubs tend to have more of a food focus, they have TVs, and we want people to come in and focus on our beers. e focus [in a tasting room] is on the experience. Experiencing the beer and experiencing the culture [of craft beer], that’s the biggest thing.

GROWLER: In 2012, the provincial government nally allowed craft breweries to have tasting rooms and that led to a huge explosion of breweries opening in Vancouver, but not in Victoria. Why do think it’s taken so long for tasting rooms to catch on here?

PHILLIPS: We all built our breweries before tasting rooms were even allowed. And for a lot of breweries here, they don’t have the space, even if they wanted to build a tasting room. Our tasting room used to be a doggy daycare. We had to wait for them to leave to build this, because we didn’t have the space either.

GROWLER: It seemed like the brewpubs started because there was this demand for craft beer, and tasting rooms weren’t allowed, so that was the only way to pour your own beer. And Victoria has a really strong pub culture here, there are some absolutely fantastic pubs in this town. So it seemed like Victoria was so far ahead of the curve that brewpubs were well established by the time 2012 came around and everything changed. Tasting

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rooms in Vancouver were lling a void, while in Victoria, that void didn’t exist.

TURCOTTE: at was why we wanted to open with a tasting room. ere was nothing like that in Victoria. at’s our whole business model.

GROWLER: at’s a very di erent business model than most Victoria breweries.

PHILLIPS: It’s absolutely a di erent model. None of the Victoria breweries were built with a tasting room in mind. e environment is di erent, the margins are di erent.

GROWLER: How has the process been, opening up the tasting room? I’ve heard that things tend to move slowly here in Victoria.

TURCOTTE: We have had unanimous support at every step of the way, but it still took us more than a year and a half. ere’s just a lot of hoops to jump through. We could have opened much earlier if we didn’t have the tasting room, but our intent was always to have one.

PHILLIPS: It’s an arduous political process to go through. It’s punishing for a business to go through that. is industry is so completely governed by the whims of government, at every level, not just municipal.

GROWLER: e craft beer scene in Victoria has seen a lot of changes since Spinnakers rst opened back in 1984. It seems like things are starting to change once again.

We wanted to open with a tasting room. ere was nothing like that in Victoria. at’s our whole business model.

—Stephane Turcotte, Île Sauvage Brewing Co.

PHILLIPS: I think for a long time, there hasn’t been much change, actually. It’s still a lot of the same people brewing from when I rst started.

GROWLER: How would you describe the state of the Victoria beer scene right now?

PHILLIPS: It’s a really healthy beer scene right now. e brewers still interact with each other, they call each other up if they’re having an issue. And that’s part of why the beer here is so good, is that there is so much collaboration.

TURCOTTE: We needed helping hands at some points and we got it. Before we opened we introduced ourselves to the other breweries in Rock Bay and we put Moon [Under Water], Hoyne and Driftwood on as guest taps. We were the young upstart in their hood, but they were all very welcoming.

GROWLER: Matt, what did the Victoria beer scene look like when you rst opened back in 2001?

PHILLIPS: It was very di erent, everything was very di erent back then. You could be a production brewery or a brewpub, and that was it. It was a totally di erent model. My rst space was 1,300-sq.-ft. commercial space in Esquimalt. I learned to weld so I welded my own fermenters on the loading dock and brought them inside, and even sold some. I had the brewer’s mentality of if I have more tanks, I could brew more beer, cause

I didn’t want to brew the same beer everyday. So then I launched Longboat [Chocolate Porter], Amnesiac [Double IPA] and Organic Pale Ale. at was when the fun started to happen, and it got us addicted to having too many brands, which we still do today.

TURCOTTE: I remember the rst time I tried Longboat Porter when I was in UVic, and I remember thinking, this is the best beer I’ve ever had. Chocolate in a beer? It was crazy.

GROWLER: Victoria craft beer drinkers seem to be really well educated about beer. Is that because of the pub and brewpub scene here?

TURCOTTE: Places like e Drake, for sure. For UVic kids today, that’s their local pub, and they’re getting exposed to amazing craft beer. So we’re seeing craft beer drinkers that are a lot more educated.

PHILLIPS: I think Great Canadian Beer Festival has been a big part of that for a long time. People can go there and try beers from all over and that creates demand. But beer has always been a part of Victoria. If you go back a hundred years there were dozens of breweries here.

GROWLER: How does Victoria’s beer scene compare to other beer destinations?

TURCOTTE: I don’t think it’s more unique than places like San Diego or Portland, and that’s ne, I don’t think we have to be. But the beer here is very good. We’re getting a lot of tourists and they’re seeking us out. A lot of people do come here for the beer. j

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old schoolBrewing it

by Rob Mangelsdorf

Before the almighty industrial lager managed to supplant nearly every beer style on earth, people brewed with whatever local ingredients they could get their hands on. at meant beer styles varied greatly from region to region, and even town to town. While many of these styles and recipes have been lost to the winds of time, some B.C. craft brewers are digging into the history books to resurrect ancient beers, discovering new avours, ingredients and methods by looking to the past.

Brewer Dan Van Netten of Howl Brewing brews a di erent obscure historical beer every month at his nanobrewery in North Saanich. For Van Netten, researching and recreating lost beers is a way to get in touch with the past. By drinking what someone from 15th century Germany or 17th century England might have drank, for a brief moment you can put yourself in their shoes

(or at least their sandals) and experience what they experienced. It’s a direct connection to the past.

“It’s satisfying to bring something back from the dead,” he says. “ ese beers tell a story, and by bringing them back to life, we can keep that conversation going.”

e history of beer in many ways mirrors the history of human civilization, he says, and rediscovering lost beer styles can tell us how people lived long ago. Beer is a big part of who we are as a civilization.

“You can look at history and see how di erent events and social changes a ected the beer people drank,” he explains. “ ings like rationing, taxation, religious in uences—they all had an impact.”

According to recent studies, beer production might have even been an important factor in humanity’s transition from nomadic hunter-gatherers to a domesticated agricultural society.

Van Netten does most of his research online and in esoteric historic books, some of which he gets translated. But nding a description of a beer is just the rst step.

“Sometimes you kind of have to ll in the blanks,” he says. “So we’ll look at what ingredients they might have had available at the time.”

Van Netten recently brewed a Brunswick Mum, which is a 16th century spiced brown ale from

B.C. craft brewers are going back in time to bring obscure beer styles back from the dead

You can look at history and see how di erent events and social changes a ected the beer people drank.

—Dan Van Netten, Howl Brewing

England that has its roots in a pre-Reinheitsgebot 15th century German beer called “mumme.” After the Bavarian Purity Law came into e ect, the style carried on in England and Ireland, but with some signi cant changes.

“ e English went crazy with the ingredient list trying to recreate it,” Van Netten says.

In addition to herbs like blessed thistle, gale, marjoram, r branch and chrysanthemum, a considerable portion of the grain bill is made up of beans.

“Beans were frequently used by the English as a body builder for dark beers,” he says. “ e mash was pretty gummy. But experimentation is a big part of it. We often don’t know what it’s going to taste like until it’s done.”

Brewer Dave Paul of LoveShack Libations in Qualicum Beach has been working with Vancouver Island University anthropological archeologist professor Marie Hopwood to create beer recipes from prehistory, including chicha, a traditional Peruvian drink made from fermented purple corn that has been chewed up and spat out rst.

“Yeah, we didn’t chew the corn,” says Paul. “An enzyme in saliva helps break down the corn so it can be fermented, but we just soaked it in some pineapple instead.”

Paul and Hopwood have collaborated on three beers now, including a Viking grog called Odin’s Eye and a sa ron-spiced beer called Midas Touch made with ancient grains.

Inspired by the work of biomolecular archeologist Patrick McGovern and his book Ancient Brews: Rediscovered and Re-created, the pair started with McGovern’s work, and combined that with Hopwood’s own original research and Paul’s brewing know-how to come up with the recipes.

“I love brewing one-o beers and learning new techniques,” he says. “I love the experimentation of it—you have no idea how it’s going to go.”

Hopwood teaches a course on the anthropology of food and drink

at VIU, and the prehistoric beers are a valuable teaching aid for her students.

“I want to do something that helps my students imagine how people lived in these times,” she says. “A lot of students don’t know anything about Mesopotamia or ancient Peru, so this is a way to bring this region and this time to life.”

Midas Touch was based on an ancient Egyptian beverage, and was brewed with sa ron, coriander, honey, spelt and an ancient grain called kamut. e result was oral and spicy, and like nothing they had ever tasted.

“ at would have been the taste of extreme wealth in that time,” says Hopwood.

Archeological records show beers like Midas Touch existed for 7,000 years before the advent of writing, which means there’s no recipes lying around. So some artistic license is taken.

“We’re not going for historical accuracy,” says Paul. “ ese are historically-inspired ales. ey still have to be drinkable and sellable.”

“In anthropology, we argue that authenticity doesn’t really exist, anyways,” Hopwood adds.

“We want to start a conversation. We want to bring the past to life.” j

Howl Brewing's Dan Van Netten uses blessed thistle, malted barley, reishi mushroom and chaga mushroom in some of his obscure historic beer styles. Meghan Goertz photo

Craft beer comes to wine country Craft beer comes to wine country

e time is right to discover Kelowna’s beer scene

Words and photos by Rob

The Okanagan may be wine country, but craft beer has arrived in a major way in Kelowna. In the past three years, ve new breweries have opened in the city, with another seven on the way. ere are even hopyards popping up along Highway 97, as local farmers take advantage of that warm Okanagan sun and rich soil.

So forget about all that sunshine, the glorious lake, the sandy beaches, the world-class food and wine—Kelowna is a craft beer destination now, and the time is right for a summer road trip.

Downtown

If you’re staying in Kelowna, chances are you’re staying downtown, or close to it. After all, that’s where the action is: the beaches, the restaurants, the hordes of sunburnt Albertans.

Craft Beer Market opened up in the former Paramount eatre on Bernard Avenue last year and is a good place to get your bearings. With more than 100 beers on tap, nearly all of Kelowna’s breweries are represented there.

Heading north on Water Street, you’ll nd the Tree Brewing Beer Institute, which operates

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independently from the now Big Rock-owned and Vancouver-brewed Tree Brewing. is bright and friendly tasting room features a glass wall separating the bar from the brewery, o ering beer nerds a front row seat to the action.

A block up and a block over, you’ll nd yourself at what might be the most fun craft brewery in the whole province. BNA Brewing Co. is located in the historic Old Cannery Building, and the former massive brick warehouse has been converted into a Pee-Wee’s Playhouse of cool shit to do while drinking. ere’s a bowling alley upstairs, an indoor bocce ball court, a vintage arcade, a food truck located inside, a bar/nightclub downstairs, and if you’re just looking to grab some beers, there’s a separate tasting room and growler ll station so you don’t have to brave the lineup to get your hands on a bottle of Tennessee Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Milk Stout. And rest assured, if it’s a Friday or Saturday night, there will be a lineup.

North End

Historically, Kelowna’s North End has been home to the city’s many fruit canning plants, and it’s where companies like Sun-Rype Products and

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B.C. Fruit Growers’ Association are located today. While the canning industry declined with the advent of refrigeration, it left behind a vast industrial neighbourhood with properties ripe for the picking for craft breweries. Tree Brewing’s original brewery was the rst to move to Richter Street back in the 1990s, and for decades was the only brewery in the neighbourhood. at brewery may be gone, but in its place has grown a veritable ecosystem of craft beer, all within walking distance.

Kettle River Brewing Co. opened up in 2016 with just a tiny homemade brewhouse that would have been undersized for most nanobreweries, let alone a 42-seat tasting room. It’s been punching above its weight ever since, and with a new 600-litre brewhouse, a lounge licence, a bumping patio and new brewer in Wilson Watson at the helm, Kettle River has really come into its own. e atmosphere is lively and welcoming and it’s easy to lose an entire afternoon in the comfortably kitschy space, especially with a pint of English Subtitles ESB which won gold at the recent Okanagan Fest of Ale—in your hand.

Since opening, Kettle River has been joined by Red Bird Brewing and Vice & Virtue Brewing Co. just a few metres away, with three more breweries set to open in the neighbourhood by the end of the year.

“It’s pretty exciting to see all the growth in the industry up here happening so fast,” says Kettle River co-owner Chris Dedinsky. “I do think the wine culture in Kelowna helped bump the enthusiasm around craft beer in the Okanagan generally. Especially with restaurants and bars. Most places around town have had a good local selection of wine and are transitioning quickly into having a great selection of local and local-ish beer on tap as well.”

Right around the corner—quite literally—is Red Bird Brewing. With space for maybe 20 people, the tasting room is cosy and rustic, with a half dozen takes on classic West Coast craft styles on tap. While most of the beer is currently brewed o site, a new brewery with a 12 hL brewhouse is in the works.

Above: BNA Brewing Co.’s tasting room o ers a quiet respite from the bouncing bar next door. Right: Taste the rainbow at Vice & Virtue, the newest brewery at Baillie and Richter.

From left: Get educated at Tree Brewing's Beer Institute in downtown Kelowna; Kettle River Brewing Co.'s tasting room is the kind of place you can easily spend all day in—and all night; West Coast craft classics are on the menu at cosy Red Bird Brewing.

Vice & Virtue Brewing Co. is the new kid on the block, having opened up last year, but it’s already earned a loyal following thanks to its hip décor, cutting edge beers, and simply phenomenal food.

e chicken liver paté (a.k.a. the foie gras of the working class) is rich and velvetly, while the charcuterie and smoked meats are all done in house. If you’re looking for a Brut Champale or a Mango Milkshake IPA, this is the place. And while the vibe might be more restaurant than tasting room, it’s a must-visit.

North Kelowna

Not to be confused with the North End, the city’s other industrial neighbourhood lies north of Rutland next to UBC Okanagan and the airport. Here, a growing number of breweries are serving the thirsty masses on the outskirts of the city. ough not walkable from downtown, it’s de nitely worth taking the 15-minute drive to see what’s brewing.

e tasting room at Boundary Brewing Co. is tiny and always packed, so expect to make new friends. Boundary’s approach is unique among B.C. breweries, with its über-traditional take on classic German beers, all made in its wooden brewhouse—the only one in Canada as far as I can tell. Make sure to try owner/brewer Oliver Gläser’s Altbier, one of the best takes in the province on the Düsseldorf style.

Just a short walk south is a brewery that couldn’t be any more di erent. e aptly named Wild Ambition Brewing is the passion project of unabashed beer nerds Mitchell Kehoe and eresa Cashen. While the tasting room may be sparse,

things really get wild in the back, where they barrel age and bottle condition their mixed fermentation sours and farmhouse ales. While they’ve only been up and running for six months, beers like Imaginal Phase Rye Saison—with its subtle spice, balanced tartness and clean, dry nish—are proof that this is a brewery to keep an eye on.

Closer to town, Freddy’s Brewpub keeps it simple with its selection of approachable craft beers, the quality of which has actually improved a great deal over the past couple of years. In addition to the attached bowling alley (hence the Big Lebowski theme throughout the bar—and, yes, you can get a White Russian if you’re taking a break from craft beer), Freddy’s also regularly hosts live comedy nights.

On the horizon

Kelowna might have more new craft breweries in the works than any municipality in the province—by my count there are no less than seven currently in the works. In the North End, there’s Rustic Reel Brewing, Jackknife Brewing and Red Bird’s new brewery on the way, while on the south side of the city, there’s Barn Owl Brewing and Shoreline Brewing. Meanwhile, Kelowna Brewing Co. will be opening up any day now, next to UBC Okanagan in North Kelowna, with Copper Brewing moving in to the Landmark neighbourhood. All the more reason to come back next year, too! j

• Read more about Kelowna’s new breweries on page 112.

It's all about the wood at Boundary Brewing Co., where the traditional German lagers and ales are brewed in a wooden brewhouse—the only one of its kind in Canada.

Aptly-named Wild Ambition Brewing is all about barrel-aged sours and mixed fermentation farmhouse ales.

the growler guide to vcbw

by Rob Mangelsdorf

The past decade has seen some truly remarkable changes in the Vancouver craft beer scene, and one of the driving forces behind that has been Vancouver Craft Beer Week. From its humble beginnings with barely more than a dozen breweries and a handful of guests, VCBW has grown into a cultural phenomenon, expanding beyond craft beer to encompass all manner of food, music, art and everything that makes life worth living. If nothing else, VCBW is a de ant middle nger to the notion of Vancouver as a “No Fun City.”

is year marks VCBW’s 10th anniversary, and the lineup promises to be the best yet, with more than 20 events planned across the city between May 31 and June 9. Here are some of the events we’re looking forward to this year (for the full lineup and online ticket sales, visit VancouverCraftBeerWeek.com). See you there!

FRIDAY, MAY 31

VCBW Kickoff Party @ Beaumont Studios (316 W. 5th Ave.)

Vancouver Craft Beer Week’s 10th annual celebration starts in sparkly style with a massive sequined kicko party at the Beaumont Studio. More than 40 breweries will be taking part, along with food trucks, live music and DJs, as well as interactive visual and performing arts. Since the traditional 10th anniversary gift is aluminum, all the beers will be canned, the

décor will be shiny and partygoers are encouraged to get down with their sparkly selves. 6–10pm, tickets are $25 (includes rst beer and entry).

SATURDAY, JUNE 1

Sommelier Vs Cicerone @ Sutton Place Hotel (845 Burrard St.)

Come out and vote for your favourite food/drink pairing as Dianne “Super Somm” Fisher battles Paul “Brew Paul” Pyne for the chance at taking home the Best of B.C. Championship belt. One night, one ring, a four-course plated dinner paired with wine and beer by two of the best in the business. 6:30–9:30pm, tickets are $120 (includes dinner and drinks).

SUNDAY, JUNE 2

Hoppapalooza 10 Year Reunion @ The Alibi Room (157 Alexander St.)

Not only is it the 10th anniversary (and triumphant return) of the Alibi’s legendary Hoppapalooza event, it’s also the Alibi’s 13th birthday and will be its 1,000th beer list. Needless to say, the crew is going all out for this one. Expect exclusive beers, new collabs, live music and rampant beer nerdom. 11am–3pm or 6–10pm, tickets are $50 (includes welcome beer, two drink tickets and a bowl of chili).

SATURDAY, JUNE 8, AND SUNDAY, JUNE 9

VCBW Festival @ PNE Fairgrounds

Capping o Vancouver Craft Beer Week, the VCBW Festival at the PNE Fairgrounds celebrates music, food and beer, hosting 100 craft breweries and cideries pouring more than 300 beers and ciders, plus live music and art performances and 20+ food trucks serving up delicious local eats. e biggest beer festival in the province and the most fun you can have with your clothes on (please keep your clothes on). 2–7pm (June 8) and 12–5pm (June 9), tickets start at $39 for single day passes. j

by Rob Mangelsdorf

You know those lovely little bubbles that make your favourite beer zzy and delicious? ey didn’t get there on their own. While carbon dioxide is formed naturally during the fermentation process in beer, the vast majority of commercial beers are carbonated arti cially. Flat beer is chilled to just above freezing, then injected with carbon dioxide, which stays dissolved in the beer until you crack it open.

Of course, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with this method. It’s a quick, easy, cost-e ective way to carbonate beer.

But there is another way to get those bubbles. Some would say, a better way. Ben Coli, owner and brewer at Dageraad Brewing in Burnaby, the 2018 Canadian Brewery of the Year, is one of those people. Vessel conditioning is the process by which breweries allow their beer to naturally carbonate by carefully refermenting the beer in the bottle, can or keg. Once a beer has nished fermenting, additional yeast and sugar are added prior to packaging. e beers are then stored at a speci c temperature for two weeks or more, allowing the yeast to chew up the sugar and produce carbon dioxide, thus naturally carbonating the beer. So, yeah, carbon dioxide is basically yeast farts. Delicious yeast farts.

Nearly all of Dageraad’s award-winning beers are bottle conditioned, and it’s a subject that gets Coli almost giddy.

“It’s awesome for a couple of reasons,” he says. Firstly, because active refermentation is taking place in the bottle, that yeast eats up any oxygen that gets into the beer. at means bottle conditioned beer has a longer shelf life than force carbonated beer.

“Oxygen is the main thing that makes beer go bad,” says Coli. “And it doesn’t matter how good your packaging is, there’s always going to be a little bit of oxygen that gets in. It’s a great way for small breweries to get good packaged stability without expensive, fancy bottling equipment.

Secondly, it makes the beer taste amazing. e secondary fermentation that takes place in the bottle produces avour compounds called esters, and for some styles of beer, these esters can take it to the next level.

“For us, esters are a big component of our beers and [the beer] is noticeably better from bottle conditioning,” says Coli. “In Belgium, nearly all of the beer is still bottle conditioned, and it makes a huge avour contribution.”

It also allows beers to have higher carbonation, giving it a champagne-like e ervescence.

Breweries vessel condition their beers to naturally carbonate them—and make them spectacular!

“A lot of styles aren’t right without bottle conditioning,” Coli contends. “You can’t do proper Belgian tripel or a saison without it, in my opinion. It’s an entirely di erent experience.”

It’s not all sunshine and lollipops, though: there are some major drawbacks to bottle conditioning, especially if it’s not done right. Like exploding bottles, for instance. If you’ve ever homebrewed, you might have experienced a bottle bomb or two. If the yeast is too active, it can over-ferment, causing the beer to overcarbonate. e pressure in the bottle builds until the cap blows o or the bottle explodes. ankfully, it’s not really an issue for commercially bottle-conditioned beers.

However, mistakes can happen. Dageraad lost an entire batch of its 10˚ Belgian-style quadruple because the temperature controlled room in which it bottle conditions its beers malfunctioned.

Spinnakers brewer Matt Stanley has been experimenting for the past few months, dialing in the process ahead of the rst bottle conditioned releases for the venerable Victoria brewery.

“We want to up our game on our barrel-aged sours, and bottle conditioning is a great way to elevate the beer,” Stanley says. “ ere’s a bit of romance to bottle conditioned beers. ey are beers made with love and they’re special. ey’re handmade and they’re a living thing.”

Since bottle conditioning improves shelf life, bottle conditioned beers are ideal for cellaring, Stanley says. e active yeast will continue to work—albeit very slowly—subtly changing the character of the beer over time. However, leaving bottle-conditioned beers in a warm environment for months on end can lead to overcarbonation and gushing bottles.

“If you want to preserve the beer, you should put it in the fridge,” says Stanley. “But it’s perfectly ne at cellar temperature (8-12 C).” j

How to drink a bo le-conditioned beer

You might have noticed that there’s a little bit of sediment at the bottom of that bottle-conditioned beer. Don’t worry, it’s just yeast and it’s totally harmless. While some people prefer to pour a small glass, then gently stir the bottle to put the yeast back in suspension, Coli likes to leave the yeast alone, as it can cause an unwanted bitter taste. He prefers to gently pour the beer, being careful not to disturb the sediment. Leaving a nger of beer in the bottle will ensure the yeast doesn’t end up in your glass.

Step 1: Serve at 6 to 8 C in a stemmed tulip glass, leaving plenty of room for head to best release aroma.

Step 2: Pour gently at rst, then quickly, leaving the yeast in the bottle.

Step 3: Smell. Taste. Swallow. Enjoy! Repeat.

e yeast can change the avour of the beer, it can be quite bitter.

—Ben Coli, Dageraad Brewing

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When is an IPA not an IPA?

by Joe Wiebe

Ask any brewer what their bestselling beer is and I’ll bet you a Fat Tug they say it’s their India pale ale, and often by a mile. Craft beer lovers seem to adore hops above all else, and brewers are racing each other to gure out how to stu more and more hops into their beers.

IPAs have traditionally been assertively hopped pale ales: slightly stronger in ABV than its pale ale brethren, with a pronounced hop bitterness that helps balance the malt body. Legend has it, the style got its name because it was dry-hopped to help preserve the beer on the long voyage from England to the colonies in India. Once the style came to North America, the hops got cranked up to 11 with the piney, resinous varieties that are grown here on the West Coast. However, since the arrival of New England IPAs a few years back, the spectrum of beers that fall under the IPA label has expanded considerably. First we had black IPAs and white IPAs, and then wild IPAs and fruit IPAs. Now there are hazy IPAs, juicy IPAs, hazy pales, hazy white IPAs, milkshake IPAs, hazy wild IPAs, hazy session ales, and brut IPAs. I hear sour IPAs are the next big thing.

But how can these all be called IPAs when they are so di erent? Sure, there are lots of hops in all those di erent beers, but they also use a wide assortment of malts, di erent types of yeasts, and often adjuncts such as lactose, our or—wait for it—apple pectin. Doesn’t that make them a di erent style of beer altogether?

To explore this question I interviewed two brewers from either side of the province and the hazy spec-

trum: John Folinsbee, head brewer at Backcountry Brewing in Squamish, one of B.C.’s leading producers of the hazy IPA panorama of beers; and Michael Lewis, owner/brewer of ree Ranges Brewing in Valemount, whose Tail Slap IPA is the reigning champion of the North American IPA category at the B.C. Beer Awards, which means he knows a thing or two about brewing a classic West Coast IPA.

“I kind of stopped paying attention to o cial stylistic labels,” Folinsbee admitted right away. “Commercially, the word IPA is an incredibly successful sales tool. You slap IPA on a can of beer, whatever it is, and it sells better.”

Across the province, Lewis agreed that styles aren’t important to him as a brewer. “I don’t ever brew to style. I only call things a style to help a customer choose. We had our Boondocks Bitter and only sold

Michael Lewis of ree Ranges Brewing in Valemount won Best North American IPA at the B.C. Beer Awards last year for his Tail Slap IPA. Rob Mangelsdorf photo

two kegs, but I changed the name to an English Summer Ale and sold the rest out.”

When it comes to IPAs, Lewis doesn’t love the hazy style.

“I can’t really drink more than one because they’re kind of sickly sweet for my palate,” he says. “I guess I’ve programmed myself for the bitterness.”

He appreciates that lots of people love them, but he wants to make sure consumers know what they are getting when they order an IPA. After all, the di erence between a West Coast IPA and a hazy is quite signi cant.

“When you look at your dry stout compared to your oatmeal stout, those are little nuances whereas I don’t think a hazy IPA is a little nuance,” he argued. “If somebody says I’m an IPA drinker and I hand them a Tail Slap, but if all they’ve had is a Twin Sails, they could be turned o .” (Twin Sails, if you’ve been living under a rock, is one of B.C.’s leading producers of hazy IPAs; the brewery even swept the category at the B.C. Beer Awards last fall.)

Folinsbee believes that the idea of a “hoppy beer” has de nitely evolved.

“ e target keeps moving as to what is and what isn’t considered hoppy any more,” he says. “Back in the day, IBUs and alcohol content were like a badge of honour. Now people are more interested in how a beer smells and tastes. It’s more about the overall hops presence in the beer.”

Lewis thinks about the consumer he faces in his taproom or “across the jockey box at events who asks ‘Is it hoppy? Is it bitter?’” His response: “No, it’s not bitter—it’s well-balanced.”

I like hop-forward, hazy beers a lot, but they remind me more of German hefeweizens or Belgian witbiers than traditional West Coast IPAs. Yeast plays a big role in all those styles, as does wheat and other non-traditional malts. Of course, the big di er-

ence is the hop presence, but then I’ve tasted a few hopfenweizens over the years that blur the boundary lines, too. Maybe we can just start calling them hazy ales and drop the IPA part. I doubt that will happen, though, given that both brewers I interviewed acknowledge that their IPAs—hazy or not—are their top-selling brands.

So what does the future hold for this trendy beer style with the name that doesn’t quite work but probably won’t change?

“We’re doing dry hop experiments all the time,” Folinsbee says. “It’s really just about experimenting and seeing what works. We’ll try something and see what it’s like and then change one variable at a time.”

Over in Valemount, Lewis is experimenting, too: “We tried to do a hazy IPA with CrossRoads and it was clear as a bell. We couldn’t gure out how to do it.” Nonetheless, “It was a hugely popular beer. People really liked that big hop presence without the bitterness.” j

Required drinking

Backcountry // Widowmaker IPA

Boombox // (pretty much everything)

Category 12 // “Data” series

Parkside // Dreamland and Humans

Persephone // Single Hop Hazy IPA series

Phillips // Oceans Wise Hazy Pale

Superflux // (pretty much everything)

Twin Sails // (pretty much everything)

Commercially, the word IPA is an incredibly successful sales tool. You slap IPA on a can of beer, whatever it is, and it sells better.

—John Folinsbee

Backcountry brewer John Folinsbee has got haze for days at his Squamish brewery. Contributed photo

by Rebecca Whyman

Women are markedly underrepresented in craft beer. is is not news to anyone. But have you ruminated on just how large the gender gap is? A 2018 survey by Neilsen-Harris found American craft beer drinkers are 68.5 per cent male and 31.5 per cent female. Closer to home, BeerMeBC’s 2018 survey had those numbers at 71 and 29 per cent, with 0.32 per cent identifying as “other.” For those not so strong in the math department, that means that there are only three women drinking craft beer for every seven men. If you were a straight man looking for a date, you wouldn’t like those odds at all. And I can tell you, as one of those three women, it’s not much fun being outnumbered everywhere I go to enjoy my beloved craft beer, delightful as those seven men may be.

Drinking craft beer is the easy part—when we move into the sections of the craft beer world that involve actual e ort, the gender divide gets even larger. How many female brewery owners, female brewers, and female beer reps can you name? I know from personal experience that when I’m at an event like the B.C. Brewers’ Conference I feel like I can count the number of women present on my ngers.

Current enrolment at Kwantlen Polytechnic’s brewing program is at an 82/18 split (up from 93/7 in 2014). While the gap has been narrowing over the years, it remains a very visible reminder for every woman in that program that she’s still a novelty. Moving from alewives to less than 1/5 of the brewers-in-training, women have “come a long way baby.” Too bad it’s in the wrong direction.

ese disparate numbers are great news for marketers, who love an untapped population. Rather than try to understand their target audience, too often they have relied on stereotypes and gone with “pinking” beer. Case in point: Aurosa’s #beerforher in 2017. e campaign exhorted women to “toss away all preconceptions and be yourself.” But, being yourself required drinking a beer that their preconceptions said would appeal because it comes in an “elegant designer bottle” that doubles as “a vase for fresh-cut owers.” Really??!

e numbers are a bitter enough pill to swallow, but wait, we’re not done yet. A recent Stanford University study found that gender stereotyping signi cantly a ects the way we evaluate products. People have an unconscious bias against women-made craft beer.

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e research also found that when consumers were told the woman-brewed beer had won awards, it was rated as highly as if it was brewed by a man. Winning an award vouched for the competence of a woman. I’m not sure if I want to encourage breweries to enter more woman-brewed beers into contests so they can win awards, or if I want to cry at the ridiculousness of needing outside validation to believe women can be great brewers.

On a happier note, the Stanford study discovered that gender bias doesn’t happen when the consumer is a beer expert. In that case, the beer is judged on its merits, not by who brewed it.  at gives me such hope for craft beer—you go, fellow beer nerds!

So, how do we bring about gender parity?

I wish there was an easy three-ingredient recipe we could whip up. Alas, I don’t think the world will become enlightened overnight. But here are a few things I suggest we could all do to bridge the divide.

• Let’s get rid of the sexist beer names and labels.

• Lose the stereotypes—women like hoppy IPAs and imperials too!

• Invite people in. To paraphrase diversity champion Ren Navarro, it’s not enough to allow space for others in your tasting room or brewery, they need to know they’re invited, how to access the space and that they’ll be safe when they’re there.

• Put baby change stations and under table hooks for purses and jackets in tasting rooms (thank you, readers, for this feedback on my previous article!).

Don't wait for an award to believe a woman knows what she's doing.

WELCOME WOMEN TO CRAFT BEER

Assume competence. Don’t wait for an award to believe a woman knows what she’s doing. Don’t second-guess her knowledge or physical ability to do the job.

• Start the conversation. Invite the women currently working at the brewery to tell you about barriers you’re not aware of, and how they think they could be removed. And—this should go without saying, really—listen to what they tell you. eir experiences are valid, whether you can relate to them or not. It’s not a slight against you that you don’t know what you don’t know. But once you do know, do something about it!

• Think before you speak. Stop making jokes and comments at the expense of others. If you hear someone else doing so, call them on it. It really sucks for anyone to have to laugh o inappropriate jokes to keep the workplace harmonious.

• Networking. Send more of your female employees to brewers’ conferences and the like.

con rmed to you (i.e. when someone tells you the new brewer at XYZ comes from Halifax, rather than ask when “he” moved here, ask when “they” moved here.) It’s a great tool for addressing gender bias, with the added bonus of keeping you from misgendering non-binary folks.

After we’ve done all the hard work, how will we know we’re getting close to gender parity? Here are some possible indicators:

• Female brewers are referred to simply as brewers.

• In a mixed group of beer professionals, the women are considered just as likely to be the brewmaster.

• Special brew days for women are no longer needed, it will just happen organically that a batch or 50 ended up brewed by an all-woman crew, from a single brewery or as a collaboration.

• Barkerville Brewing will no longer be remarkable for its mostly female sta .

• No marketing person will ever again say “let’s attract women by pinking beer.”

It will be a glorious day when it arrives. Cheers to beerquality! j

Women, millennials, and anyone wanting to be taken seriously do themselves a disservice by equivocating. Don’t o er an opinion with one hand, then take most of it back with the other. You don’t sort-of-maybe-kind-of want people to respect you.

Counteract your gender bias. Start approach ing everyone as a “them” until their gender is

Michael Jackson: The Beer Writer Who Changed the World

by Ted Child

If you were given the unenviable task of picking the single most important person to modern beer, it might seem odd that it is a writer’s name rather than a brewer or brewery founder’s that you keep coming back to. Yet outside of, say, Josef Groll, who invented the modern pale lager in 1842, or maybe Sierra Nevada founder Ken Grossman, the person who is undeniably essential to all things beer today is writer and critic Michael Jackson. e King of Pop…ular barley-based beverages, if you will.

Jackson was born in 1942 in the English county of Yorkshire and raised in the Leeds area. At the age of 16, he would drop out of school to become a journalist. Having tasted beer for the rst time when he was 15, one of Jackson’s rst gigs as an underage journalist was a column about the history of and his impression of English pubs called “ is is Your Pub,” an idea he himself had pitched to his editor.

For the next 20 years, Jackson would have a successful career as a journalist, including editing magazines and working as a TV investigative

reporter and producer. Maybe most importantly, he and two others founded a publishing company focusing on illustrated books called Quarto. When another writer was a no-show for a proposed book on the English pub, Jackson stepped in and wrote it.

e English Pub, published in 1975, like its subject matter, is charming and full of history. Jackson knew his subject matter very well, even down to the history of the images on the sign outside the door or how English religious and political changes a ected the names on those signs. One other thing that becomes very clear while reading e English Pub, something that would be essential to the rest of his life, was that Michael Jackson was a very good writer.

No one has done more to legitimize beer than writer Michael Jackson. His seminal work, e World Guide to Beer, helped spark the craft beer revolution.

e next year Jackson would put his skill to work on the book that would change his life and beer forever, e World Guide to Beer. Inspired by Hugh Johnson’s e World Atlas of Wine, Jackson decided to do the same thing for beer. e World Guide to Beer was a landmark in modern beer writing for many reasons. Back in 1977, writers did not talk nor write about beer in the same way they did about wine, something we take for granted now. By writing that one should taste beer in a similar way that one tastes and judges wine, Jackson changed that. Maybe even more importantly, by a creating a system of beer styles by which to judge and understand the many di erent kinds of unique styles in the world, Jackson single handedly created the beer judge/critic, a role he himself would spend the rest of his life being the most famous example of.

e World Guide to Beer was also incredibly important to the current state of modern beer for the e ect it would have on two vastly di erent beer cultures. It was sometime in the late 1960s that “one weekend in Belgium changed my life,” according to Jackson. But that beer epiphany, something all beer geeks can relate too, was inspired by a beer culture that was in danger of going extinct. e unique and idiosyncratic beers and beer styles of Belgium were slowly disappearing. Family-owned breweries closed up shop as aging brewers retired or died, and the ood of pale lagers rolled in. Jackson—who would write extensively about Belgian beer, not just in the World Guide, but also in his other great work, e Great Beers of Belgium—would help wake up a generation of Belgians that it was necessary to protect their unique beer culture. It also helped create a world wide market that was thirsty to drink it.

On the other side of the world, the U.S. market had all but succumbed to the pale lager spectre. Changes in the law, however, would allow a wedge in the homogenization. But what to brew? ere

is no end to the many future brewers who would turn to e World Guide to Beer as a source of information and inspiration on beer styles. After the World Guide, Jackson’s publication history is a bit di cult to track. He would leave Quarto without any rights to his book and would see little or no pro t. ankfully, he was now the world’s leading expert on beer, criss-crossing the globe, writing, hosting and judging. At one time, he was the person who had visited more breweries than anyone else alive. He was instrumental in championing the emerging craft beer scene. Unfortunately, Quarto would continue to pump out reprints of the World Guide without any revisions. Jackson would write his Beer Companion, what some would say is his best book, that basically competed against his own classic. Finally, out of frustration, he agreed in the 1990s to update the World Guide, completely rewriting the entire text and calling it the New World Guide to Beer. When he wasn’t writing about beer, Jackson also wrote about whisky. His three books on whisky are widely regarded as classics.

It was also in the ’90s when Jackson used his experience in TV to produce and host his other claim to fame, the TV show e Beer Hunter, further evangelizing and elevating beer (available on YouTube).

For the last 10 years of his life, Jackson would su er from Parkinsons. is wouldn’t prevent him from continuing to write and work until very close to the end of his life. He died of a heart attack in 2007 at the age of 65.

e world of beer would be vastly diminished if it was not for the tireless and profound work and writings of Michael Jackson. You can nd many of his articles online and you should never pass up a chance to pick up one of his books at a used book store. ink of him, if only brie y, the next time you drink a ne ale or lager. j

Beer today, gone tomorrow

a look back at B.c.’s defunct craft breweries

by rob Mangelsdorf

B.C. has seen a delicious explosion of craft beer in recent years, but not every brewery is destined for success. Poor business decisions, hideous branding, changing markets and—most of all—lousy beer can all spell doom for a fledgling brewery. Some breweries run their course, others get sold and rebranded, while some were so far ahead of the curve the beer drinking public just wasn’t ready for them.

Here, then, is a look at some of the breweries that are no longer with us— though many of the people involved are still very much active in the B.C. craft beer scene.

Avalon/Taylor’s Crossing (North Vancouver) Originally opened by the Mark James Group in 2004 as Avalon Brewing, then rebranded as Taylor’s Crossing Brew Pub shortly thereafter, for a long time it was the only craft brewery on the North Shore. Some talented brewers passed through Taylor’s Crossing, including Iain Hill (Strange Fellows), Dave Varga (33 Acres), Dominic Giraldes (Postmark) and Hamish McRae (The Parkside Brewery). The brewery was also the original home of Red Truck Beer, which was produced there from 2005. While the brewpub closed in 2011, Red Truck continued to be brewed there until 2015, when its current purpose-built brewery in Vancouver was opened. Today, the space is home to Hearthstone Brewery, part of the Springs Group (owners of Mission Spring Brewing Co.)

Bastion City Brewing (Nanaimo)

Brie y operated in downtown Nanaimo at 50 Commercial St. from 1995 to 1997. e original building was demolished to make way for the Port of Nanaimo Centre.

Big River Brewpub/ BRB Brewing (Richmond)

Opened in 1997 as Big River Brewpub, this brewery was attached to a bowling alley at the then new Riverport development. Rebranded as BRB (Be Right Back) Brewery + Eatery in 2015, it closed just a year later. Fuggles & Warlock was originally brewed at BRB before it opened its own brewery. Today the space is occupied by Monkey 9 Brewing.

Broke ‘N Rode Brewing (100 Mile House)

Opened in early 2016 and shut later that year, this short-lived brewery served, by all credible accounts, some of the worst beer in the province. ankfully, things have improved in its current incarnation as Jackson’s Social Club and Brew House.

Dix BBQ & Brewery (Vancouver)

Another early Mark James Group brewery, Dix opened in Yaletown in 1998 and was an incubator for much of the young brewing talent in Vancouver, with alumni like Tony Dewald (Trading Post), Derrick Franche (High Mountain BrewHouse), as well as Iain Hill and Dave Varga. Sadly, Dix closed in 2010 shortly after the Winter Olympics when the building’s landlord decided to jack the rent, and the brewing equipment went to Brassneck Brewing. In 2015, Central City opened its Red Racer Taphouse in the former Dix space, and even has some of the original branding and signage on display.

Mozart Brewing Company (Kimberley)

Kimberley’s second stab at a craft brewery (the rst being the Kimberley Brewing Co., which operated from 1997-98), Mozart was located on the Platz, the German-themed pedestrian town centre, in a Bavarian-style building but curiously served mainly English ales. Closed in 2016.

Horseshoe Bay Brewery (West Vancouver)

Horseshoe Bay Brewery was the rst microbrewery in Canada when it was opened in 1982 by

John Mitchell and Frank Appleton to produce beer for the nearby Troller Pub and became ground zero for the craft beer revolution. Mitchell and Appleton soon moved on to Spinnakers, and Horseshoe Bay brie y closed in 1985 before reopening and produced beer well into the 1990s, before closing for good in 1999. e original brewhouse, made from converted dairy equipment, is still in use today at Crannog Ales in Sorrento.

Hugo’s Grill and Brewhouse (Victoria)

is divey brewpub located in the Magnolia Hotel served Victoria for close to a decade before it closed in 2008 to make way for the hotel’s new spa. Brewer Ben Schottle has been at Phillips Brewing ever since.

Broke 'NRode Brewing Co. in 100 Mile House lasted for less than a year after it opened in 2016.

e craft beer revolution begins: Frank Appleton pitches the yeast into the rst batch of beer at the Horseshoe Bay Brewery in 1982.

Abbotsford's Surlie Brewing (above) was sadly short-lived.

Squamish's Tall Ship Ale Company (on left) brewed the rst modern India Pale Ale in B.C.

Plan B Brewery (Smithers)

Opening in 2008, Plan B had no problem selling its beer—it just couldn’t make enough of it on its tiny 400 L system to be pro table. Alas, just a month after being named the best nanobrewery by Northwest Brewing News, the brewery closed up shop in 2013.

Sailor Hagar’s Brew Pub (North Vancouver)

Metro Vancouver’s rst brewpub started brewing its own beer in 1994 with Gary Lohin (Central City) as brewmaster. e in-house brewery shut in 2003, and today the pub o ers six contract-brewed beers under its own brand, alongside 12 taps of craft beer.

Savoy Brewery (Nelson)

is tiny brewpub opened in 2016 in the newly renovated Savoy Hotel on Nelson’s lively Baker Street, but closed earlier this year with owner Jimmy Bundschuh citing the competitive local market as the reason.

Shaftebury Brewing (Vancouver)

Founded in 1987 in Vancouver with the great John Mitchell as its rst brewer, Shaftebury originally focused on draught ales, and helped to popularize the Vancouver-speci c dark cream ale style. By 1995 and with none other than the ubiquitous Iain Hill as brewmaster, the brewery’s growing popularity soon prompted a move out

to Delta where it had the space to run a bottling and canning line. e brand was bought in 1999 by Sleeman Breweries, and production moved to the Okanagan Spring brewery in Vernon. In 2014, Shaftebury was sold to Fireweed Brewing (Tree Brewing) in Kelowna. e brand is still technically alive today, but it’s very much on life support compared to its heyday in the ’90s, and is currently brewed out of Big Rock’s Vancouver brewery.

Steel Toad Brewing (Vancouver)

Despite being housed in the beautifully restored Opsal Steel building in the heart of Olympic Village, Steel Toad never connected with locals since it opened in 2014. Mediocre beer, questionable branding, inconsistent food and apathetic service didn’t help. BREWHALL, owned by the Tap & Barrel group, took over the space in 2018 and have managed to do everything right so far, creating one of the most fun places to experience craft beer in the city.

Surgenor Brewing (Comox)

e Comox Valley’s rst craft brewery opened in 2008 and focused on making local versions of mass-market macro lagers and ales. e beer wasn’t terrible, but it wasn’t remarkable either, and the brewery closed in 2011.

Surlie Brewing (Abbotsford)

Opened in 2014 by former Dead Frog and Mission Springs brewer Timmy Brown, Surlie went out of business by 2015, no doubt due in part to the fact the City of Abbotsford didn’t allow craft breweries to have tasting rooms or retail space at the time. e Solitaire Belgian Dark Ale will be missed.

Tall Ship Ale Co. (Squamish)

Way ahead of its time and gone far too soon. Tall Ship was founded in 1993 by brewer “Wild” Bill Herdman and was responsible for the rst commercial IPA brewed in B.C., as well as the rst barley wine. Even Michael Jackson, the Beer Hunter himself, lauded Tall Ship’s bottle conditioned beers. Sadly, the brewery closed in 1998 after struggling with distribution. j

Sources: Craft Beer Revolution by Joe Wiebe; Brewed in Canada: e Untold Story of Canada's 350-YearOld Brewing Industry by Allen Winn Sneath; Great Canadian Beer Guide by Stephen Beaumont; B.C. Beer Guide, BCBeer.ca.

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The best music and beer mashups you've ever heard/tasted

by Rob Mangelsdorf

Musicians like beer and brewers like music—it’s a fact. So it’s inevitable that the worlds of craft beer and music should collide. Usually it’s in the form of a one-o collab, sometimes the musicians themselves try their hands at brewing. And sometimes really weird shit happens, like beers that are blasted with music while they ferment in order to… change their molecular structure? We’re not really sure, but it’s a thing, apparently. Here’s a look at some of the most interesting music and craft beer mashups out there.

IRON MAIDEN / ROBINSONS BREWERY

Probably the most well-known beer on this list, Trooper is a traditional English ale developed by Iron Maiden frontman (and 747 enthusiast) Bruce Dickinson with the help of 180-year-old Robinsons Brewery. e beer has been a massive success since it was rst launched in 2013 and can be found in bottles and cans all over the world. Much like the band, it shows no sign of stopping.

METALLICA / STONE BREWING

Hot on the heels of their 2015 collaboration with… ahem… Budweiser, Metallica decided to team up

with Stone Brewing’s Arrogant Consortia to produce Enter Night Pilsner. I suppose it’s no surprise that the most boring band in metal came up with possibly the most boring beer on this list. According to drummer Lars Ulrich, "Our view of the worlds that we each inhabit, of creativity and process, and sense of place in relation to our peers and ‘ e Man’ are almost identical." Shut the fuck up, Lars.

PREVAIL / PHILLIPS BREWING

One half of four-time Juno award-winning Canadian rap group Swollen Members and all-around lovely human being, Prevail teamed up with Vancouver Craft Beer Week and Phillips Brewing in 2014 to create Prev-Ale, a 7.0% ABV California common. e beer was a one-o to promote VCBW 2014 and sold out in a matter of days. Probably because I drank it all.

RUN THE JEWELS / BRLO

El-P and Killer Mike love them some craft beer, having released four di erent beers with breweries around the world so far. eir latest is the DOWN

Double IPA, a collaboration with Berlin brewery BRLO that’s infused with CBD (a non-CBD version is available stateside). Seriously, though, guys, maybe take a break from the cannabis beer and get to work on RTJ4, K?

SHRED KELLY / COLLECTIVE ARTS

East Kootenay alternative folk rock band Shred Kelly was part of Hamilton-based Collective Arts Brewing’s Vancouver Artist Series last year (despite not being from Vancouver), with their own limited edition can of Ransack the Universe IPA that featured art inspired by their song “Archipelago” on the can.

DEFTONES / BELCHING BEAVER

California alt-metal pioneers Deftones teamed up with San Diego’s Belching Beaver for a series of collaboration beers, beginning with Phantom Bride IPA in 2016, a West Coast style hop bomb loaded with Mosaic, Amarillo, Simcoe, and Citra hops, all handpicked by Deftones frontman, Chino Moreno. e latest in the series, Digital Bath, is a New England IPA.

WU TANG CLAN / FORTNIGHT BREWING

So what happens when you purposely stress yeast during fermentation by blasting them with Wu-Tang Clan’s seminal 1993 album Enter e Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) for 12 days straight? Probably nothing. But it’s great marketing. e end result is Bring e Ruckus IPA; its makers believe the heavy dose of Wu-Tang increased the microorganism’s metabolism, resulting in di erent avour compounds. Personally, I’m a little disappointed no one has come up with Craft Rules Everything Around Me C.R.E.A.M. Ale yet.

SUB POP RECORDS / ELYSIAN BREWING

Sub Pop celebrated its 20th anniversary by collaborating

with local Seattle brewery Elysian to create Loser Pale Ale. e beer’s tagline of “Corporate Beer Still Sucks” did not age well given Elysian’s 2015 sale to AB InBev. Yikes.

BARENAKED LADIES / FLYING MONKEYS CRAFT BREWERY

National musical embarrassment Barenaked Ladies teamed up with Barrie, Ontario’s Flying Monkeys Craft Brewery to create BNL Strong Beer. Developed and brewed with full participation of members of the band, with artwork designed by BNL keyboardist Kevin Hearn, the beer is described as “a fudge-y imperial chocolate stout with an 11% ABV that really lives up to its name.” I haven’t tried this beer, but if it’s anything like BNL’s music, it’s probably sickly sweet and generally awful.

HANSON BROTHERS BEER CO.

If you’re wondering what ever happened to Children of the Corn lookalikes/’90s bubblegum pop boy band Hanson, you are de nitely alone. But as it turns out, the three brothers actually went and started their own craft brewery in their hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma, with all that sweet “Mmmbop” money. ey literally have a beer called Mmmhops Pale Ale. I shit you not.

MASTODON / MIKKELLER

Prog metal juggernauts Mastodon teamed up with Danish brewery Mikkeller to release Ancient Kingdoms Czech-Style Pilsner a few months ago, the third beer the band’s done with the Scandinavian super brand. e bottle literally has a dude with half his face melted o , yet in true Mikkeller fashion, is still somehow adorable. Go gure. j

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with Twin Sails Brewing

Con Leche Horchata Milk Stout

Pastry stouts are an increasingly popular beer style that combine rich, sweet malty avours with a luxuriously full body and a high ABV. ey’re basically a dessert in a can! But what about making actual pastry with them? Chef Ian McHale of Vancouver’s acclaimed Wildebeest restaurant has done exactly that with his stout-infused doughnuts. Wildebeest is known for its locally sourced and seasonally fresh menu, and McHale, who developed his love for stouts while living in Ireland, uses Port Moody’s Twin Sails Brewing’s Con Leche Horchata Milk Stout to give the doughnut batter a unique texture. Cooking with beer never tasted so sweet!

Rob Mangelsdorf

WHAT MAKES THIS RECIPE SPECIAL OR UNIQUE?

I think this recipe is unique in the way that we use the milk stout to make the batter lighter and u er. It can be adapted to become a savoury

doughnut, which is always di erent or add more sweetness to it, if you fancy the treat that way.

WHY DID YOU CHOOSE THIS PARTICULAR BEER? WHAT SORT OF FOODS DOES IT PAIR WELL WITH?

I chose the Twin Sails Con Leche Horchata Milk Stout due to the sweetness and airiness it adds to the doughnut. I think this beer also goes really well with a good game dish that has a chocolate jus, proving to be a truly versatile brew when pairing with some of your favourite dishes that are rich in avour.

WHAT ARE SOME GENERAL TIPS YOU HAVE FOR COOKING WITH BEER?

I like to add beer to a recipe when I need a bit of carbonation as opposed to using, say, plain club soda. e avour of beer enhances the dish and gives it another layer, which comes through really nicely with these doughnuts.

PRE P ARED BY IAN MCHALE, EXECUT I VE C H EF OF W I LDEBEEST

Chef Ian McHale's beer-infused doughnuts use Twins Sails' Con Leche Horchata Milk Stout to make the batter extra light and u y, while adding sweetness and spice to compelement the cinnamon and sugar. Dan Toulgoet photos

INgredients

• 5.5 cups all-purpose flour

• 3 tbsp sugar

• 37g baking powder

• 1 tsp salt

• 250 mL Twin Sails Con Leche Horchata Milk

Stout

• 200 mL milk

• 6 eggs

• 3 tbsp canola oil

directions

1. Mix dry ingredients together in a bowl.

2. Mix wet ingredients well in a separate bowl.

3. Mix dry and wet ingredients together with a hand mixer or a standing mixer until fully incorporated.

4. Spoon dough balls, about an ice cream scoop or one full tablespoon, into a deep fryer or pot of oil at 160 C (320 F).

5. Ensure that the doughnuts fully submerge and rotate them so they cook evenly. Cook for approximately four minutes.

6. Check doughnuts with a cake tester or toothpick to ensure they’re fully cooked.

7. Toss with cinnamon and sugar and enjoy! j

Brews bikeS and

Grab a helmet, throw on some Lycra and experience

B.C. craft beer by bicycle.

by Joe Wiebe

Afew years ago, I visited Belgium as part of a beer-focused active tour: we spent the mornings hiking or biking and then visited breweries in the afternoon and restaurants in the evenings. One of my favourite experiences was the day we biked through the hop elds of southwest Belgium, meandering along farm paths and quiet rural laneways until we reached our destination: the St. Sixtus Abbey, home to a Trappist brewery that makes one of the world’s most famous and rare beers, Westvleteren. After parking our bikes, we sat in the sunshine on the patio at the visitor’s centre and celebrated the ride with a fabulous beer.

Beer and bicycles have gone together ever since the invention of the bicycle. If you’ve ever had a radler, you can thank Bavarian innkeeper Franz Kugler, who in 1922 built a bicycle trail that ran for 12 miles from Munich directly to his beerhall, hoping to lure cyclists from the city. He combined beer and lemon soda in equal measures and called the new drink a radlermass, which translates into a “cyclist’s litre,” so the cyclists could have a drink

and still be able to make their way back to Munich without falling o their bicycles.

An ideal way to combine cycling and craft beer is a bike tour between breweries, and here in British Columbia, there are plenty of excellent ways to do this. After all, what better way to burn o the calories from all that beer you just drank than with a bike ride to another brewery to drink more beer! Even if you are not an avid cyclist, it is easy to cruise between a few breweries within the city limits of Vancouver, Victoria, Kelowna or Penticton, for instance. And if you are a little more ambitious, there are lots of longer tours as well.

In Victoria, there are ample opportunities to cycle between breweries, whether it’s an easy jaunt to two or three brewpubs in the downtown area or something more ambitious. Victoria has a well-developed bicycle trail network with several breweries conveniently located close to the bike paths. Lighthouse Brewing and the Four Mile Brewpub are both short detours o the E&N Rail Trail in Esquimalt and View Royal respectively.

VICTORIA TO SOOKE

• 110km round-trip

• 5 breweries

Last summer, I rode to Sooke with some friends on the Galloping Goose Regional Trail. We started at Spinnakers Brewpub for some “pre-hydration” and then rode for about an hour to the Axe & Barrel Brewhouse in Langford where we enjoyed lunch and a beer sitting at a sun-soaked picnic table outside the brewery. e second half was mostly spent riding through the tranquil forest or along the photogenic shoreline of Roche Cove in East Sooke, before we stopped for refreshment at Sooke Oceanside Brewery and then continued on for a few more kilometres to get to Sooke Brewing Company. We stayed overnight in an Airbnb in Sooke and then rode back the next day, stopping at the Four Mile before heading home to our families. All told it was about 110 km round trip.

Another longer ride I enjoyed followed the Lochside Regional Trail up through the Saanich Peninsula. We stopped at Category 12 Brewing in Central Saanich, then continued on to Howl Brewing near the Victoria International Airport, and then returned to Victoria with a nal rest stop at Twa Dogs Brewery/Victoria Caledonian Distillery. Final distance: 73 km.

ere are so many breweries in Vancouver that it is almost impossible to go for a bike ride without cruising past one. Bomber Brewing and O the Rail are both located on Adanac Street, one of the city’s main bike routes, and each caters to the cycling crowd. Bomber even went to the trouble to install an air pump (under a sign that reads “free beer air”) so you can keep your tires pressurized.

In Kelowna, it’s easy to cycle between the breweries in the burgeoning downtown North End brewery district, which is home to Kettle River Brewing, Red Bird Brewing and Vice & Virtue Brewing (with a couple more in the works). BNA Brewing and the Tree Brewing Beer Institute are not too far, and if you’re more ambitious, try the new Okanagan Rail Trail, which runs all the way from Kelowna to Vernon and passes close to Freddy’s Brewpub, Boundary Brewing and Wild Ambition Brewing. You can even ride all the way to Vernon and visit Marten Brewing there,

VICTORIA

Spinnakers

Axe & Barrel Axe & Barrel 4Mile

Some well-earned refreshments after a sunny ride to Category 12 Brewing in Central Saanich. Joe Wiebe photo

cycling past orchards, wineries, golf courses and lakes along the way. Penticton’s breweries are also easily accessible by bike, with the Kettle Valley Rail Trail as a great option for a longer ride.

ROSSLAND TO KASLO

Kamloops is a great cycling town with many nearby mountain bike trails. e downtown area has three breweries within cycling distance: Red Collar Brewing, the Noble Pig Brewhouse and Alchemy Brewing. e Rivers Trail bike path connects to the North Shore, providing easy access to the Red Beard Cafe (a great tap house) and the soon-toopen Bright Eye Brewing. Iron Road Brewing is at the top of a fairly steep hill, but it’s a good après-ride option for mountain bikers enjoying the many trails in Kenna Cartwright Park.

• 156km one way • 6 breweries & 3 pubs

The Lions Head

Rossland Beer Co.

ROSSLAND

Cycling is a popular activity in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island, especially in Cumberland, which is a mecca for mountain biking. With Land & Sea Brewing now open in Comox and a third operation called Ace Brewing set to join Gladstone Brewing and Forbidden Brewing in Courtenay, there are some great options for bicycle brewery tours there, as well. More ambitious riders could add Campbell River’s Beach Fire Brewing as a destination about 50 km north of Courtenay.

Out in the Kootenays, there are some great routes on various converted rail trails. One option that includes brewery visits is the North Kootenay

KASLO

Dock ‘n’ Duck Pub

Angry Hen Brewing

Ainsworth

Hot Springs

Nelson Brewing Co. Nelson Brewing Co.

Backroads Brewing Co. Backroads Brewing Co.

Torchlight Brewing Co Torchlight Brewing Co

Trail Beer Re nery. nery

Lake–Silvery Slocan Super Side Trip (part of the Selkirk International Loop system of trails), a 177-km trail that connects Nelson’s three breweries with Kaslo, home of Angry Hen Brewing. e Rivers, Dams & Mines Super Side Trip runs from Nelson to Trail (Trail Beer Re nery) and Rossland (Rossland Beer Co.); plus, there’s the craft beer oasis known as the Lion’s Head Pub in Robson near Castlegar.

Time to put on your cycling shorts and helmet and hit the road. A brewery awaits at the end of the ride! j

BOOK A TOUR

If you are without a bike of your own, some bike rental companies o er beer-focused tours, including the Pedaler’s Hoppy Hour tour in Victoria ( ePedaler.ca), which takes riders to three di erent breweries over the course of a three-hour, 9.5-km ride. In Kelowna, Smile Cycle Tours (SmileCycleTours.ca) o ers a 15-person “community bike” brewery tour. Canadian Craft Tours (CanadianCraftTours.ca) o ers the same sort of community bike tour in Kelowna as well as Vancouver. Cycle City Tours (CycleVancouver.com) also o ers a Vancouver Craft Beer Tour using e-bikes.

MAY 31–JUNE 9

Vancouver Craft Beer Week

B.C.’s biggest craft beer party celebrates 10 years of awesome beers with another stellar lineup of events and its biggest ever festival on June 8 and 9 at the PNE Fairgrounds with more than 100 breweries and cideries participating. VancouverCraftBeerWeek.com.

JUNE 1

HOPoxia (Victoria)

Hopheads take note, this one’s all about dem IBUs. Phillips is once again opening up its backyard to celebrate the glory of the hop, with IPAs and hoppy haze for days. PhillipsBeer.com/Hopoxia2019

JULY 6

Farmhouse Fest (Vancouver)

e annual celebration of all that is funky, fruity, wild, sour, peppery, estery, tart and/or dry returns to Vancouver’s UBC Farm. is year’s lineup is shaping up to be the nest yet, with world-class selections from Canada, U.S. and Europe. As in years past, you can expect the bucolic whimsy to be cranked to 11. FarmhouseFest.com

JULY 6

Squamish Beer Fest

Nestled in the heart of Sea-to-Sky country in downtown Squamish, this picturesque outdoor beer fest features more than 55 breweries and cideries, making it well worth the trip. SquamishBeerFestival.com

JULY 6

Craft and Country (Big White)

Craft beer and country music take over Big White village with more than 20 participating breweries pouring and live music all day. BigWhite.com

JULY 20-22

Phillips Backyard Weekender (Victoria)

Phillips is so generous when it comes to inviting everyone over to hang out in their backyard. ey always make sure there’s live music to keep us entertained, lots of yummy food trucks and there’s always tons of beer. So considerate!

BackyardWeekender.com

AUGUST 10

Clover Valley Beer Festival (Surrey)

More than 40 breweries are coming to the Bill Reid Millennium Amphitheatre in Cloverdale for this outdoor beer festival, along with live music and food trucks. Partial proceeds go to Twins Cancer Fundraising. GibbonsWhistler.com

AUGUST 24

Fraser Valley Fruit Beer Festival (Abbotsford)

Celebrate the harvest at the Rail District Community Market with dozens of one-o fruit beers, fresh food and live music. FruitBeer.ca

AUGUST 24

Steveston Beer Fest (Richmond)

Close to 40 breweries and cideries will be coming to the historic Gulf of Georgia Cannery in Steveston for this evening of deliciousness, with proceeds supporting the Richmond Christmas Fund. Ohares.ca/steveston-beer-fest

SEPTEMBER 6-7

Great Canadian Beer Festival (Victoria)

e city that started the craft beer revolution one again plays host to the very best of B.C. and Canadian brewing at Royal Athletic Park. VictoriaBeerSociety.com j

Your guide to get going to where the beers are owing!

STRATHCONA BEER CO.

895 E. Hastings St. | StrathconaBeer.com

DAILY 12-11PM

EST. 2016

Good pizza, good beer. Name a more iconic duo! Head on into Strathcona Beer Co. for just that, and don’t forget to grab a six-pack of its award-winning beer on the way out.

BEACH

Availability: Seasonal

GET DOWN ON IT IPA

Availability: Seasonal

A light, e ervescent beer that is thirst quenching and easy to drink with a tart, clean nish.

Availability: Seasonal

ABV IBU 4.0%15 ABV IBU 5.5%55

is dry, hazy IPA is audaciously aromatic with big citrus accents and fresh tropical fruit notes.

Dry-hopped with Galaxy, Simcoe and Citra, giving it a tropical fruit avor.

PREMIUM PILSNER

CZECH-STYLE PILSNER

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 7.0%83 ABV IBU 5.0%32

A smooth and crisp pilsner brewed in the traditional Czech style.

Screen Ale

Before he was brewing up award-winning IPAs at Strathcona Beer Co., brewer Michael “Fezz” Nazarec was a former audio technician of 25 years at CBC television, as well as a proli c homebrewer. He also got in front of the camera, hosting the YouTube channel “Beer! e Show,” which explored all things craft beer.

RED TRUCK BEER CO.

295 E. 1st Ave. | RedTruckBeer.com

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

EST. 2015

Red Truck’s Truck Stop Concert Series returns June 15 and July 20, because craft beer is best enjoyed outside, with loud, awesome music.

Availability: Seasonal

6.5%45

is medium-bodied hazy New England-style IPA is packed with intense tropical fruit aromas.

Availability: Seasonal

5.1%18

is crisp cerveza-style lager is lightly hopped, pale straw in colour and has subtle notes of malt.

Try Our Brand New Try Our Brand New

STRANGE FELLOWS BREWING

1345 Clark Dr. | StrangeFellowsBrewing.com

DAILY 12-11PM

EST. 2014

is brewery’s lineup of beers more than lives up to its boldly creative marketing and design. Check out the Fellowship program, which o ers discounts and four exclusive beers released quarterly.

GUARDIAN

W HITE IN DI A P ALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

A BV IBU 6.5%60

Hail the Guardian! is avourful and refreshing witbier/IPA hybrid is now available year-round.

MISTRAL

WILD RIESLIN G BARREL- A GED SAI SO N

Availability: Seasonal

A BV IBU 6.0%18

Aged in white wine barrels with a unique multiculture, this beer resembles a traditional lambic.

33 ACRES BREWING CO.

15 W. 8th Ave. | 33AcresBrewing.com

33 ACRES EXPERIMENT

25 W. 8th Ave. | 33AcresBrewing.com

Nothing goes better with craft beer than brunch, so start o your morning (or afternoon, no judgment) with the ever-stylish 2018 BCBA Brewery of the Year.

33 ACRES OF SUNSHINE FRE

ANDINA BREWING CO.

1507 Powell St. | AndinaBrewing.ca

Right next door to its sister location, lies Experiment—where you can sample brewer Dave Varga’s ongoing exploration of fermentation science.

33B-EXP.008.

BIG ROCK BREWERY VANCOUVER

310 W. 4th Ave. | BigRockBeer.com

is Yeast Van brewery’s South American roots are evidenced by the Chilean malt and Columbian fruit in its beers—as well as the ve di erent kinds of ceviche in its tasting room.

Winning gold and bronze at the 2019 Canadian Brewing Awards, Big Rock has expanded to include more tanks and a canning line. Stop in for a tour!

BOMBER BREWING CO.

1488 Adanac St. | BomberBrewing.com

BRASSNECK BREWERY

2148 Main St. | Brassneck.ca

Located in the heart of the East Van brewing district, the Bomber tasting room is always ready to pour you a pint. Come in for a drink, a growler ll, or to stock up on six-packs.

Nestled in the Brewery Creek beer district, Brassneck took home two bronze medals at the 2019 CBAs for its playful, innovative and “dangerously drinkable” beer!

CAMBIE—38 TAPS

3305 Cambie • 604-874-6900

COMMERCIAL—OVER 60 TAPS

1191 Commercial • 604.254.2437

WESBROOK—OVER 30 TAPS 3340 Shrum Lane • 604.559.2437

biercraft.com

BREWHALL

97 E. 2nd Ave. | BREWHALL.com

CALLISTER BREWING CO.

1338 Franklin St. | CallisterBrewing.com

When the sun goes down, BREWHALL puts on it’s dancing shoes. With a rst anniversary arriving this summer, there is sure to be a great party.

HALL PASS IPA

INDIA PALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

COAL HARBOUR BREWING

CO.

MIGHTY MORPHIN SOUR RANGERS SOUR ALE

is incubator brewery has given birth to some gifted children, including Boombox and Super ux. e new baby brewery this year is called Altitude Beer.

POP

1967 Triumph St. | CoalHarbourBrewing.com

Two more Canadian Brewing Awards add to Coal Harbour’s impressive trophy case—but we’re still waiting for them to open a tasting room!

DINO CANDY RASPBERRY SOUR

Availability: Year-round

CONTAINER BREWING

1216 Franklin St. | CBrew.ca

Availability: Seasonal

e new kid in Yeast Van is helmed by American brewer Tim Juul and features a bright and airy 67-seat tasting room.

20 FOOTER

WEST COAST INDIA

Availability: Seasonal Availability: Seasonal Availability: Seasonal

CRAFT COLLECTIVE BEERWORKS

1575 Vernon Dr. | CraftCollective.beer

Craft Collective is home to brands like Doan’s, Postmark, Spectrum and Phantom—who will collectively be releasing more than 35 new products this year!

DOGWOOD BREWING

8284 Sherbrooke St. | DogwoodBrew.com

EAST VAN BREWING CO.

1675 Venables St. | EastVanBrewing.com

Dogwood proudly uses vegan nings, local ingredients and Salmon Safe hops. Join Vancouver’s rst and only certi ed organic brewery for patio parties in July and August.

REIGN BOOT PINK BOOTS COLLAB

ALE

If the summer heat is getting to you, remember that this brewery’s tasting room is airconditioned—the perfect excuse to pop in for a beer. Like you even need one.

BENCH REST BUCKWHEAT ALE

NORWEGIAN TABLE BEER

Availability:

Seasonal

FACULTY BREWING CO.

1830 Ontario St. | FacultyBrewing.com

20 E. 4th Ave. | ElectricBicycleBrewing.com

Hence the name, Mount Pleasant’s newest brewery, Electric Bicycle, used to be an electric bicycle factory. Today the space is home to some electrifying beers.

IT’S NO GAME

Is your beer vegan? Better nd out at Faculty Brewing where Experimental Beer ursday is the reason ursdays exist.

Availability:

Year-round Availability: Seasonal HALLO

GRANVILLE ISLAND BREWING

1441 Cartwright St. | GIB.ca

HASTINGS MILL BREWING COMPANY

403 East Hastings St. | PatsPub.ca

Even though GIB is owned by Molson-Coors now, the original brewery on Granville Island, which was founded in 1984, still brews up a wide range of delicious craft creations.

NORTHWEST

Vancouver’s iconic Pat’s Pub is also home to the Hastings Mill Brewing Co., which has been pumping out beers for the bar and even winning the occasional brewing award.

PAT’S CLASSIC LAGER

VIENNA-STYLE LAGER

LUPPOLO BREWING CO.

1123 Venables St. | LuppoloBrewing.ca

MAIN STREET BREWING CO.

261 E. 7th Ave. | MainStreetBeer.ca

Luppolo is 70 per cent female-owned and 100 per cent delicious. Join the brewery for an outdoor party on June 22, and keep an eye out for a lunch program coming soon.

FARMHOUSE

OFF THE RAIL BREWING

1351 Adanac St. | O eRailBrewing.com

Celebrating its fth birthday, award-winning Main Street Brewing is housed in the historic and picturesque remnants of the original Vancouver Breweries complex.

PARALLEL 49 BREWING CO.

1950 Triumph St. | Parallel49Brewing.com

e thirst for clean, well-crafted and qua able beer is real and O the Rail is helping to quench it. Look for them at the 2019 Vancouver Beer Run.

PEDAL PUSHER RADLER

Availability:

Boasting an impressive 40 taps of extremely crushable beer and an indoor food truck, P49’s quirky characters took home gold at the 2019 Canadian Beer Awards.

POSTMARK BREWING

55 Dunlevy Ave. | PostmarkBrewing.com

POWELL BREWERY

1357 Powell St. | PowellBeer.com

Now part of the Craft Collective family, Postmark celebrates its fth birthday this summer. Cheers to ve years of the West Coast lifestyle and great beer!

Happy hour at Powell Brewery runs all day, Monday to ursday. Because you need more excuses to drink in Yeast Van.

Craft beer is our passion and our specialty. Proudly offering the most sought after domestic & international selections.

R & B BREWING CO.

54 E. 4th Ave. | RAndBBrewing.com

SLOW HAND BEER COMPANY

1830 Powell St. | SlowHandBeer.com

Fun Fact: R&B’s Raven Cream Ale is a uniquely Vancouver beer style, the dark cream ale, a style that originated at Shaftebury Brewing back in 1987.

BEER ISLAND

SESSION INDIA

PALE ALE

SHAKE YOUR FRUITY

Availability: Year-round

Availability: Seasonal

STEAMWORKS BREW PUB

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

e only lager-focused brewery in B.C. has taken over the old Doan’s Craft Brewing space and is expanding its lineup beyond its deliciously on-point pilsner.

PILSNER PILSNER

Availability: Year-round

BLACK LAGER SCHWARZBIER

Availability: Year-round

STORM BREWING

310 Commercial Dr. | StormBrewing.com

Steamworks is a busy Gastown haunt, bustling with locals and tourists alike, with a new onsite small batch barrel-aging program. Pop-in to try a pint.

WARHEAD

MELON CITRUS

SOUR ALE

Availability: One-o

Availability: One 0

Celebrating 25 years this September, this legendary brewery must be experienced rsthand. Don’t worry: the more crowded, the more fun.

PINEAPPLE PARADISE

PILSNER PILSNER

1111

Vancouver’s original brewpub remains a popular destination. e kitchen is great and the brewers keep the beer list current with new and seasonal brews.

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Keep your eyes peeled for Beere Brewing’s patio party summer kick-o extravaganza! If you’re not local, Beere is launching an online beer store this month, shipping four packs all over B.C.

MENTAL FLOSS

DOUBLE DRY-HOPPED

INDIA PALE ALE Availability:

BRIDGE BREWING CO.

1448 Charlotte Rd. | BridgeBrewing.com

170 - 2270 Dollarton Hwy. | DeepCoveCraft.com

Did you know that Bridge Brewing—North Vancouver’s oldest craft brewery—is 99 per cent waste free? Bridge is also the rst in B.C. to brew a low calorie, low carb craft beer!

Deep Cove o ers a full kitchen with a seasonal menu, a selection of craft cocktails, wine, cider, as well as craft beer. Why not enjoy it outside on the patio?

GREEN LEAF BREWING CO.

123 Carrie Cates Crt. | GreenLeafBrew.com

Tucked inside of North Vancouver’s Lonsdale Quay Market, Green Leaf Brewing has been committed to brewing sustainably since 2013.

HEARTHSTONE BREWERY

1015 Marine Dr. | HearthstoneBrewery.ca

HOUSE OF FUNK BREWING

350 E. Esplanade | HouseOfFunkBrewing.com

Utilizing the rustic cooking method of their double forno oven, Hearthstone creates some of the best pizza in town to pair with its delicious beer.

CHRYSALISM

DOUBLE INDIA

PALE ALE

BOHEMIAN PILSNER

BOHEMIAN PILSNER

Availability: Seasonal

Availability: Year-round

Staying true to its name, House of Funk’s beers have a heavy emphasis on wood, brettanomyces, bacteria and all-around funkiness.

FUNK JUICE

SMOOTHIE SOUR ALE

STREETCAR BREWING

123A East 1st St. | StreetcarBrewing.ca

WILDEYE BREWING

1385 Main St. | WildeyeBrewing.ca

e Lower Lonsdale Brewery District is o cially a thing, which means upstart craft breweries like Streetcar are just a SeaBus away.

OVERCAST

HAZY

Availability: Year-round

FUNK STREET DRY-HOPPED CITRUS

Availability: Small batch

North Van’s newest brewery is West Coastinspired, with a warm vibe in its cedarclad taproom looking up to the North Shore mountains.

KÖLSCH

KOLSCH

CHAMPAGNE IPA

BRUT INDIA PALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

Availability: Seasonal

DAGERAAD BREWING

114 - 3191 underbird Cres. | DageraadBrewing.com

SUN-THU 12-9PM ^ FRI 11AM-10PM ^ SAT 11AM-9PM

EST. 2014

Celebrating its fth anniversary, 2018’s Canadian Brewery of the Year has a lot to be proud of. Consistently brewing award-winning beer, Dageraad is ever committed to authenticity, showcased in the fully realized esters of their Belgian yeast and their legions of fans.

FIVE DRY-HOPPE D SAISON

Availability: One-o

Brewed in celebration, FIVE is dry, dry-hopped, and bottled conditioned; just as a saison should be.

DE WITTE

DRY-HOPPE D SOUR WITBIER WITH PASSION FRUIT

Availability: Small batch

is sour witbier is made with passion fruit and dry-hopped with American Citra hops. Subtle complexity, obvious deliciousness.

Availability: Seasonal

Lightly tart, gently hopped and nished with fresh lemon zest and lemon juice—the perfect summer beer.

Availability: Year-round

Fruity, spicy and capped with a citrusy aroma and u y white head, this medium-dry blonde is not only a go-to, it’s a must go-to.

classical conditioning

Dageraad’s vessel conditioning process lends itself to a much more authentic Belgian avour—it also underscores the importance of proper serving. To learn more about the magic in the bottle from Dageraad owner/ brewer Ben Coli, see page 14.

FOUR WINDS BREWING C O.

4 - 7355 72nd St. | FourWindsBrewing.ca

SUN-WED 11AM-7PM ^ THURS-SAT 11AM-9PM

EST. 2013

Gas prices ruining your life? Fours Winds wants to help with its ursday night happy hour. Date nights at this award-winning brewery have never been so tasty or a ordable. Along with the wellknown and delicious beer, there is also the great tacos and tapas.

Availability: Year-round

Ripe tropical fruit notes juxtaposed with mild brett funk. Moderately bitter and gracefully balanced.

Availability: Seasonal

Brewed with lemon juice and pink Himalayan salt, this Gatorade of beers is the perfect thing after a long ride.

Availability: Year-round

Brewed with corn and nished with New Zealand hops for hints of lemon and lime.

Availability: Year-round

Complex acidity balanced by tropical fruit esters that gives way to a clean, tart nish.

Not so fun fact

Delta council recently turned down Four Winds’ application to build a new agship brewery, due to the property not being zoned for “industrial” use. Certainly, having one of the most respected breweries in the country build a 200-seat restaurant sounds awfully industrial. Hopefully, Delta’s loss will be someone else’s gain.

M ON KE Y 9 BREWING

14200 Entertainment Blvd. | Monkey9.ca

MON-THU 2-11PM ^ FRI 2PM-12:30AM ^ SAT 11:30-12:30AM ^ SUN 11:30AM-10PM

EST. 2017

Any visitor to this brewpub will notice it is surrounded by farms. e brewery intends to celebrate that this summer by showcasing what is grown in its own backyard through special releases and casks featuring ingredients sourced from local farms.

KIKAZARU IND

IA P

Availability: Seasonal

is West Coast IPA boasts a big Northwest hop pro le with citrus and oral notes

E XTRA S PECIAL BITTER

Availability: Year-round

Availability: Year-round

No monkeying around, this tasty pale ale has a good balance of malt and hops.

60 Sponsored content R ICHMON D

AB V IBU 6.8%80 AB V IBU 4.7%22 AB V IBU 6.8%30 AB V IBU 4.0%33

A strong British ale that balances between caramel malt and citrus hops.

SAVE THE DAY IND IA SESSION ALE

craft cycling

STEAMWORKS BREWING CO.

3845 William St. | Steamworks.com

MARINER BREWING

1100 Lansdowne Dr. | MarinerBrewing.ca

Grab a pint of Steamworks’ award-winning beer at their Burnaby production brewery and taproom, or in a liquor store near you.

TROPICAL TART

TART ALE

ere are lots of reasons to set your course for Mariner Brewing, including its dog-friendly beer garden (open weekends) and small batch releases on ursdays.

POLARIS NORTHEAST IPA NEW

DEAD FROG BREWERY

105 - 8860 201st St. | DeadFrog.ca

FIVE ROADS BREWING

6263 202nd St. | FiveRoadsBrewing.com

Brewing for more than 10 years, Dead Frog moved to a new brewery last year where it still strives for “creativity, innovation and having a hoppin’ good time.”

e doors have been open since April at Langley’s newest brewery, so ll your glass with some of the freshest beer in B.C.

PERMANENT RESIDENT

INDIA PALE ALE

LANGLEY LANGLEY

LANGLEY L ANGLEY

KPU BREWING LAB

20901 Langley Bypass | KPU.ca/Brew

TRADING POST BREWING

107 - 20120 64th Ave. |

TradingPostBrewing.com

Kwantlen Polytechnic took home the top prize at the 2019 U.S. Open College Beer Championship, but you can check out the beer for yourself on Wednesdays and Fridays.

Trading Post has great things brewing in the Fraser Valley. Now with three locations—a brewery in central Langley and two eateries in Fort Langley and Abbotsford.

22775 Dewdney Trunk Rd. | MapleMeadowsBrewing.com

22826 Dewdney Trunk Rd. | RidgeBrewing.com

is cosy tasting room, and we mean cosy, is a great place to taste this tiny brewery’s latest experiment fresh from the tank. Like, really cosy.

If you’re in Maple Ridge, pop into Ridge Brewing’s kid-friendly tasting room seven days a week. Come for a pint or grab a 20-, 30-, or 50-litre keg for your next party.

BOHEMIAN

PILSNER

SILVER VALLEY BREWING CO.

#101 - 11952 224 St. | SilverValleyBrewing.com

Specializing in un ltered pints of English ale, Silver Valley is located in the heart of Maple Ridge’s downtown.

THE HIGHWAY LAGER LAGER

20

CRUSH HAZY PALE ALE

#11 - 30 Capilano Way | AnotherBeerCo.com

Opening at any moment, this much anticipated brewery will bring fresh beer back to Sapperton and brewing back to the Brewery District.

PALE ALE Availability: Small

batch

Availability: One-o Availability: Year-round NEIGHBOURHOOD CRAFT LAGER RICE LAGER IBU ABV 25 5.8% IBU ABV 10 4.4% IBU ABV

35 7.0%

MAPLE RIDGE MAPLE RIDGE

STEEL & OAK BREWING CO.

1319 3rd Ave. | SteelAndOak.ca

FOAMERS’ FOLLY BREWING CO.

19221 122A Ave. | FoamersFolly.ca

Spinning vinyl and pouring crisp German-style beer, Steel & Oak is a community hub in New West. It celebrated its fth birthday with two medals at the 2019 Canadian Brewing Awards. SIMPLE

Foamers’ Folly is a Pitt Meadows favourite for good reason—its double brewhouse set-up is always pumping out new releases. And now they’re available in tall cans, too! WIDE

NORTHPAW BREW CO.

2150-570 Sherling Pl. | NorthpawBrewCo.com

TAYLIGHT BREWING

402-1485 Coast Meridian Rd. | TaylightBrewing.com

Northpaw has already been pouring its lovingly crafted beer in Port Coquitlam’s Fremont Village for a year. Stop by and ll a growler in their industrial-chic tasting room.

SOLSTICE INDIA PALE

MOODY ALES

2601 Murray St. | MoodyAles.com

Wednesday night open mics have never sounded nor tasted so good thanks to this Port Coquitlam brewery. You can even bring your own food.

THAT’S IT!

WILD INDIA

Located on Port Moody’s beloved Brewers Row, Moody Ales is committed to pouring beers that are brewed by hand, made for the everyday craft beer drinker.

SUBLIME PINEAPPLE HEFEWEIZEN HEFEWEIZEN

THE PARKSIDE BREWERY

2731 Murray St. | eParksideBrewery.com

It will be another busy summer at one of the province’s best craft brewery patios and most family-friendly tasting rooms.

HUMANS: AN IPA FOR THE PEOPLE

INDIA PALE ALE

SESSION ALE Availability:

TWIN SAILS BREWING

2821 Murray St. | TwinSailsBrewing.com

YELLOW DOG BREWING CO.

1 - 2817 Murray St. | YellowDogBrew.com

is brewery seems to have an in nite well of creativity and they’re diving deep to craft incredible beers at a breakneck pace.

DAT

Owned and operated by Mike and Melinda

Coghill, Yellow Dog was Port Moody’s original craft brewery, sparking what’s become Brewers’ Row on Murray Street.

PLAY

BRITANNIA BREWING CO.

110-12500 Horseshoe Way | BBCO.ca

FUGGLES & WARLOCK CRAFTWORKS

103-11220 Horseshoe Way | FugglesWarlock.com

With a production facility and tasting room on Horseshoe Way and a restaurant and taproom in Steveston, Britannia is brewing best-in-class ales dedicated to Steveston’s nautical history.

Let your geek ag y at this Richmond craft brewery, which passionately embraces all manner of nerd culture in its beers and branding.

BIG RIDGE BREWING CO.

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

CENTRAL CITY BREWERS + DISTILLERS

11411 Bridgeview Dr. | CentralCityBrewing.com

is Surrey staple celebrates 20 years of craft beer in 2019, as well as launching the careers of some of B.C.’s most celebrated brewers.

is titan is an increasingly global force that continues to diversify, lately into rum, a second gin and gin coolers. Cause sometimes beer isn’t enough. BEER

Availability: Year-round

Availability: Seasonal

Availability: Year-round

Availability: Year-round

RUSSELL BREWING CO.

202 - 13018 80th Ave. | RussellBeer.com

WHITE ROCK BREWING

13 - 3033 King George Blvd. | WhiteRockBrewing.ca

rough its Table Beer Collaboration, Russell raises funds for Mind the Bar Canada, which supports members of the hospitality industry dealing with mental health challenges.

STRAWBERRY HIBISCUS

MILKSHAKE IPA

MILKSHAKE IPA

Availability: One-o

MIND THE BAR COLLABORATION TABLE BEER

Availability: Year-round

3 DOGS BREWING

1515 Johnston Rd. | 3DogsBrewing.com

is brewery expanded out of the U-Brew store next door when the provincial government gave the thumbs-up to breweries opening full tasting rooms.

OCEAN LAGER LAGER

Availability: Year-round

PROHIBITION IPA

ENGLISH INDIA PALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

WHITE ROCK BEACH BEER CO.

15181 Russell Ave. | WhiteRockBeachBeer.com

Easily the most happening spot in White Rock, with live music, comedy nights and more than a dozen taps—and it’s dog friendly, too.

Now open earlier on Sundays since what goes better with the farmers’ market right outside the door than a fresh craft beer.

OXFORD HILL HEFEWEIZEN DOUBLE

BAYSIDE BLONDE ALE BLONDE ALE

EAST BEACH

AMERICAN BROWN ALE

Availability: Seasonal Availability: Year-round

Availability: Year-round

Availability: Year-round

WHITE ROCK

WHITE ROCK

FIELD HOUSE BREWING CO.

2281 West Railway St. | FieldHouseBrewing.com

LOUDMOUTH BREWING

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

Field House’s magical beer lawn pairs perfectly with blue skies and warm weather. Don’t miss Field Day Fest on Aug. 11, Field House’s sour beer and music festival!

SUMMER PILS

OLD ABBEY ALES

30321 Fraser Hwy. | OldAbbeyAles.com

It should be a busy summer at this brewery near the Abbotsford Airport with a series of outdoor events and some improvements to its tasting room.

RAVENS BREWING CO.

2485 Townline Rd. | Ravens.beer

You can nd Old Abbey serving its beers at the Abbotsford Farmers’ Market every Saturday, or, even better, visit the brewery’s tasting room.

Specializing in European- and West Coaststyle beers, Ravens’ Corvus Lingonberry Lime

Gose took home a gold medal at the 2018 World Beer Cup.

FLASHBACK BREWING CO.

1 - 9360 Mill St. | ChaosAndSolace.com

OLD YALE BREWING CO.

404 - 44550 South Sumas Rd. | OldYaleBrewing.com

is brewery in historic downtown Chilliwack boasts a beautiful tasting room. Vinyl nights, live music, board games, and tasty beer are all good incentive to visit.

Chilliwack’s Old Yale Brewing turns 20 this year and they plan to celebrate all summer long. Expect parking lot parties, outdoor games and plenty of craft beer, live music, food trucks and fun.

Availability: Year-round

MISSION SPRINGS BREWING COMPANY

Availability: Year-round

Availability: Year-round

Availability: Year-round

7160 Oliver St. | MissionSprings.ca

Mission Springs is on a mission to continue to be a great local gathering spot that pours consistently tasty beers—and the weekend bu ets are legendary!

We have something for everyone: 25 beers on tap, house-brewed cra soda, lemonade and nitro cold brew co ee.

Availability: Year-round

Availability: Year-round

GIBSONS GIBSONS

PERSEPHONE BREWING CO.

1053 Stewart Rd. | PersephoneBrewing.com

TAPWORKS BREWING CO.

537 Cruice Lane | GibsonsTapworks.com

Fun fact: Persephone is not only a brewery but an active farm as well. Come for a beer, leave with fresh veggies. Stop by every Sunday this summer for a food-focused farmers’ market! COAST LIFE

Located in the heart of Lower Gibsons, Tapworks Brewing is a community hub featuring live music twice a week and a rooftop patio overlooking the water. ONE

THE 101 BREWHOUSE + DISTILLERY

1009 Gibsons Way | e101.ca

PEMBERTON BREWING CO.

1936 Stonecutter Pl. | PembertonBrewing.ca

Random fact: brewery co-owner Chris Green eld is locally famous in Gibsons for having seen the Dave Matthews Band in concert at least 39 times. SHINGLEROOF

Take an already awesome tasting room and add a full-service patio with an incredible view of the gorgeous Pemberton Valley. Time to plan a trip!

U-PICK HAZY PALE ALE WITH STRAWBERRY

NICE

THE BEER FARMERS

8324 Pemberton Meadows Rd. | eBeerFarmers.com

TOWNSITE BREWING

5824 Ash Ave. | TownsiteBrewing.com

is picturesque farm-based brewery in the Pemberton Valley is one of the few in North America to grow its own malting barley onsite.

A-FRAME BREWING CO.

38927 Queens Way | AFrameBrewing.com

Townsite was named the best craft beer experience by the B.C. Ale Trail last year thanks to its interactive tasting room and delicious Belgianstyle beers—made by an actual Belgian, no less!

BACKCOUNTRY BREWING

#405-1201 Commercial Way | BackcountryBrewing.com

Two silver medals at the 2019 Canadian Brewing Awards are proof positive that A-Frame has its beers dialed in. Stop by their “cabin” for a tasting.

You’re going to have to visit the brewery if you want to get your hands on Backcountry’s killer limited releases and it’s equally killer food.

DEAD OF NIGHT

HOWE SOUND BREWING CO.

37801 Cleveland Ave. | HoweSound.com

BREWHOUSE HIGH MOUNTAIN BREWING

4355 Blackcomb Way | MJG.ca/BrewHouse

Squamish’s healthy beer scene owes a lot to Howe Sound, which has been producing cutting edge craft beers since 1996.

Despite its location right next to the Olympic Rings don’t be fooled into thinking this place is a tourist trap. Actually, its beer is top-notch.

COAST MOUNTAIN BREWING CO.

2 - 1212 Alpha Lake Rd. | CoastMountainBeer.ca

WHISTLER BREWING CO.

1045 Millar Creek Rd. | WhistlerBeer.com

Helmed by aptly-named head brewer Kevin Winter, Coast Mountain produces a generous selection of North American in uenced ales and lagers. FORECAST

WBC’s taphouse features live music every Friday, and there’s a new patio on the way. Or you can catch a ight before your ight at the beer lodge in YVR—coming soon!

VA NCOUVER ISLA ND BREWING

2330 Government St. | VIBrewing.com

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

EST. 1984

One of B.C.’s original trio of microbreweries that opened in 1984 along with Granville Island Brewing and Spinnakers Brewpub, Vancouver Island Brewing was originally called Island Paci c Brewing, but changed its name in 1991. Happy 35th birthday VIB!

TWISTED STALK

Availability: Year-round

Explorer Juan de Fuca was actually a Greek mariner named Ioannis Phokas who sailed for Spain.

Availability: Seasonal

is tasty summer sipper celebrates the delicious blackberry whose thorny stalks are seemingly undefeatable.

TIDAL SERIES: DDH TROPICAL PUNCH

Availability: Seasonal

Availability: One-o

is fruit bomb packs a tropical punch thanks to lots of hops, oats and maltodextrin.

K iller collab

Look for VIB’s special Pod Pack later this summer, which will feature four tall can collaborations with Vancouver Island breweries: White Sails (Nanaimo), Land & Sea (Comox), Twin City (Port Alberni) and Île Sauvage (Victoria). Proceeds go to the Paci c Salmon Foundation, which helps feed VIB’s mascot, the Southern Resident Killer Whales.

A refreshing radler built on the foundation of a gose, rather than a lager.

TWA DOGS BREWERY AT VICTORIA CALEDONIAN

761 Enterprise Cres. | VCaledonian.com

SUN-THU 12:30-6:30PM ^ FRI 11AM-10PM ^ SAT 11AM-9PM

EST. 2016

Bringing some Scottish air to the B.C. craft brewing scene, Twa Dogs takes its inspiration from the great Robbie Burns. Sláinte mhaith!

PASSION FRUIT SOUR

PASSION FRUIT SOUR ALE

Availability: Small batch

ABV IBU 5.5%N/A

is sour wheat ale is a tropical getaway in your mouth with notes of tropical passion fruit and stone fruit.

DOS PERROS

MEXICAN-STYLE LAGER

Availability: Small batch

ABV IBU 4.5%N/A

is light, freshing lager is perfect with a twist of lime and a hot summer’s day.

GUIDED TOURS | TASTING | TAPROOM

INVEST TODAY AT FRONTFUNDR.COM

CANOE BREWPUB

450 Swift St. | CanoeBrewpub.com

DRIFTWOOD BREWERY

450 Hillside Ave. | DriftwoodBeer.com

ere’s many good reasons why Canoe is always bumpin’: a gorgeous heritage building, a spectacular patio, delectable food, a solid core lineup of beers—take your pick!

WITBIER

Availability: Seasonal

HELLES HELLES LAGER

Availability: Year-round

Driftwood recently released a new batch of sour brown ale Mad Bruin. is batch includes some of the 2012 original that were added to the blend.

FAT TUG INDIA PALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

HOYNE BREWING CO.

101-2740 Bridge St. | HoyneBrewing.ca

ÎLE SAUVAGE BREWING CO.

2960 Bridge St. | IleSauvage.com

Your favourite beer is now is six-packs. Pick one up at the brewery and while you’re there you can support a local charity that Hoyne will match.

QUEEN’S

Availability: Small batch

Heading into its rst summer, Île Sauvage has an impressive lineup of sours, hazies and co ee-infused creations. Add it to your summer must-visit list.

VOSS KVEIK IPA HAZY INDIA PALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

MOON UNDER WATER BREWERY

350B Bay St. | MoonUnderWater.ca

PHILLIPS BREWING & MALTING CO.

2010 Government St. | PhillipsBeer.com

Good things come to those who wait: Moon’s family-friendly distillery lounge is nally approved and open with food, beer, spirits and plenty of games.

GILA GOSE SALTED

THIS IS

Summertime is fun time at Phillips, with HOPoxia festival on June 1 and the Backyard Weekender planned for July 26-28.

ROSE COLOURED

H

SPINNAKERS BREWPUB

308 Catharine St. | Spinnakers.com

SWANS BREWPUB

506 Pandora Ave. | SwansHotel.com

Spinnakers is where the craft beer revolution started and its beers are still on the cutting edge today, as evidenced by its sublime barrel-aged sour series.

Swans is newly renovated and ready to mark its 30th anniversary. A brand new draught system will be pouring 20 Swans beers and 24 guest taps.

PITCH

WHISTLE BUOY BREWING CO.

560 Johnson St. | WhistleBuoyBrewing.com

CATEGORY 12 BREWING

Spinnakers’ brewer Matt West-Patrick is behind this brewery right in the middle of Market Square, complete with a patio for sunny days.

LIGHTHOUSE BREWING CO.

2 - 836 Devonshire Rd. | LighthouseBrewing.com

If you haven’t checked out Lighthouse’s tasting room and new outdoor picnic area right on the E&N Rail Trail, then it’s time for a ride.

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Keating Cross Rd. | Category12Beer.com

Category 12 is a busy place—with the addition of a small kitchen set to launch soon, a new foeder, and a revamp of the Barrelholder program, it’s time for another visit! HIATUS

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AXE & BARREL BREWING CO.

2323 Millstream Ave. | AxeAndBarrel.com

MAYNE ISLAND BREWING CO.

490 Fernhill Rd. | MayneIslandBrewingCo.com

Axe & Barrel Brewing Co. took home rst place at the 2018 B.C. Beer Awards for its Langford Logger and a gold for King Kolsch at the 2019 Canadian Brewing Awards.

LANGFORD LOGGER

NORTH AMERICAN PILSNER

Availability:

HOPPY MOTHER PUCKER

DRY-HOPPED SOUR

Michael Garratt’s whimsical little nanobrewery is worth travelling overseas for—thankfully it’s only the Salish Sea you have to cross.

J-POD KOLSCH KOLSCH

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HOWL BREWING

1780 Mills Rd.

HARDSCRABBLE FARMHOUSE FARMHOUSE ALE

SALT SPRING ISLAND ALES

270 Furness Rd. | SaltSpringIslandAles.com

Howl may be small in size, but its ideas are huge and unconventional—sip its ongoing series of rare historical beers in its newly licensed picnic area.

Salt Spring Island Ales is committed to using local products and hand-foraged ingredients, keeping its beer fresh and in-touch with B.C. nature.

HAZY IPA

NORTH SAANICH SALT SPRING ISL.

LANGFORD MAYNE ISLAND

BAD DOG BREWING COMPANY

7861 Tugwell Rd. | BadDogBrewing.ca

SOOKE BREWING CO.

2057 Otter Point Rd. | SookeBrewing.com

Expect a friendly welcome from family dogs Kona and Duke when you visit this woodworking shop turned brewery. Also expect an expanded inside tasting room, coming soon.

AUNTIE ROSIE’S SNAKE BITE SESSI ON ALE B LENDED WITH A PPLE CIDER

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TIRE BITER IND I A P ALE ALE

Availability:

SBC keeps racking up medals for its beer, while its tasting room was named the best in the province at the 2018 B.C. Beer Awards.

BARLEYWINE

SOOKE OCEANSIDE BREWERY

1-5529 Sooke Rd. | SookeOceansideBrewing.com

4 MILE BREWING CO.

SOB is planning to add a new production brewery, so look for new beers and collabs soon at its roadside tasting room.

199 Island Hwy. | 4MileBrewingCo.com

At 4 Mile, you can try a new beer every week in a historical setting paired with great food. Brewed on the pilot system, these inventive creations sell out fast!

BELGIAN BLOND BELGI AN ALE HAZY

SOOKE VI EW ROYAL

BEACH FIRE BREWING

594-11th Ave. | BeachFireBrewing.ca

In addition to having the best beer in town, Beach Fire has the best food, too. Check out their Berliner weisse collaboration with Land & Sea Brewing before it’s gone.

Punk rock vibes and kick ass beers are good enough reasons as any to stop in at Riot in picturesque Chemainus.

T WIN C IT Y B REWING

4503 Margaret St. | TwinCityBrewing.ca

SUN-WED 11:30AM-9PM ^ THU 11:30AM-10PM ^

FRI-SAT 11:30AM-11PM

EST. 2017

In addition to plans for expanded distribution for their small batch brews,Twin City now smokes all of its brisket, pulled pork and chicken in-house—yum!

ESCAPE ARTIST

Availability: Seasonal

Get whisked away with this tremendously tropical dry-hopped kettle sour with mango and guava puree.

Availability: Seasonal

Restrained weizen yeast and plenty of wheat helps keep this hazy white IPA complex yet refreshing, with notes of citrus and white wine.

AWARD-WINNING SOUR BEERS

BEST IN SHOW—2018 BCBAs

Late Bloomer

Strawberry Hibiscus Sour

2ND PLACE—2018 BCBAs

Vanishing Act Pineapple Coconut Sour

PEOPLE’S CHOICE VCBW 2018

Razzle Dazzle

Raspberry Peach Sour

★ Hand-stretched gourmet pizza

★ House-smoked meat sandwiches

★ Charcuterie

...in the heart of Port Alberni

LAND & SEA BREWING CO.

2040 Guthrie Rd. | LandAndSeaBrewing.ca

NEW TRADITION BREWING

215 Port Augusta St. | NewTraditionBrewing.com

Land & Sea opened their doors in December, o ering thirsty Comox patrons a generous selection of beers on tap and fresh eats in a beautiful modern tasting room.

GLACIER CREAM ALE

AMERICAN CREAM ALE

Availability: Year-round

Availability: Year-round

FORBIDDEN BREWING CO.

1590 Cli e Ave. | ForbiddenBrewing.com

Great-Grandpa Savard started a unique family legacy: bootlegging beer during prohibition. Today, his family is carrying on that legacy with a “new” tradition, by making beer the legal way.

CURE FOR THE COMMON

KOLSCH

KOLSCH-STYLE ALE

Availability: Year-round

Availability: Year-round

GLADSTONE BREWING CO.

244 4th St. | GladstoneBrewing.ca

Forbidden’s tasting room may be small, but their beer is big on avour—and now it’s available in cans, too.

FUCKIN’ EH IPA

WEST COAST INDIA

PALE ALE

TROUBLE IN PARADISE

Availability: Year-round Availability: Year-round

e new burger bar is open, ready to take your order. Or if seafood is more your thing, check out Galdstone’s award-winning porter at the B.C. Seafood Festival.

HAZY PALE ALE

NEW ENGLAND

PALE ALE

PORTER PORTER

Availability: Year-round Availability: Year-round

CUMBERLAND BREWING CO.

2732 Dunsmuir Ave. | CumberlandBrewing.com

CRAIG STREET BREW PUB

25 Craig St. | CraigStreet.ca

Cumberland, the town, is a little slice of hippy heaven and Cumberland, the brewery, is a little slice of craft beer heaven. Charming, welcoming and fun; you may never leave either.

FOREST

Duncan’s original craft brewpub has been helping turn Lucky Lager zombies into craft beer lovers since 2006.

RED ARROW BREWING CO.

5255 Chaster Rd. | RedArrowBeer.ca

SMALL BLOCK BREWING CO.

203-5301 Chaster Rd. | SmallBlockBrewery.com

e o cial brewery of the Victoria HarbourCats baseball team, Red Arrow’s Ballpark Blonde will be available at home games this season.

HERITAGE

Small Block has worked with the Cowichan Green Community non-pro t to brew beer with bread that would otherwise have been thrown out. Going green never tasted so good! TEST

LONGWOOD BREWERY

101A-2046 Boxwood Rd. | LongwoodBeer.com

LONGWOOD BREWPUB

5775

Grown and brewed on Vancouver Island, Longwood is a self-described “obsessively local” brewery, with most of its ingredients coming from within 20 km.

WHITE SAILS BREWING

125 Comox Rd. | WhiteSailsBrewing.com

You don’t need to change much at this long standing brewpub if you have the winning formula of great people, food and beer.

WOLF BREWING CO.

Helmed by head brewer Tyler Papp, Nanaimo’s award-winning White Sails Brewing is all about tying together craft beer and the local community. DEPARTURE

As part of this brewery’s ongoing commitment to being truly local, Wolf Brewing’s bomber labels feature artwork by local artists.

BLACK & TAN BLENDED

MOUNT ARROWSMITH BREWING CO.

109-425 East Stanford Ave. | ArrowsmithBrewing.com

L

K LIBATIONS

1 - 4134 Island Hwy. West |

is award-winning Mid-Island gem is a must visit. Its latest collab is with Sean Dwyer from “ e Deadliest Catch,” with proceeds going to the ALS Society of B.C.

If you’re looking for love, surely you’ll nd it here. Brewer Dave Paul lovingly makes smallbatch, hand-bottled and conditioned beer at his cosy brewery in quaint Qualicum Beach.

TO FINO

TOFINO BREWING CO.

691 Industrial Way | To

Sure, you can probably nd their beer in your local pub or bottle shop, but wouldn’t it taste way better at the source in To no? Plan a trip, already!

We

CRATES, DISPLAYS AND DESIGN

you grow.

ELEVATION 57 BREWING COMPANY

20 Kettleview Rd. | SessionsTapHouseAndGrill.com

ALCHEMY BREWING CO.

650 Victoria St. | Facebook.com/AlchemyBrewingCompany.ca

Canada’s highest brewery is 5,757 feet above sea level with an extensive selection of craft beers— the perfect thing after a hard day of mountain biking in the summer sun.

DOUBLE DRY-HOPPED PILSNER

PILSNER

Availability: Year-round

Availability: Year-round

IRON ROAD BREWING

980 Camosun Crs. | IronRoadBrewing.ca

Head into Alchemy Brewing in Kelowna for West Coast craft beer paired with smokehouse barbecue and brick oven pizza. Currently featuring 11 taps of Alchemy creations.

BROKEN RESOLUTION

HAZY INDIA PALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

SUGARBUSH RED MAPLE ALE

Availability: Year-round

RED COLLAR BREWING CO.

355 Lansdowne St. | RedCollar.ca

What do you get when you pair up two geologists and an award-winning brewmaster? Craft beer that rocks, that's what.

LOCOMOTIVE

Availability: Year-round

POMEGRANATE JUICE TRAIN

Availability: Seasonal

Maybe B.C.’s most dog-centric brewery, Red Collar has a new addition with puppy Fidelle. We only wish they would post more puppy pics on Instagram!

YOUR FATHER SMELT OF ELDERBERRY SOUR

ELDERBERRY SOUR ALE Availability:

THE NOBLE PIG BREWHOUSE

650 Victoria St. | eNoblePig.ca

BNA BREWING CO.

1250 Ellis St. | BNABrewing.com

Brewmaster Nick Murphy and chef Jared Summers are a formidable duo at Kamloops’ original brewpub.

BETTER THAN HOMEWORK

NORTH AMERICAN INDIA PALE ALE

BOUNDARY BREWING

2-455 Neave Crt. | BoundaryBrewing.beer

In four years, BNA has expanded its brewery three times and added six bowling lanes. You can always expect to nd delicious food and amazing beer.

CORDOVA RED WINE BARREL-AGED ROSE GOLDEN ALE

FREDDY’S BREWPUB

124 McCurdy Rd. | McCurdyBowl.com

Summertime is the perfect time to stop by Boundary’s new outdoor picnic area and enjoy a ne German beer—brewed on Canada’s only wooden brewhouse.

SUNSHINE HEFEWEIZEN

BAVARIAN HEFEWEIZEN

Availability: Year-round Availability: Seasonal

Beer and bowling: what’s better? Freddy’s o ers a full-food menu and tap list, so you can enjoy your libations while you play at the attached familyfriendly bowling alley.

LEBOWSKI LAGER LAGER Availability: Year-round Availability: Year-round

KELOWNA BREWING CO.

975 Academy Way | KelownaBrewingCompany.com

KETTLE RIVER BREWING CO.

731 Baillie Ave. | KettleRiverBrewing.ca

is brewpub is right next to the UBC Okanagan campus and features craft taps from all over the province, as well as beers made in-house. VANISHED

is small-batch, eclectic and inviting neighbourhood brewery took home the award for Best ESB at the 2019 Fest of Ale—a testament to its ever-evolving taps.

RED BIRD BREWING

1086 Richter St. | RedBirdBrewing.com

TREE BREWING BEER INSTITUTE

1346 Water St. | TreeBrewingBeerInstitute.com

Red Bird’s popularity will see the nanobrewery expand to include a new 12 hL system and a full kitchen. Look for it in the summer of 2020!

e old Tree Brewing production brewery may be gone now, but Tree’s legacy lives on at this beautiful tasting room located on the lakeshore. PEDAL

KELOWNA KELOWNA

VICE & VIRTUE BREWING CO.

1033 Richter St. | ViceAndVirtueBrewing.ca

WILD AMBITION BREWING

1 - 3314 Appaloosa Rd. | WildAmbition.beer

Small brewery, big avour. Vice and Virtue is a product of great friendships bonded by a mutual love of backyard brewing and great food.

FOOLS PARADISE DRY-HOPPED SOUR

Availability: Year-round

HOMEWRECKER HAZY INDIA PALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

Kelowna’s Wild Ambition has, dare we say, a bit of a wild side. Brewing rustic ales and barrelaged sours, watch for them at festivals this summer—including Farmhouse Fest, naturally.

PRECIPITOUS CITRA DRY-HOPPED FARMHOUSE ALE

Availability: One-o

MERRITT OLIVER

EMPTY KEG BREW HOUSE

2190 Voght St. | EmptyKegBrewHouse.ca

e Nicola Valley's only community focused nanobrewery is nally open! e long anticipated brewhouse is starting o strong with a lineup of eight craft beers.

BUXOM BLONDE ALE BLONDE ALE

KILT LIFTER SCOTTISH 80 SCOTTISH 80

SCHILLING ALE

Availability: Year-round Availability: Year-round

SPILLED INK WINE BARREL-AGED IMPERIAL STOUT

Availability: One-o

FIREHALL BREWERY

6077 Main St. | FirehallBrewery.com

STOP, HOP & ROLL OATMEAL INDIA

FALSE ALARM BITTER

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BAD TATTOO BREWING CO.

169 Estabrook Ave. | BadTattooBrewing.com

BARLEY MILL BREW PUB

2460 Skaha Lake Rd. | BarleyMillPub.com

As a new brewery neighbourhood springs up around this brewery in downtown Penticton, Bad Tattoo continues to serve delicious beer and pizza to packed houses.

Come for the craft beer and pub grub at Penticton’s original brewpub, but stay for the outdoor karaoke!

LOS MUERTOS CERVEZA NEGRA DARK LAGER

PEN CITY OATMEAL STOUT STOUT

CANNERY BREWING

198 Ellis St. | CanneryBrewing.com

RUDE PONY NEW ENGLAND INDIA PALE ALE

HIGHWAY 97 BREWERY

954 Eckhardt Ave. | Hwy97Brewery.com

Cannery’s family-friendly, dog-friendly patio is now open for the season! If you’re walking or biking along Penticton’s KVR trail or boardwalk by the lake, consider ending your journey here.

MELON GOSE GOSE DRUPACEOUS

SUNBLINK BERRY SOUR KETTLE SOUR WITH FRUIT

As you arrive in Penticton from Kelowna, this small brewery is one of the rst buildings you’ll see, making it the perfect pit stop.

RASPBERRY & LEMON WHEAT ALE

CRANNÓG ALES

706 Elson Rd. | CrannogAles.com

DETONATE BREWING

#104-9503 Cedar Ave. | DetonateBrewing.com

is farm-based brewery spearheaded B.C.’s resurgent hop-growing movement 15 years ago. It uses organic malts in all its beers along with local ingredients whenever possible.

Once upon a time, Detonate was the new kid in Summerland, today they’re an Okanagan favourite pouring fun, unique brews.

VERNON WEST KELOWNA

MARTEN BREWING CO.

2933A 30th Ave. | MartenBrewpub.com

KIND BREWING

2405 Main St. | Facebook.com/KindBrewer

Voted as one of B.C.’s top 10 tasting rooms, Marten is the place to be in downtown Vernon. Don’t miss all-day happy hour every Sunday.

Kind Brewing now o ers a full menu, games— including some vintage pinball machines—and a variety of delicious beers, ciders and wine.

FISHER PEAK BREWING CO.

821 Baker St. | eHeidOut.ca

FERNIE BREWING CO.

26 Manitou Rd. | FernieBrewing.com

Fisher Peak’s award-winning brews are served onsite at the Heid Out Restaurant, where Cranbrookians have enjoyed a long history of seasonal, locally sourced and delicious food.

Are you up for the Trail to Ale Challenge?

HELLROARING SCOTTISH ALE

WHITETOOTH BREWING

623 8th Ave. N. | WhitetoothBrewing.com

3300 GOLDEN ALE GOLDEN ALE

ARROWHEAD BREWING CO.

481 Arrow Rd. | ArrowheadBrewingCompany.ca

Named for the original ski hill in Golden, Whitetooth is a year-round craft beer destination thanks to award-winning beers and it’s sweet new patio!

Bag three challenging climbs within 24 hours and win a cold brew, handmade medal and ultimate glory. MAIBOCK

Invermere is a gorgeous part of B.C., and visiting this locally-focused brewery is extra incentive to plan a road trip there this summer.

ANGRY HEN BREWING

343 Front St. | AngryHenBrewing.com

OVER TIME BEER WORKS

136A Wallinger Ave. | OverTimeBeer.ca

BACKROADS BREWING CO.

460 Baker St. | BackroadsBrewing.com

Pulling an overtime shift has never been so delicious thanks to brewer Matt Phillip’s stable of craft classics (no relation to the Phillips Brewing founder).

Fact: Backroads is pretty awesome! Having freshly doubled both its brewing and tasting room capacity this Baker Street brewery is ready to serve the thirsty public. FRESHLY

Availability: Small batch

NELSON BREWING CO.

512 Latimer St. | NelsonBrewing.com

TORCHLIGHT BREWING CO.

125 Hall St. | TorchlightBrewing.com

is Kootenay original has been doing some rebranding lately, but the beer in those fancy new cans is just as delicious as ever.

BRAMBLE

HOOLIGAN PILSNER PILSNER

Nelon’s beloved Torchlight Brewing is turning ve this June! Expect a new beer menu, special releases and a wicked party happening June 22.

ENDLESS ADVENTURE

MT. BEGBIE BREWING CO

2155 Oak Dr. | Mt-Begbie.com

RUMPUS BEER COMPANY

208 1st Street E. | RumpusBeerCo.com

Ever go to a brewery and wonder, “Why aren’t there more breweries with dog runs?” Head down to Mt. Begbie where they are answering the call this summer.

WHITE KNUCKLE

e beer is fermenting and the tanks are lled and ready to go. By the time you read this, the beer will be owing at this this tiny brewery with big ideas.

ACID DROP

DRY-HOPPED SOUR

ROSSLAND BEER CO.

1990 Columbia Ave. | RosslandBeer.com

TRAIL BEER REFINERY

1299 Bay Ave. | TrailBeerRe nery.ca

Brewing award-winning beer set against the gorgeous backdrop of Red Mountain ski resort, Rossland is the ideal après ski/hike/bike/work community gathering place.

GREEN

Availability: One-o

Availability: Seasonal

is taproom loves to try new things, including recently creating Zero Vodka Soda. Try it during TBR's daily happy hour.

Availability: Year-round

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LAST SPIKE BREWERY: CANADA’S LARGEST DEDICATED PARTNER BREWERY

We specialize in the brewing, canning, kegging, and packaging of beer for local, national, and international clients. Located in the heart of Calgary, our state-of-the-art brewing facility provides a wide range of services for established brands, start-up craft breweries, and large producers seeking additional brewing capacity.

BREW WITH US!

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CROSSROADS BREWING

508 George St. | CrossroadsCraft.com

TRENCH BREWING & DISTILLING

399 2nd Ave. | TrenchBrew.ca

Celebrating the outdoor lifestyle of Prince George, CrossRoads brewing is hosting its second annual, and family-friendly, outdoor recreation show in July and September.

GEORGE ST.

BROWN

ENGLISH BROWN ALE

Availability: Year-round

FAST LANE IPA

INDIA PALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

Trench Brewing may be located in Prince George, but their tasting room boasts some major East Van vibes featuring a large communal table and woodsy décor.

BIJOUX SINGLE HOP IDAHO 7 ISA

INDIA SESSION ALE

Availability: Seasonal

Availability: Small batch

WHEELHOUSE BREWING CO.

217 1st Ave. E. | WheelhouseBrewing.com

BARKERVILLE BREWING CO.

185 Davie St. | BarkervilleBeer.com

B.C.’s westernmost brewery may be at the edge of the Earth, but it’s worth the trip to visit its charmingly kitschy tasting room and its solid lineup of beers.

Quesnel's hometown brewery features a new patio, 12 beers on tap and a large communal table. Bonus: Barkerville Brewing Co. is 100 per cent powered by women.

HIGH STAKES IMPERIAL INDIA PALE ALE

Availability: Seasonal

Availability: Seasonal

Availability: One-o

Availability: Year-round

PRINCE RUPERT QUESNEL

PRINCE GEORGE PRINCE GEORGE

SMITHERS SMITHERS

BULKLEY VALLEY BREWERY

3860 1st Ave. | BulkleyValleyBrewery.ca

SMITHERS BREWING CO.

3832 3rd Ave. | SmithersBrewing.com

Bulkley Valley's pale ale features Canada’s rst ever patented hop, appropriately named “Sasquatch.” Check it out for it’s tropical fruit avour and aroma. SASQUATCH

Smithers Brewing Co. has just recently expanded its cellar and red up the canning machine. Delicious beer is on its way to a shelf near you!

SHERWOOD MOUNTAIN BREWHOUSE

101 - 4816 Hwy. 16 West | SherwoodMountain.beer

THREE RANGES BREWING

CO.

1160 5th Ave. | reeRanges.com

Brewmaster Darryl Tucker is the Friar Tuck of Sherwood Mountain, spreading the gospel of German-inspired beers to the good people of Terrace.

Operating a 300 L brewhouse and producing 12,000 litres a month during the summer, this expanding small town brewery truly puts the “ale” in V-ale-mount.

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At this rate, 2019 could see the most craft brewery openings ever in B.C.! Here’s what our network of spies is telling us about what’s coming down the pike.

A CE BREW ING C O.

Courtenay (summer 2019) is aviation-inspired brewery is conveniently located right next to the Courtenay Air Park and is ready to take ight any day now. AceBrewing.ca

T HE BAKERY BREW ING C O.

Port Moody (summer 2019) Barrel-aged sour and wild ales will be the focus of Murray Street’s soon-to-be fth brewery, brought to you by Adam Crandall of Moody Ales. eBakeryBrewing.com

B AR N OWL B REWIN G

Kelowna (fall 2019) Located in an updated heritage barn with seating for 60 people, this farm-based craft brewery will be the rst for Kelowna’s Lower Mission neghbourhood.

BAR NSI DE BREW IN G

Delta (summer 2019) Located on 60th Avenue in Ladner, this truly farm-based brewery will be growing its own malting barley and brewing it up in its 25 hL copper brewhouse. BarnsideBrewing.ca

BREAKAWAY BREW ING C O.

Summerland (summer 2019) is new brewery in the heart of uptown Summerland is led by two young ex-hockey players originally from Colorado.

BR I GHT E YE BREW IN G

Kamloops (summer 2019) Located at the new Station at Tranquille development, Bright Eye will be the rst craft brewery for Kamloops’ North Shore.

C AMP BEER C O.

Langley (summer 2019) Camp is one of many newcomers to the Langley craft beer scene. You can try its recent collabs with Old Abbey Ales and Big Ridge. CampBeerCo.com

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FFS I DE BREW IN G

Nanaimo (fall 2019) Downtown Nanaimo is getting its second craft brewery with Cli side opening up on Cli Street, just around the corner from White Sails Brewing. Expect a 49-seat lounge and a patio, too. Cli sideBrewCo.ca

C OPPER BREW IN G

Kelowna (summer 2019) A 110-seat lounge in a modern industrial space on Kirschner Road is planned for this craft brewery, which will be focusing on “approachable” beer options.

D OG MO UN TA IN BREW IN G

Port Alberni (summer 2019) “Former mad scientist” Robin Miles is brewing up the beers at the Alberni Valley’s newest brewery, which features a patio with a stellar ocean view. DogMountainBrew.com

FARM CO UN TRY BREW IN G

Langley (summer 2019) Hoping to be the rst brewery in Langley City proper, Farm Country will bring craft beer and a rockin’ patio to 56th Avenue downtown. FarmCountryBrewing.com

F RASER MILLS F ERME N TAT ION C O.

Port Moody (Summer 2019) e new development in South Coquitlam it originally had its eye on was taking too long, so this edgling brewery is opening up on Port Moody’s Saint Johns Street with brewer Ashley Brooks instead. FraserMillsFermentation.com

H ERALD S TREET BREW W ORKS

Victoria (2019) e Drake Eatery and Steel & Oak are teaming up, and if the result is anything less than spectacular, we’ll be shocked. HeraldStreet.com

HUDSO N TAPHO U SE A N D BREWP UB

Victoria (summer 2019) e people behind

the Yates Tap House are behind this whopping 358-seat brewpub, distillery and restaurant in the new Hudson District development.

JACKKNIFE BREWING

Kelowna (fall 2019) Former Kettle River brewer Brad Tomlinson is opening up his own brewery next door to his old brewery, making the corner of Baillie and Richter o cially the coolest intersection in craft beer.

MERRIDALE BREWERY AND DISTILLERY

Victoria (spring 2020) is local cider maker is expanding with a purpose-built, 12,000-sq.ft. agship brewery, distillery and restaurant in Vic West’s Dockside Green development. Merridale.ca

MOUNTAINVIEW BREWING

Hope (fall 2019) All roads lead to Hope, and owners Adam and Danielle Keil are hoping their brewery will be a xture for locals as well as a pit stop for thirsty travellers. MountainviewBrewing.ca

NEIGHBOURHOOD BREWING

Penticton (spring 2020) e owners of Port Moody’s Yellow Dog Brewing are behind this new purpose-built brewery on the edge of downtown, just blocks from the beach. NeighbourhoodBrewing.com.

OLD YALE BREWING

Langley (fall 2019) e Fraser Valley’s original craft brewery is opening up a second brewery and tasting room in Langley, and we hear it’s going to be pretty sweet. OldYaleBrewing.com

RUSTIC REEL BREWING COMPANY

Kelowna (fall 2019) is massive, 8,000-sq.-ft. space in the North End will feature craft beer, local food and an artisan craft market. RusticReel.com

SHORELINE BREWING

Kelowna (2020) Located across from Gyro Beach in South Pandosy, Shoreline Brewing will be on the ground oor of a massive new development dubbed “ e Shore,” with seating for close to 100 people inside, as well as another 100 on its expansive patio.

STANLEY PARK BREWPUB

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

TAILOUT BREWING

Castlegar (summer 2019) e former Banjo’s Pub is being reimagined as a rustic shingand-hunting-themed craft brewery with a focus on with locally sourced ingredients. TailoutBrewing.com

TINHOUSE BREWING

Port Coquitlam (fall 2019) Located just around the corner from Northpaw, Tinhouse already has some collabs under its belt while its own brewhouse should be up and running soon. TinhouseBrewing.ca

UCLUELET BREWING CO.

Ucluelet (summer 2019) e former St. Aiden’s Church on the Hill has been transformed into a house of worship of a di erent kind— that of delicious craft beer!

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