The Growler B.C. • Volume 7 Issue 1 • Spring/Summer 2021

B.C. CRAFT BEEr & cider guide

BRITISH COLUMBIA

VANCOUVER

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Gail Nugent gnugent@thegrowler.ca

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Joe Wiebe editor@thegrowler.ca

E DITOR

Rob Mangelsdorf (on leave)

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Matt Cavers

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VANCOUVER

I'M DREAMING OF A POST-PANDEMIC BEER VACATION

B.C.'S CRAFT BEER INDUSTRY NEEDS TO BECOME MORE DIVERSE

FARMERS FIRST: B.C.'S NEW CROP OF FARM BREWERIES

BREWER VS. BREWER: THE PANDEMIC EDITION

CRAFT POLLINATION

THIS HAND SANITIZER, THAT BEER

RECIPE: BRASS FISH BURGER B.C.

Breweries by Region

VANCOUVER

43 32 46 49 57 63 70 73 76

LOWER MAINLAND

FRASER VALLEY

SEA TO SKY / SUNSHINE COAST

VICTORIA / GULF ISLANDS

VANCOUVER ISLAND

THOMPSON OKANAGAN

KOOTENAYS

NORTHERN B.C. CIDERIES

GROWLER-APPROVED

Keep an eye out for our 10 favourite beers and ciders this spring!

Happy 2021! Like me, I’m sure that you are very happy to say good riddance to 2020 (and perhaps raise a middle nger). Now that the worst year most of us have lived through is nally over, I for one am starting to look forward to a future beyond COVID-19. Check out my article about post-pandemic bucket list beer vacations to see what I am dreaming about.

e pandemic hit the craft beer and cider industries hard, but when I talk to breweries about it I often hear a similar message of hope— as I did when I interviewed the brewers at Patina Brewing and Mountainview Brewing, both of which opened during the pandemic.

Sometimes you just need to laugh at what scares you, and Matt Cavers’ article about pairing hand sanitizer and craft beer might help you do that. Matt has also written an in-depth look at the wave of new breweries that have been opening on working farms.

Speaking of farms and beer, check out “Craft Pollination” by Rob Mangelsdorf, all about how craft beer is a ecting B.C.’s cider scene. Rob is still on parental leave, but he will be back in the Editor’s chair for the next issue.

And also check out my article about the Diversity in Brewing initiative. I wish I had a lot more space to explore this topic, but I hope it is at least a starting point for learning more and thinking about this important issue.

I’ve really enjoyed lling in for Rob over the past couple of issues. anks to the whole Growler team!

Cheers,

— Joe Wiebe, Interim Editor

Brewery Details

GROWLER FILLS

BOTTLES / CANS

TASTING ROOM

ON-SITE KITCHEN OR FOOD TRUCK

TOURS

ONLINE SALES / DELIVERY

PATIO / OUTDOOR SEATING

GLUTEN-FREE BOOZE OPTIONS

Suggested Glassware

STANGE

Kolsch

Marzen

Gose

PILSNER

Lager

Pilsner

Witbier

NONIC PINT

Stout

Pale ale

Most ales, actually

WEIZEN

Hefeweizen

Wheat ales

Fruit beer

TULIP

IPA

Saison

Strong ales

GOBLET

Dubbel

Tripel Quad

SNIFTER

Barleywine

Sours

Anything funky

TEKU

Dry-hopped sours

Fruited sours

Heirloom ciders

SIDRA

Still cider

Basque cider

by Joe Wiebe

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During the depths of the pandemic lockdown last year I often found myself fantasizing about beer-themed vacations I might enjoy once the virus is vanquished. Even though the prospect of travelling was unfathomable then, picturing myself wandering the streets of Berlin, Brooklyn or Buenos Aires in search of my new favourite beer gave me comfort and inspiration to keep moving forward.

Now that it’s 2021 and vaccinations are actually happening, it’s becoming more reasonable to imagine travelling somewhere. We might be limited to Canadian travel in 2021, but even so, there are great options for beer explorations within our borders. And it certainly seems like life will be largely back to normal by 2022. So why not dream a little now?

Along with some bucket list picks of my own, I reached out to some fellow beer scribes to get their suggestions, too.

GERMANY

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ere are nearly 1,500 breweries in Germany so you won’t have trouble nding locally made beer anywhere you travel there. Be prepared to taste a lot of helles, dunkel and weissbier because most breweries typically only make those standard German styles, but deeper exploration will lead you to regional or seasonal specialties like rauchbier, bock, kölsch and altbier.

e top spot on my bucket list is Berlin. Apart from a single day there while backpacking around Europe in 1991, I’ve never been back to the German capital so I would love to spend a week exploring its urban geography and visiting breweries. In addition to its eponymous Berliner weisse style of sour beer, many of Berlin’s young brewers are in uenced by American craft beer, so this is the one place you might actually taste a German IPA.

In his excellent 2018 book, Will Travel For Beer, Toronto-based beer writer Stephen Beaumont recommends a pair of western German cities separated by a half-hour train ride: Köln and Düsseldorf, homes to kölsch and altbier styles respectively. Each city celebrates its own beer with pride and style, including unique glassware and serving traditions.

Another German destination on my wish list is Bamberg, a small city in northern Bavaria that is famous for its rauchbier, made with smoked malts, but also for the sheer number of breweries in the city and surrounding towns. ere are so many that you can walk between breweries along forest trails for days on end. Sounds like heaven to me!

CZECHIA

Tops on Stephen Beaumont’s bucket list and a close second on mine is Prague, a beautiful city with amazing architecture and history to go along with the delicious beer. Světlý ležák is the Czech name for what we call Pilsner, and along with that delicious golden lager, many Czech brewers make a fantastic tmavé pivo (dark lager). No visit to Prague is complete without a stop at U Fleků, a restaurant-brewery that has been brewing continuously since 1499. It is de nitely a touristy spot, but its dark lager is delicious and the kitchen does a ne job of making traditional Czech dishes.

I also recommend visiting the Pilsner Urquell brewery in nearby Plzeň, where the Pilsner style originated in 1842. e tour of its historic facility

includes a visit to the extensive cellars under the city used to lager the beer before the advent of modern refrigeration. ey still brew small batches down there in open-top fermenters, and there is nothing quite like tasting that beer.

BELGIUM

Crystal Luxmore, co-editor of e Growler Ontario, listed three Belgian breweries at the top of her personal bucket list: Cantillon, Orval, and Rodenbach. I was lucky enough to visit Belgium for a week in 2014, and I would love to go back. Each of the breweries she mentioned o ers a very different experience, and that is exactly what makes Belgian beer so exciting. Unlike Germany where most of the breweries make the same handful of beers, no two breweries in Belgium are alike.

e Cantillon Brewery in Brussels is also a museum, where you can take a self-guided tour that showcases the traditional Lambic brewing method it has employed for more than a century, and then taste the results: gueuze, framboise, kriek, and more. Wild-fermented and sour beer lovers will also want to visit Moeder Lambic, a specialty bar with two locations in Brussels.

Rodenbach’s brewery tour features a majestic hall lled with 294 giant oak foeders, some of which are 150 years old. Its Flemish roodbruin (red brown) ales are tart and refreshing with big cherry and plum notes, despite the fact that no fruit is used in the recipes.

Orval is one of six Trappist breweries in Belgium. It does not o er brewery tours, but the old Abbey’s ruins are open to the public, and there is a café where you can taste the “jeune” version on draft alongside the “vieille,” which is bottle-conditioned with Brettanomyces yeast, creating the famous “goût d’Orval.”

Plan your beer-cation with books like this or e World Atlas of Beer (by Stephen Beaumont & Tim Webb).

David Ort photo

Moeder Lambic in Brussels. Joe Wiebe photo

I could list Belgian beer destinations for pages and pages (Bruges, Antwerp, Westvleteren, etc.). Su ce to say, Belgium is an ideal choice for any beer lover to explore.

ITALY

It might be surprising to feature Italy on a beer bucket list, but I’ve been hearing many good things about the craft beer scene there. Italian beer writer Maurizio Maestrelli recommended Rome and Milano: “ e capital has always been considered the capital of craft beer in Italy. A small pub in Trastevere, Ma Che Siete Venuti a Fà (translated: What the hell are you doing here?) was elected best pub in the world a few years ago by Ratebeer, but there are many other good beer places in the city (Open Baladin, Barley Wine, Hop & Pork to drink, and Johnny's O License to buy Italian craft beers). Milano also has very good places like Birri cio Lambrate, the oldest brewpub in town and a very cozy place, Birri cio Italiano, Scott Du , Lambiczoon, and Birri cio La Ribalta. From Milano you can also visit by car some great small breweries such as Birri cio Rurale, Alder Beer, Birri cio Menaresta, and Birri cio Hamer.”

Evan Rail, a Prague-based beer writer, agrees. “If I could go anywhere right now, Italy would be it. Because of my lockdown-induced wanderlust, I’ve started dreaming about where to go when we can travel again, and a beer tour through the Dolomites in the Friuli region is at the top of my list, starting with Birri cio Artigianale Foglie d’Erba. e rst draw is that Foglie d’Erba make excellent, charismatic beers. But the brewery itself is set in the Dolomite mountains, one of the most beautiful parts of Europe. I’ve been through the

area a few times over the years and was always wowed by the scenery.”

UNITED STATES

e U.S. is home to many of the world’s most exciting breweries. My last pre-pandemic trip was to New York City, and I can certainly vouch for Brooklyn’s incredible beer scene. While Crystal Luxmore would love to visit Scratch Brewing, a farmhouse brewery in rural Illinois that brews with homegrown and locally farmed and foraged ingredients.

e U.S. west coast o ers several craft beer hot spots, including San Diego, Portland, and Seattle. Heck, once the Canada-U.S. border opens again, I’ll be happy just to visit Bellingham again! j

What destinations top your beer bucket list? What places should we add to ours? Share them with us on social media with the hashtag #beerbucketlist

Hey, we’ve got great beer here in Canada

Perhaps your budget isn’t quite ready to take you to Europe. No problem: we have amazing beer right here in Canada. Ontario’s craft beer scene is very exciting these days. Stephen Beaumont has become reacquainted with Toronto’s beer scene during the pandemic, and likes what he has tasted: “Toronto can hold its own as a beer city with the best beer cities in the world.” The best brewery there, according to NOW Magazine’s panel of judges, is Godspeed Brewery, but there are many more worth checking out, including Left Field Brewing and Great Lakes Brewing. He also highlighted the beer scene in Niagara-on-the-Lake, and you can find Rob Mangelsdorf’s rave review of Hamilton’s craft breweries in our online archives at bc.thegrowler.ca.

Personally, I’d love to check out Halifax’s craft beer community. Tara Luxmore, co-editor of the The Growler Ontario, says Québec’s Gaspé Peninsula is at the top of her list: key stops are Pit Caribou and Brasserie Auval, along with terroir-driven breweries on the far-flung Îles de la Madeleine. I’ve also been hearing positive reviews of Alberta’s burgeoning scene.

’t Brugs Beertje in Bruges is considered one of the best beer bars in the world . Joe Wiebe photo

by Joe Wiebe

The craft beer industry in British Columbia is dominated by a homogenous group of white males. at undeniable fact has been true since the earliest days of the microbrewing movement, with only a few exceptions. Certainly, one can argue that more and more women have become involved in the beer world over the past decade, but there is a long way yet to go in terms of welcoming Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC) to the industry, as well as folks who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ+).

In the midst of the Black Lives Matter protests that caught the world’s attention last summer, some B.C. breweries showed their support by posting black squares on their social media platforms. But even before Blackout Tuesday (June 2, 2020), a small group of people had already started working together to launch the Diversity in Brewing initiative (DIB).

Heather Keegan, a longtime employee at Storm Brewing, said she initially proposed the idea of a

scholarship to James Walton, Storm’s owner. “But then I realized something like this would be more meaningful, and more impactful, as a collective e ort not centered on one business.”

Keegan reached out to three other members of the beer community, Meghan Fulton, Bruce Gill, and Dan Lee, “whom I really respect and whose voices need to be shared and heard across the industry.” ey shaped the DIB initiative together, with Keegan acting as coordinator. In addition to launching a website that includes a blog where their stories and those of other diverse members of the beer community are published, they worked with Kwantlen Polytechnic University to create a scholarship for students in the Brewing and Brewery Operations program.

Breweries were asked to donate $200 or more. DIB hoped to o er a $5,000 scholarship to one student in the 2020-21 school year, but so many breweries donated that three $5,000 awards were given out. e rst recipients were announced by KPU last fall: Nishant Amin, Jasper Bautista, and Alex Paul.

B.C.'s craft beer industry needs to become

For Nishant Amin, the scholarship reinforced his choice to come to Canada from India to “ful l my dream of being a brewer.” Jasper Bautista hopes to own his own microbrewery one day, a unique place that serves tapas along with craft beer: “I want to shift the culture and target the hip hop and basketball community.” And to Alex Paul, “ e value of the scholarship far exceeds the monetary award I was given. Just the e ect on the beer community of having a scholarship that embraces diversity from the LBGTQ+ and BIPOC communities is huge.”

While the scholarship was a great success story, the DIB team acknowledges that more needs to be done. “Donating money is awesome. It’s made a signi cant di erence in these students’ lives and it shows the industry is willing to support diversity,” Keegan said. “However, our hope is that every brewery that donates sees this as just one way they can help, and are taking other steps as well.”

In the past year two B.C. breweries were called out for mistreatment of employees. Numerous anonymous posts published on the NotOurP49 Instagram account beginning in July, 2020, detailed allegations of racist, transphobic, sexist, homophobic, and misogynistic behavior by owners and managers at Vancouver’s Parallel 49 Brewing. e brewery’s response read, “As owners, we take full responsibility and will make no excuses,” and listed several steps they intended to take, including hiring an HR professional, and introducing sensitivity and management training.

In June 2020, Backcountry Brewing in Squamish also faced criticism from an ex-employee. e brewery responded with a detailed Instagram post on January 26, 2021, that stated, “We failed to protect our employees, and we failed to uphold Backcountry’s values as an inclusive workplace.” e post went on to detail the company’s equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) initiatives.

To help breweries that want to make changes, the Canadian Craft Brewers Association (CCBA) has formed an Inclusion and Anti-Discrimination Committee, which published a list of resources on its website. e Diversity in Brewing website also includes a Resources page with suggestions that include posting prominent signage welcoming diverse and LGBTQ+ people, and explicitly stating in job postings that applicants from BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities are encouraged to apply. is might mean reaching out to potential employees in non-traditional ways, too.

For example, when Persephone Brewing was hiring a new CEO in February 2019, co-owner Brian Smith posted a message online that read, “Of the rst 15 applications for the posting of CEO at Persephone, none are women.” at led to what Smith described as “a great response from a number of really strong female candidates.”

Persephone eventually hired Jenn Vervier, formerly of New Belgium Brewing. “Unfortunately, as COVID-19 set in, she decided to return to the U.S. where her children are based,” Smith explained. Vervier joined Persephone’s Board of Directors with Smith resuming CEO duties during the pandemic. He insisted that hiring Vervier “was an extremely positive experience and I would do it again in a heartbeat.” Persephone has also published a Statement on Inclusivity in Hiring on its website, updated its House Rules to include an inclusivity statement, and painted an indigenous territory acknowledgement prominently in its tasting room.

While there is still a lot to be done to improve diversity in the brewing industry, Keegan is optimistic. “I always hope that people really want to do better,” she said, adding, “change doesn’t happen overnight and there’s a long way to go but each action and e ort we make today can contribute to a brighter future for everyone.” j

KPU’s Diversity in Brewing Award winners Nishant Amin, Jasper Bautista, and Alex Paul (l to r). Supplied photos

B.C.’s new crop of farm breweries

by Matt Cavers

The Beer Farmers photo

Growing up on a farm in Langley, Mel MacInnes has seen many di erent things happen on her land. When she was a kid, her family raised dairy cows. After they got out of the dairy business, they boarded horses and hosted movie shoots. But the thing that stayed the same throughout was a constant, unsettling question: “Every family discussion was, like, how do we keep the farm?” Like so many other rural families, they constantly searched for ways to keep their farm business a oat so that the land could stay in their own hands and not be developed beyond recognition. “It was just like in the movies.”

e next part isn’t like the movies, at least not yet. is summer, MacInnes and her husband Andy Hamer plan to open Locality Brewing, giving local beer fans the opportunity to drink within metres of where their beer’s ingredients grew, and giving MacInnes Farms a new lease on life. And they’re in good company—in the last few years, several farm-based breweries have opened across the province. Some of them owe their existence directly to Crannóg Ales’ and Persephone Brewing Company’s struggles with the provincial government’s Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) regulations. ese came to a head in 2016 when the two breweries were asked to choose between closure or compliance with a clause requiring them to grow 50 per cent of their raw ingredients on site, something neither brewery was able to do. After the provincial election in 2017, though, the new NDP government amended the regulations to allow breweries located on the ALR to source half of their raw ingredients from other B.C. farms if they are unable to grow su cient quantities themselves, a privilege already enjoyed by B.C. wineries and cideries. It was an existential victory for Crannóg and Persephone, but some critics wondered whether the move would be exploited by breweries moving to farmland without a serious intent to actually ever farm.

It’s a fair question to ask. But what’s clear is that, three years after the regulations were amended, B.C.’s new farm breweries are showing they’re up for the challenge of farming as much as that of brewing.

And none more than Locality’s MacInnes and Hamer, who rst planted a test crop of barley in 2016, inspired by what MacInnes said was “the crazy idea” of ultimately making beer with it. Opening a brewery may not actually seem so crazy these days, but it’s the way that they approached the farming side of things that seems—well,

unconventional. ey cut down their rst crop with handheld scythes—“like in the old, old, old days,” said MacInnes. To their surprise, the barley they harvested met maltsters’ speci cations, so, in the next year, they planted out ve acres. is time, unwilling to commit to another hand harvest, they decided to invest in equipment, whereupon Hamer (whom MacInnes described as “a major Craigslist lover”) located the perfect tool at the right price. It was no problem that neither of them knew how to operate the 70-year-old thresher when it arrived from Alberta—a friendly volunteer from the BC Farm Museum, who’d grown up using a similar machine, helped them gure it out. ere was still one problem: the barley crop was too small to ship away for custom malting. So Hamer — who happens to be an engineer—set to work building a small-scale malthouse. Now Locality is set up to produce half a ton of malt at a time, which allows them not just to malt their own grain but also to ll custom malting orders for other small, local producers.

One of those is Chilliwack’s Farmhouse Brewing, whose ten-acre property will produce an estimated eight tons of barley per year. Farmhouse is the most recent farm brewery to open in B.C., and as head

Harvesting the rst crop of barley by hand at MacInnes Farms in Langley, B.C. Locality Brewing photo

Every family discussion was, like, how do we keep the farm?

—Mel MacInnes, Locality Brewing

brewer Josh Rempel con rmed, it “would not have happened” were it not for the 2017 change in ALR regulations. Still, Farmhouse is committed to growing as much of their own ingredients as possible, with approximately half of their property planted with barley, and another two being developed into a small hop yard in partnership with Bredenhof Hop Farms. e value of a farm brewery, for Rempel, doesn’t depend on the brewery achieving complete self-su ciency. “It’s about bringing people closer to the product that they’re actually drinking,” he said. For Farmhouse, that rests on a combination of growing their own grain and hops, as well as using locally-sourced ingredients such as berries.

On the other hand, self-su ciency looks di erent for Ladner’s Barnside Brewing, where co-owner Ken Malenstyn not only cheerfully told me “We don’t buy hops”—words many cash-strapped brewery owners would love to be able to speak — but also that the hundreds of acres of farmland adjacent to the brewery also produce more than enough barley to keep the mash tun full year-round. Barnside, a partnership between four neighbouring farm families, opened in 2020, and given the productivity of their barley and hops,

they would have been able to do so even had ALR regulations not been loosened in 2017. Yet Malenstyn believes that the changes are bene cial, at least in theory. “If it’s for actual farmers to nd a new market to be involved in,” he said, “and to leverage their existing farm in di erent ways and create some vertical integration—that’s awesome.” By way of example, Malenstyn explained to me that farmers sometimes grow barley in rotation with other crops, and the harvest is often used for animal feed. By reserving the barley grown this way for malting—and then transforming it into beer—Barnside extracts extra value from a crop that otherwise might struggle to pay its own way.

And then there’s another sort of value—one that’s hard to put a price on. At e Beer Farmers, which opened in 2018 on the Miller family farm in Pemberton, the brewery is just the latest project on a long-standing family farm. William Miller purchased the land in 1911, and, according to his great-grandson, Beer Farmers co-founder Will Miller, “there’s been a crop of potatoes here every year since that.” e brewery is a family pursuit, with Will’s mom Brenda brewing the beer, his father Bruce taking the lead on the farm, and Will, in his words, doing “everything else,” including leading the planning and construction of a smallscale malthouse that will process the farm’s barley crop. Opening a brewery has provided the family with an opportunity to diversify and add value to the farm’s output, but also to carry on a farming tradition, even in an untraditional way.

As outsiders to the B.C. craft beer scene, we can expect Miller and his fellow farm brewers to show us a thing or two. ey might even disrupt some prevailing trends, like beer lovers’ geography-defying obsession with exotic fruits and imported hops. What we can count on, though, is that their rst loyalty is to the soil. As Miller said, “We see ourselves as farmers that opened a brewery, not brewers that bought a farm.” j

TOP: Freshly harvested barley in Chilliwack, B.C. Farmhouse Brewing photo. BOTTOM: Hops almost ready to be harvested in Delta, B.C. Barnside Brewing photo

We see ourselves as farmers that opened a brewery, not brewers that bought a farm.

—Will Miller, e Beer Farmers

WILL

TANENBAUM

BREWer BREWer

THE PANDEMIC EDITION

by Joe Wiebe

We decided to check in with two breweries that launched in 2020 to get their takes on what it was like to open their doors during the pandemic. I spoke to Will Tanenbaum at Patina Brewing, which opened on March 6, and Adam Keil from Mountainview Brewing in Hope, which opened on November 24. Because of COVID-19-related travel restrictions we met up via Zoom.

I kicked the interview o by asking Will what it was like to open just as the pandemic arrived.

WILL TANENBAUM: We opened the restaurant March 6. e brewery itself wasn’t operational yet because we were waiting on a thousand-amp Hydro upgrade. We were classically behind on the construction schedule. We’d done some contract brewing so we had four brands in the market at that point. e rst weekend we were doing great and then 11 days later the pandemic shut things down. As a result we had to go to a takeout-only model with the restaurant and lay o all of our non-salaried sta . Without the brewery operational that put me into the kitchen. Prior to that I’d been project managing the construction side

of things so in between trying to assuage Hydro’s concerns about whether or not it was a safe environment to work in, I’m putting baked beans in to-go cups, trying to manage all that for 16 hours a day. e classic brewery position of “other duties as necessary.” It was a mess.

at was the routine until late May when we got to open the taproom back up. e brewery nally opened with the Hydro upgrade in late July and our rst batch was brewed July 31.

ADAM KEIL: When the pandemic struck we were still in construction phase. Originally we were hoping maybe we’d get some batches going by June, but pretty much all work stopped. We couldn’t get contractors out to do anything. Hydro needed to move a pole for us and run the line underground but it was like pulling teeth. [Will chuckles knowingly] It was de nitely stressful, the uncertainty—you have a game plan for your business and then you have to rethink it all. Is this model we have even going to work? Are we going to be able to open at all?

In the end, it all came together. We do have our lounge open, but our occupancy isn’t super high.

ADAM KEIL

Our expectations for can sales were blown out of the water.

—Adam Keil, Mountainview Brewing

It went pretty good through Christmas, but obviously now it’s January, historically a terrible month for beer sales. We’ve been just trying to get creative. We’ve got a small kitchen—we’ve got some sandwiches and share boards and stu . It’s a pretty limited menu but we’ve been trying to run some stu to attract some people to come out.

JOE: What was it like adjusting to the changing rules throughout the year?

WILL: I remember when the initial lockdown started, we were like, “OK, I guess we’re taking this seriously for the next week or two…” [laughs] But one of our owners who had worked in Toronto running restaurants during SARS said, “We should be prepared. is could last through May.”

We didn’t have any online ordering capacity at the time. If you look at the BC Brewers Collective Facebook page everyone is sharing information, everyone’s kind of adjusting on the y while trying to obfuscate it from the customer because obviously you don’t want to look too much like you’re ying by the seat of your pants.

In the summer, Port Coquitlam gave us the use of the lane beside our building so all of a sudden we had a giant patio and we had pretty decent weather so we were able to use that. I really think we ended up about as lucky as we had any right to have been.

ADAM: Our opening was late November so people were kind of used to the routines, wearing masks and stu . at part wasn’t too bad because people had an expectation that we were going to have stringent rules. We’re lucky that we have a really big space. It’s an old warehouse, the ceilings are 20’ high, and based on square footage we could have many more people in here, so people are feeling pretty comfortable coming into the space still.

Our expectations for can sales were blown out of the water. When we opened up we canned a little and thought that’ll be lots—we’re not going into any stores, it’s all going to be in-house sales right now. Within a couple of weeks we sold out of all these great products that are selling really well. So we’re expanding our can lineup. We’re getting the mobile canners in next week so we can pump out 35 HL in a day rather than spreading it out over three days [on a manual canning system].

WILL: We’re lucky enough to be next door neighbours with Mile 37 [Craft Canning] so back in February he was trying to sell me on this crowler thing, and I was like, yeah, I don’t know. My plan was really not to bother with cans until six months in at the earliest. en COVID-19 hit and the only way we had to sell beer was growlers. en the lag times on getting more growlers started tailing out. At one point we were lling Mason jars that we were buying at Canadian Tire. It was terrible. It was every self-respecting brewer’s nightmare. So we got the crowler seamer and were doing all these crowlers, and then there was a crowler shortage so we were ip opping back and forth between formats for months. We only ended up doing our rst 473-ml can run with a mobile canning company just before Christmas.

Crowlers and cans for sale at Patina Brewing.

Patina Brewing photo

JOE: Adam, I assume the fact that a lot of tourists drive through Hope was part of your business model?

ADAM: at was the whole model in a sense! Last summer, even with COVID-19, it was one of the busiest summers we’ve ever had in town as far as actual tra c, so I’m hopeful—we just gotta get to May. In the beginning we were getting a lot of out-of-town people still, but when they said you’re not supposed to leave your health region any more, that was a big turning point.

JOE: With hindsight would you have delayed or done anything di erently?

ADAM: We were already behind schedule for so long, we felt like we just had to open and gure it out, start having some revenue coming in. On the other hand, it’s such a gong show in Hope in the summer with tourism so it’s kind of nice to have it a little quieter right now so we can work out all the kinks in terms of the lounge side. It’s good and bad. You want to sell tons of beer but at the same time we don’t want to be caught at-footed

in May when the population here quadruples for three months.

JOE: Do you have an optimistic message to end on?

ADAM: I don’t think it’s going to last forever. at being said, it’s probably not the last time we’re going to nd ourselves in a situation like this so hopefully we’re all a little more prepared next time. For new breweries, being able to be exible and adjusting your expectations that you might have to change things on a dime. If you go in with that kind of mindset then it’s not as shocking as trying to stick to your guns and have this plan, and then you get a wrench thrown in there. If you're expecting the wrench every step of the way then I think it’s a bit easier to deal with.

WILL: [laughs] I love that: expect a wrench. e other thing I’d tack on to that is, you know, craft beer isn’t dead. ere is so much education and demand that can’t be unravelled. We’ve come a long way since the ‘80s and I think if something like this had happened in an earlier time when craft beer was more exclusively a luxury product then I think it could have been pretty ruinous to the industry in general. What are you seeing now if not the resiliency of so many businesses? It really made us examine the fundamentals of our business model in a way that if you’re making a lot of money maybe you’re not looking quite so closely. I’m sure that whatever breweries are thinking about opening are thinking long and hard to make sure what they’ve got planned out is sensible and sound. I feel optimistic about that. It’s cliché to say we’ll emerge stronger for it but I do believe it. j

At one point we were lling Mason jars that we were buying at Canadian Tire. It was terrible. It was every self-respecting brewer’s nightmare.

—Will Tanenbaum, Patina Brewing

A variety of cans at Mountainview Brewing. Mountainview Brewing photo

craFt pollination craFt pollination

Craft beer is having a big impact on B.C.’s cider scene— and vice versa!

by Rob Mangelsdorf

It wasn’t so long ago that the few options available for locally-made cider came in large plastic bottles usually reserved for sugary soft drinks—and tasted just as sweet.

ankfully, that’s no longer the case, with liquor stores devoting entire aisles to the growing number of local cideries, each producing a widening array of styles. From dry-hopped cider, to gosestyle, to beer/cider hybrids like gra , cideries are increasingly looking to craft beer for inspiration.

Bruce McKinlay of Valley Cider in Duncan says craft beer helped pave the way for the growing craft cider industry in B.C.

“ e explosion of craft beer has been about, for lack of a better term, thinking outside the box. And historically, cider has had a very strict, immutable box that it’s been stuck in,” he says. “If you go back 10 years—even ve years—cider has been de ned by a bunch of grumpy white guys from Southwest England.”

e explosion of craft beer in recent years has helped open people up to trying something new, and that’s encouraged creativity within the cider industry: gone are the days of “carcinogenic sugar

water,” McKinlay notes. Meanwhile, the success of craft breweries across the province has helped to inspire the new generation of cidermakers to enter the market and start their own businesses.

“ at’s allowed us to do what we want,” McKinlay says. “And that’s what craft is all about, it’s about making something that’s an extension of you, and beer has lowered people’s resistance to that.”

Valley Cider currently o ers close to 20 di erent types of cider, some of which have been in uenced by craft beer styles. Humulus Lupulus is McKinlay’s take on a dry-hopped cider, a style inspired by big, bold IPAs. But unlike IPAs, McKinlay’s version focuses on the oral aroma and avour of the hops, as opposed to the bitterness.

“It doesn’t make sense to recreate Fat Tug as a cider,” he says. “But we can use hops in a di erent way, that makes sense for cider.”

Meanwhile, craft beer, in turn, is embracing cider. Some breweries—like Surrey’s Central City, Vancouver’s 33 Acres and Gibsons’ Persephone Brewing—have released ciders of their own, while other breweries are incorporating apples and cider-making techniques to create beer/cider hybrids.

One hybrid style that’s catching on is called “gra ,” and as strange at it may seem, it was actually invented by Stephen King.

Yes, that Stephen King.

“Yeah, it was in his Dark Tower series,” says Longwood Brewing brewmaster Harley Smith.

“In the book, there’s an outer world where everyone drinks this stu called “gra ” and it’s a cross between beer and cider. Ten, 15 years ago some homebrewers thought it would be a good idea to start making the stu , and now it’s a real thing. So thank you Stephen King!”

Every year, Longwood brews a gra -inspired beer-cider hybrid made with locally-grown quince—a pome fruit similar to pear. is year, thanks to a local bumper crop of apples, he has plans for a barrel-aged beer-cider hybrid.

“Since cider has become a quality craft beverage, brewers are paying more attention to it,” he says. “ ere are no rules anymore, so we can try anything.”

Beer and cider are companion industries, he notes, and because cider is gluten-free, it o ers breweries the opportunity to produce a beverage for people who may not be able to drink beer. Many brewery tasting rooms already carry a cider guest tap speci cally to cater to gluten-free customers.

Ravens Brewing brewmaster Dan Marriette says like many breweries across the province, Ravens is exploring the idea of producing its own cider in the future.

“It’s local, it’s gluten-free… and it gives us a fun, new, interesting avenue to explore,” he says.

For Smith, the appeal of incorporating cider into his beer is all about showcasing local terroir. Tree fruits, in particular, are useful for introducing wild yeast that would otherwise be di cult to isolate, he notes.

“ ere’s wild yeasts present [on the skins of tree fruit] that we can’t get anywhere else,” he says. For a brewery that specializes in sourcing its ingredients locally, that o ers a unique opportunity to impart a local avour.

“We’re open to everything local,” says Smith. “And the farmers know it and they’ll come knocking on our door if they have something they think we might be able to use.” j

Since cider has become a quality craft beverage, brewers are paying more attention to it. ere are no rules anymore, so we can try anything. —Harley Smith

Bruce McKinlay at Valley Cider in Duncan, B.C. Valley Cider photo

Quince Tart Lager from Longwood Brewery in Nanaimo, B.C. Longwood Brewery photo

this hand sanitizer, that beer this hand sanitizer, that beer

by Matt Cavers

Author’s note: below is a transcript of my notes from the is Hand Sanitizer, at Beer rowdown, a new event which took place on January 9, 2021, in Gibsons.*

12:40 P.M. // First beer event I’ve been to in a year! Love the concept—we’re pairing B.C. craft beer with hand sanitizer made by B.C. craft breweries. Place looks great, too. I vacuumed.

12:45 P.M. // Getting set up. Took a while to nd beer tickets but then remembered that stash in my underwear drawer from the 2019

B.C. Beer Awards. I knew they’d come in handy! (I got in free today by volunteering at the ticket table.)

ink I’ll hit the Red Truck booth rst, which is also my fridge.

Matt Cavers is the sole attendee at the is Hand Sanitizer, at Beer rowdown on January 9, 2021. Photos by Matt Cavers, obviously.

1:00 P.M. // e event’s started but nobody's here. I’ve pocketed the tickets. Time for a pour. Moving to the couch.

1:05 P.M. // Forgot that I volunteered to pour too, so getting up again. ink I’ll hit the Red Truck booth rst, which is also my fridge.

1:10 P.M. // OK, rst sani of the day! Red Truck’s Hand Sanitizer spritzes evenly—nice mist dispersion. Aroma: ethanol and—actually that’s it. It’s unscented. Now the pairing—Road Trip Classic Lager. Crisp and clean. Clean hands and clean beer! Ha! Ha! No liquor inspector in sight so I’m nishing the can.

1:20 P.M. // Round two: From Gibsons, e 101’s “Hand and Surface Sanitizer.” Spritzed some on my co ee table and it’s left a mark. Hmm. At least it’s a clean mark! Aroma is strong ethanol— a blank canvas for their bold and fruity Tall Faller Hazy IPA. Wow, there are four pours in a tall can!

1:35 P.M. // I checked my driveway and there’s no food truck. Opening some chips instead. Better sanitize! Spritzing left hand with 101 and right with Red Truck. Nuanced ethanol. Love the collaboration in this industry. Maybe I’ll have another Road Trip while I eat.

1:50 P.M. // Round three: Patina, from PoCo. eir sani is in a pump bottle. Pumping. Nothing coming out. Pumping. Pumping. What the— uh oh. Mark on my table is now bigger. Huge aroma—this one’s an ethanol bomb. Is “ethanol” the “malty” of hand sanitizer tasting, er, smelling

Is

notes? It’s all I’ve got. Cracking their Juicy IPA. Juicy. Trying their Amber Lager too. It’s “malty.”

2:10 P.M. // My family just got home. My wife looks concerned and my son is eyeing up my pretzel necklace.

2:30 P.M. // My wife says it’s last call—already? I think Bad Tattoo, from Penticton, is probably still pouring. Cracked a can, but where’s the sanitizer? Wait, this can is the sanitizer? OK. Pouring it copiously over my hands in the bathroom sink. is feels dangerous. My skin is stinging and the bathroom smells ammable. Hey, that’s a good aroma word: “ ammable”! OK, pairing time—uh oh, I think it really is last call—maybe I can still get a pour of their Peanut Butter Chocolate Porter—what?—my wife says she drank it on her Zoom call last night. Nope—here’s one! Wow! Chocolatey!

2:40 P.M. // Phone’s ringing. My wife says it’s the liquor inspector. Says the event permit is invalid. I’m skeptical.

2:45 P.M. // Whatever. Vibe killed. Looking for instant ramen. Does anyone here know how to check in hand sanitizer on Untappd? j

*At my house.

“ethanol” the “malty” of hand sanitizer tasting, er, smelling notes?

Brass Fish burger

with Fat Tug IPA from Driftwood Brewery

BY CHEF SARAH STEWART, BRASS FISH TAVERN

Brass Fish Tavern opened last February just in time for the pandemic. Located in Vancouver’s historic Marine Building, the name takes inspiration from the building itself. It is a beautiful, unique space with memorable design elements including a whale skeleton hanging from the ceiling.

“It is a place for elevated pub food, craft beers and cocktails,” explained Chef Sarah Stewart. “We also have an Izakaya—which is a type of informal Japanese bar—so in a way it is a pub within the pub. We draw inspiration from those avours in our core menu as well.”

For this recipe, Stewart chose “our ri on a classic fast food burger. Our chef team is passionate

about using local suppliers and quality goods, and we are also really excited about trashy snacks.” While the burger was a collaboration, the signature Russian dressing recipe is her own creation.

e ideal beer pairing was a consensus pick among the Brass Fish sta . “Fat Tug is the beer of choice to pair with our burger. Not only do I love everything that Driftwood Brewery does, but the fruity and bitter notes of this particular beer complement and hold their own against the rich Two Rivers beef and buttery bun.”

While beer doesn’t play a part in this particular recipe, Stewart said, “I enjoy cooking with bold avours. I love the range of acidities available in sour beers and I nd the complementary fruit

Fred Fung photos

avours really versatile when cooking.” She would suggest making an IPA onion and thyme jam as an additional topping for this burger, or perhaps a fruit-forward sour beer and apple mustard along with double smoked bacon.

Stewart lives in East Van, “the land of small breweries so I love to stroll around and see what is new and at my doorstep.” She prefers sour and hoppy beers: “I’m not sure if it is due to the fact that I spend most of my days tasting food that is quite rich, and I really love bold and tangy avours as an o set to that richness. I just can’t get enough sour. e more sour and the more hoppy, the better for me personally.”

Brass Fish Tavern has an extensive beer list with a wide variety of craft beers from B.C. breweries. It also o ers Happy Hour pricing on all B.C. draught beer weekdays from 3pm to 7pm. So maybe after trying to make this burger at home, head over to Brass Fish and taste the real thing there.

—Joe Wiebe

INgredients

Russian Dressing

• 1 cup mayo

• ¼ cup ketchup

• 2 tbsp horseradish

• 2 tbsp nely chopped dill pickle

• 1 tbsp dijon mustard

• 1 tbsp sriracha

• 1 tbsp cider vinegar

• to taste salt & pepper

• 1 tbsp chopped parsley

Burger

• 1 Martin potato roll, buttered

• 1 Two Rivers grass-fed beef patty

• salt & pepper, to taste

• 2 tbsp Russian dressing

• 4 bread and butter pickles

• ¼ cup lettuce ( nely sliced)

• 2 slices Roma tomato

• 1 slice American cheddar

directions

Russian Dressing

1. Gather everything in speci ed quantities.

2. Mix in a small bowl.

3.Taste and adjust to personal preference.

4. Store refrigerated for up to a week.

Burger

1. Season the burger patty with salt & pepper.

2. Sear in a hot pan or griddle, cooking 3 minutes per side approximately.

3. When the burger is almost cooked, place the cheese on the top to melt.

4. Toast and butter the bun.

5. Cover each side of the bun in sauce and top with your favourite ingredients.

6. Make and eat three more of them because they are that gosh darn good. j

Brass Fish Tavern chef Sarah Stewart created this burger in collaboration with her sta , but the Russian dressing recipe is all her own.

33 ACRES BREWING CO.

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

33 BREWING EXPERIMENT

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

33 Acres signi es “success through hard work.” Numerologically, 33 is a master number, and “acres” refers to the honest human labour associated with farming.

e experimental o -shoot of the original brewery next door, 33 Brewing Experiment pushes boundaries and tantalizes taste buds on a regular basis.

33 ACRES OF OCEAN

33 ACRES OF SUNSHINE FRENCH BLANCHE Availability: Year-round Availability: Year-round

BOMBER BREWING CO.

1488 Adanac St. | BomberBrewing.com

DRY-HOPPED PILSNER KELLERBIER

MAIN STREET BREWING CO. 261 E. 7th Ave. | MainStreetBeer.ca

Although Bomber changed its colours as part of the sale to the Donnelly Group a couple years ago, its beer is just as delicious as ever.

LIMONCITO LOCO SALTED LIME LAGER

RASPBERRY PARKLIFE BLONDE ALE WITH RASPBERRIES

Availability: Seasonal Availability: Small-batch

Main Street a rms and embraces Vancouver’s cask-conditioned beer tradition with a regular series of casks available in the tasting room.

ØL FOR ONE AND ONE FOR ØL DRY-HOPPED OSLO LAGER

PARALLEL 49 BREWING CO.

1950 Triumph St. | Parallel49Brewing.com

SETTLEMENT BREWING

55 Dunlevy Ave. | SettlementBuilding.com/SettlementBrewing

Enjoy incredible food from P49’s “Street Kitchen,” a converted food truck parked right inside the tasting room, along with delicious and creative beers.

TRASH

Visit the

HOMEBODY

STRANGE FELLOWS BREWING

1345 Clark Dr. | StrangeFellowsBrewing.com

STRATHCONA BEER CO.

895 E. Hastings St. | StrathconaBeer.com

Strange Fact: Christine Moulson, the obviously talented artist behind this brewery’s iconic design aesthetic, actually studied Film and Animation at Emily Carr, not graphic design.

GUARDIAN

e tasting room’s modern industrial design features open concrete, white r bar and table tops, and neon highlighting—a nod to Hastings Street’s 1950s-era neon signs.

BIG

DOGWOOD BREWING

8284 Sherbrooke St., Vancouver

DogwoodBrew.com

LUPPOLO BREWING CO.

1123 Venables St., Vancouver

LuppoloBrewing.ca

EAST VAN BREWING CO.

1675 Venables St., Vancouver

EastVanBrewing.com

ELECTRIC BICYCLE BREWING CO.

20 E. 4th Ave., Vancouver

ElectricBicycleBrewing.com

FACULTY BREWING CO.

1830 Ontario St., Vancouver

FacultyBrewing.com

POWELL BREWERY

1357 Powell St., Vancouver

PowellBeer.com

R & B BREWING CO.

54 E. 4th Ave., Vancouver RAndBBrewing.com

RED TRUCK BEER CO.

295 E. 1st Ave., Vancouver RedTruckBeer.com

GRANVILLE ISLAND BREWING

1441 Cartwright St., Vancouver GIB.ca

SLOW HAND BEER COMPANY

1830 Powell St., Vancouver SlowHandBeer.com

HASTINGS MILL BREWING COMPANY

403 E. Hastings St.

PatsPub.ca

STANLEY PARK BREWING RESTAURANT & BREWPUB

8901 Stanley Park Dr., Vancouver StanleyParkBrewing.com

After R&B Brewing opened in 1998, no other breweries opened in Vancouver until 2012 when Coal Harbour, Parallel 49 and Powell all opened their doors. Since then, more than 20 other breweries have opened in the city!

North Shore

Port Moody

KPU BREW LAB

20901 Langley Bypass | KPU.ca/Brew

FRI 1-6PM

EST. 2014

Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) o ers B.C.’s only Brewing Diploma program and is the only institution in Canada recognized by the Master Brewers Association of the Americas (MBAA) for a standard of excellence in brewing education. KPU sells its beers in cans, kegs and $10 growler lls on Friday afternoons only.

BIRRA ROSSA

AMERICAN AMBER ALE

Availability: Year-round

First place winner at the 2019 BC Beer Awards, this malt-forward American amber ale is made with New World hops.

DAS FEST PALE GERMAN LAGER

Availability: Year-round

is traditional German-style Festbier will have you dancing the polka and singing “Ein Prosit” before you can say “Eins, zwei, drei!”

Availability: Year-round

is classic German-style wheat beer is called 50/50 because the recipe includes 50% wheat malt and 50% barley malt.

Availability: Year-round

Another BC Beer Award winner, this smooth and delicious black lager has notes of co ee and chocolate.

Q&A with Alek Egi, Brewing Instructor

Q: How much creativity do students get to use when developing their recipes?

A: Students have a lot of opportunity to get creative within KPU’s two-year Brewing Diploma, especially with their Signature Recipe Beer capstone project: using di erent malt and hops combinations, experimental fermentation, adjunct ingredients, etc. We let them use their imagination and skills to come up with unique, quality beers that they then sell at our brewery every spring.

KPU 50/50 HEFE HEFEWEIZEN

@JustJash photo

DAGERAAD BREWING

114-3191 underbird Cres. | DageraadBrewing.com

FOUR WINDS BREWING CO.

4-355 72nd St. | FourWindsBrewing.ca

From its core lineup to the wide range of barrel-aged specialties and collaborations with other breweries, Dageraad’s Belgian-style beers are always delicious and often exceptional.

STERKE SOELAAS BELGIAN-STYLE SPICED

Visiting Four Winds’ tasting room in person is a pretty great experience, but even if you can’t get there in person, they ship throughout B.C.

NECTAROUS

DRY-HOPPED SOUR ALE

Availability: Year-round

LANGLEY LANGLEY

CAMP BEER CO.

19664 64 Ave. | CampBeer.ca

As the weather warms up, this brewery’s camping-themed vibe and patio will be a popular draw for locals and visitors from other regions, too.

MILE MARKER

HAZY PALE ALE

Availability: Seasonal

GREG WEST COAST IPA

Availability: Small batch

DEAD FROG BREWERY

105-8860 201st St. | DeadFrog.ca

ANORAK IPA WEST COAST IPA

Availability: Year-round

Dead Frog continues to push boundaries with its Juice Box. What other B.C. brewery would put out a mixed 12-pack featuring only sour beers?!

WARHEAD BLACKBERRY

IMPERIAL SOUR SOUR ALE

Availability: Year-round

PURPLE HAZE HAZY IPA HAZY IPA

Availability: Year-round

FARM COUNTRY BREWING

#5-20555 56 Ave. | FarmCountryBrewing.com

FIVE ROADS BREWING

6263 202nd St. | FiveRoadsBrewing.com

Farm Country’s large tasting room has enough space to adhere to all COVID-19 restrictions and still seat up to 75 patrons.

JOHNNY

Five Roads has a spacious patio and tasting room serving locally sourced food along with great beer. Select beers are available in four and six-packs.

SANGRIA SOUR FRUITED SOUR/WINE BLEND

LOCALITY BREWING

25160 72 Ave. | LocalityBrewing.ca

TRADING POST BREWING

107-20120 64th Ave. | TradingPostBrewing.com

Visit this farm-based brewery to taste beer terroir in your glass. Take a walk in the barley eld and hopyard and check out the malthouse.

Triple your pleasure! In addition to the brewery and tasting room in Langley, Trading Post also operates eateries in Fort Langley and Abbotsford.

LEMON LIME GOSE SOUR GOSE

BRIDGE BREWING CO.

1448 Charlotte Rd. | BridgeBrewing.com

HOUSE OF FUNK BREWING CO.

350 E. Esplanade | HouseOfFunkBrewing.com

Last year, Bridge opened the Lonsdale BridgeDeck restaurant, which o ers all its beers on tap along with an extensive menu created by head chef Trevor Harris.

PRIMETIME

Availability: Year-round

Availability: Small-batch

BOARDWALK BREWING

2155-575 Seaborne Ave. | Instagram.com/BoardwalkBrewing

Every brew at House of Funk must spend time fermenting or conditioning in wood, or be subjected to an onslaught of wild yeast, souring bacteria and other funky micro-organisms.

Availability: Year-round

Availability: Seasonal

TINHOUSE BREWING CO.

550 Sherling Pl. | TinhouseBrewing.ca

You may have heard about the fermentation tanks stolen while this brewery was under construction. Good news, Boardwalk expects to open this spring!

WE’RE EXPERIMENTING WAIT AND SEE

Availability: Coming soon!

Look for this brewery right beside the PoCo Traboulay Trail, a 25km at circle route ideal for cycling. ey have a bike rack… and beer!

LET’S GET

Availability: Year-round

PARKSIDE BREWERY

2731 Murray St. | eParksideBrewery.com

PLEASANTSIDE

MIXED BERRY ALE

Year-round MOTEL HAZY PALE ALE IBU ABV 10 4.8% IBU ABV 40 5.8%

FUGGLES & WARLOCK CRAFTWORKS

103-11220 Horseshoe Way | FugglesWarlock.com

RED RACER

11411 Bridgeview Dr. | CentralCityBrewing.com

Along with its tasting room, Fuggles has an extended, covered patio with re pit lounges that are available by reservation. Kids and dogs are welcome.

MOUNTAIN VIEW

SURREY PORT MOODY RICHMOND

BLACK CURRANT SOUR

Brewmaster Gary Lohin launched Red Racer IPA in cans back in 2008—way ahead of the canning trend the craft beer industry has recently embraced.

HAZY DREAMER

HAZY PALE ALE

Availability:

202 - 13018 80th Ave. | RussellBeer.com

Availability: Year-round Availability: Seasonal IBU ABV 7 6.0% IBU ABV 30 5.0%

DAY IBU ABV 30 5% IBU ABV 20 5.0%

PEACH COBBLER

DESSERT SOUR Availability: One-o Availability: One-o

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WHITE ROCK

GALAXIE CRAFT BREWHOUSE

1122 Vidal St. | GalaxieCraftBeer.com

BEERE BREWING COMPANY

312 E. Esplanade, North Vancouver

BeereBrewing.com

is new brewery is based in a 1950s building built by BC Telecom (way before the internet), which is located on White Rock’s west beach.

THE ZENITH SMASH IPA

Availability: Year-round

BIG RIDGE BREWING CO.

5580 152 St., Surrey

MJG.ca/Big-Ridge

BLACK HOLE STOUT

BLACK KETTLE BREWING

106 -720 Copping St., North Vancouver

BlackKettleBrewing.com

3 DOGS BREWING

1515 Johnston Rd., White Rock

3DogsBrewing.com

ANOTHER BEER CO.

#11 - 30 Capilano Way, New Westminster

AnotherBeerCo.com

BRITANNIA BREWING CO.

110-12500 Horseshoe Way, Richmond BBCO.ca

DEEP COVE BREWERS AND DISTILLERS

170 - 2270 Dollarton Hwy., North Vancouver

DeepCoveCraft.com

BARNSIDE BREWING CO.

6655 60 Ave., Delta | BarnsideBrewing.ca

FOAMERS’ FOLLY BREWING CO.

19221 122A Ave., Pitt Meadows

FoamersFolly.ca

FRASER MILLS FERMENTATION CO.

3044 Saint Johns St., Port Moody FraserMillsFermentation.com

MOODY ALES

2601 Murray St., Port Moody MoodyAles.com

GREEN LEAF BREWING CO.

123 Carrie Cates Crt., North Vancouver GreenLeafBrew.com

LA CERVECERIA ASTILLEROS

226 E. Esplanade, North Vancouver Cerveceria-Astilleros.com

MAPLE MEADOWS BREWING CO.

22775 Dewdney Trunk Rd., Maple Ridge MapleMeadowsBrewing.com

MARINER BREWING

1100 Lansdowne Dr., Coquitlam MarinerBrewing.ca

NORTH POINT BREWING CO.

266 E. 1st St., North Vancouver NorthPointBrewing.com

NORTHPAW BREW CO.

2150-570 Sherling Pl., Port Coquitlam NorthpawBrewCo.com

PATINA BREWING CO.

2332 Marpole Ave., Port Coquitlam PatinaBrewing.com

RIDGE BREWING CO.

22826 Dewdney Trunk Rd., Maple Ridge RidgeBrewing.com

MONKEY 9 BREWING

14200 Entertainment Blvd., Richmond Monkey9.ca

SHAKETOWN BREWING

104 Esplanade E., North Vancouver ShaketownBrewing.com

SILVER VALLEY BREWING CO.

#101 - 11952 224 St., Maple Ridge

SilverValleyBrewing.com

TAYLIGHT BREWING

402-1485 Coast Meridian Rd., Port Coquitlam | TaylightBrewing.com

SMUGGLERS TRAIL

140-9339 200a St., Langley

SmugglersTrailCask.com

THE BAKERY BREWING CO.

2617 Murray St., Port Moody eBakeryBrewing.com

STEAMWORKS BREWING CO.

3845 William St., Burnaby Steamworks.com

TWIN SAILS BREWING

2821 Murray St., Port Moody

TwinSailsBrewing.com

STEEL & OAK BREWING CO.

1319 3rd Ave., New Westminster SteelAndOak.ca

WHITE ROCK BEACH BEER CO.

15181 Russell Ave., White Rock

WhiteRockBeachBeer.com

STREETCAR BREWING

123A East 1st St., North Vancouver

StreetcarBrewing.ca

WILDEYE BREWING

1385 Main St., North Vancouver

WildeyeBrewing.ca

STUDIO BREWING

5792 Beresford St., Burnaby

StudioBrewing.ca

YELLOW DOG BREWING CO.

1 - 2817 Murray St., Port Moody

YellowDogBrew.com

FIELD HOUSE BREWING CO.

2281 West Railway St. | FieldHouseBrewing.com

FARMHOUSE BREWING CO.

6385 Lickman Rd. | FarmhouseBrewing.co

Field House has earned a stellar reputation, both for the quality of its beers and the experience customers enjoy when visiting the brewery.

FIELD HOUSE IPA

is farm-based brewery grows its own barley to use in its beers. It has a tasting room, heated patio, and a big, family-friendly picnic area.

Availability: Year-round

FIELD HOUSE CHWK

#102-9251 Woolly Dog Alley | FieldHouseBrewing.com

Field House’s second location in downtown Chilliwack focuses on IPAs and lagers. Enjoy unique brews on-site along with delicious pizzas from the wood re oven.

FARMHOUSE ALE

Availability: Seasonal

Availability: Year-round

MOUNTAINVIEW BREWING CO.

390 Old Hope Princeton Way | MountainviewBrewing.ca

Availability: Seasonal

Visit Hope to check out this brewery—and to take a self-guided tour of lming locations used in First Blood, the original Rambo movie.

THIS CASCADIAN LIFE RICE LAGER CITRA

Availability: Seasonal Availability: Seasonal

DARK IBU ABV 30 6.7% IBU ABV 28 4.8% IBU ABV 15 7.5% IBU ABV 23 5%

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BRICKLAYER BREWING

46128 Yale Rd., Chilliwack

BricklayerBrewing.com

FLASHBACK BREWING CO.

TEMPORARILY CLOSED

1-9360 Mill St., Chilliwack

FlashbackBrewing.ca

LOUDMOUTH BREWING

103 – 2582 Mt. Lehman Rd., Abbotsford

LoudmouthBrewingCompany.ca

MISSION SPRINGS

BREWING COMPANY

7160 Oliver St., Mission

MissionSprings.ca

OLD ABBEY ALES

30321 Fraser Hwy., Abbotsford

OldAbbeyAles.com

RAVENS BREWING CO.

2485 Townline Rd., Abbotsford

Ravens.beer

Between the 20s and 70s, only hotel beer parlours could serve alcohol, in the form of beer by the glass. Hard liquor, music and even windows were forbidden.

OLD YALE BREWING CO.

404 - 44550 South Sumas Rd., Chilliwack

OldYaleBrewing.com

THE 101 BREWHOUSE + DISTILLERY

1009 Gibsons Way | e101.ca

BATCH 44 BREWERY & KITCHEN

5561 Wharf Ave. | Batch44Brewery.com

e 101 has been making hand sanitizer for hospitals, schools and other businesses since the pandemic arrived. ey also make delicious beer and food!

SHINGLEROOF

is family-owned brewery in the heart of downtown Sechelt opened early in 2020. Along with a range of beers, it has a full kitchen and patio.

BACKCOUNTRY BREWING

#405 - 1201 Commercial Way | BackcountryBrewing.com

COAST MOUNTAIN BREWING

2-1212 Alpha Lake Rd. | CoastMountainBrewing.com

Famous for releasing a vast array of beers featuring creative names based on pop culture references, Backcountry is planning 100+ unique beers in 2021. WIDOWMAKER

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SUNBREAK

WHISTLER BREWING CO.

1045 Millar Creek Rd. | WhistlerBeer.com

PEMBERTON BREWING CO.

1936 Stonecutter Pl., Pemberton

PembertonBrewing.ca

e only B.C. brewery that makes gluten-free beer, including a lager and a pale ale, Whistler Brewing also makes Mighty 90, a low-cal, low-carb pale ale.

FORAGER

GLUTEN FREE PALE ALE Availability: Year-round

A-FRAME BREWING CO.

38927 Queens Way, Squamish

AFrameBrewing.com

PERSEPHONE BREWING CO.

1053 Stewart Rd., Gibsons

PersephoneBrewing.com

TAPWORKS BREWING CO.

537 Cruice Lane, Gibsons

GibsonsTapworks.com

THE BEER FARMERS

8324 Pemberton Meadows Rd., Pemberton eBeerFarmers.com

HIGH MOUNTAIN BREWING CO.

4355 Blackcomb Way, Whistler

MJG.ca/BrewHouse

TOWNSITE BREWING

5824 Ash Ave., Powell River

TownsiteBrewing.com

HOWE SOUND BREWING CO.

37801 Cleveland Ave., Squamish

HoweSound.com

VANCOUVER ISLAND BREWING

2330 Government St. | VIBrewing.com

TUE-THU 12-6PM ^ FRI-SAT 12-7PM ^ SUN-MON CLOSED

EST. 1984

Vancouver Island Brewing recently doubled the number of taps in its Taproom giving it 18 in total. at allows them to feature all their core brands along with seasonal and exclusive small-batch beers, as well as guest taps from local breweries and cideries. Plus, you can enjoy the beers on their covered and heated parking lot patio!

WEST COAST IPA

Availability: Year-round

With oral aromas and avours of citrus and pine, this is a toast to the West Coast Trail.

COLLABORATION SERIES: BLACK IPA BLACK IPA

Availability: One-o

In this collab with Rossland Beer Co., roasted malt notes are balanced with bright piney and tropical hop avours.

Availability: Year-round

is German-style Pilsner is a clean and crisp full-bodied lager with a nice hop bite.

Availability: Year-round

Grapefruit and passionfruit aromas lead to more grapefruit and lemon peel avours.

Small Batches Finally!

Constrained by its 120hL original German brewhouse, Vancouver Island Brewing’s ability to experiment with small batches has been limited. Until now! With the installation of a 3hL pilot system, starting in spring 2021 this will allow for taproom-exclusive releases featuring locally sourced ingredients like small crop hops, botanicals and fruits.

TWA DOGS BREWERY AT MACALONEY DISTILLERY 761 Enterprise Cres. | VCaledonian.com

EST. 2016

Along with its comfortable and spacious tasting room, Twa Dogs also has a tented, heated patio out front. We also recommend the entertaining guided facility tours, which include beer and whisky tastings.

DROUTHY

INDIA PALE ALE

NEIBOR

Availability: Year-round

ABV IBU 7.0%60

“Drouthy” is Scottish for thirsty—be a good neighbour and pass him a can quick!

MALCONTENT

ENGLISH PUB ALE

Availability: Seasonal

ABV IBU 4.0%43

is ale is meant to be gulped from a proper pint glass while watching cricket and eating crisps.

(now

Monday-Thursday

ESQUIMALT MAYNE ISLAND

LIGHTHOUSE BREWING CO.

2-836 Devonshire Rd. | LighthouseBrewing.com

MAYNE ISLAND BREWING CO.

490 Fernhill Rd. | MayneIslandBrewingCo.com

Lighthouse recently launched a new eet of rebranded beers. ere are many new treasures, but if ‘tis an old favourite ye seek—Race Rocks is still there.

RASPBERRY

HOWL BREWING

1780 Mills Rd. | HowlBrewing.ca

Put this idyllic spot on your bucket list for B.C. beer explorations once the pandemic allows it. You’ll be sipping delicious beer in paradise.

FOGHORN IPA INDIA PALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

THE MARZENS ARE COMING! INDIA PALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

BAD DOG BREWING COMPANY

7861 Tugwell Rd. | BadDogBrewing.ca

Brewer Dan van Netten makes some of B.C.’s most unusual beers, including a regular rotation of unhopped Gruits with locally foraged botanicals, herbs and fruit.

CURRANT

Availability: Seasonal

SPRING GRUIT UNHOPPED ALE

With expanded capacity and a covered and heated open-air patio, Bad Dog is a great destination for a beer-themed road trip by car or bicycle.

SPACE WALK

Availability: Seasonal Availability: Seasonal

Availability: Year-round

NORTH SAANICH SOOKE

After expanding capacity with a new production facility last year, SOB is also starting to package its products in tall cans.

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Spinnakers continues to serve delicious food, beer and cider, all made on-site in its iconic brewpub. Recently, it added a lineup of pops and sparkling waters.

DRIFTWOOD BREWERY

New location as of April:

836 View eld Rd., Victoria DriftwoodBeer.com

HERALD STREET BREW WORKS

506 Herald St., Victoria HeraldStreet.com

SALT SPRING ISLAND ALES

270 Furness Rd., Salt Spring Island SaltSpringIslandAles.com

SOOKE BREWING CO.

2057 Otter Point Rd., Sooke SookeBrewing.com

HOYNE BREWING CO.

101-2740 Bridge St., Victoria HoyneBrewing.ca

SWANS BREWPUB

506 Pandora Ave., Victoria SwansHotel.com

ÎLE SAUVAGE BREWING CO.

2960 Bridge St., Victoria IleSauvage.com

MOON UNDER WATER BREWERY

350B Bay St., Victoria MoonUnderWater.ca

PHILLIPS BREWING & MALTING CO.

2010 Government St., Victoria PhillipsBeer.com

V2V BLACK HOPS BREWING

2323 Millstream Rd., Langford V2VBlackHopsBrewing.ca

WHISTLE BUOY BREWING CO.

560 Johnson St., Victoria WhistleBuoyBrewing.com

DUNCAN

RED ARROW BREWING CO.

5255 Chaster Rd. | RedArrowBeer.ca

Along with an extended patio, Red Arrow’s tasting room now has 12 taps and can serve a full range of beer, cider, wine and spirits.

KUSTOM KÖLSCH LAGERED ALE

PARTY HAT HAZY PALE ALE

Our newly extended dog and kid-friendly patio is ready for another busy summer.

Enjoy the Taco Revolution Food Truck on site 7 days a week ($3 Taco Tuesday special)

Our new kitchen opens Summer 2021!

OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK

M-Th 11-8 • F-Sa 11-9 • Su 11-7 Red Arrow Brewing @redarrowbeer

Watch for the return of our concert series!

PORT ALBERNI

TWIN CITY BREWING

4503 Margaret St. | TwinCityBrewing.ca

e BC Ale Trail gave Twin City its Best Brewery Experience Award in November. We wholeheartedly agree! is place should be at the top of your must-visit list.

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MUNICH HELLES LAGER

Availability: Seasonal Availability: Seasonal IBU ABV 17 5.0% IBU ABV 14 5.0% 58 Sponsored content

BEACH FIRE BREWING

594 11th Ave. | BeachFireBrewing.ca

NEW TRADITION BREWING

215 Port Augusta St. | NewTraditionBrewing.com

Along with the delicious beer, you can enjoy pizza baked in the wood- red oven while sitting outside in the back yard patio.

Located in the heart of Comox within walking distance of the waterfront, enjoy mountain views and delicious brews on the patio or in the tasting room.

CURE FOR THE COMMON KÖLSCH

COURTENAY COURTENAY

ACE BREWING CO.

150 Mans eld Dr. | Facebook.com/AceBrewingCompany

GLADSTONE BREWING CO.

244 4th St. | GladstoneBrewing.ca

e winner of Ace’s Pilot Project home brewers contest gets to brew their beer on the brewery’s commercial system. Taste the results on May 12.

SPITFIRE

Gladstone has a newly expanded heated outdoor patio, an expanded tasting room, and will expand its brewery capacity and production later this year.

MARZEN OKTOBERFEST LAGER

DUNCAN NANAIMO

SMALL BLOCK BREWING CO.

203-5301 Chaster Rd. | SmallBlockBrewery.com

LONGWOOD BREWERY

101A-2046 Boxwood Rd., Nanaimo LongwoodBeer.com

Enjoy British Indian street food from Holy Cow Indian Eats (best name ever!) either in the taproom or as takeaway with some 4-packs of beer.

SPITFIRE WEE HEAVY SCOTTISH ALE

HORNET

Many of Longwood’s beers are brewed with locally grown barley and hops, especially their Independent Pilsner, which the brewery calls the “IPA of Pilsners.”

INDEPENDENT

LONGWOOD BREWPUB & RESTAURANT

5775 Turner Rd., Nanaimo LongwoodBrewpub.com

Nanaimo’s original brewpub has two levels inside and a patio outside, with four English-style draught engines serving cellar-conditioned beer along with excellent food from the kitchen.

STEAMPUNK DUNKEL DARK LAGER

BIG ONE INDIA PALE ALE

Availability: Year-round

Availability: Seasonal

WOLF BREWING COMPANY

940 Old Victoria Rd. | WolfBrewingCompany.com

Not only is Wolf packaging its beer in cans now, but new distribution will extend o the Island to the Lower Mainland and the Okanagan.

SOUR HOWLER

RASPBERRY BERLINER WEISSE

Availability: Seasonal Availability: Year-round

Availability: Seasonal Availability: Seasonal IBU ABV 7 3.6% IBU ABV 22 5.0% 60 Sponsored content

MOUNT ARROWSMITH BREWING CO.

109-425

Stanford Ave. | ArrowsmithBrewing.com

is the perfect place to stock up your cooler and ll up on pizza while enjoying the endless sand at Rathtrevor Beach this summer.

UCLUELET BREWING COMPANY

1601 Peninsula Rd. | UclueletBrewing.ca

Based in a converted church with amazing patio views of the Ucluelet harbour, this one-year-old brewery features revolving pilot batches to augment its regular lineup.

CLIFFSIDE BREWING CO.

11 Cli St., Nanaimo Cli sideBrewCo.ca

LOVESHACK LIBATIONS

1 - 4134 Island Hwy. West, Qualicum LoveShackLibations.com

CRAIG STREET BREW PUB

25 Craig St., Duncan CraigStreet.ca

RIOT BREWING CO.

101A - 3055 Oak St., Chemainus RiotBrewing.com

CUMBERLAND BREWING CO.

2732 Dunsmuir Ave., Cumberland CumberlandBrewing.com

DEVIL’S BATH

BREWING CO.

1616 McNeill Rd., Port McNeill DevilsBathBrewing.ca

DOG MOUNTAIN BREWING

3141 3rd Ave., Port Alberni

DogMountainBrew.com

TOFINO BREWING CO.

691 Industrial Way, To no To noBrewingCo.com

WHITE SAILS BREWING

125 Comox Rd., Nanaimo

WhiteSailsBrewing.com

In Canada, an average of 47 cents of every dollar spent on beer goes directly to the government in taxes.

LAND & SEA BREWING CO.

2040 Guthrie Rd., Comox

LandAndSeaBrewing.ca

HIGHWAY 97 BREWERY

954 Eckhardt Ave. | Hwy97Brewery.com

Highway 97 is moving to a new location with a much bigger brewing capacity, as well as a larger tasting room with 22 taps.

BANDITO

Availability: Seasonal Availability: Year-round

BARN OWL BREWING CO.

4629 Lakeshore Rd. | BarnOwlBrewing.ca

BNA BREWING CO.

1250 Ellis St. | BNABrewing.com

Situated in a gorgeously renovated 1920s heritage barn, this brewery has 15 taps serving a range of beers along with wine and cider.

MISSION KRIEK CHERRY SOUR KETTLE SOUR Availability:

BNA’s name comes from the British North America Tobacco Co., which built the beautiful building the brewery occupies more than a century ago.

DON’T GIVE A HOOT

ACE HAZY PALE ALE

Availability: Year-round Availability: Year-round

FREDDY’S BREWPUB

124 McCurdy Rd. | McCurdyBowl.com

RUSTIC REEL BREWING CO.

760 Vaughan Ave. | RusticReel.com

Freddy’s completed a major renovation during the pandemic—just in time to celebrate its 20th anniversary. Check it out when travel restrictions allow.

TRIPLE

is brewery has a beautiful space with rooms available for event rentals (pandemic rules apply). ey o er a full food menu along with a range of beers.

BLONDE

PENTICTON CITY PENTICTON

CANNERY BREWING

198 Ellis St. |

SLACKWATER BREWING

218 Martin St. | SlackwaterBrewing.com

Cannery is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its very rst batch of beer on April 1—no foolin’! Say cheers in person or from afar.

OKANAGAN

DAZE

APRICOT & PINOT GRIS

WHEAT ALE

Slackwater’s gorgeous brand and packaging design received international recognition at the World Brand Design Society Awards. e beer inside those cans is delicious, too!

INTRUDER

THE TIN WHISTLE BREWING CO.

112-1475 Fairview Rd. | eTinWhistleBrewery.rocks

BREAKAWAY BREWING CO.

13224 Victoria Road N. | BreakawayBrewingCompany.com

Tin Whistle is under new ownership so expect to see new branding and a revised beer lineup in the coming months. COCO

After contract brewing for their rst year, Breakaway nally got their brewing equipment installed last October and have produced their beers on-site ever since. VANILLA

ALCHEMY BREWING CO.

650 Victoria St., Kamloops AlchemyBrewingCompany.ca

BARLEY STATION BREW PUB

20 Shuswap St. N., Salmon Arm BarleyStation.com

BAD TATTOO BREWING CO.

169 Estabrook Ave., Penticton BadTattooBrewing.com

BRIGHT EYE BREWING

292 Tranquille Rd., Kamloops BrightEyeBrewing.com

BARLEY MILL BREW PUB

2460 Skaha Lake Rd., Penticton

BarleyMillPub.com

COPPER BREWING CO.

102 - 1851 Kirschner Rd., Kelowna CopperBrewingCo.com

CRANNÓG ALES

706 Elson Rd., Sorrento

CrannogAles.com

KELOWNA BREWING CO.

975 Academy Way, Kelowna

KelownaBrewingCompany.com

DETONATE BREWING

104 - 9503 Cedar Ave., Summerland

DetonateBrewing.com

KELOWNA BEER INSTITUTE

1346 Water St., Kelowna

TreeBrewingBeerInstitute.com

EMPTY KEG BREW HOUSE

2190 Voght St., Merritt

EmptyKegBrewHouse.ca

KETTLE RIVER BREWING CO.

731 Baillie Ave., Kelowna

KettleRiverBrewing.ca

FIREHALL BREWERY

6077 Main St., Oliver

FirehallBrewery.com

KIND BREWING

2405 Main St., West Kelowna Facebook.com/KindBrewer

IRON ROAD BREWING

980 Camosun Crs., Kamloops

IronRoadBrewing.ca

LAKESIDER BREWING CO.

835 Anders Road, West Kelowna

LakesiderBrewing.com

JACKKNIFE BREWING

727 Baillie Ave., Kelowna

Facebook.com/JackknifeBrewing

MARTEN BREWING CO.

2933A 30th Ave., Vernon

MartenBrewpub.com

MORROW BEER COMPANY

470 Lakeshore Dr. W., Salmon Arm MorrowBeerCompany.com

NEIGHBOURHOOD BREWING

187 Westminster Ave. W., Penticton NeighbourhoodBrewing.com

NORTH BASIN BREWING CO.

15 Park Pl., Unit 226, Osoyoos NorthBasinBrewing.com

RED BIRD BREWING

1086 Richter St., Kelowna RedBirdBrewing.com

THE NOBLE PIG BREWHOUSE

650 Victoria St., Kamploops eNoblePig.ca

VICE & VIRTUE BREWING CO.

1033 Richter St., Kelowna ViceAndVirtueBrewing.ca

WELTON BREWERY

Unit 2-455 Neave Ct., Kelowna WeltonBrewery.com

WILD AMBITION BREWING

1 - 3314 Appaloosa Rd., Kelowna WildAmbition.beer

RED COLLAR BREWING CO.

355 Lansdowne St., Kamloops RedCollar.ca

SHORE LINE BREWING CO.

3477 Lakeshore Rd., Kelowna ShoreLineBrewing.com

The Weihenstephan Abbey Brewery, the world’s oldest surviving commercial brewery, was established in Germany almost 1,000 years ago.

WHITETOOTH BREWING

623 8th Ave. N. | WhitetoothBrewing.com

ANGRY HEN BREWING

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If travel restrictions have kept you from visiting this awesome brewery, de nitely put it at the top of your list for post-pandemic road trips. SURFIN’

Longtime Vancouver brewer, Blair Calibaba, has joined the team here. While Bomber will surely miss him, the Angry Hen welcomes him with open wings! WILD

KIMBERLEY NELSON

GRIST AND MASH BREWERY

345 Wallinger Ave. | GristAndMash.com

BACKROADS BREWING CO.

460 Baker St. | BackroadsBrewing.com

is new addition to the Kootenay beer scene is specializing in farmhouse Saisons and new school IPAs. e lounge serves ights, pints and food.

Amazing to think Backroads has been open for four years already (as of March 24)! Look for a special release to commemorate the occasion.

POWERSLAVE

WHO SPIKED THE PUNCH?

ARROWHEAD BREWING CO.

481 Arrow Rd., Invermere

ArrowheadBrewingCompany.ca

OVER TIME BEER WORKS

136A Wallinger Ave., Kimberley

OverTimeBeer.ca

ERIE CREEK BREWING CO.

117 Fourth St., Salmo

ErieCreekBrewingCo.com

ROSSLAND BEER CO.

1990 Columbia Ave., Rossland

RosslandBeer.com

FERNIE BREWING CO.

26 Manitou Rd., Fernie

FernieBrewing.com

RUMPUS BEER COMPANY

208 1st Street E. | RumpusBeerCo.com

FISHER PEAK BREWING CO.

821 Baker St., Cranbrook eHeidOut.ca

TAILOUT BREWING

1800 8th Ave., Castlegar

TailoutBrewing.com

MT. BEGBIE BREWING CO.

2155 Oak Dr., Revelstoke

Mt-Begbie.com

TORCHLIGHT BREWING CO.

125 Hall St., Nelson

TorchlightBrewing.com

NELSON BREWING CO.

512 Latimer St., Nelson

NelsonBrewing.com

TRAIL BEER REFINERY

1299 Bay Ave., Trail

TrailBeerRe nery.ca

JACKSON’S SOCIAL CLUB &

BREWHOUSE

175 Hwy. 97, 100 Mile House JacksonsSocialClub.com

URSA MINOR BREWING

45261 Ootsa Lake Rd. E.

UrsaMinorBrewing.ca

Along with beer and food, courtesy of the Dreaded Kitchen, Jackson’s also o ers electric bike rentals, tours and sales.

KORONA LITE ALE

Availability: Seasonal

Availability: Seasonal

Visiting the most remote brewery in B.C. requires a day trip from Burns Lake or perhaps an overnight stay at the nearby Takysie Lake Resort.

OOTSA POGO

DOUBLE IPA

Availability: Year-round

SMITHERS

INTO THE RHUBARB

Availability: Seasonal

BULKLEY VALLEY BREWERY

3860 1 Ave. | BulkleyValleyBrewery.com

is three-year-old brewery started o as a ski shop that became a popular gathering place for locals to socialize and drink beer.

HAZY DAYZ

NEW ENGLAND IPA

Availability: Year-round

NEVERMORE

ENCAPTURED BLONDE ALE

Availability: Seasonal

BARKERVILLE BREWING CO.

185 Davie St., Quesnel

BarkervilleBeer.com

SMITHERS BREWING CO.

3832 3rd Ave., Smithers

SmithersBrewing.com

BEARD’S BREWING CO.

10408 Alaska Rd. N., Fort St. John

BeardsBrewing.ca

CROSSROADS BREWING & DISTILLERY

508 George St., Price George

CrossroadsCraft.com

FOX MOUNTAIN BREWING CO.

215 Donald Rd., Williams Lake

FoxMountainBeer.com

THREE RANGES BREWING CO.

1160 5th Ave., Valemount reeRanges.com

TRENCH BREWING & DISTILLING

399 2nd Ave., Prince George TrenchBrew.ca

WHEELHOUSE BREWING CO.

217 1st Ave. E., Prince Rupert WheelhouseBrewing.com

MIGHTY PEACE BREWING CO.

10128 95th Ave., Fort St. John

MightyPeaceBrewing.ca

SHERWOOD MOUNTAIN BREWHOUSE

101 - 4816 Hwy. 16 West, Terrace

SherwoodMountain.beer

Cenosillicaphobia: The fear of an empty beer glass.

WARDS CIDER

2287 Ward Rd. | WardsHardCider.com

DAILY 12-5PM

EST. 1922

Wards is also home to the View Winery, allowing the cidery to explore with co-ferments of cider apples and wine grapes. Come visit this summer (COVID-dependent, of course) for the Wards Cider Festival in August 2021.

ABV 6.0%

is modern take on a traditional medium dry cider features white grape and orange zest.

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IBU 5.5%00

MIMOSA CIDER TRADITIONAL MEDIUM DRY

NEGRONI CIDER TRADITIONAL DRY

AFFINITY CIDERHOUSE

5155 Samuel Rd. | A nityCider.com

is new cidery in Duncan is located on the banks of the Cowichan River, allowing you to canoe or kayak to the soon-to-be-opened tasting room.

HERITAGE DRY SCRUMPY

Availability: Seasonal

POME BLEND SPECIALTY

Availability: Seasonal

COMING SOON

@affinityciderhouse

affinitycider.com

DUNCAN GIBSONS

VALLEY CIDER COMPANY

7661 Mays Rd., Duncan | ValleyCider.com

SUNDAY CIDER

1632 Sunshine Coast Hwy. | SundayCider.com

is Cowichan Valley farm cidery might be the hardest working cidery in the province, producing close to 20 di erent styles of cider annually.

POÏPLE MODERN DRY

Availability: Year-round

BON-DRI MODERN DRY

Availability: Year-round

e friendly folks who brought you Vancouver’s rst cidery are now located on a beautiful 20plus acre property just outside of Gibsons.

SUNDAY ROSÉ BERRY ROSÉ CIDER

Availability: Year-round

CHERRY

CASCARA

EXPERIMENTAL CIDER W/ CASCARA & CHERRY

Availability: Year-round

SOMA CIDERY

4485 Sallows Rd. | SomaCidery.com

7952 BC-97 | HowlingMoon.ca

In addition to hand-crafting cider from fruit grown in their own Okanagan Valley orchard, the good folks at Soma also raise alpacas! APPLE

Availability: Year-round

Heritage apples and steampunk style are the order of the day at Kelowna’s Howling Moon, province-wide shipping available from its online store.

OAK REVIVAL SEMI-DRY CIDER

AGED CIDER

Availability: Year-round

Availability: Year-round

Availability: Year-round

PENTICTON SQUAMISH

CREEK & GULLY CIDER

1053 Poplar Grove Rd. | CreekAndGully.com

is fth generation family farm has been certi ed organic for more than 30 years, and the ciders are as delicious as they are sustainable.

GOLDIE TRADITIONAL DRY

Availability: Small batch

GEO CIDER CO.

318-1201 Commercial Way | GeoCider.com

Geo is proud to be the rst company in Canada to use E6PR eco-friendly, compostable six-pack rings that won’t harm the environment, and won’t hurt marine life.

OLD WORLD APPLE TRADITIONAL

Availability: Small batch

Availability: Year-round

PEACH APPLE CIDER PEACH CIDER ABV 6.1% ABV 6.0% ABV 8.3% ABV 5.0% ABV 6.1% ABV 6.5% ABV 7.3% ABV 5.0%

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SUMMERLAND VERNON

NOMAD CIDER

8011 Simpson Rd. | NomadCider.ca

THE BX PRESS CIDERY & ORCHARD

4667 E. Vernon Rd. | eBXPress.com

is farm-to-glass cidery in Summerland is passionate about making cider the way it was traditionally crafted; by hand with only fresh pressed apples and pears.

KEEVED FRENCH-STYLE SEMI-SWEET CIDER

Availability: Small batch

PINOT NOIR BARREL WINE BARREL-AGED

Big changes are ahead at the BX Press as they work to expand their kitchen and seating options—check their website for updates and tour availability!

THE WRANGLER SPARKLING MODERN OFF-DRY

Availability: Small batch ABV 6.1% ABV 7.2% 79 Sponsored content

Availability: Small batch

BANDITRY CIDER

538 Pratt Rd., Gibsons

BanditryCider.com

CLIFFSIDE CIDER

103-37760 2 Ave., Squamish

Cli sideCider.com

BC TREE FRUITS CIDER CO.

880 Vaughan Ave., Kelowna

BCTreeFruitsCider.com

DEAD END CIDER

620 Sumac Rd., Cawston

ForbiddenFruitWine.com

THE BRICKER CIDER COMPANY

6642 Northwest Bay Rd., Sechelt

BrickersCider.com

DOMINION CIDER CO.

10216 Gould Ave., Summerland

DominionCider.com

BURTON CITY CIDER

5470 BC-6 , Burton

BurtonCityCider.ca

FARMSTRONG CIDER CO.

4305 Maw Rd., Armstrong

FarmstrongCider.com

CEDAR CIDER

340 184 St., Surrey

CedarCider.ca

CIDERWORKS

529 Fulford-Ganges Rd., Salt Spring Island

SaltSpringAppleCompany.com/Ciderworks

FAUSTINO ESTATE CIDERY

14000 BC-97, Osoyoos

FaustinoEstateCidery.ca

FRASER VALLEY CIDER CO.

22128-16th Ave., Langley

FraserValleyCider.ca

GABBIE’S PREMIUM CIDER

1120 Coats Dr., Gabriola Island GabbiesCider.com

MILLIONAIRES’ ROW CIDER CO.

14113 Dale Meadows Rd., Summerland MillionairesRowCider.com

GREENHILL CIDER

55 Dunlevy Ave., Vancouver GreenhillCider.com

THE NARAMATA CIDER COMPANY

2370 Aikins Loop, Naramata NaramataCider.com

JUNCTION ORCHARD & CIDERY

273 Prospect Lake Rd., Victoria JunctionVictoria.com

KOOTENAY CIDER WORKS

1638 Granite Rd., Nelson KootenayCiderWorks.com

LEFT FIELD CIDER CO.

Mamit Lake Rd., Logan Lake LeftFieldCider.com

MERRIDALE CIDERY & DISTILLERY

1230 Merridale Rd., Cobble Hill Merridale.ca

NORTHYARDS CIDER CO.

9 - 38936 Queensway, Squamish NorthyardsCider.com

ORCHARD HILL ESTATE CIDERY

3480 Fruitvale Way, Osoyoos OrchardHillCidery.com

RAVEN’S MOON CRAFT CIDER

4905 Darcy Rd, Courtenay RavensMoonCraftCider.ca

RUSTIC ROOTS WINERY & CIDERY

2238 Hwy. 3, Cawston HarkersOrganicsRusticRoots.com

SALT SPRING WILD CIDER

151 Sharp Rd., Salt Spring Island

SaltSpringWildCider.com

TRUCK 59 CIDER HOUSE

3887 Brown Rd., West Kelowna

Truck59Cider.com

SCENIC ROAD CIDER CO.

770 Packinghouse Rd., Kelowna

ScenicRoadCider.com

TWIN ISLAND CIDER

5601 Lupin Rd., Pender Island

TwinIslandCider.com

SEA CIDER FARM & CIDERHOUSE

2487 Mt. St. Michael Rd., Saanichton

SeaCider.ca

SUMMERLAND HERITAGE CIDER CO.

3113 Johnson St., Summerland

SummerlandCider.com

TWISTED HILLS CRAFT CIDER

2080 Ritchie Dr., Cawston

TwistedHills.ca

UNTANGLED CRAFT CIDER

725 Mackenzie Rd., Cawston

UntangledCider.ca

TAVES ESTATE CIDERY

333 Gladwin Rd., Abbotsford

TavesFamilyFarms.com/Hard-Cider

UPSIDE CIDERY

2555 Gale Rd., Kelowna

UpsideCider.com

TONY’S CRAFT CIDERY

6167 Hwy. 6, Coldstream

TonysCraftCidery.com

WOODWARD CIDER CO.

5505 Westsyde Rd., Kamloops

WoodwardCiderCo.ca

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BEER GROUND

Despite the global pandemic breweries and cideries just keep on opening in B.C., which makes us all very happy indeed! Here is a list of all the new operations expected to open across British Columbia in the coming months.

BROOKSWOOD BREWING

Langley (winter 2021) Yet another new brewery in the works in Langley—this time in the Brookswood neighbourhood. Instagram.com/BrookswoodBrewCo

CHECKERHEAD BREWING

Shirley (winter 2021) Where the heck is Shirley, you ask? About 20km west of Sooke as you head out to Port Renfrew, just past French Beach. is brewery is founded by a professional juggler who has spent decades travelling the world as an entertainer. CheckerheadBrewing.com

DEADFALL BREWING

Prince George (late 2021) A third brewery for Prince George, Deadfall plans to focus on small batches with a clear emphasis on quality over quantity. Instagram.com/DeadfallBrewCo

FERN + CEDAR BREWING

Qualicum Beach (fall 2021) e folks behind Mount Arrowsmith Brewing in neighbouring Parksville are building this new brewery, so it’s bound to be good. FernAndCedar.ca

FIELD HOUSE BREWING BRRL ROOM

Abbotsford (2021?) Field House already has a manufacturing licence for this facility, located on its farm, which houses its barrel-aging program, but it is waiting for the pandemic to end before opening it up to the public.

HOME TOWN BEER MAKERS

Grand Forks (2021?) e folks behind this project have a great space in Grand Forks. ey are planning the renovations and build and are looking for partners. HTBM.ca

HORNBY ISLAND BREWING CO.

Hornby Island (summer 2021) is brewery’s licencing application was in process when this issue went to press so it’s tough to say exactly when it will open. When it does, this is bound

to become a destination brewery simply because of its location. HornbyIslandBrewing.ca

NIC CRAFT BREWING & MALTING

PROGRAM AT THE MVP BREWPUB

Campbell River (spring 2021) North Island College’s one-year training program will result in beer being sold at the Merecroft Village Brewpub. MVPPub.ca

THE OFFICE BREWERY

Kelowna (Summer 2021) Another new brewery coming to Kelowna! Not much is known about it other than its address: 301-890 Clement Ave. O ceBrewery.ca

RADIUM BREWING

Radium Hot Springs (summer 2021) Construction recently started on this new brewery 15 minutes up the road from Arrowhead Brewing in Invermere. RadiumBrewing.ca

RUSTED RAKE BREWING

Nanoose Bay (summer 2021) Plans for this farm-based brewery stalled for a while, but now they are back on track. RustedRakeFarm.com

UNLEASHED BREWING CO.

Kelowna (spring 2021) is dog-themed brewery aims to open this spring in Kelowna’s Brewery District. UnleashedBrewing.ca

WILD NORTH BREWERY

Creston (spring 2021) is isn’t Creston’s rst brewery (see Columbia Brewery, owned by AB-InBev), but it is this southeastern BC town’s rst craft brewery. Watch out Kokanee, there’s a new beer in town! Instagram.com/WildNorthBrewery

LONG-TERM WATCH LIST: Merridale Brewery & Distillery, Tiki Jon’s Tiki Lounge & Brewery, Grand Forks Beer Co.. j

• Got a hot brewery tip? Let us know at editor@thegrowler.ca