BC Craft Beer Reviews
Whistle Buoy Brewing Co: Desolate Bourbon Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout
Whistle Buoy Brewing in Victoria’s Market Square released Desolate in mid-November, a bourbon barrel-aged Imperial Stout. According to the label and website, it is the “first-ever release of our barrel Continue Reading…
#BCBA2022 Back in Session Blackberry & Lemon Salted Sour Collab
PROCEEDS TOWARDS DIVERSITY IN BREWING & BC HOSPITALITY FOUNDATION Each year, BC Beer Awards & Festival (BCBA) partners with BC brewery community members to create a celebratory fundraiser beer. This Continue Reading…
Bayview Brewing Co.- Down By the Bay Watermelon Gose
Ladysmith, BC, located between Duncan and Nanaimo on Vancouver Island, has its very first brewery. Bayview Brewing is run by the core group of owners Jonny Ludtke, Rod Alsop, Sarah Continue Reading…
Land and Sea Brewing Co.- Barrel Aged Imperial Stout
I recently had a chance to sit down with Jason Walker, the co-owner of Land and Sea Brewing, based in Comox, B.C. Like almost all businesses, surviving the pandemic and Continue Reading…
Red Racer Street Legal Dealcoholized Nitro Stout: Preview Edition
Here’s a preview of something coming down the pipe that’s rare in Canada: a non-alcoholic dark beer. For years, the holy grail of “near beer” production has been to remove Continue Reading…
Container Brewing Ltd: Frostbite Cold IPA
If you are a lover of hops (like I am), but find that just sometimes you want that hoppy beer to be a bit more sessionable and lighter-bodied than your Continue Reading…
Longwood Brewery – Conjunction DIPA
What is a conjunction? In the fantasy world created by Polish author Andrezej Sapwoski for his Witcher series (and later depicted in the video games and the Netflix show) the Continue Reading…
Russell Brewing – John Mitchell Signature Cascadian Dark Ale
Recently, there was big news in the BC craft beer community around the 40th Anniversary of the origin of craft beer in Canada. For the occasion, a special collaboration tribute Continue Reading…
Fern + Cedar Brewing Company: Green Mountain State NEIPA
Qualicum Beach has a new brewery called Fern and Cedar. Owned by the same people as Parkville’s Mount Arrowsmith Brewing, Fern and Cedar is custom built and opened in December Continue Reading…
Dageraad’s New Slang 01 Biotransformed IPA + Survey
Once again, Burnaby’s Dageraad Brewing is not satisfied to just release a beer without developing some new innovation in the process. This time, they bring two new ideas to the Continue Reading…
Dageraad’s Helleraad
When Dageraad makes a standard lager, you know it’s not going to turn out like other standard lagers. They could never do that. So what happens when they try to Continue Reading…
Dageraad Enology Series No. 1: Syrah Saison
The inventiveness of breweries like Burnaby’s Dageraad Brewing provides a side benefit for the craft fan: for instance, the constant learning about topics like grape variants you can age beer Continue Reading…
