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Dark Sour Old Bruin

Longwood Brewery- Old Bruin

Portuguese Madeira is famous in the wine world for its unique warm aging process. Historically, Madeira was used as ballast on ships which exposed it to heat and changed its  Continue Reading…

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west coast IPA

BC Craft Beer Guild Collab – Class of 2014

For the past few years brewery members of the BC Craft Brewers Guild gather together in honour of BC Craft Beer Month and brew a beer with partial funds going  Continue Reading…

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American IPA IPA west coast IPA

Lightheart Brewing – West Coast IPA

PRESENTED BY LEGACY LIQUOR STORE From the Fall 2019 edition of the What’s Brewing Tasting Panel Although Lightheart Brewing still has yet to find a proper home, it has been  Continue Reading…

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Dark Sour Sour

Wild Ambition Brewing- Painted Caves

British Columbia’s golden age of beer continues full steam ahead and it’s no different in Kelowna, the province’s third largest city. With more craft breweries than ever before and many  Continue Reading…

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American IPA west coast IPA

33 Acres Brewing – 33 Acres of Nirvana

PRESENTED BY LEGACY LIQUOR STORE From the Fall 2019 edition of the What’s Brewing Tasting Panel With all the variety of India Pale Ales that have been created and brewed  Continue Reading…

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Sour

Vancouver Island Brewing and Ile Sauvage Brewing Collab- Mystic Dry-Hopped Sour

The number of Southern Resident Killer Whales is at a 30 year low with only 73 alive on the planet today. One serious threat to their continued survival, beyond chemical  Continue Reading…

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Mariner Venture Blueberry Sour

The cover of the Fall 2019 issue of What’s Brewing magazine happens to feature two people, but is actually centred on a glass of beer. There is a luminescent red  Continue Reading…

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Collaboration Fruit Beer fruit sour Sour

VIB and Twin City Brewing Collab – Rainshadow Sour

We all love collaboration packs and so do breweries. What’s not to love, an opportunity to try a whole lot of different styles by a variety of breweries :-) Vancouver  Continue Reading…

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Hazy Session IPA Session IPA

Vancouver Island Brewing and Land & Sea Brewing Co. Collaboration-Deadhead Hazy Session IPA

This hazy session IPA is named after the Southern Resident Killer Whale K-27, also known as Deadhead. The Orca’s name, as you can probably guess, is in honour of Jerry  Continue Reading…

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Red Ale

Gladstone Brewing- Red Ale

Gladstone’s Red Ale pours a deep amber with a solid off-white head that lingers with some lace. It has low carbonation and a medium body. Old school, west coast hops  Continue Reading…

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Fruit Beer

Crannog Ales – Mac Tir Haskap Ale

Did you know that July is Haskap Beer Month in British Columbia? It is an initiative that came to be after an evening of drinking beer and eating freshly picked  Continue Reading…

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Extra Special Bitter

Spinnakers Brewery- Mitchell’s Extra Special Bitter

Raise a glass in memory of one of BC’s most essential craft beer pioneers, John Mitchell. It was in the early 80’s that John, with the help of one of  Continue Reading…

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