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Beer Review: Vancouver Island Brewery Flying Tanker White IPA

by Joe Wiebe 05.21.2012

Although Vancouver Island Brewery is one of BC’s oldest microbreweries—it was the first to open in Victoria back in 1984 and shares its birth year with Granville Island Brewing in Vancouver—it hasn’t exactly been a darling of the booming craft beer scene over the past, well, couple of decades. Their beers have been fine forever, [...]

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Ticket Giveaway! Hop-Headbanger’s Ball

by Editor 05.19.2012

I have 2 tickets to giveaway to tonight’s SOLD OUT Hop-Headbanger’s Ball at Woodland Smokehouse on Commercial Drive, courtesy of our friends at Townsite Brewing (they make some delicious beer if you haven’t tried it already!). Come inside for your chance to win!

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Are You Ready To Rock? [video]

by Editor 04.12.2012

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Beer Review: Rogue Voodoo Doughnut Bacon Maple Ale

by Jacob Galbraith 03.27.2012

It comes in a pink bottle, lays claim to the adored flavour combination of maple and bacon, and affiliates itself with a semi famous Portland doughnut shop, and yet I’m not surprised at all. This is, after all, Rogue, a brewery that toes the line between being famous for quality and being experimental. A younger [...]

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Beer Review: Elysian Idiot Sauvin IPA

by Jacob Galbraith 03.15.2012

The Pacific Northwest brewing scene is notorious for its use of hops. The region produces beers of all styles, but the most saturated of them all is the India Pale Ale. Elysian’s Idiot Sauvin IPA provides an interesting twist, in that it makes a point of pushing one variety into the spotlight as a means [...]

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A Perspective on LDB Privatization of Distribution Centres

by Adam Henderson 03.04.2012

A recent Liquor Distribution Branch announcement told us all of the impending sale of the LDB’s Distribution Centres to the private sector. Of course this has caused much speculation about motives and about potential suitors. I’ve seen a lot of misinformation, and misunderstanding about what is happening and what it might mean. I’m not a [...]

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Beer Review: Lighthouse Brewing’s Belgian Black

by Jacob Galbraith 02.29.2012

On the fringe of the surging craft beer movement lies a category of beer that is best described as “Interesting Beer”. Some of what can be found there is extreme, other times experimental, but usually balance of the both. Either way, these ales were brewed by people who enjoy pushing the [...]

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Beer Review: Hoyne Brewing’s Hoyner Pilsner

by Jacob Galbraith 02.13.2012

Victoria is Canada’s beer capital: 4 prominent brew pubs and 5 standalone breweries that service a few hundred thousand locals and those lucky enough to find the malty wares at the various liquor stores and pubs outside of the region. Years ago I thought the threshold had been met, and that the city couldn’t possibly [...]

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BC Brew Review: Mont des Cats

by Rick Green 01.13.2012

Abbaye Sainte Marie du Mont des Cats is a Trappist monastery located on a mountain outside the French village of Godewaersvelde, near the Belgian border. As with the likes of Chimay, Orval, and Rochefort today, Mont des Cats was once was highly regarded for its beer. However, during the Battle of the Lys in April [...]

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Townsite Brewing Set to Open In Powell River

by paulkamon 01.03.2012

Get ready BC, more quality regionally brewed ale is on the way! The newest craft brewery on the immediate horizon is Townsite Brewing in Powell River on the upper Sunshine Coast. Just before the holidays, we caught up with the team as they were preparing their historic heritage space in the heart of Townsite for [...]

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“Parallel 49 Brewing” Opening Up in East Van

by paulkamon 12.20.2011

Beer Santa has some more fine gifts to offer us, but they won’t be delivered until the new year. The beer elves are still busy putting the final touches on two new BC craft breweries that are set to join the growing artisan ranks in 2012.

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Exclusive! Beer Santa Arrives Early for Alibi’s 300 Tap List

by paulkamon 12.10.2011

If you truly love to drink real beer, then the next few days are going to be pretty freakin’ epic. Beer Santa has arrived early to town and has generously dropped off some exclusive and rare gifts (aka. kegs) at The Alibi Room in Gastown to help them celebrate the 300th turn of their legendary [...]

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