Month: December 2015
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A Look at “What’s Brewing”
Let’s look back to the early 2000s, before our current Vancouver branch was even in existence. Paul Morris, Lundy Dale, and a few others would meet regularly at a coffee shop (!) in Steveston as part of the Richmond Branch of CAMRA BC. Paul recalls, “The Lower Mainland scene, in terms of craft beer outlets, was dontown Vancouver. Monthly cask nights had started at DIX in July 2002 and there were a bunch…
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Bainbridge Liquor Store
The Spotlight is a series of interviews with the craft beer heroes behind local organizations who are helping grow the beer scene in our fine city. In this issue, we look at Bainbridge Liquor Store. Over the course of 2015, British Columbia has seen significant changes to the cost of craft beer at retail. Despite the…
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CAMRA Vancouver Winter Beer Faves
It’s time to curl up around the fire and stay out of the cold. And what better way to do that than with some of British Columbia’s yummiest winter beers! Some of the CAMRA Vancouver executive have some tasty recommendations for you.
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The Beer Pipeline
Bruges is soon to unveil the world’s first “Beer Pipeline” Pipelines are a pretty contentious subject here in BC, but a Belgian brewery has proposed something I think we can all agree on. The guys at De Halve Maan brewery have been brewing in Bruges’ Medieval old town since the mid 1500’s, but in order…