Month: July 2017

  • Obscure Beer Style of the Month: Braggot

    The more I delve into these obscure beers, the more I wonder about just what makes them obscure.  Is it the fact that the ingredients are uncommon?  Perhaps, but uncommon to one geographic location can be very common to another.  The same could be said as well for time period: tastes change, and what was…

  • Events Update: July 2017

    Happy summer y’all! One reason I love this season is it goes so well with nice cold beer, and there are so many summer festivals which celebrate this fact. Two notable fests have already kicked off the month for us with a bang: the Squamish Beer Festival on July 8th at O’Siyam Pavillion offered up…

  • You’re a Certified What?!

    Part 1 of 2 in the Beer Certification Series “Why would anyone need to be certified to talk about beer? Everyone knows beer! It only has  4 ingredients and most people have been drinking it since they were [REDACTED] years old!” That’s something you may have caught me saying three years ago. Since then, my…