Victoria Beer Week returns, March 6-14, 2020! The festival celebrating Victoria’s craft beer culture includes a mix of 14 events over 9 days, including some favourites from past years along with some bold new twists. The week opens with Lift Off! on March 6th and closes with Saturday Night Casks on March 14th, both at the Victoria Public …
We have put together a delicious assortment of fresh hop beers, including IPAs, pale ales, sours, and even a grisette (light saison). And as a bonus, we’ve included a couple pumpkin beers and some Oktoberfest-style lagers to fit with the harvest theme of the event. Category 12 Brewing – Fresh Data Fresh-Hopped Hazy IPA Container …
by Sonia Montisca Victoria, BC’s capital city, is also the capital of BC’s craft beer movement. Home to the Great Canadian Beer Festival, Canada’s oldest beer fest, and Spinnakers, Canada’s first brewpub, the movement has been brewing in our little city for nearly four decades. We’re about to welcome Herald Street Brew Works, our 17th …
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Specific Mechanical Systems Ltd. (SpecMec) has been designing, manufacturing, and maintaining advanced brewing systems since 1984. The Victoria-based company focuses on crafting high quality breweries, distilleries, and custom metal fabrication for other industries, including pharmaceuticals and oil and gas. Founded by two tradesmen – a welder and a machinist – the pair worked initially as …
Perhaps you missed all the announcements about the upcoming Great Canadian Beer Fest that is happening next weekend. You might also have overlooked the part where there are over 90 breweries, more than 275 beers and the BC Ale Trail-er in attendance. Where does one start? Start by drooling over the beer list, which is …
The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) was formed in 1971 in St. Albans, the United Kingdom in an effort to reinvigorate a slowing brewing culture. Since then, membership of this independent, voluntary consumer organization has reached nearly 200,000. In British Columbia, the society was first incorporated in 1985 under the British Columbia Society Act. There …
Come down to Esquimalt Lagoon Saturday, June 20th for Eats & Beats at the Beach! We’ll be there with our Beer Truck in tow, serving up a wide selection of BC craft beer and a feature flight. With taps curated by Cascadia Liquor, everything pouring will also be available at Cascadia Liquor store locations, so …
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We are pleased to announce the attending breweries of this year’s Great Canadian Beer Festival. Featuring 90+ Canadian craft breweries from coast to coast, the 27th annual edition of Canada’s oldest beer festival will showcase more breweries than ever before, from every region of Canada, including the Maritimes, Québec, Ontario, Western Canada and Yukon, with …
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Greg Plaxton was “trying to be a commercial pilot” when he met Shelly, his future wife. “A pilot’s life is a lonely one,” though, as he puts it, so when they got together and started a family, they also began brainstorming ideas for a business they could run together. Shelly was a Bar Manager with …
Victoria’s newest tap room slated to open this summer aims to be just that — a refuge — for the city’s craft beer lovers. It will be open late (until midnight Sunday to Thursday and 1:00 am on Fridays and Saturdays) and its location on Fort Street between Blanshard and Quadra will be a boon …