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1516 Bavarian Lager (Okanagan Spring Brewery, 5%)
I feel I should give this beer a mention as, from what I recall, it was the first draft B.C. beer I ever tasted. Some purists grumble at the size of operations that the likes of Okanagan Spring and...
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Anniversary Hopped Lager (Okanagan Spring Brewery, 5.2%)
It’s not just the Canucks celebrating a landmark year in B.C. A quarter century ago, one of Canada’s first microbreweries opened for business in Vernon and went on to become a huge success. This...
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Age is Central to City’s success
The Canadian Brewing Awards in September confirmed what many in B.C.’s craft-beer scene already knew: The best beer in Canada is produced in Surrey. Central City Brewing picked up three individual...
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Victoria’s Driftwood Brewery wins beer of the year at 2011 Canadian Brewing...
Canada has a new beer champion and, once again, it’s from B.C. Fat Tug IPA by Victoria’s Driftwood Brewery was named beer of the year at the weekend’s 2011 Canadian Brewing Awards in Toronto, capping...
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B.C. Beer Awards: Steamworks Pilsner named best in show
Steamworks Pilsner was named the best beer in B.C. at the third annual B.C. Beer Awards on Saturday. Outgoing Steamworks brewmaster Conrad Gmoser was at the ceremony at Chapel Arts in the Downtown...
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Mild Winter Ale (Okanagan Spring Brewery, 4.8%)
Okanagan Spring would strenuously deny it, but this beer can’t help but looking like the brewery’s challenge to this season’s commercial dominance by Granville Island’s Lions Winter Ale. The...
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Okanagan Fest-of-Ale 2015: A judge’s verdict
The beer festival calendar is getting ever more crowded as more breweries open and more people get turned on to craft beer. It leads to a one of those nice dilemmas: Which to attend over the course of...
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