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Here's the last of the summer beers BC breweries are releasing
School might be back in session but BC’s breweries are leaning into end-of-season flavours
Joseph Lavoie
September 02, 2022
Happy Friday!
Last week we highlighted the great shift to autumn-inspired beers. Well, this week, it appears breweries are signalling a refusal to give up on summer just yet, with a number of beer releases that showcase late-summer flavours.
We have some new Oktoberfest events for you to plan for, as well as a big party for one of BC’s favourite breweries.
– Joseph Lavoie
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FEATURED NEW BEER RELEASES
Summer Blackberry Sour
Camp Beer Co is refusing to give up on summer with the latest version of their Lazy River. The last version featured watermelon, this one features the “classic end of season fruit, the blackberry.” This fruity sour was flavoured with fresh blackberry purée, coriander, and a touch of sea salt for a Gose quality.
Available: On tap and in growler fills at the brewery
Location: 19664 64 Ave, Langley | Map
Baja Tropical Smoothie Sour
This release from La Cerveceria Astilleros has a very enticing colour. A tropical smoothie-style sour “inspired by a certain fast-food taco spot’s exclusive soft drink flavour.” It was brewed with milk, sugar, pineapple, lemon juice, and blue spirulina.
Available: On tap at the brewery
Location: 226 Esplanade E, North Vancouver | Map
Blanca Hallertau Blanc Saison
This saison from Strange Fellows Brewing was dry-hopped with Hallertau Blanc, a modern German hop that is herbal and spicy and fruity, offering notes of gooseberries and white grape. You can expect a “light bitterness and dry finish.”
Available: on tap and for growler fills only in the tasting room.
Location: 1345 Clark Dr, Vancouver| Map
ADDITIONAL BEER RELEASES
Suprflux and Toronto’s Blood Brothers have collaborated on a Mango Tamarind Fountainbier. Apparently Tamarind lends a lot of butterscotch aromas!
Longwood Brewery has a Belgian-style pumpkin saison, now available at the brewery and select liquor stores.
Coast Mountain Beer is giving away two tickets to the Whistler Village Beer Festival.
The Office Brewery has released a Lime Mojito Extra Pale Ale.
Red Arrow Brewing brings us a small-batch Pils made with New Zealand-grown Nelson Sauvin hops.
Red Arrow Brewing also has a limited run of its blackberry lager.
Russell Brewing put out a new-age kettle sour that features a lot of fruit.
Parallel 49 has brewed a Mexican Cerveza exclusively for the PNE.
Old Yale Brewing made an orange honey thyme blanche. Citrus, clove, and wildflower honey? Yes please!
Copper Brewing tapped a Peanut Butter Nut Brown cask ale this week. Maybe you’e lucky and they have some left?
Nelson Brewing canned a brand new Loki Lager, a beer made for those who love the taste of beer.
Plus 10 new beers that came out earlier this week.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Superflux F*$king Awesome Festival ‘22
Tickets go on sale today for Superflux’s beer festival, which is serving as the brewery’s unofficial opening party, since a certain pandemic prevented them from having one when the taproom opened. Details are still to come, but we know the day will feature collabs with some amazing breweries from Ontario, among other places. Lots of food and DJ sets should make this an awesome day.
Date: September 24, 2022
Location: 505 Clark Dr, Vancouver | Map
White Rock Craft Beer Festival
The White Rock BIA is putting on its second annual beer festival on Sept. 24, featuring local and regional brewers like 3 Dogs Brewing, Five Roads, Barnside, Farm Country, Old Yale, and many others.
Smuggtober Fest 2022
Smuggler’s Trail has your Octoberfest needs covered with this event on October 1. The brewery is putting on a beer garden complete with a souvenir beer stein, live music, a car show, four food trucks, and free entry for designated drivers.
Tickets: $64.67, available at Eventbrite.
Date: Oct. 1, 12pm to 11pm
Location: 9339 200A Street Unit 140, Langley | Map
Biermeister's Dinner with Beer Pairings
CRAFT Beer Market is hosting an Oktoberfest dinner series featuring a custom dinner, curated beer pairings and Bavarian classics. Dinner is a three-course affair plus an amuse bouche. You’ll get to taste four curated and paired beers and get tasting notes from the chef and cicerones (beer experts)
Date: Sept 21. 6pm to 9pm
Tickets: $80.59, at Eventbrite.
Location: CRAFT Beer Market False Creek, 85 West 1st Avenue, Vancouver | Map
HAPPENING THIS WEEKEND
Great Canadian Beer Festival 2022 kicks off today.
Don’t forget, the Whistler Village Beer Festival kicks off next week.
WHAT'S BREWING AT BC BREWERIES
Deals, announcements, re-releases, and other news from your favourite breweries
3 Dogs Brewing in White Rock is giving away Hawaiian shirts
Sooke Oceanside Brewery has some pretty sweet new merch.
A running club meets every Wednesday at Steel & Oak for a run and beer. That’s one way to earn the beer!
BEST AUGUST BEERS
The Beer Loop's top 7 beers we drank in August
With the shelves filling up with pumpkin ales and families flooding Staples for back-to-school supplies, summer has reached its unofficial conclusion, and that means it's time to look back at the best beers we drank in August 2022.
GAME TIME
Wordle
Last week we had a Brewery Logo Guesser. It was a tough one, but congrats to Dan, Matthew Stewart, and Jay Messmer for guessing it correctly. The brewery was Five Roads Brewing.
The answer to last week’s WORDLE was “HELLES”. Congrats to Kyle Leigh, Sam Ellis, Anastasia Turner, on guessing it correctly.
To guess this week’s wordle, it helps to know a beer’s soul. How many attempts did it take you?
BEER LOOP PICKS
News, fun reads, deep dives and other distractions.
Uh-oh. It’s officially a very horrible year for most European hops with German crops expected to decline 20% and Czech hop production down 43%. Not great if you love old-world hop flavours. [Appellation Beer]
As writers tasked with describing beer flavours every week, this story by Courtney Iseman caught our eye. It’s a long read on the language we use to describe flavour and whether that language brings people in or locks them out. [Hugging the Bar]
Uh-oh 2.0: Beer sales unexpectedly plunge 7.3% across Canada. A 1% drop in any normal year is a big deal. So this is enormous. The drop is attributed to labour shortages and people dining out less than pre-pandemic times. [Toronto Sun]