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gift idea #2 for the vancouver beer lovers in your life:  gift card to biercraft (also, if you subscribe to their newsletter, you'll get special deals.  this month it's a $5 off coupon) BEER RHYMES WITH CHEER. COINCIDENCE? ADVENT CALENDARS, THE ADULT WAY. Advent Calendars are a great way to indulge in some child-like holiday wonder, but they're even better when you replace those "chocolate-flavoured" discs with beer-flavoured beer! December 1st thru 23rd we'll be revealing a different beer special every day, at all three locations. Keep an eye on our social media channels, to find out what we'v...

Library Square and Parallel 49 Brewing Company celebrate 12 Taps of Christmas Celebrate craft beer, Advent-style starting December 1st Beer Advent Calendars are craft beer’s contribution to seasonal traditions, and this year Library Square and Parallel 49 Brewing Company are teaming up to offer the “ 12 Taps of Christmas ”, an opportunity to celebrate Advent-style, even if you weren’t one of the lucky beer fans who was able to snag a limited release calendars. Parallel 49 Brewing Company has contributed 12 beers to this year’s collaboration “Craft Crossing” beer Advent calendar and every odd day in December, starting on the 1st, Library Square will be tapping a keg of the exact same Parallel 49 beer which is in the Advent Calendar on that day. The keg will be tapped each morning at 11:30AM and will be poured all day for the feature price of $5/pint. And just like an Advent calendar, each day’s beer will be a surprise until the keg is tapped. This year, get in the holiday sp...

spinnakers is celebrating the 12 days of christmas with bombers! We are very excited to unveil our first advent calendar. The pack will hit shelves across BC in both private and Government stores this November. Celebrate the 12 days of Christmas with a mixed pack of year round, seasonal and special release bombers!             

it's almost november now and i can't grow a moustache (okay, well, i don't want to talk about whether or not i can) so, let's talk about beer advent calendars instead! Last year was a really good year with three advent calendars available in BC.   This year there will only be two here, the Phillips Snowbox and the Central City/Parallel 49 Craft Crossing. The original Craft Beer advent calendar won’t be available in BC this year .  Even though it contains beers from British Columbia’s Bridge, Townsite and Lighthouse Breweries, the Craft BeerAdvent Calendar is not being sold in BC due to beer regulations.  Gah!  Stupid red tape keeping the good people of BC from a third advent calendar. “The 2015 Craft BeerAdvent® Calendar features some cans and some bottles that are on the re-fill program and due to regulations which prohibit the mixing of such containers within the same package in BC, we will not be able to offer the Craft BeerAdvent® Calendar in...