my notes from tuesday's beer column on cbc radio one's on the coast with gloria macarenko: ( and look, jan zeschky thinks you should go to all the fests too!) We’re in the midst of beer festival season in BC! There are several beer festivals coming up, and they’re conveniently being held on different dates so you can get to them all – like I intend to do! It’s the Whistler beer festival this coming weekend – there are events like cask nights and tastings beginning Wednesday evening, leading up to the tasting festival on Saturday and Sunday. There will be over 100 beers pouring from over 50 breweries, and several cideries as well. A couple of the area’s not-yet-opened breweries will be pouring beers at the fest, namely Back Country Brewing from Squamish and Highway 97 from Penticton, so be sure to try those ones! While you are in Whistler, you could take advantage of the opportunity to go check out the newly opened Coast Mountain B...
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look! it's me on the cbc website again! Summer season ending, but beer festival season just getting started Beer columnist has 3 events to highlight this week CBC News Posted: Sep 13, 2016 8:32 PM PT Last Updated: Sep 13, 2016 8:32 PM PT At last year's B.C. Beer Awards, Brassneck Brewing won best in show for their One Trick Pony Imperial IPA. (bcbeerawards.com) OTC beer and wine B.C. Ale Trail lets beer lovers explore province's breweries No summertime blues with these B.C. summer beer events, columnist says Summer is turning to autumn, and On The Coast beer columnist Rebecca Whyman says that means the start of beer festival season in B.C. "There are several, and they're conveniently being held on different dates so you can get to them all — like I intend to do!" Whyman told On The Coast guest host Gloria Macarenko. Here are...