Sip Easy Lager Honours Essential Workers

Granville Island Brewing’s Sip Easy Lager Raise a cold one with Granville Island’s Sip Easy Lager, there’s newest easy drinking beer, ringing in at 4.3% with some light malty flavours and a crisp finish. Perfect after-run beer! Along with the launch, Granville Island Brewing is reminding us to remember our essential workers. Sure, the pot…

Battle Royal Total Beer Glory

Four BC breweries battle it out in the Doolin’s ring for TOTAL BEER GLORY! Whoever sells out their keg first will reign as a Doolin’s featured tap for all of June. Plus extreme bragging rights! This boxing ring style event will feature some of Vancouver’s great Craft Breweries to celebrate Vancouver Craft Beer Week! Featuring…

What’s Good March 28+

You won’t go hungry this weekend my food loving friends as there’s a huge range of food-centric events that will satiate even the most enormous of appetites. From Friday March 28th  Sunday 31st Boudin Noir and Morcilla are on the menu at Oyama Sausage in Granville Island.  Both are speciality blood sausages, delicious grilled or simmered and…

The Pumpkining – Granville Island Brewing

This seasonal Belgian ale from Granville Island Brewing is actually made with organic pumpkin puree adding distinct pumpkin notes. There’s a malty caramel aroma and the brew is crisp with slightly sweet, mildly bitter with notes of Christmas spices, and a malty finish.  Love the new labels; don’t let it scare you off. Works well…

Foodie Friday’s on NEWS1130

Foodie Fridays February 24 – click to listen This week we chat about the upcoming Playhouse International Wine Festival that starts on Monday and runs throughout the week (Feb 27- Mar 4), and get the scoop on what events are worthy and still have tickets left.  This year the theme country is Chile and the grape Cabernet.  We…

Granville Island Brewmaster’s Dinner at Seasons in the Park

 Following a recent facelift, Seasons in the Park is poised and ready for its first event of the year. On Tuesday, March 6th, Seasons will host a Brewmaster’s Dinner with Vancouver’s own Granville Island Brewing. After a very successful GIB dinner at The Sandbar, the Sequoia Company of Restaurants is excited to offer another delicious…

Oyama Sausage Choucroute Festival

Presented by Oyama Sausage, Liberty Wines and Granville Island Brewing Beat the mid-winter culinary blahs and visit Granville Island between Feb 16th and Feb 19th for our Choucroute Festival. Join Vancouver’s premiere charcuterie, Oyama Sausage, and Granville Island Brewing and Liberty Wine Merchants to celebrate this time honored winter classic. Choose from an outstanding selection…

Granville Island Brewing Asks: “Which Mo Will You Grow?”

GIB launches Movember campaign, raising and awareness for men’s health Granville Island Brewing is inviting beer enthusiasts to join them in putting their razors away for the month of November as they roll out their second annual Movember campaign. Held annually across the world, Movember is a moustache-growing charity event raising funds and awareness for…

Granville Island Robson Street Hefeweizen

While I’ve been known to sip the occasional beer when the weather is cloudy, the summer is the time when I really crave something refreshing, crisp and bubbly in a glass.  Sure champagne will do, but after, or during a day at the lake I really crave a beer. With summer attempting to show its…

Ring in Cold Weather With GIB Lions Winter Ale

Bring on the rain and snow, the change in seasons signals the end of a long wait for beer connoisseurs – Granville Island Brewing’s limited release Lions Winter Ale hits stores and taps all around the city. Named for Vancouver’s famous Lions peaks, Lions Winter Ale has secured itself as Vancouver’s favourite winter beer. The…