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Adult Beverages October 25, 2023

Vancouver’s North Shore Craft Beer Week is Back!

Cheers to the return of the iconic Vancouver’s North Shore Craft Beer Week! From November 2nd – 14th, 2023, the festival is serving up daily showcase events at local craft breweries in the Shipyards District. This year’s Craft Beer Week features events from 10 North Shore Breweries, 1 Distillery and 1 Cidery, featuring music, limited edition beers and drinks, food pop-ups, games, and prizes. Get your game on and munch on delicious dumplings alongside your ale with an all-day Dim Sum & Pac Man Competition at Streetcar Brewing, tap into your competitive spirit with a good old fashioned bar Trivia Night at Windfall Cider or release your inner warrior with axe-throwing and stein holding for Viking Day at Braggot Brewing. That’s just a taste of what’s on the schedule for Craft Beer Week! Check out the full list of Signature Craft Beer Week Events here. The Launch Party at The…

Cocktails, Wines & Spirits September 12, 2023

Copperpenny Distilling: Local Favourite, Global Winner

Located in the heart of Shipyard’s Brewing District on Esplanade, Copperpenny Distilling stands out not only for its tantalizing and zesty gins, but also for the master medals they’ve received! By Avneet Takhar Having started up in 2021, Copperpenny Distilling has had a steady upward trajectory of success. In midst of the pandemic, they got creative and started their own line of craft hand sanitizers, and had a vendor stand at Lonsdale Artisan Farmers Market. But it was a year later that owners, Jennifer Kom-Tong and Jan Stenc began to really reap the rewards of their hard work. They officially opened the distillery just after Christmas. This came complete with a tasting room and bar seats to sip cocktails and enjoy gin oysters with, in partnership with Fanny Bay Oyster Company. And they also happened to be awarded with: Global Gin Masters 2022 by the Spirits Business (presented in London,…

Recipes August 28, 2023

Recipe: The Provence Cocktail from Copperpenny Distilling

As the sun starts to set a little earlier and nights become cooler, it’s time to make the most of those last patio days. The end of the season calls for delicate floral notes and a splash of citrus. Send off the summer with The Provence, a beautiful gin-based cocktail courtesy of the award-winning Copperpenny Distilling in North Vancouver. RECIPE Ingredients 1.5 oz Copperpenny Gin No. 005 1oz Copperpenny Provence syrup 120 ml Fever-Tree premium Indian tonic Pink peppercorns Spring of lavender Grapefruit Edible flower (for garnish) Instructions Add the gin and syrup to a balloon glass Stir well, fill with ice and top with Fever Tree tonic Garnish and enjoy The Provence Syrup is made in-house by Copperpenny with fresh grapefruit, French lavender and sweetened with pure cane sugar. It can be purchased at the location (and online very soon!). If you get the chance, we recommend you try…

Festivals & Events August 3, 2023

Catch the Magical Fort Langley Night Market in August

We look forward to Friday nights even more than ever, with Fort Langley’s popular Night Market in full swing this month. By Catherine Dunwoody Every Friday evening from 5 – 10 PM in August, 40 local vendors gather to sell their wares at the Fort Langley Night Market, promising an evening of summer fun. Shop for wearables and cute stuff for your home from local designers, grab a bite from one of the food trucks, including local craft beer, wine, cider, and cocktails. Live music? Yes please! This market is a shopping, eating, and drinking party and the vibe only gets better with live tunes from local BC artists. Must-Visit Vendors Vendors worth checking out are plentiful, including Dirty Bird Jewellery design with their affordable pieces in silver and gold. Darn Right Foods bakes up gluten free, sugar free and vegan goodies, while Lumière Leslie Candles (a husband and wife owned…

Cocktails, Wines & Spirits May 9, 2023

Langley’s Roots and Wings Distillery and BC Distilled Festival

Rebekah Crowley, owner/distiller, walks us through the steps to create their signature spirits. By Catherine Dunwoody As one of the numerous Metro-Vancouver-based craft distilleries participating in the BC Distilled Festival, Roots and Wings Distillery is the first of its kind in the Fraser Valley. I chatted with Rebekah Crowley about the process of making their small batch artisan spirits. Proud of their farm-to-table approach and ingredients grown right on their farm, Crowley and partner Head Distiller Rob Rindt have created over forty unique and flavorful spirits in their six years in business. “Every Saturday we start a new batch, be it vodka or whiskey base, they all begin the same way,” says Crowley. “We take the potatoes (for vodka) and corn or rye and corn (for whiskey) and add it into our 500-gallon mash still. Then we heat it with a mix of water and enzymes until it reaches 90…

Cocktails, Wines & Spirits May 9, 2017

Behind the Craft Spirits at Sons of Vancouver Distillery

By Kathy Mak The local craft spirit movement has been gaining momentum for the past five years in Greater Vancouver thanks to a burgeoning breed of small-format distilleries that produce atypical products for a thriving cocktail community. Nowhere is that truer than at the Sons of Vancouver Distillery, based on Vancouver’s North Shore. This self-proclaimed really, really small batch distillery has won over fans and followers with their grassroots energy and well-crafted roster of artisan products – a vodka, a chili-infused vodka and an amaretto liqueur. The dynamic duo behind Sons of Vancouver are James Lester and Richard Klaus who met during trade school. They are part of a breed of new artisan distillers shaping the craft cocktail landscape in British Columbia. These two enterprising friends and business partners are not ones to chase conventional dreams. When they started their adventure as one of a few local early-adopters in craft…