The holidays are a time of gathering together for celebration, and what better way to ring in the festive season than by supporting local businesses and heading over to your favourite breweries? Share in some marvellous merriment by embarking on one or both of the BC Ale Trail’s Vancouver trails!
Explore a craft beer scene that continues to earn worldwide acclaim due to its perfectly idyllic hybrid of delicious drinks surrounded by breathtaking sea, forest, and mountainscapes. In keeping with the season of giving, breweries along the BC Ale Trail offer exclusive seasonal pours sure to please every preference and palate.
Patrons have two trails to choose from: the Brewery Creek Ale Trail and the Yeast Vancouver Ale Trail.
Photo: Main Street Brewing.
Each brewery along the Brewery Creek Ale Trail offers a diverse selection of flavours, with 10 different locations to sit and savour.
For those looking for a uniquely B.C. creation, 33 Acres Brewing is offering a delicious Cranberry Sour brewed with barley, wheat and spelt and fermented with a special mixed culture in oak Foeder #3, refermented on B.C.-sourced cranberries. Releasing at their tasting room in limited bottles on December 17, this flavour fusion is perfect for ringing in the holiday season.
Channel the holiday spirit and pair your feel-good brewery experience with paying it forward by participating in Main Street Brewing’s ‘Miracle on Main St.’ Charitable Holiday Drive. From December 1 to December 12, Main Street Brewing will help make wishes come true for children across Metro Vancouver by giving guests a chance to win an assortment of prizes from local small businesses. Visitors who bring a gift of an unwrapped toy, game, sports equipment or gift card will receive a complimentary flight of its ‘Core Four’ beers. Their gift will also grant them entry into a series of 12 ‘even day’ draws with prizing from Main St.-area merchants taking place from December 2 to 24.
Photo: Andina Brewing Co.
The good times don’t stop there! If you’re in search of a collection of specially-curated settings, a myriad of craft beer selections, and can’t-miss convenience, you can’t go wrong with the Yeast Vancouver Ale Trail.
For a uniquely authentic environment, be sure to visit Andina Brewing Co. This brewery offers a heavenly hybrid of delicious craft beer and a menu that purely encapsulates the spirit and culture of Colombia. Just in time for the holidays, Andina Brewing is releasing its extremely delicious and extremely limited imperial stout. Conditioned in oak barrels for a full year, you don’t want to miss this winter treat!
Keeping with the holiday theme, another stop on the trail, Strange Fellows Brewing, is offering their seasonal KRAMPUS brew, featuring malty flavours with subtle hints of toffee and spice brewed with Belgian cane sugar and dark malts. It’s just what you need for a delightful warming effect perfect for those long winter nights.
With offers like these, it must be the most wonderful time of the year!
For more information regarding these and all other breweries along both trails, visit bcaletrail.ca/regions/vancouver-coast-mountains.
