by Gail Johnson | Sep 6, 2019 | Features
Five Vancouver bars that offer immersive fun along with your cocktail Step into ABQ London bar and you’re no longer in the city’s Hackney district but an RV where people in goggles and yellow hazmat suits “cook” their own molecular cocktails. Taking its name from an...
by Tim Pawsey | Aug 16, 2019 | Features
The evolution of terroir-driven made-in-B.C. gin When news arrived that Sooke’s Sheringham Distillery had scooped Best Contemporary Gin in the World at the prestigious World Gin Awards, I, like so many others, was truly thrilled. After all, what an achievement for the...
by David Wolowidnyk | Aug 2, 2019 | Features
It’s wedding season. Here’s some advice for keeping the party going from a bartender who’s seen it all. The notion of having three different parties to celebrate a marriage sounds like a great idea to many brides-to-be, but for some, the stress can be overwhelming....
by The Alchemist | Jul 24, 2019 | Features
It’s within the crisp concrete walls of the newly open Copper Spirit Distillery that owners Candice and Miguel Kabantsov want people to forge new relationships with alcohol and one another. “We discussed how we could create an industry that was focused on conscious...
by The Alchemist | Jun 29, 2019 | Features
Celebrate the most important day in the Canadian calendar with the country’s iconic homegrown whisky, J.P. Wiser’s! Before Canada was even Canada, J.P. Wiser’s was distilling and barreling whisky in 1857 in Prescott, Ontario. That makes it Canada’s oldest...
by Laura Starr | Jun 29, 2019 | Features
Meet Joey Donnelly, a maritime treasure of a human, who has made a solid east-coast stamp on the west-coast hospitality industry here in BC. He is the GM of Clough Club in Gastown (his last name is unrelated to the Donnelly Group) and even after almost a decade in...
