by YVR Barfly | Jun 23, 2023 | Features
Our favourite summer cocktail offers the perfect canvas for artful variations The Margarita is a splash of happiness, the quintessential summer cocktail and one of the most popular drinks in the world. Whether you like it frozen or on the rocks, in a pre-dinner...
by Joanne Sasvari | May 26, 2023 | Features
In the Spring/Summer 2023 issue of The Alchemist, we have everything you need to enjoy the warm and sunny days ahead. Summer’s sun-soaked patios are calling, and that means it’s Margarita season. In this issue, YVR Barfly rounds up come of our favourite Margs in the...
by Reece Sims | Mar 16, 2023 | Features
Quails’ Gate becomes the first Canadian winery to collaborate with Green Spot Irish Whiskey, just in time for St. Patrick’s Day What do Irish whiskey and Pinot Noir wine from the Okanagan have in common? Until this week, not much, aside from both being aged in oak...
by Joanne Sasvari | Feb 10, 2023 | Features
A tarnished classic cleans up its act If given the choice, you’d pick potato chips over chocolate. You prefer your cheese well aged and a little blue. When you order sushi, you always need to refill your soy dipping bowl. You can’t wait for mushroom season. And you...
by Allie Turner | Feb 3, 2023 | Features
These cola brands give the popular soda an artisanal remake Think of cola and you likely think of Coke, Pepsi and the rivalry between them. The two beverages were initially developed by pharmacists as patent medicines—one to aid digestion (Pepsi), the other as nerve...
by Reece Sims | Jan 27, 2023 | Features
B.C.’s craft distillers breathe new life into an old spirit Over the last few decades, brandy has developed a branding problem. Not the Brandy who rose to fame with hits like The Boy is Mine in the late 1990s; rather, the once-venerable tipple that today is often seen...
