Throughout 2016, the Sip Advisor will tackle a different British Columbia craft beer every single day. Yes, my little sippers, that’s 366 brews and I can’t wait to see what the year will bring. Check this page to see which lagers, ales, stouts, porters, and every other style we manage to serve up. Cheers!
January:
1: Steamworks Winter White Stout
3: Fuggles and Warlock Destiny IPA
4: Central City Super Sonic IPA
6: Powell Street Old Jalopy Pale Ale
7: Howe Sound Gathering Storm Dark Ale
8: Parallel 49 Old Boy Brown Ale
9: Storm Vanilla Whiskey Stout
11: Yaletown Golden Buddha IPA
12: Driftwood Crooked Coast Altbier
13: Main Street Westminster Brown Ale
15: Nelson Face Plant Winter Ale
16: Okanagan Springs Brewmaster’s Black Lager
17: Postmark Falconer’s Flight IPA
18: Big Rock Dine Out Van Fest Ale
19: Strange Fellows Talisman West Coast Pale Ale
20: Real Cask Burnley Bastard Mild
21: Bridge Uganda Sipi Coffee Brown Ale
23: Stanley Park Windstorm West Coast Pale Ale
24: Granville Island Island Lager (Originals Week)
25: Red Truck Ale (Originals Week)
26: Vancouver Island Hermann’s Dark Lager (Originals Week)
27: Parallel 49 Gypsy Tears Ruby Ale (Originals Week)
28: Phillips Phoenix Lager (Originals Week)
29: Whistler Black Tusk Ale (Originals Week)
30: Central City Red Racer IPA (Originals Week)
31: Black Kettle IPA
February:
1: Steel & Oak Tortuga Wild Ale
5: Howe Sound Sky Pilot Northwest Pale Ale
7: Big Rock Dark Cherry Abbey Ale (Chocolate Week)
8: Bomber Choqlette Porter (Chocolate Week)
9: Old Yale Sasquatch Stout (Chocolate Week)
10: R&B Raven Cream Ale (Chocolate Week)
11: Ravens Hot Chocolate Porter (Chocolate Week)
12: Mission Springs Spiced Chocolate Imperial Stout (Chocolate Week)
13: Phillips Longboat Chocolate Porter (Chocolate Week)
14: Barkerville Promise to Sophia
15: Trading Post What Cheer Brett IPA
16: Dead Frog Super Fearless Imperial IPA
17: Old Abbey Ales Belgian Tripel
18: Field House Sour Wheat Gose
20: Maple Meadows Vanilla Porter
21: Ridge Hairy Donut Irish Amber Ale
22: Green Leaf Burning Rock Ale
23: Black Kettle Tropic Thunder Saison
26: Hearthstone Graham Cracker Ale
27: Category 12 Disruption Black IPA
28: Main Street Up Your Sporran Scotch Ale
29: Parallel 49 Mother of Donkeys Pale Ale
March:
1: Steel & Oak Smoked Dunkelweizen
2: Strange Fellows Cyclhops Galaxy IPA
6: Howe Sound Rail Ale Nut Brown
7: Steel Toad Kermode West Coast IPA
10: Brassneck Passive Aggressive
13: Tofino Kelp Stout (Stout Week)
14: Dead Frog Nutty Uncle Peanut Butter Stout (Stout Week)
15: Doan’s Rye Stout (Stout Week)
16: Lighthouse Seaport Vanilla Stout (Stout Week)
17: Old Yale Screaming Banshee Irish Crème Stout (Stout Week)
18: Central City Habanero Stout (Stout Week)
19: Main Street Stag and Pheasant Imperial Stout (Stout Week)
20: Granville Island West Coast Pale Ale
24: Storm Raspberry Vanilla Ale
25: Off the Rail Raj Mahal India Ale
26: Bomber Park Life Passion Fruit Ale
28: Trading Post Derby Hop Session Lager
29: Big Ridge Vanilla Bean Porter
30: Category 12 Critical Point Pale Ale
April:
1: Spinnakers Chocoholic Chocolate Milk Stout
2: Strange Fellows Jongleur Belgian Wit
4: Dogwood Maple Molasses Stout
5: Whistler Bear Paw Honey Lager
7: Callister Axis & Allies Rye Pale Ale
9: Coal Harbour Smoke & Mirrors
10: Driftwood Fat Tug IPA (IPA Week)
11: Russell Punch Bowl IPA (IPA Week)
12: Four Winds Juxtapose Brett IPA (IPA Week)
13: Parallel 49 Filthy Dirty IPA (IPA Week)
14: Hoyne Devil’s Dream IPA (IPA Week)
15: Steamworks Jasmine IPA (IPA Week)
16: Moon Under Water Tranquility IPA (IPA Week)
17: International Womens Collaboration Brew Kettle Sour Gose
18: Old Abbey Ales Hazelnut Vanilla Coffee Blonde
20: Field House Salted Black Porter
21: Mission Springs Lemon Ginger Radler
22: Maple Meadows Honey Brown Ale
23: Ridge Black Mamba Milk Stout
24: Dead Frog Cold Brew Red Ale
25: Black Kettle Kentucky Common
26: Hearthstone Chocolate Milk Stout
28: Deep Cove Luminescent Chocolate Coconut Porter
29: Green Leaf Pie Hole Pale Ale
30: Storm Berry Blaster Sour Ale
May:
2: Steel Toad Saison Sauvignon
3: R&B Dark Star Oatmeal Stout
5: Main Street Odds N’ Sods IPA
7: Red Truck Midnight Run Dark Lager
8: Tree Knox Mountain Brown Ale
11: Driftwood Entangled Hopfenweisse
14: Parallel 49 Ugly Sweater Milk Stout
15: Yellow Dog Shake a Paw Smoked Porter (Porter Week)
16: Tin Whistle Killer Bee Porter (Porter Week)
17: Okanagan Springs Chili Porter (Porter Week)
18: Fernie Sap Sucker Maple Porter (Porter Week)
19: Mt. Begbie Cold Smoke Smoked Porter (Porter Week)
20: Four Winds Oat Porter (Porter Week)
21: Moody Ales Smouldering Smoked Porter (Porter Week)
22: Steamworks Black Angel IPA
23: Vancouver Island Sea Dog Amber Ale
24: Powell Street Witbier
25: Moody Ales/Ridge 1880 Export Stout
26: Granville Island Cypress Honey Lager
28: Rossland 7 Summits Milk Stout
29: Moon Under Water Creepy Uncle Dunkel
31: Steel & Oak/Strange Fellows Tu Meke Saison
June:
1: Parallel 49/Crannog Ales Suspect Device Gruit
2: Parallel 49/Axe & Barrel Paranoid Oat Wild Pilsner
3: Parallel 49/Barkerville Run to the Hills Golden Strong Ale
4: Parallel 49/Doan’s Thunderstruck Sticke Alt
5: Parallel 49/Category 12 Comfortably Numb Rye Old Ale
6: Parallel 49/Cannery Gimme Shelter Apple IPA
7: Parallel 49/Bridge Bat Outta Hell Dark Helles Bock
8: Parallel 49/Hearthstone Sympathy for the Devil Black IPA
9: Parallel 49/Four Winds The Boys Are Back in Town Nectar-Face
10: Parallel 49/Moody Ales Purple Haze Black Currant Sour
11: Parallel 49/Fernie Spirit in the Sky Havana Club Stout
12: Parallel 49/Strange Fellows People Are Strange Hoppy Saison
13: Sherwood Mountain Munich Lager
14: Granville Island Nat Bailey Pale Ale
15: Vancouver Island Sabotage India Session Ale
16: Howe Sound Garibaldi Honey Pale Ale
17: Powell Street Ode to Citra Pale Ale
18: Off the Rail Raybuck Red Ale
19: Fernie What the Huck Huckleberry Wheat Ale (Fruit Week)
20: Fuggles & Warlock The Last Strawberry Wit (Fruit Week)
21: Central City Dark Cherry Stout (Fruit Week)
22: Cannery Blackberry Porter (Fruit Week)
23: Stanley Park SunSetter Summer Ale (Fruit Week)
24: Four Mile Tangerine Dream Ale (Fruit Week)
25: Dead Frog Tropic Vice Tropical Fruit Ale (Fruit Week)
28: Bomber/Moody Ales Tam O’ Shanter Wee Heavy Scotch Ale
29: Spinnakers Dragonfly Rye Spring Saison
30: Main Street/Powell Street Scottish Golden Ale
July:
2: Bad Tattoo True Love Kolsch
4: Steamworks Farmhouse Wheat Ale
6: Tree Mellow Moon Pineapple Hefeweizen
8: Hoyne Summer Haze Honey Hefe
10: Storm Margherita Pizza IPA (Experimental Week)
11: Canuck Empire Chamomile Wheat Ale (Experimental Week)
12: Lighthouse Jackline Rhubarb Grisette (Experimental Week)
13: Whistler Cheakamus Chai Maple Ale (Experimental Week)
14: Bridge Elderflower Kettle Sour (Experimental Week)
15: Moody Ales Intrepid Matcha Saison (Experimental Week)
16: Spinnakers Hollie Wood Oyster Stout (Experimental Week)
18: Cannery Naramata Nut Brown
19: Kwantlen Brewing Program Porter
20: Fuggles & Warlock Super 8-Bit IPA
21: Be Right Back Kentucky Common
22: Fernie Last Cast Summer IPA
23: Mission Springs Cherry Bomb Pale Ale
25: Dead Frog Big Stump Spruce Golden Ale
27: Old Abbey Ales Dry Hop Saison
28: Parallel 49 Seedspitter Watermelon Wit
29: Phillips Short Wave West Coast Pale Ale
30: Main Street Old Knights Pale Ale
31: Central City Red Racer Imperial IPA
August:
1: Twin Sails Dry Hopped Kolsch
2: Yellow Dog Pineapple Brett IPA
5: Big Rock White Rocket White IPA
6: Old Yale Off Trail Pale Ale
7: Foamers’ Folly Hot Box IPA Nitro
8: Mt. Begbie Brave Liver Scotch Ale
9: Stanley Park Curiosity Lager
11: Bad Tattoo Waes Hael Spiced Seasonal Ale
12: Lighthouse Broadside Northwest Ale
14: Moon Under Water This is Hefeweizen (Hefeweizen Week)
15: Driftwood White Bark Witbier (Hefeweizen Week)
16: Granville Island Hey Day Hefeweizen (Hefeweizen Week)
17: Steel & Oak Smoked Hefeweizen (Hefeweizen Week)
18: Howe Sound King Heffy (Hefeweizen Week)
19: Russell White Rabbit Hoppy Hefeweizen (Hefeweizen Week)
20: Fernie Slow Drift Witbier (Hefeweizen Week)
22: R&B Kettle Sour Export Stout
25: Chaos & Solace Five Corners IPA
27: Tin Whistle Scorpion Double IPA
28: Off the Rail Beez Kneez Honey Ginger Ale
29: Phillips Solaris White Peach Ale
30: Main Street/Doan’s Roggenweizen
31: Sherwood Mountain Skeena West Pale Ale
September:
1: Four Mile Cactus Grapefruit IPA
3: Old Abbey Ales Sour Raspberry Ale
4: Steamworks Killer Cucumber Ale
5: Big Rock Hollow Tree Red Ale
6: Old Yale Moon Dance Mango Wheat
7: Spinnakers Orange Karma Oatmeal Cream Ale
8: Whistler Peak to Pier Summer Wit
9: Driftwood Cry Me A River Gose
10: Ridge Café Morena English Brown Ale
11: Four Winds Sovereign Super Saison (Saison Week)
12: Fuggles & Warlock Icarus Mosaic Saison (Saison Week)
13: Bridge Lemon Gin Saison (Saison Week)
14: Parallel 49 Apricotopus Apricot Sour Saison (Saison Week)
15: Central City Peared Up Saison (Saison Week)
16: Yellow Dog Stick Toss Saison (Saison Week)
17: Phillips Atomic Buffalo Smokey Red Saison (Saison Week)
18: Granville Island Two Tides ISA
19: Howe Sound Log Driver Juniper Rye IPA
20: Fernie Big Caboose Red Ale
22: Vancouver Island Killer White IPA
23: Cannery Drupaceous Apricot Wheat Ale
24: Tree Cutthroat West Coast Ale
25: Persephone Brew the Change
27: Tin Whistle Stag Apple Scotch Ale
28: White Rock Beach West Beach Fruit
30: Main Street Belgian Bonsai
October:
2: Brassneck Stockholm Syndrome
3: Boombox/Real Cask GoldenRye
4: Trading Post Captain Cooper’s Cranberry Ale
6: Category 12 Zombie Repellant Ale
7: Bad Tattoo Los Muertos Cerveza Negra
8: Dead Frog Weeping Reaper Blood Orange Helles Bock
9: Prohibition Harvest Pumpkin Spiced Ale (Pumpkin Week)
10: Russell Happy Jack Pumpkin Ale (Pumpkin Week)
11: Spinnakers Spiced Pumpkin Ale (Pumpkin Week)
12: Phillips Toothless Pumpkin Sour Ale (Pumpkin Week)
13: Fernie Pumpkin Brown Ale (Pumpkin Week)
14: Parallel 49 Schadenfreude Pumpkin Oktoberfest (Pumpkin Week)
15: Central City Patrick O’ Pumpkin (Pumpkin Week)
16: Howe Sound Pumpkineater Smoked Imperial Pumpkin Ale
17: Red Arrow Midnight Umber Ale
18: Twa Dogs Mistress of My Soul Saison
20: Luppolo Fresh Hop Belgian IPA
21: Lightheart Purple People Pleaser Blackberry Wheat Ale
23: White Sails Mount Benson IPA
24: Steel & Oak Smoked Honey Doppelbock
25: Moon Under Water Hip as Funk IPA
26: Fuggles & Warlock Chrono Wet Hop IPA
30: Main Street Red Back Amber Ale
31: Tin Whistle Black Widow English Dark Ale
November:
1: Stanley Park Smoked Baltic Porter
2: Townsite Blackberry Festivale
3: Boombox/Machine Ales Pablo Esco Gnar IPA
4: East Van Downtown Honey Brown
5: Old Abbey Ales Scottish Monk
9: Nelson Blackheart Organic Oatmeal Stout
10: Ridge Ay Caramba! Jalapeno IPA
13: Big Rock Mosaic Lager (Lager Week)
14: Hoyne Off the Grid Vienna Lager (Lager Week)
15: Coal Harbour 311 Helles Lager (Lager Week)
16: Howe Sound Lager (Lager Week)
17: Bomber Marzen Amber Lager (Lager Week)
18: Okanagan Springs 1516 Bavarian Lager (Lager Week)
19: 33 Acres of Darkness (Lager Week)
21: Granville Island False Creek Raspberry Ale
22: Vancouver Island Black Betty Blackberry Saison
23: Yellow Dog Chase My Tail Pale Ale
25: Deep Cove Spruce Tip Black IPA
26: Fuggles & Warlock The Last Mango Wit
27: Spinnakers Lion’s Head Cascadia Dark Ale
28: Brassneck Fantasmagoria Horchata Milk Stout
29: R&B Dude Chilling Pale Ale
December:
1: Stanley Park WinterGlow Mandarin IPA
2: Bad Tattoo Midnight Hopmare Black IPA
3: Bowen Island Reef Break Hemp Blonde Ale
4: Trading Post Dear James S.M.A.S.H. Saison
6: Off the Rail East Bound Nut Brown Ale
7: Steamworks Salty Caramel Ale
10: Russell Naughty & Spiced Porter
11: Bridge The Grinch Winter Ale (Winter Ale Week)
12: Fernie Black Mammoth Winter Ale (Winter Ale Week)
13: Big Rock Winter Spice Ale (Winter Ale Week)
14: Central City Red Racer Winter Ale (Winter Ale Week)
15: Granville Island Lions Winter Ale (Winter Ale Week)
16: Howe Sound Father John’s Winter Ale (Winter Ale Week)
17: Dead Frog Winter Beeracle Winter Ale (Winter Ale Week)
20: Parallel 49 Salty Scot Ale
22: Barkerville Sternwheeler Scotch Ale
23: Category 12 Unsanctioned Saison
24: Driftwood Blackstone Porter
25: Deep Cove Noel Belgian Strong Ale
26: Fuggles & Warlock Hopper Texas Brown
27: Spinnakers Jolly Hopper Imperial IPA
28: Brassneck Sticks & Stones Rye Saison
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