HELLO FRIENDS!
Spring is in the air and it’s patio season again, so to celebrate we’ll have extended hours as of May 1st! From Thursday to Saturday we’ll be open until 11 PM bringing last call in the kitchen to 10 PM. Also upcoming; we have our 8th Anniversary party with a new set of collabs, loads of beer festivals to announce, and a round up of another exciting year working with Protect Our Winters Canada.
SUMMER EVENTS!
Join us for our 8th anniversary 3 day Patio Party June 6-8th! We’ve lined up some great DJ’s and will be serving our anniversary collaboration beer series with our friends at Fieldhouse Brewing, Superflux, Structures Brewing from Bellingham and Badlands Brewing from Caledon, Ontario. Look out for us at events in your community, here’s a list of where we’ll be pouring at festivals around BC this summer!
- May 17 — Brewhalla Beer Festival, Langley
- May 31 — Darby’s Kits Rare Brews, Vancouver
- June 21st — Squamish Valley Beer Festival
- July 5th — Parksville Beer Fest, Parksville, Vancouver Island
- July 12th — Vancouver Craft Beer Week
- Aug 2nd-3rd — Logger Sports Festival, Squamish
- August 16th — Chemainus Beer Festival, Chemainus, Vancouver Island
- September 13th — Whistler Beer Festival
COMMUNITY
With help from YOU and all the purchases of this year’s POW Pale Ale, we were able to crush our fundraising goal of $10K to raise $13,700 for Protect Our Winters Canada! This year’s recipe was the best yet featuring new Crush™ hops offering a very sessionable ale bursting with citrus and tropical flavours. A special thank you to our sponsors Summit Labels, Yakima Chief Hops, Rahr BSG, Rahr Malting Co., Econic Apparel, Cancraft and the fine folks at Chili Thom Estate. Want to see change in climate policies? Get involved and become a member today! It’s free to join!
AROUND THE BREWHOUSE
This year we rolled out new label designs for our core beers! Ridgerunner, Widowmaker and Trailbreaker remain the same great beer Backcountry fans have come to know and love, with a fresh new look by our graphic designer extraordinaire Cory Ransom!
We’ve also introduced our Experimental release series, which is a fun way for our brewer’s to express their love and passion for brewing. These beers get loaded with the highest quality ingredients and are released in single cans at the BREWERY ONLY!
DID YOU KNOW!? We are now offering our core and limited release beers at over 30 locations across Alberta!
FROM THE KITCHEN
Our kitchen team is continuing to create new and exciting menu items with rotational pizzas, new wing flavours and seasonal fresh salads. Our beloved Hawaii 5-0 takes center stage as it comes back to kick off the patio season. We’ve also started Wing Wednesday offering our famous Backcountry Wings on buy one get one 50% off! This is a great way to try our new Sriracha Hot Honey wings plus the new flavours coming later in the year. Check out our menu!
DISCOUNTS & WHERE TO BUY
The Backcountry Beer Club is your best way to save on retail purchases at the brewery. To become a lifetime member just spend $150 on in-store merch and you immediately get 15% off that purchase plus every future purchase in the retail store including cans and kegs! On the Taproom side, when you dine in with us you’re eligible for 10% off your purchase of cans to-go!
You can buy all our merch online with shipping across BC for a $15 flat rate or for free on orders over $100! Our beers are all across BC with Widowmaker and Trailbreaker listed in over 90 BC Liquor Stores plus a wide selection of private retailers, now even in Alberta! Use our Where To Buy page to locate your closest draught tap, or 4 packs for sale and check out our latest list of releases here. Cheers!