PENTICTON, BC – Cannery Brewing have brought back their limited edition Wildfire IPA for a second year.

First released last fall in honour of the firefighters and emergency service workers who helped fight the fierce 2009 Okanagan Valley fires, the beer now pays tribute to those who fight all Canadian wildfires.

Wildfire is a black IPA described as “intensely dark and smooth” with “complex hops that rage through to the finish.” It’s available now in 650 ml bottles at the brewery, and in select liquor stores and bars & restaurants.

VICTORIA, BC – To mark their 9th anniversary, Phillips Brewing has released a new limited edition brew, 9 Donkeys of the Hopocalypse:

What does a hop-happy brewery get themselves for their ninth anniversary? A nine-megaton hop bomb that outdoes last year’s anniversary explosion of hops. Following in the footsteps of Phillips Crazy 8s Annu-ale, we’re happy to announce the coming of the 9 Donkeys of the Hopocalypse. “9 Donkeys?” you say? Well, the number nine refers not only to the different hops used in this perilous 9% brew (Amarillo, Cascade, Centennial, Chinook, Citra, Hallertauer, Millenium, Palisade and Simcoe), but also to our ninth year of brewing and the Hopocalypse detonation level. The donkey part, well, we’re not sure exactly, but there sure are a few asses around the Phillips epicentre.

9 Donkeys of the Hopocalypse is available in 650ml bottles at at the brewery and select cold beer stores. A small amount has also been set aside for draught accounts, and for growlers at the brewery.

SQUAMISH, BC – Howe Sound Brewing has announced that this year’s edition of Pumpkineater Imperial Pumpkin Ale will be available soon.

A high gravity pumpkin ale brewed with barley, fresh roasted pumpkin, hops, cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, star anise, water and yeast. It is one of the local seasonal favourites. This beer is produced in very limited quantities each fall as part of the John Mitchell series.

As a malty spiced ale, it goes well with both savoury and sweet items. Try it with cheese, nuts, and of course pumpkin pie!

Pumpkineater Imperial Pumpkin Ale is an 8% abv beer, and it will be released in 1L swingtop bottles next Wednesday, September 1st.

VICTORIA, BC – The latest seasonal release from Phillips Brewing is now available. Twenty-Four Mile Blueberry Pail Ale is it’s name, and it takes the idea of local brewing to a new extreme:

Every ingredient used to craft this refreshing beer has travelled 24 miles or less from farm to brew kettle. First, water from the Sooke reservoir is blended with barley, grown and malted locally by Mike Doehnel. Then we added a pile of Cascade hops from Vic Davies Saanich farm and fresh blueberries from Farmer Phil. All this deliciousness was activated by Yeast Wrangler Ben’s unique house-strain of ale yeast and you are off to the flavour races. You might want a bib for this one, as there is a certain shirt-staining potential from all those berries.

In keeping with the local theme, Twenty-Four Mile Blueberry Pail Ale is available only a select beer stores in Victoria, as well as at the brewery.

SQUAMISH, BC – Howe Sound Brewing has launched a new limited summer seasonal, Howe Sound Bumbleberry Ale.

The beer was made using “a puree of blackberries, blueberries and raspberries in a wheat beer,” and is described as “a 5% wheat ale with a dry tart taste. A great light summer refreshing fruit beer to be enjoyed in the summer heat and sun splashed evenings.”

Howe Sound Bumbleberry Ale is available now on tap at the Howe Sound brewpub.

VANCOUVER, BC – The next limited seasonal release from Granville Island Brewing, the summer favourite Raspberry Wheat Ale, is due to be released very soon.

In a press release from the brewery, the beer is described as follows:

This crisp Raspberry Wheat Ale was created with the flawless combination of malt, water, hops, yeast, and the perfect amount of Fraser Valley raspberries. With a refreshingly light, fruity taste, this craft-brewed ale provides unique summertime refreshment.

Granville Island Raspberry Wheat Ale will be available in 650 ml bottles at select lower mainland BC Liquor stores and in the Granville Island brewery retail store. 50 cents from each bottle sold will be donated to the Weekend to End Women’s Cancers.