Just a quick hit-and-run flavour update and to let you loyal folks know about some summer events we have on the go.   The Rifflandia Music Festival is back for its third incarnation, so also means the return of Rifflandabrau! The easy-drinking pilsner is the new featured beer in the Showcase Mixed Pack, as well as being available for your growler pleasure on one of our rotating flavour taps. Stay tuned for your chance to win passes...
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With his tasty oatmeal stout, Garry Giesbrecht was the clear winner in the recent Showcase Showdown homebrew competition hosted by CAMRA BC and Phillips Brewing Company. Last week, Giesbrecht joined our head brewer Damon Bell and Matt Phillips to make a larger batch of his prize-winning oatmeal stout. The stout will be the next featured beer in the Phillips Showcase, which will be hitting shelves some time in the next month.
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One has to wonder how all the fish at the Vancouver Aquarium feel about their makeshift home playing host to a seafood chowder competition? Our finned friends can take solace in the fact the event is all in the name of ocean conservation and education. On November 25, the Ocean Wise Seafood Chowder ChowDown will feature 10 top chefs showing their chowder best to a panel of judges. The event also features five BC craft brewers...
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High-pitched, diabolical chuckling. The tinkling of falling bottles. The scampering of tiny feet on concrete. This can mean only one thing; the Dirty Squirrel has returned. The Dirty Squirrel Hazelnut Brown Ale offers sweet, earthy flavours. It's hazelnuttier than a Nutella sandwich on hazelnut bread with a side...
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Do you ever wonder what Shawn O'Keefe does in his spare time when he isn't busy designing those lovely Phillips beer labels? Now you can see another side of Shawn's art with his AS IT IS exhibit, which is up now through the month of November at the Phillips gallery. The opening reception was quite the shaker and a number of pieces were sold, so if you want to take home a piece of O'Keefe's...
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