Craft Beer Revolution, by Joe Wiebe, Douglas & McIntyre, 224 pages, $19.95.
Horseshoe Bay is ground zero for B.C. in the world of microbrewing.
In 1982 Horseshoe Bay Brewing became the first one of its kind in the province.
Things have changed a lot in the past three decades, and B.C. is now home to more than 50 breweries with the North Shore hosting four of them. Today there is a broad selection of local flavourful ales to suit every taste and to challenge the stranglehold that national brewing companies have traditionally held on Canadian taste buds.
In this book, beer lover and writer Joe Wiebe volunteers the results of his extensive brewery touring to the reader as he profiles all of them, complete with a list of what's on tap and his recommendations.
Wiebe is quick to inject the personalities of the brewmasters into the profiles and we are left with an impression of very independent, imaginative beer aficionados who are passionate about what they do.
