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The 2010 Great Canadian Beer Festival is behind us, and we’re back to work now. This was a really great weekend to hang out with friends and meet new people, and more importantly it was a shining testament to the shift in beer culture here in BC. It was so great to see that many [...]

Surprise, surprise. We have just added the first non-breweries to our portfolio! The new additions are Broc Cellars, and Broadside Wines. The former is the winery of Chris Brockway, a California based Rhone-specialist, while the latter is a collaborative effort between Chris and husband-and-wife duo Brian and Stephanie Terrizzi, of Giornata Wines. I’m very happy [...]

Why Every Restaurant Needs a Saison on Their Menu Saison is perhaps my favourite style of beer, which is precisely why there are several beers (entire breweries even) in our portfolio that pay homage to the style. I love these beers for their affinity with food: A good Saison can awaken the flavours of very simple [...]

Further to our agenda of aggressively pushing beer on every diner that we can we’ve collaborated with Pearl Restaurant in White Rock to serve up a little taste of late spring by the beach. We’ll be featuring a few of our beers; Pretty Things Fluffy White Rabbits, Cantillon Kriek, Upright Seven, and Upright Gose paired [...]

My friend, and newly appointed Dockside Brewing brewer Daniel Knibbs came up with this logo. I’m really happy with how it looks. As soon as I figure out how to properly manipulate wordpress I will add it to the top of the site too! Hope you like it…

Since Cantillon and Pretty Things are on the way to BC, I decided time has come for new beer in my portfolio. Scouring the internet I found www.uprightbrewing.com in Portland Oregon. I called them up, spoke briefly with owner Alex Ganum, and two days later I jumped in the car to drive down to Portland [...]

Hi, Thanks for visiting our site! RainCity Brands is a boutique beer agency located in Vancouver, BC. We import small production craft beer from all over the place. Currently we are the exclusive distributor and importer in British Columbia for Pretty Things Beer & Ale Project, Brasserie Cantillon, and Upright Brewing. At the time of [...]