In Search of 100-Mile Beer
The Tyee wondered if BC had any truly local brew. What we found is the makings of the next beer revolution.
J.B. MacKinnon is an independent magazine journalist and writer, and co-author of
The 100-Mile Diet (Random House, 2007, with Alisa Smith), a bestseller that is widely credited as a catalyst of the local foods movement. SHARES Longwood Brewery’s Harley Smith (foreground) and Peter Kis-Toth harvesting hops south of Nanaimo.
Photo: Longwood Brewery.
When James R. Anderson, a colonial statistician, set out in 1891 to complete the first survey of British Columbia’s agricultural products, there were good reasons to doubt that craft beer made from local ingredients would be among them.