Drinks A Spirited Gift Guide For Your Thirsty Mother Our picks for everything from a great bottle of wine to a beauty of a wine cooler.
Drinks Ready to be Remembered for Your Gift-giving Expertise this Holiday Season? Sponsored Content ANGEL’S ENVY Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey Finished in Port Wine Barrels is your ticket to gift-giving fame
Drinks Get Transported to a Beautiful, French-Inspired Park for GREY GOOSE® Vodka Cocktails and French Cuisine Sponsored Content Delight in a sun-soaked summer experience, from August 1–7, inspired by the natural luxury found in the South of France.
Drinks GREY GOOSE® Vodka Le Voyage is the Ultimate Way to Experience Yacht Life in the Summertime Sponsored Content Bringing the sophistication and beauty of the French Riviera yachting lifestyle to Vancouver, GREY GOOSE Vodka is hosting an intimate experience in an unforgettable setting—aboard a private GREY GOOSE Vodka yacht for only five days this summer, August 3-7.
Drinks Step Into Summer With Skrewball Peanut Butter Whiskey Sponsored Content Celebrate the sunniest season with one of these incredible recipes, courtesy of Skrewball Peanut Butter Whiskey
Drinks The Best Father’s Day Gifts You Can Get at the BC Liquor Store Here's 5 last-minute solutions starting at $26.
Drinks Your Next Cocktail Challenge: The Sheringham Cherub You're ready to level up from G&Ts. We believe in you.
Drinks 4 Irish Whiskies to Transport You to the Glory of the Emerald Isle This St. Patrick's Day, let's master some armchair travel (with a little help).
Drinks Make This Red Hook Cocktail Tonight Trans Am shares a deceptively simple (and our new go-to) cocktail recipe.
Drinks The Three Bottles of Whisky I’m Entering the Online BCLDB Draw For It's a new take on the Fall spirits release.
Drinks Your Liquor Cabinet Needs Urgent Attending To Some bottles, last forever but some are long gone.
Drinks 8 Zero Proof Cocktails to Get You Through Dry January and Beyond Gone are the days when the best non-alcoholic drink money could buy was a Shirley Temple with *gasp* a maraschino cherry.
Drinks Meet The Game-Changing Japanese-Kentucky Whiskey This may be the most international whisky ever made.
Drinks Make this Deighton Cup Cocktail Recipe at Home Nightingale's Tim Lambden designed the signature cocktail for 2019.
Drinks CLOSED: The Secret to Great Cocktails is One Ideal Ingredient Sponsored Content Perfect ice Scotsman's professional ice machines are now available for the home.
Drinks 5 Thirst-Quenching Drinks to Devour on a Hot Summer Day Beat the heat with these sweet and cold alcoholic refreshments.
Drinks Travel: Checking Out Tofino Brewing Co.’s New Digs It's a much bigger space, but you still might have to wait for a seat.
Drinks Just in Time for Spring, Beer Bike Tours Pedal Into B.C. Feel the wind in your hair as you make your way from one craft brewery to another in Metro Vancouver, Victoria and Kelowna.
Drinks Aged Rum Offers the Best Bang for Your Buck When It Comes to Gift Giving Exhibit A: this gorgeous bottle from Bacardi that's a whopping $28.50.
Drinks Trick or Treat! Give Me Something Good to Drink Sponsored Content Take Halloween up a notch with the Bacardi Zombie Cocktail.
Drinks Your Cocktail Itinerary For the Last Weekend of Summer Award-winning bartender Kaitlyn Stewart shares a trio of recipes to keep the summer vibes going through the long weekend.
Drinks 6 Delicious Cocktails to Serve at Your Holiday Parties New cocktails recipes (from this year's Crate and Barrel x Western Living #CrateCocktails event) just in time for the holiday season.
Drinks This is Why You Should Be Drinking Wine Cocktails The annual Okanagan Spirits Craft Distillery Mixoff proves cocktails can taste "grape" with the right combination of spirits, liqueurs and wine.
Drinks How One of Canadas Oldest Breweries Stays Fresh in the Wake of the Craft Beer Boom Sponsored Content [In Partnership with Big Rock Brewery] Decades on from their humble beginnings in Calgary, Big Rock continues their own tradition of utilizing high quality ingredients and marching to the beat of their own drum.
Drinks Reminder: Canadian Whisky Can Be Great The proof? This J.P. Wiser's blend of 52-year-old malt scotch and 16-year-old whisky.
Drinks Try This Fruity Holiday Cocktail with a Twist Lauren Mote shares her recipe for a holiday cocktail that breaks the mould.
Drinks A Craft Spirit Pioneer Gets a Makeover. Victoria Gin was the West's first craft gin superstar and now it finally looks the part.
Drinks 5 Glassware Options to Spice Up Cocktail Hour A few new additions to your drinkware collection make happy hour all the more fun.
Drinks Try This Summery Spiced Mango Bourbon Cocktail With the 8th Annual Deighton Cup around the corner, a two-time Cocktail Jockey winner lets us in on his secret.
Drinks Here’s What You Should Be Drinking This Summer Add these patio-perfect cocktails to your summer drinking playbook.
Drinks How to Make the Perfect G&T Shaun Layton shares his tips and recipes for crafting the ultimate version of the classic cocktail.
Drinks 2 Fruity, Fancy Cocktails to Try This Weekend They may be more complicated than a G&T, but these two recipes are worth the effort.
Drinks A Cocktail For Sundowners The Pan Pacific's latest renovation brings with it a suite of local cocktails. This one's great for sunsets.
Drinks Gin and Sugar: Valentine’s Day Dessert Pairings The perfect drink and dessert pairings to complete your Valentine's Day romances.
Drinks 6 Whiskies You’ll Only See at Duty-Free It may be worth taking an international trip, just to grab one of these rare drams for Robbie Burns' Day.
Drinks 4 Craft Beers for Wine Lovers In what could also be called "4 Wines for Craft Beer Lovers," experts DJ Kearney and Ken Beattie pair wine with their beer counterpart.
Drinks Balvenie is Holding a Lottery Tonight! And the winner gets to purchase one of the rarest whiskies in the world. For $45,000.
Drinks NYE: Drink the ‘Good Stuff’ First Our food and all-things-beverage editor shares his top three NYE booze picksbest enjoyed in this order.
Drinks What We’re Drinking on New Year’s Eve Come countdown time, the Western Living team will be toasting the New Year with one of these.
Drinks The Bible of Northern Mixology has Arrived Scott McCallum and Victoria Walsh's Field Guide to Canadian Cocktails has everything you need to know about shaking up something wonderful in the Great White North.
Drinks 8 Christmassy Cocktails to Try Over the Holidays Get into the holiday spirits with these eight festive cocktail recipes.
Drinks A Canadian Whisky is the Best in the World The just-released Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye took top spot in the most recent edition of Jim Murray's Whisky Bible.
Drinks You Need These Syrups For Your Home Bar After all, you'll want to make this Lavender Gin Sour recipe.
Drinks Try this James Bond Cocktail with a Local Twist The latest 007 flick, Spectre, has us itching to get our Bond-inspired drink on.
Drinks 6 Challenging Drink Recipes for You to Try at Home Hard-to-find ingredients and expert techniques are needed if you want to try these delicious recipes.
Drinks First Annual B.C. Cider Week B.C. is celebrating our province's growing cider industry with tastings, tap takeovers and other events.
Drinks Cocktail Advice: Your Vermouth Has Gone Bad And that's why your Manhattans, Martinis and Negronis don't taste right.
Drinks Our 5 Favourite Summer Cocktails Hot days were made for easy-drinking, citrusy and floral drinks.
Drinks Best in Brew: Editors Pick Their Favourite Summer Beers Even though we're spoiled for choice in the beer department (craft breweries now more ubiquitous than yoga studios), these are the four beers the WL editorial team keeps reaching for this summer.
Drinks Get Spanish with your Summer Cocktail Chambar's new series of Basque-inpsired cocktails make patio sipping a cross-cultural affair.
Drinks 5 Amazing Cocktails to Kick Off the Weekend From thirst-quenching Pink Lemonade to lavender gin, these five summer cocktails make the best of the Okanagan Valley's craft spirits.
Drinks Okanagan Spirits Pioneering the Craft Distillery Boom Theres a distilling boom under way smack in the middle of wine country.
Drinks Now Open: Eau Claire Distillery Visitor Centre and Tasting Room Albertas first craft distillery opens a new visitor centre and tasting room located in historic Turner Valley
Drinks 4 Delicious Tea-Based Cocktail Recipes Become a mixologist at your next garden party with these four tea-infused cocktail recipes.
Drinks Why You Should Celebrate Robbie Burns Day by Drinking Scotch Made by an American Because in this age of huge conglomerates, Compass Box captures the soul of making whisky.
Drinks A Holiday Bottle for Someone with Taste and Patience Give this beautiful red to someone who can resist opening it right awaya five-year wait will make it even better.
Drinks The 12 Days of Spirits Day 3: Canadian Club brings it big time You always called it "Rye" and now it actually is.
Drinks Long Table Distillery: Cocktail Laboratory Long Table Distillery and craft bartender Cole Benoit invite you to their new cocktail laboratory.
Drinks Ardbeg Has a New WhiskyAnd That’s a Big Deal The iconic Islay whisky doesn't change their lineup very often but when they do it's time to stand in line.
Drinks The Ultimate Guide to Tea What's the difference between black tea, green tea and rooibos? Beloved the world over, the humble cup of tea has evolved from its original medicinal origins in China into the comforting brew we know and love today. Here, four of its most familiar types.
Drinks A Quick Guide to Bourbon The right bourbon, as American as apple pie, is a key component of a well-stocked bar.
