Forty years on this harbour.

We were pouring IPAs before anyone called them that.

Allan and Brian Riedlinger opened this place in '86. You couldn't find a locally-brewed pint on the mainland back then. Gary Lohin brewed here for nine years — he went on to co-found Central City and win Brewery of the Year twice, but he cut his teeth right here.

The brewery building closed in 2002 when the province changed the rules. The recipes survived. Six of them are still brewed at Howe Sound, still on our taps, still the same beer.