Having a good lineup of canned drinks is vital for boozey Vancouver beachgoing—after all, there’s only so many months in a year we’re permitted to drink on the beach, and even fewer months during which the beach is, well, not a soggy rainy mess. So open up your coolers and get ready to crack open the hottest new beverages of 2024… and, yes, they’re all from Vancouver-based makers.
Vancouver-based Lolo is about as fresh as it gets—the company just had their launch party last week. Pretty good timing for summer sipping, if you ask us… these new canned cocktails are made with 100% agave tequila and electrolytes . While the brand is new, the cocktails themselves are mixed by the pros at Strathcona Beer Company. Maybe you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but we often judge beers by their branding… and Backcountry Brewing’s collab with Sea to Sky Vet is a winner. Backcountry has notoriously long-winded beer names , and this hazy pale ale called “Throw Me A Frickin’ Bone Here” is actually one of their more efficiently-named crafts.
The locally born and cheekily named Nude Beverages is known for their vodka- and gin-based cocktails, but they just launched a “skinny” version of a canned tequila drink that screams sunshine. Vancouver brand Bali Water is just a couple years old, and their drinks lean to the sweeter side—one sip of a vodka pineapple will bring you back to being 17 sipping on cold cans of “you can barely taste the alcohol.” It’s made with rice vodka, carbonated water and fruit juices… an ingredient list you can count no matter how many you’ve had.