The first national beer collaboration and 25 breweries stretching from coast to coast, and incorporating over 6 different provinces, are using the annual Awards event to brew a special Canadian Collaboration beer for a cause.

The beer itself will bring together ingredients from local brewing regions across Canada, like Red Fife wheat from Ontario and natural Wildflower honey from Alberta, into an imperial Witbier christened the ‘Red and White Wit’. Each brewery is contributing a little piece of the recipe, with the final draft-only release expected in the Victoria area in early June. Question the best way they know how: over a beer.

Brewing will take place at Phillips Brewing Co. on Friday May 10th from 2-5, when breweries from around the country descend on Victoria for the 2013 Canadian Brewing Awards.

These are the breweries involved (alphabetically): Canoe Brewpub (B.C.); Church Key Brewing Co. (Ontario); Coal Harbour Brewing Co. (B.C.); Dead Frog Brewing Co. (B.C.); Driftwood Brewing Co. (B.C.); Garrison Brewing Co. (Nova Scotia); Granville Island Brewing Co. (B.C.); Great Lakes Brewing Co. (Ontario); Half Pints Brewing Co. (Manitoba); Howe Sound Brewing Co. (B.C.); Jasper Brewing Co. (Alberta); Lighthouse Brewing Co. (B.C.); Moon Under Water Brewpub (B.C.); Muskoka Brewing Co. (Ontario); Parallel 49 Brewing Co. (B.C.); Phillips Brewing Co. (B.C.); Picaroons Traditional Ales (New Brunswick); R & B Brewing Co. (B.C.); Spinnakers Brewpub (B.C.); Steamworks Brewpub (B.C.); Tofino Brewing Co. (B.C.); Townsite Brewing Co. (B.C.); Tree Brewing Co. (B.C.); Vancouver Island Brewing Co. (B.C.); Wild Rose Brewing Co (Alberta).