Series consists of records relating to Rowling's writings on beer and the BC craft beer scene for What's Brewing Magazine (sub-series 1), Celebrator Beer News Magazine (sub-series 2) and Eat Magazine (sub-series 3-3. Records include drafts, outlines, working notes, background documents, and texts of articles. There are a small number of paper files, but the bulk of the records were created and transferred to Archives in digital form. Microsoft Word file formats (doc, docx) are predominant, with some jpgs (images) and spreadsheets (xls, xlsx).

Series consists of Rowling's collection of artefacts and merchandise relating to BC breweries. Items include beer bottles, labels and glasses; posters, t-shirt, coasters, bottle openers, keychains, and business cards. Most of the materials relate to post-1980 craft breweries, but there are some beer bottles (sub-series 1), posters (sub-series 3) and artefacts (sub-series 6) for earlier historic BC breweries; see sub-series descriptions for details.

Series consists of records made or received by John Rowling in his capacity as a member and officer of CAMRA BC. Rowling served as President of the Victoria branch from 1990-1992 and 2000-2003. The records mainly reflect the workings of the Victoria branch, but up to 2010 the Executive of CAMRA Victoria acted for BC as a whole.

Activities and events documented include the establishment of CAMRA BC; meetings, administration and management of membership; CAMRA public campaigns; and the production of the What's Brewing newsletter. Series includes both paper and born-digital records. For record types, see sub-series descriptions.

The series is arranged into seven sub-series:

• CAMRA subject files (F-318-1-1) [paper]
• CAMRA meeting records (F-318-1-2) [paper and digital]
• CAMRA membership records (F-318-1-3) [digital]
• CAMRA branch files (F-318-1-4) [digital]
• CAMRA newsletters (F-318-1-5) [paper]
• CAMRA photographs (F-318-1-6) [analog and digital]
• CAMRA artefacts (F-318-1-7) [analog]

Series consists of records relating to the establishment, administration and activities of the Great Canadian Beer Festival Society. Records include general administrative files (sub-series 1), annual festival planning and organization records (sub-series 2), festival posters (sub-series 3) and programs (sub-series 4), photographs (sub-series 5) and artefacts (sub-series 6. The series is a hybrid of paper files, born-digital records, and physical artefacts. Born-digital records are located in sub-series 2 (Festival planning files) and sub-series 5 (Photographs). For record types, see sub-series descriptions.

Series consists of Rowling's correspondence and subject files relating to beer and breweries in British Columbia. Records include correspondence; news articles, pamphlets, publications and other reference materials; a copy of Greg Evans' UVic Masters thesis, The Vancouver Island Brewing Industry: 1858-1917; event records for the opening of the Vancouver Island Brewery (1995) and programs for the Okanagan Fest-of-Ale (2000), Vancouver Brewmasters Festival (2000-2001), the Canadian Brewing Awards (2013) and the Island Beer Festival (2013); the Beautiful Brewers of BC 2014 calendar; a poster for the Beer Pioneers film (ca. 2017); copies of issues of Firehall Brewery's newsletter The Beer Department Periodic-ale (2016), the Brewery History Journal (no. 113, 2003), and the Victoria Beer Society's Good Beer Gazette (2022).