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.

Sub-series consists of John Rowling's collection of print programs for each year's beer festival.

Fonds consists of records made or received by John Rowling in the course of his activities as a founder, organizer and member of the Campaign for Real Ale Society (CAMRA Victoria / BC) and the Great Canadian Beer Festival Society (GCBF), and as a writer on the BC craft beer scene and a collector of brewery and beer-related artefacts (breweriana).

Fonds includes paper files, born-digital records, and physical artefacts. It includes the organizational files of CAMRA Victoria / BC (series 1) and the GCBF Society (series 2); working files, drafts and articles Rowling wrote for What's Brewing Magazine, Celebrator Beer News, and Eat Magazine (series 3); personal correspondence and subject files relating to brewing and the BC craft beer (series 4); Rowling's personal collection of breweriana - beer bottles, labels, posters, glasses, t-shirts, business cards and other brewery artefacts (series 5); and his library of beer reference works, guidebooks and magazines (series 6).

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).

Sub-series consists of records relating to Rowling's published writings for What's Brewing magazine from 1995-2000. What's Brewing was the newsletter of CAMRA Victoria / BC, and Rowling wrote a regular column called The Hopbine, "a fresh gathering of news and gossip." Records are exclusively in digital format; see Scope and content note in the parent series description for record types.

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]

Sub-series consists of records relating to various branches of CAMRA BC that have existed at different times, including chapters at Nanaimo, Peachland, Prince Rupert, Richmond, Vancouver and Victoria. Records include branch declarations, correspondence, balance sheets, member and director lists. Also includes 4 photographs (file 6) from the 2000 Caskival event held by the Vancouver branch at Dix Barbecue and Brewery. Records exist only in digital form. Original file formats include Microsoft Word (doc, docx), Excel (xls, xlsx) and jpg.

Sub-series consists of records relating to the administration and activities of CAMRA Victoria / CAMRA BC. Records include articles of incorporation, by-laws, balance sheets and annual reports; correspondence and surveys; flyers, posters, fact-sheets, and bulletins; photographs (files 21, 22, 45); planning documents; media releases and public campaign material. Sub-series includes both paper and born-digital files; media formats (paper or digital) are indicated in the file titles. Original digital file formats are predominantly Microsoft Office documents (doc, docx, xls, xlsx), with some pdf and image formats (jpg).

Sub-series consists of John Rowling's collection of artefacts relating to CAMRA Victoria / BC. Items include buttons, stickers, coasters, cufflinks, and two 20th-anniversary mugs presented to himself and his wife Carol in 2010 as CAMRA BC founders.

Sub-series consists of photographs taken at each year's beer festival. In some years, beginning around 2006, the GCBF had multiple photographers at the event. The sub-series is a hybrid of print and digital photos. All print copies are located in file 1; the remainder were transferred in digital form. Around 2003 GCBF photographers shifted from film to digital cameras. Digital copies of earlier photographs are likely scans from the original prints or negatives, whereas the later images were born-digital. The predominant file format is jpg.

Sub-series consists of Rowling's collection of beer labels from various BC breweries. Rowling created a scrapbook (digitized as file 1) presenting examples in roughly chronological order, ranging from early Victoria breweries (Sliver Spring, Victoria-Phoenix) through to contemporary craft breweries. In addition to the scrapbook there were a large number of loose labels grouped into envelopes. Labels for pre-craft beer period breweries are arranged in file 2, craft breweries (post-1982) into file 3. Within these groupings, labels are arranged alphabetically by brewery.

Sub-series consists of Rowling's collection of souvenir beer glasses for breweries and beer events.