Yeast Vancouver
Ale Trail

A world-class brewery and pizza kitchen in the heart of Vancouver’s oldest neighbourhood. With a focus on sours, fruit-forward beers, and IPAs, along with its Czech-style Pilsner. Today, it is best known for its Beach series of fruity radlers as well as its Love Buzz series of fruity Berliner Weiss-style sours.

The two-level lounge and tasting room with large windows face the North Shore mountains; opening up on the hot summer days, this lounge and new outdoor patio is the place to be year-round. Bringing classic craft beer styles to the forefront, with modern twists when needed. Their partnership with resident food truck Burdy (Wednesdays - Saturdays) and Pretty Good Sandos (Sundays - Tuesdays) means the perfect food pairing is waiting.

Superflux’s bold beer lineup, which is made up of nearly 100% IPAs, is all about experimentation and innovation. You can be sure you’ll find something delicious on tap, and probably something unexpected. The kitchen features deluxe hot dogs and hyper-seasonal salads.

Powell Brewery focuses on classic styles and more experimental creations featuring new hop varietals and souring. They create high quality, full-flavoured handcrafted beers using all natural and preferably local ingredients. Keep an eye out for BBQ pop ups: Aftermath Barbecue, a Texas-influenced BBQ pop-up company holds regular cooks in the Powell Brewery parking lot, where you will also find a large patio space to augment the indoor tasting room.

CowDog Brew Company is a passion project by RCN veteran Michael Hodgson 12 years in the making. The brewery is Vancouver's only veteran-owned brewery and BC's only Canadian Veteran-owned brewery and is an organization with a love for dogs and great beer.

Luppolo’s approach to brewing embraces a mix of old world and contemporary craft styles, often with a bit of an Italian twist. New in-house food partner Local Pizzaiolo provides delicious Italian pizza and snacks. The folks at Luppolo chose an Italian name as a nod to the Italian heritage of two of their founders and to the cultural values associated with Italian culture – quality, craftsmanship, community and family – which are central to their vision.

The brewery is situated on the popular Union-Adanac bikeway, meaning its tasting room is a popular spot for cyclists. The bike racks outside are often full and many cyclists make use of the free beer air pump before stepping inside for a glass or a growler fill. The Bomberito Taqueria food truck is parked outside and open daily from 12pm to 9pm.

Explore British and West Coast style beers at this multi-award-winning brewery on one of Vancouver’s busiest bike routes. Off the Rail is an unassuming brewery happily following its own track in the city’s busy scene. The compact second-storey tasting room offers a great vantage point to watch cyclists zip past on the busy Adanac cycle route. While they don't have a kitchen, you can snack on locally made Jamaican patties, samosas, chicken wings and chips.

From inception, Strange Fellows has been about a blending of ideas and histories with a common vision: that two strangers can have a beer together, look each other in the eye and toast each other's good health. Co-founded by veteran Vancouver brewer Iain Hill, Strange Fellows is inspired by both old world tradition and west coast creativity, and is known for sour and barrel-aged beers, as well as a rotating broad range of styles and their Vintage Bottle List.

East Van Brewing Co. has 12 taps featuring a solid core line-up along with rotating seasonals so you know you will always find something fresh and interesting. Its taproom kitchen features paninis, calzones and other snacks from Bianca Maria, a local Italian delicatessen that has been operating for 60 years. It doesn’t get any more East Van than that!

The brewery’s cartoony beer labels reflect its personality with their characteristic blend of creativity, passion, and irreverence. The brewery is known for its wide range of beer styles, often experimenting with hybrid styles before anyone else dares. This iconic East Van brewery also has a food truck-style kitchen located inside its tasting room.

The Slow Hand Beer brand was born out of the desire to craft objectively better lagers, but no longer restrict themselves to a single style. They now brew a constantly rotating selection of small batch beers, though they do tend towards the lighter, crisper side of things. They take classic European styles and brew them with west coast panache.

Visit the Mad Scientist at work at Storm Brewing, the city's longest-running and one of its most unusual breweries. They don't package a lot of their beers so tasting it at the source is your best option!