Brewery Creek, Vancouver - part 2 (Brassneck Brewery)

Brassneck Brewery is about half a mile south from Main Street - Science World Skytrain station. It is an uphill walk from there or from Red Truck Beer Co, via Scotia Street, which was my starting point on Monday 3 October, 2016 and featured in the previous blog post.

The brewery vessels are visible through large windows that face Main Street.

The entrance is set back slightly from the street with a striking organic design on the approach to the door. The growler station is immediately inside and the bar / tasting room is beyond on the left.

Inside, the bar area was busy but luckily one place was available on a long table in line with the bar. If Brassneck Brewery is busy on a Monday evening it must be difficult to find a table at the weekend.
I was also fortunate to find myself sitting next to Christina, on a trip from Stratford, London, who was crossing the continent on her return to the UK via Raleigh, for a friend's wedding and New York City.

A blackboard shows the available beers priced at Can$2.50 for 6oz, Can$5 for 12 oz or a Brass Bat - flight of four 6oz glasses for Can$8 (excluding taxes).

The Brass Bat comes with a neat label listing the beers chosen.

My beers were No Brainer (4.5% ABV) Pre-Prohibition style corn lager, Brassneck Ale (5%), Ten times Ten (5.5%) American Pale Ale hopped with fresh Centennial from BC Hop Co and Passive Agressive (6.5%) dry hopped pale ale. The No Brainer was lacking in flavour, the Brassneck Ale reminded me of Fuller's London Pride. These beers weren't gassy like some keg beers and of the four, Passive Aggressive was my favourite and one of the top beers on this trip.

There were a lot of building, decor and furniture details to admire in the bar like polished concrete surfaces and the bark edged, thick wooden table. Perhaps the tree trunk had been floated down the Fraser river before being sawn into planks?

Timber of various shapes and colurs was also used to make partition walls to separate the bar area from the brewery area.

An end wall panel was illustrated with black and white graphic designs for the different Brassneck beers.

Before leaving there was a chance to have a quick look into part of the brewery area.

There is an opportunity to buy distinctive t-shjrts or trucker caps from the merchandise displayed above the route to the exit.
I liked the relaxed atmosphere at Brassneck Brewing and felt part of an exclusive club with its stylish design features and interesting beer range.

The third and final brewery visit on tonight's trail would be R&B Brewing, less than a quarter of mile away. It was now dark and my walking route would take me past the City Centre motor hotel with its mural fronting Main Street.

There are elevated views towards the centre of Vancouver from this part of Mount Pleasant. See the subsequent blog post for further details of R&B Brewing.

Brassneck Brewery
2148 Main Street,
Vancouver,
B.C., Canada

www.brassneck.ca

Opening hours for the taproom (Nov 2016):
Mon-Fri      2pm - 11pm
Sat & Sun 12pm - 11pm
Closed holidays