Showing posts with label breweries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label breweries. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Granville Island Brewing


Grandville Island is one of Vancouver's biggest destinations, for tourists and locals alike. It has a huge market, a harbour, fishermen selling their salmon right off the boat, an arts college, and of course, the Granville Island Brewery. Sunday was a warm, sunny day, so Darrell and I hopped on our bikes for an afternoon of fish and chips, gelato, and shopping at the farmer's market for dinner.

I'd known since my first visit that the Granville Island Brewing taproom was there, and had always meant to visit, but I had never got round to it. Since we were passing by, we decided to talk to the woman under the tent outside the building, and by sheer luck we learned that it was the brewery's Customer Appreciation Week, and they were promoting it with free brewery tours.

Their taproom and retail store
right in the busy part of the island

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Storm Brewing


Yesterday my uncle Fred and I visited Storm Brewing ("Get it?"), a tiny, eccentric hand-built microbrewery in the bad part of town. And I do mean eccentric.

Note the rats on top of the fermenter. (They're
not real.) Representing the Black Plague Stout.