californiq craft brewary buildings in the mountains

Scout Magazine describes Main Street perfectly: “Known as much for its cool factor as for its diversity and down-to-earth accessibility, Main Street is as honest a cross-sectioned representation of Vancouver’s cultural promise as you’ll find.” And check out Steamworks Kitchen & Taphouse right in the heart of the Mount Pleasant neighbourhood. South of False Creek, the Olympic Village is your gateway to the Main Street area, where several craft breweries rub elbows with fellow artisans, small-scale manufacturers, restaurants, bakeries, and boutiques. The creek itself was covered up by streets and sidewalks, and although that early brewing industry was short-lived, you can find it echoed in a progressive and exciting brewery scene there today.ĭowntown Vancouver is home to two brewpubs, Yaletown Brewing and Steamworks Brewing, that helped introduce craft beer to the city when they opened in the 1990s and remain relevant and vital today. Population growth in the 1890s was rapid, and the Mount Pleasant neighbourhood soon became Vancouver’s first suburb beyond the downtown peninsula. The City Brewery and Mainland Brewery (both built in 1887) and the Columbia Brewery (1888) were the first to use the stream to power their machinery and provide water for their recipes.

Vancouver’s earliest breweries set up along a creek that paralleled present-day Main Street from Tea Swamp (roughly Ontario Street and 15th Ave) all the way down to False Creek, which then extended east to where Clark Drive is now. From the Downtown brewpubs to Kitsilano and Mount Pleasant’s diverse range of breweries, restaurants and taphouses, there is a beer and brewery for every taste on the Brewery Creek Vancouver Ale Trail.

Californiq craft brewary buildings in the mountains