Strange Fellows Brewing

Microbrewery in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Associated Venue: Strange Fellows Brewing

Contact
1345 Clark Drive, Vancouver, V5L 3K9, Canada
Description
We are an East Vancouver craft brewery inspired by tradition and creativity, and go beyond the ordinary to celebrate that which is strange* and extraordinary. The beer we make is influenced both by old world traditions and West coast ingenuity as well as by seasonal ingredients. Our barrel programme promises unique aged beers, and we have a bit of a thing for sour beer.

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6.6/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6
473mL can, pours a hazy golden with a small white head. Aroma has soft bretty notes, wet hay, and gentle rustic saison yeast. Flavour is much the same, with soft bretty notes, cardboardy hay, some rustic notes, and a dry bready malt base. Fairly young brett along with a strange oxidized character. Not the most sophisticated brett expression, but it’s reasonably constructed.
Tried from Can from Brewery Creek Cold Beer and Wine Store on 14 Aug 2026 at 02:59

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Bright… but kinda dull pale gold. No head. Sticky, okay bitterness, lacks brightness though.
Tried on 31 Jul 2026 at 22:08

5.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 5 Overall 6
Opaque. Thin head. Kinda chalky, vague orange notes. Thin malt, lacks bitterness. I guess on paper it’s a hazy IPA but nothing seems particularly dialled in.
Tried on 31 Jul 2026 at 22:07

5.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 5 Overall 5.5
Bright, no head. Phenolic, decent body but phenols dominate. Some malt but I’m not sure what the goal is here - a batch of beer without a clear vision?
Tried on 31 Jul 2026 at 22:07

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Cloudy and pale. Thin head. Medium tartness and plenty of piña. Simple but I guess it’s effective.
Tried on 31 Jul 2026 at 22:06

6.6/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 6.5 Flavor 6.5 Texture 7 Overall 6.5
On tap at Strange Fellows, pours a clear pale golden with a small white head. Aroma brings out bitter pine, grapefruit rind, and crisp biscuity malt. Flavour is quite bitter, with plenty of piney hop bitterness, some metallic character, and dry biscuity malt. The structure of Strange Fellows’ westies is usually good, but the hop expression is usually dull, as this is. Not sure if this is a hop freshness thing, or something else. Either way, balanced, but not particularly intriguing.
Tried from Draft at Strange Fellows Brewing on 14 May 2026 at 00:40

6.3/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6.5 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
On tap at Strange Fellows, pours a hazy pale golden blonde with a small white head. Aroma has plenty of lime upfront, with a touch of pineapple, thankfully no yogurt. Flavour is bursting with bright lime, a touch of coconut, gentle pineapple, and gentle acidity. Simple but the adjuncts are nicely attenuated, and there’s no typical yogurty character. Good for a kettle sour.
Tried from Draft at Strange Fellows Brewing on 14 May 2026 at 00:36

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
On tap at Strange Fellows, pours a cloudy yellow with a small white head. Aroma has some pithy stone fruits, light tropical notes, a touch of hopburn. Flavour is bright, with ample bitterness for a hazy and minimal hopburn, just a nice tropical character with some citrusy bitterness. Pretty solid.
Tried from Draft at Strange Fellows Brewing on 14 May 2026 at 00:34

7.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 7.5 Texture 7 Overall 7.5
473 ml can. Pours amber with full foamy head. Aromas of dull citrus, pine, soft resin and bready malts. Flavors of lemon, pine, resin and doughy malts. Pretty heavy. Bitter piney finish. Nice.
Tried from Can from Cascadia Liquor Stores (Nanoose Bay) on 26 Apr 2026 at 23:25

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Poured from 473mL can (no date, but was labelled as "new" at Jak's Liquor). Hazy yellow with white head. Slightly grainy base with muted citrus hops. Average.
Tried from Can on 22 Apr 2026 at 03:55