R & B Brewing Company
Brewpub
in
Vancouver,
British Columbia,
Canada 🇨🇦
Owned by
Howe Sound Brewing
Associated Venue: R & B Brewing Company
Established in 1997
Contact
6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 5
Overall 6
Black, tan head fades quickly. Nose and palate of cinnamon and light roast. Quite thin with very light roasted finish
Tried
from Can
on 25 Nov 2025
at 01:34
5.9/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6
Texture 5
Overall 5
473 ml can. Pours a dark brown with moderate tan head. Aromas of cinnamon, cola and light roasted malts. Flavors of cinammon, metallics and very light roasted malts. Thin and watery. Meh.
Tried
from Can
on 20 Nov 2025
at 01:14
5.8/10
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Appearance 5
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
On tap at Steamworks Mount Pleasant. Pours a dull, murky ruddy colour with a white head. Light blackberries, pine, and lacto on the nose. Flavour has a dry, woody pine character, a bit muddled, some tart blackberries and tough grass. Not getting much fresh hop character, but as a hopped kettle sour this is a soft okay.
Tried
from Draft
at
Steamworks Mount Pleasant
on 11 Nov 2025
at 17:13
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On tap at R & B, pours a clear copper with a small white head. Aroma has plenty of grassy hops, a touch of pine, herbal notes, and crisp biscuity malt. Flavour is clean-ish, with piney hops, some grassy notes, and crisp biscuity malt. Finishes moderately bitter, grassy and crisp. Not too bad.
Tried
from Draft
at
R & B Brewing Company
on 28 Aug 2025
at 05:40
4.6/10
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Appearance 5
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5
On tap at R & B, pours a hazy reddish amber with a small off-white head. Aroma has plenty of muddled red berries, not much else. Flavour is much the same, with a dry, muddled berry character, some earthiness, and bready malt. Muddled, poor berry expression. Nothing invigorating about this. Not good.
Tried
from Draft
at
R & B Brewing Company
on 28 Aug 2025
at 05:20
5.1/10
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Appearance 5
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 5
Overall 5.5
On tap at R & B, pours a clear copper golden with a tiny head. Nose has plenty of lacto upfront, with a hint of kiwi, not much coconut. Flavour is more balanced, with lacto, coconut, and a touch of kiwi. Plenty of acidity here but not too bad. Simple beer, with too much yogurty lacto and not enough depth. Poor.
Tried
from Draft
at
R & B Brewing Company
on 28 Aug 2025
at 05:10
4.6/10
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Appearance 5
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5
On tap at R & B, pours a hazy golden with a small white head. Aroma has some piney hops, biscuity malt, slight herbal notes, and a touch of vegetal character. Flavour is rather odd, with a herbal, vegetal hop character, a strange acidity, and other oddities I find inexplicable. Something wrong here. Bad.
Tried
from Draft
at
R & B Brewing Company
on 28 Aug 2025
at 05:00
4.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
On tap at R&B, pours a clear golden with a small white head. Aroma has some dull spruce, earthy hops, and some oxidation. Flavour is a trainwreck, with old earthy hops, cardboardy spruce, and bready malt. What is up with that flat hop expression? Poor.
Tried
from Draft
at
R & B Brewing Company
on 29 Jun 2025
at 05:13
5.3/10
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Appearance 5
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 5
Overall 5
On tap at R & B. Pours opaque dull yellow with a white head. Citra and pine on the nose. Flavour has stale old pine and a harsh chalky bitterness. Not very good.
Tried
from Draft
at
R & B Brewing Company
on 28 Jun 2025
at 20:43
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
On tap at R & B. Pours hazy brown with a beige head. Bready malts on the nose. Flavour has a surprisingly dry malt character, though lacking depth. Marketed at the brewery as a brown ale, which doesn't seem entirely unfair. It's okay, fairly uninteresting.
Tried
from Draft
at
R & B Brewing Company
on 28 Jun 2025
at 20:41