Brassneck Brewery

Microbrewery in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Associated Venue: Brassneck Brewery

Established in 2013

Contact
2148 Main St, Vancouver, V5T 3C5, Canada
Description
Well guys, we just make beer. That’s it.

The public space at Brassneck, i.e. the Growler Shop & Tasting Room are designed to have you, our customers feel as though you are part of our process. The brew house & cellar wrap around the tasting room & growler shop putting you in the very heart of the Brewery.

We have a special type of liquor license. A Brewery Lounge. Patrons do not have to be seated as in many other Food Primary locations in Vancouver. This combined with our communal tables makes for a pleasant social environment.

We have a really tiny 10 Hec system, with an even smaller Nano system for batches of around 4 Hecs.

Even though our system is small, we have lots of different fermenters. 14 in total (including a beautiful oak fermenter called a Foudre). This allows us to brew lots of different beers on a constantly rotating basis.

We are ALWAYS experimenting with different beer styles. We are three & a half years old & we’ve already brewed about 120 different beers. From Barrel Aged Imperial Stouts to Corn Lagers, Sour beers to English Milds, Brett Primary Fermented Wheat Ales to Traditional Saisons, the scope of beer styles is endless & we intend to cover them all!

Our beer comes to you direct from the conditioning tanks in our cellar & sells out quickly, so it’s always fresh.

Conrad Gmoser is our Head Brewer & partner, aided by Jeff Leake & Scott Wannop.

We’re always evolving so get ready for more great beers as time goes by & we expand production & have greater capacity for experimentation.

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7
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

473mL can, pours a clear bright golden with a small white head. Nose has a bright herbaceous notes, grassy bitterness, and crisp biscuity malt. Flavour is bright, with tons of herbaceous and grassy notes, straw, and biscuity malt. Bright, herbaceous, and clean. Good stuff.

Tried from Can at Brassneck Brewery on 28 Nov 2025 at 08:24


7.1
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

On tap at Brassneck, pours a clear blonde with a small white head. Nose brings out a nice hop tang, lightly bitter pine, and crisp biscuity malt. Flavour follows accordingly, with a nice bitter hop tang, some grassiness, light citrus, and crisp biscuity. Bright, tangy, bitter finish. Very good.

Tried from Draft at Brassneck Brewery on 26 Nov 2025 at 04:39


6.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

Golden amber, white head. Light citrus nose and palate with earthy notes. Good malt in back, nicely balanced

Tried on 17 Nov 2025 at 01:11


7.6
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

On tap at The Magnet. Pours clear blonde with a white head. Soft, fresh pine needles, light resins, and biscuit malts on the nose. Flavour has an oily, resinous fresh hop expression, some fresh pine needles, and a cracker malt base. Very nice.

Tried from Draft at The Magnet on 14 Nov 2025 at 03:51


6.6
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

Gold, white head. Dry fruity nose, spicy notes. Light fruity fore, somewhat dry. Medium spicy hop bitterness in finish

Tried from Can on 12 Nov 2025 at 01:00


6.9
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Orange amber, white head. Citrus nose and palate with light spicy hops and medium bitter finish

Tried from Draft at The Barley Merchant on 06 Nov 2025 at 01:56


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

473mL can, pours a clear dull copper with a medium white head. Nose is sweaty and earthy, which I guess it the FH Cascade, but that’s not too pleasant an aroma. Flavour is better, revealing pretty aggressive Cascade but without much bitterness, and backed by a doughy malt character. Finishes somewhat sweaty, floral and doughy. Not bad but I’m still not a huge fan of this core beer -- very strange hop expression.

Tried from Draft from The Gull Liquor Store on 02 Nov 2025 at 02:40


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Sample.
Aroma: quite nice coffee, caramel malt, a bit of sweetness.
Taste: along the same lines with subtle American oak in the finish.
Overall: pretty pleasant, nice coffee here.

Tried from Draft at Brassneck Brewery on 01 Nov 2025 at 20:35


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Magnet cask. Light amber, big head…it’s a warm day for cask. Lots of spruce, that provides a fair amount of bitterness. It is extra soft on cask, this method of serving actually manages to mute the beer, opposite on expected.

Tried on 30 Oct 2025 at 04:53


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

473mL can, pours a hazy yellow with a small white head. Did they turn this into a hazy?! Nose doesn’t really reveal the Chinook—just earthy bitterness and a touch of chalk. Flavour is bitter, with citrus zest, earthy bitterness, and a bit of bready malt. Not good hop clarity but not as murky a body as a typical hazy. Far from previous versions of this beer.

Tried from Can from Liberty Wine Merchants - Commercial Drive on 23 Oct 2025 at 04:00