Brassneck Brewery
Microbrewery
in Vancouver,
British Columbia,
Canada 🇨🇦
Associated Venue: Brassneck Brewery
Established in 2013
Contact
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.
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.
6.3/10
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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
7.6/10
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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
6.6/10
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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
6.9/10
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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
6/10
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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
7.8/10
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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.
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
6.8/10
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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
6/10
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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
5.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5.5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
On tap at The Magnet. Pours nearly opaque dull gold with a white head. Citrus peels and yeast on the nose. Flavour has citrus, pith, bitter peels, gritty mouthfeel, tons of hopburn. This is just a hazy shitshow, what a disappointment.
Tried
from Draft
at
The Magnet
on 19 Oct 2025
at 03:08
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
0,355l can at home. Canned 20.03.2025 black color, small coffee colored head. smells rum, earthy, spices, some soy sauce, peppery, some aromas. decent smell. full body, light carbonation. tastes spices, some soy sauce, some bitter chocolate, some sweetness, molasses, light maple, hints of banana. finishes light to medium sweet with notes of maple, banana and some molasses. gets a lot better once warmer. Rather heavy and sweet though. Not a bad beer, but also not a favorite.
8, 6, 7.5, 6, 7.5
8, 6, 7.5, 6, 7.5
Tried
from Can
on 13 Oct 2025
at 14:59