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

On tap at Brassneck. Pours hazy yellow with a white head. Dry rustic yeast and grains on the nose. Flavour has grainy malts and a dry, rustic yeast character. Simple, dry, nicely done.

Tried from Draft at Brassneck Brewery on 05 Jun 2025 at 18:06


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

On tap at Brassneck. Pours murky dull ruby with a white head. Nose is floral and wheaty. Flavour is floral with gentle raspberry tartness and a wheaty base; dry esters. Nicely done.

Tried from Draft at Brassneck Brewery on 05 Jun 2025 at 18:00


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

On tap at Brassneck. Pours clear blonde with a white head. Not much on the nose. Flavour has crisp cracker malts, dry grass, and straw. Pleasant enough, but uninteresting.

Tried from Draft at Brassneck Brewery on 05 Jun 2025 at 17:53


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

473mL can, pours a hazy golden with a small white head. Aroma is dry and rustic, with a nice dry rustic saison yeast character and a crisp biscuity malt. Flavour is very dry, with a nice rustic yeast profile, finishing bone dry and crisp. Very good.

Tried from Can from Brewery Creek Cold Beer and Wine Store on 01 Jun 2025 at 04:00


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

Pretty sure this was the one at Magnet a few months ago. Opaque, not much head. Big pasionfruit, light citrus and coconut. Good tartness, some malt, actually quite well balanced and refreshing.

Tried on 11 May 2025 at 22:13


7.3
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Pale, slight haze, medium head. Slightly herbal hop note. Soft malt, slightly biscuity. Lowish bitterness despite a nice hint of pine. It’s okay…the malt expression is close but not 100% there.

Tried on 11 May 2025 at 16:45


5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

473mL can, pours a clear bright golden with a medium white head. Nose has diacetyl — fuck right off — bitter piney hops, and some biscuity malt. Flavour has mild—but still too much—diacetyl for me to get past, with bitter pine, caramel, and biscuity malt. Not sure why Brassneck keeps putting diacetyl bombs after all these years. Bad.

Tried from Can at Brassneck Brewery on 15 Apr 2025 at 05:36


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

473mL can, pours a hazed orange with a medium white head. Aroma has some bready malt, a bit of citrusy herbal notes, and a touch of resins. Flavour is much the same, with bready malt, light herbal hops, some crackery notes, and light bitterness. These classic C-hops come across a bit strangely here (herbal), but the structure is solid enough. Decent.

Tried from Can at Brassneck Brewery on 15 Apr 2025 at 04:10


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

Poured from 473mL can (pkg 2025/02/26). Clear deep gold with full white head. Biscuit malt, mild citrus hops and mushroom quality. Average, inoffensive.

Tried from Can from Cook St Liquor on 04 Apr 2025 at 00:25


5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Can pour at East Side Beer Fest. Pours dark brown with off-white head. Faint toasted malts on the nose. Flavour has dry toasted malt, some dried grass, burnt caramel. Decent, but nothing special.

Tried from Can on 26 Mar 2025 at 22:00