Due to my love for Barnstormer Wind-Shear Watermelon Summer Ale 2.0, I dared to try Granville Island Brewing's attempt at the same. They called this batch Watermelon Lager, but I think that whoever approved the name had must have only ever tasted the vine of a watermelon, because when I drank their beer I tasted no watermelon at all.
Way too much traffic. Plan parking around and then make your way here.
Great service and tasty beer. I ve tried Granville Island beer many times in the east but I was super excited to come to where it all began.
My favourites were the West Coast style IPA and the Maple Shack Cream Ale. Not crazy about the Tropical Stout or the Winter Ale but to each is own.
I m definitely coming back for the tour and to try some more of their small batch series brewed on site.
good informational tours of the brewery, knowledgeable staff. always have some nice small batch brews in stock along with the usual Granville beer
Friendly service. Great beer. Google Navigation to this place didn't work though. Had to find it the old fashioned way.
The beer at Granville island brewing has one of the best beers I have ever tried!
I had a great time here. Solid beers. My favorite was the winter lager. I recommend getting the flight. Well worth the price. Expect a 20min wait to get seated. You can t order beer unless you get seated.
Stopped here again on our road trip out west. Still my favourite beer, and the same great experience as last time. Will definitely be back next time I'm in BC. Just wish we could get all of their beers here in Ontario.
Loved this place. Prices were great, beer was good, food was delicious. Glad we went here on our vacation.
It s close!!! Today was close. How hard is to update your stuff!! No professional!!
a fun place to spend the afternoon! Wheelchair accessible, including the bathroom !
Great place to sample purchase beer ,great staff great selection of beer .
Awesome leisure 'drink a beer, every time there is a surprise and harvest in the market, young and old are happy
Great place to stop for a beer during your visit to Grandville Island, they made all their beer and you can try all of then if you take a "fly" for only $7.5 you can try 4 diferents flavors on 5oz glasses format each one. Rasberry and Summer edition where my 2 favorites I have to say, not strong and very refreshing. So, I'm absolutely recommend this place :)
I like all beer. It would have been nice if there was a stout or Porter option.
Amazing place to stop, have a taste of there beers and they always have some rotating beer so you discover something new. The food is good to.
Cozy and relaxing with good beer selection. Unique seasonal brew that is worth time to try if you are checking out Granville Island.
An entire seven different tastings of beer for 18 bucks. What a deal!
This place was amazing. Not only do they have brews but the bartender Josh made my whole trip. Have to go back.
Omg..... they have a miraculous beer and the service is amazing
Very reasonable prices for flights. Warm atmosphere. Pretty good service.
Awesome and well educated tour guide! Would highly recommend to others as it's very cheap, considering you get 3 5oz beers after the tour :)
There are really a lot of choices for local craft beer here. With Cheese Plate, you can stay here for 1-2 hours. Come with friends or yourself, it is a pleasant experience. The waiter will introduce you to different flavors, and there are readable cardboard to compare the flavor of the beer you are drinking. On the one hand, you can enhance the impression of different craft beer, and on the other hand, you can learn how to taste.
They have so many beers here... the only disappointing part is that I only enjoy their winter ale even though I tried so many. But if you come here for beers, you should definitely get their honey garlic wings. I highly recommend them as they are finger licking good.
Great Merchandise Store, Brewery Tours and Tasting Room!
Very nice brewery. Can see where they make their small batch beers, have tours at brewery and have a nice gift shop attached. Great location on Granville Island. Decent beer.
Nice brewery with good seasonal brews. Brewery tours are fun and you can sit down for a couple of tasters following the tour.
The place is great, the service is great, the selection of beers is good, but the taste of the beers is OK. The poutine was good.
Loved the flight I ordered ! Great cozy atmosphere. Very relaxed.
I wasn't into Craft beer until I had a Granville Island. Their Larger beer is similar to a Corona in my opinion which is a nice lite beer.
Noisy atmosphere. A place to enjoy craft beer lightly.
We carry a couple of GIB's beer at the pub I manage back home in Manitoba. I had tried both the English Bay Pale Ale and the Maple Shack Cream Ale. Loved both of them.
Knew I had to hit up the brewery when I was in Vancouver to try the rest of their selection.
I came on a Wednesday afternoon, place was full, but they found a seat for me at the bar, which was perfect.
I got a flight containing one of their seasonal taps ( a porter ), The Honey Lager, Hefeweizen, and capped it off with my favourite, Maple Shack. All beers were great!
The porter was super tasty, hints of mocha which was delicious. The Hefeweizen was refreshing and would be perfect on a summers day. Honey lager a bit sweeter than I prefer, but still great and refreshing. And as always the maple shack did not disappoint. Even better on tap!
I finished it all off with a sleeve of English Bay Pale Ale. Once again great! Light, crisp and refreshing.
The girl serving the bar was super friendly, and quick to pour the beers.
Would have loved to try more of the beers.
Would come back to Vancouver just to get a hold of more of their beer!
Cheers!
The best part about winter is Winter Ale! Great brewery and nice to finally check it out after all these years of enjoying the deliciousness
Local brewery that we love to visit. We tried some of the various types of beer produced. Fantastic service and show atmosphere of this place.
Sorry, we don't serve food... We're just too busy!!
The best beers I have tasted in Canada. I loved that you can taste different types of beers with different flavours for a cheap price. The food was also reasonable. Our server was very kind and had a gave us excellent customer service even though it was very crowded when we went. I will surely visit this place again when I visit Vancouver.
A lot of fun!! I hope to be back in the future when in town.
Excellent customer service. They honoured their mistake with a delivery order, so they corrected their error on the next business day and threw in some free swag as an apology - delivered to Langley to boot! Thanks GIB :)
excellent beers and and the people who work very kind!!
Did the sampling of all the beer option. Couldn't find a single one I liked. All of the beer tasted like someone poured water in it. Even the porter and IPAs tasted weak. Service was good and staff was friendly. Also ordered the poutine with pork which was good.
I loved this place ... clean ... full of color and nuances ... you can find TODOOOO ..... you must visit it!
Had great fun on the brewery tour and the beer there is delicious.
Great place to stop for food. Its an even better place to stop for beer!
The beer is decent, the food is okay. I'm giving this place a 2 star because there was no soap or paper towels or hand dryer available to use after eating sticky wings. I requested for the soap/ paper towels to be refilled and after 20min, still nothing.
Good beer, not totally hops-obsessed. Eating is somewhat noisy and was slow at noon on Sunday.
Useless lunch menu and abysmal service, walked out after waiting way too long to get a drink.
Beer was great and we even got extra tortilla chips for the remaining dip sauce. We liked honey lager and english bay pale ale the most. But the rest of the beer was also fresh and tasty.
Good beers there with friendly waitress, winter ale is good to eat .
Social distancing rules were in place and still got an amazing burger and a Pale Ale.
No delay getting a seat around 230pm Sunday.
Not a big beer drinker but this was delicious. Definitely will be back.
Good beer but server did not bring change or asked if we needed it. 25$ on a 17.25$ tab.... He ignored us after we paid for a while. Very poor server etiquette... We were planning to leave 4$ anyways. tough on my principles. Tuesday May 7th 6pm. Wish I had the guy servers name
Great beer, friendly, good vibe and great location!
Good beer and it's great you can order small glasses and taste few of them.
Good beers, great prices, attentive bartenders. It was quite busy on a sunday. Ask about a tour and try the maple beer!
Beer is fine, but a tad boring. Food is also fine, but comes in snack-size portions and is a bit heavy on the salt. I won't hesitate to come back if I'm close by, but I definitely wouldn't go out of my way for it.
Legally only allowed to serve you one pint of beer per day, this ensured I returned regularly.
The beer options were extensive, seasonable and of superb quality making it a must stop!
Great beer, great food. Loved the Hefe and the raspberry ale. Also, we are from the states so this Poutine thing is new to us, but we've had a few throughout Vancouver and we enjoyed the Poutine here the most. Get the pulled pork on top!
Great selection of beers, limited floor space for dining or dropping in for a quick beer. Good service and beer prices are very affordable.
Best pick for us on a warm summer afternoon was the False Creek Raspberry lager.
Definitely one if the best restaurants to eat seafood. It is fresh and tastes great! The view is also great! However it is a bit over priced and usually crowded.
Great service. We came in right at last call just to wait for a few friends that were already there to finish their beers. The server offered us a beer while we waited and gave us time to finish it.
Went here back in March and it was great. Pretty busy so we had to share a table with another group of people but they were really nice and we had a great time. I can t remember which beer I got but it was in a can and it was pretty good (my friends are the beer drinkers, not so much me). Positive experience overall though!
The food was decent and the beer was ok. I was expecting more flavour for both. It was overall decent. The staff was good.
Spending 2 to 3 hours is worth it. Tradition + Culture.
Great food, love the seasonal beers.
Lions Winter Ale is a favorite, and now the raspberry is my summer sit by the fire at the lake go to beer. Cheers
Really solid beers, nice rotating taps too. The summer and raspberry ales were gen highlights for me. Left off a star because the food was ok but left a little to be desired. The service staff was spectacular and took great care of everyone.
Very interesting and lovely selection of beers. Their fried is pretty normal but their shiracha aioli is amazing. would definitely go back again to try more beers and have a nice chill time with friends. Great ambience, service was okay.
Terrible customer service. I ordered beer for home delivery 11 days ago. It hasn't arrived. They never answer their phone, voicemail messages, or email.
Was a little bit of a wait to get in but was well worth it once we got there.
Sat at the bar and was served by the awesome Sean. Super fast service, the poutine was amazing, and the beers are what you would expect.
Warning: kitchen closes at 7pm, so if you're itching for some amazing poutine, be better prepared than I was :) Beer keeps flowing until closing though.
Amazing meal and all around great experience. Would definitely recommend.
Good place to taste beers. With the "full map" they give you 10 different types to try ... original !!!
The pints were great and thr food was good but the service was lacking.
Really cool place with good atmosphere, good info about the beers they make and the staff are switched on and proactive. We had a slight issue where our bill was meant to be $18 and we got charged $43 and the server skipped past the payment confirmation page so we couldn t see how much we were paying which almost felt intentional.. besides that it s good fun.
Good selection of beers. I recommend tasting all 10 if you have someone to share them with.
We came here for a change after walking at the Public market. It was super busy on the Sunday afternoon/night. We had to wait for 15m to have a seat. We ordered the full house to have the full experience for the beer. In general, the beers were decent, nothing special. Their IPAs were good. We also ordered some food for snacking.
The BBQ pork rib burger: the bun was very dry, the filling was good though. I liked they added the cabbage in the burger, tasted fresh and crunchy
BBQ pork ribs: very tender, the sauce was really good, however the meat itself was bland without the sauce.
Poutine: very good cheese curbs and delicious gravy.
Cheese sandwich: a good decent one.
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