BC Craft Breweries
This project aims to tag all craft breweries in Vancouver, and aspirationally around BC.
Tagging guidance
Based on the brewery tagging guidelines and this discussion, I have come up with the following scheme:
- For brew pubs (e.g. Central City brewpubs):
- amenity=pub
- microbrewery=yes
- shop=alcohol (provided they sell takeout beer in some form)
- For breweries without a tasting room or a shop (e.g. Russell):
- craft=brewery
- product=beer
- For breweries with a tasting room and shop (e.g. 33 Acres, Brassneck, Main Street):
- On the building:
- craft=brewery
- product=beer
- In a node inside the building (roughly where the tasting room is):
- amenity=bar if the food options are non-existent or very limited
- amenity=pub if there are extensive food options
- In a node inside the building (roughly where the shop is, could be the same node as the tasting room):
- shop=alcohol
- On the building:
Other references:
"Correctly" tagged
shop=alcohol
- Alchemy Brewing Store
- Backcountry Growlers & Store
- Big Rock Beer Shop
- Brassneck
- Central City (growler fills)
- Container Brewing Store
- Farm Country Beer Store
- Gladstone Filling Station
- Granville Island Brewing Retail Store
- KPU Brew Lab Beer Sales
- Main Street
- R & B
- Red Truck Growler Filling Station
- Spinnakers Shop
- Stanley Park Beer Store
- Storm Growler Fills (tastings are available, but they're on the brewery floor, in between tanks)
- Superflux Beer Store
- Tree Brewing Institute Beer Store
- Wildeye Beer Store (cans and growler sales)
shop=alcohol and craft=brewery and product=beer
- Britannia Brewery (cans and growler fills)
- Settlement Brewery (co-located restaurant / bar is called Belgard Kitchen)
amenity=bar and shop=alcohol and craft=brewery and product=beer
- 3 Dogs Brewing
- Brewing August
- Coast Mountain
- Five Roads Brewery and Tasting Room
- Loudmouth Brewery and Tasting Room
- Mayne Brewing
- New Tradition Brewery and Tasting Room
- Old Abbey Ales
- Shaketown Brewing
- Trading Post Brewery and Tasting Room
amenity=pub and shop=alcohol and craft=brewery and product=beer
amenity=bar and shop=alcohol
- 33 Acres Tasting Room
- 33 Brewing Experiment Tasting Room
- A-Frame Tasting Room
- Another Beer Co Tasting Room
- Beere Tasting Room
- Black Kettle Tasting Room
- BNA Tasting Room
- Bomber Tasting Room
- Brave Tap Room
- Bridge Tasting Room
- Camp Beer Tasting Room
- Central City Brewery Store
- Cliffside Tasting Room
- Crannog Ales
- Dageraad Tasting Room
- Dead Frog Tasting Room
- Dogwood Lounge
- East Vancouver Tasting Room
- Electric Bicycle Tasting Room (only growler fills, no bottles or cans)
- Empty Keg Brew House Tasting Room
- Faculty Brewing Tasting Room
- Field House Tasting Room
- Foamers' Folly Tap Room
- Four Winds Tasting Room
- Fuggles & Warlock Tasting Room
- Gibsons Tapworks Tasting Room
- House of Funk Tasting Room (growlers and cans, no food at all)
- Iron Road Tasting Room
- Kettle River Tasting Room
- Locality Brewing Taproom
- Longwood Tasting Room
- Luppolo Tasting Room
- Maple Meadows Tasting Room
- Mariner Tasting Lounge
- Moody Ales Lounge
- Northpaw Tasting Room
- North Point Tasting Room
- Off The Rail
- Old Yale Tasting Room
- Parallel 49 Tasting Room and Beer Store
- Parkside Tasting Room
- Persephone Tasting Room
- Powell Tasting Room
- Ravens Tasting Room
- Red Bird Tasting Room
- Ridge Brewing Tasting Room
- Silver Valley Tasting Room
- Slow Hand Tasting Room
- Small Block Lounge
- Steamworks Tap Room & Cold Beer Sales
- Steel & Oak Tasting Room
- Strange Fellows Tasting Room
- Strathcona Tasting Room
- Tinhouse Tasting Room
- Tofino
- Twin Sails Tasting Room
- White Rock Beach Beer
- Wild Ambition Tasting Room
- Wolf Tasting Room
- Yellow Dog Tasting Room
amenity=pub and shop=alcohol
- Andina Tasting Lounge
- Angry Otter Tap & Forno
- Beach Fire Brewing and Nosh House
- Bright Eye Tasting Room
- Cumberland Tasting Room
- Freddy's Pub
- Howe Sound Pub
- Land & Sea Tasting Room
- Mission Springs Pub
- Monkey Nine (only fills growlers)
- Mountainview Tasting Room
- Mount Arrowsmith Tasting Room
- Pat's Pub
- Red Arrow Tasting Room
- Red Collar Tasting Room
- Rewind Tasting Room
- Riot Tasting Room
- The 101 Tasting Room
- Torchlight (tasting lounge, kitchen and growler fills)
- Twin City Tasting Room
- White Sails Taproom
amenity=bar
amenity=pub
- Alchemy Tasting Room
- Backcountry Tasting Room
- Big Rock Urban Eatery
- Brewhall
- Brewhouse
- BNA Eatery
- Container Brewing Lounge
- Gladstone Tasting Room
- Granville Island Brewing Taproom
- Kind Brewing
- Parallel 49 Street Kitchen
- R & B Ale and Pizza House
- Sessions Taphouse & Grill
- Spinnakers Brewpub
- Train Wreck Brewing + BBQ
- Tree Brewing Institute
- Truck Stop Diner
- Wildeye Tasting Room
amenity=pub and microbrewery=yes
- Britannia Steveston
- Central City Brewpub
- Craig Street Brewpub
- High Mountain Brewhouse
- Red Racer Taphouse
- Trading Post Eatery (no cans, bottles or growler fills)
amenity=pub and craft=brewery and product=beer
amenity=pub and microbrewery=yes and shop=alcohol
- Longwood Brewpub
- Noble Pig (primarily a pub/restaurant, but they also fill growlers)
- Steamworks Brewpub (full restaurant, grower fills from the bar at the back)
- Trading Post Eatery
amenity=restaurant
- Dockside Restaurant (no growler fills or bottle/can sales)
craft=brewery and product=beer
- 33 Acres Brewery
- Angry Otter Brewery
- 33 Brewing Experiment Brewery
- A-Frame Brewery
- Alchemy Brewery
- Andina Brewery
- Another Beer Co Brewery
- Backcountry Brewery
- Beach Fire Brewery
- Beere Brewery
- Big Rock Brewery
- Black Kettle Brewery
- BNA Brewing
- Bomber Brewery
- Brassneck Brewery
- Brave Brewery
- Brewhall Brewery
- Bridge Brewery
- Bright Eye Brewery
- Camp Beer Brewery
- Central City Brewery
- Cliffside Brewery
- Container Brewery
- Craft Collective Beerworks (formerly Factory Brewing)
- Cumberland Brewery
- Dageraad Brewery
- Dead Frog Brewery
- Dockside Brewery
- Dogwood Brewery
- East Vancouver Brewery
- Electric Bicycle Brewery
- Elevation 57 Brewing
- Empty Keg Brew House
- Faculty Brewery
- Farm House Country Brewery
- Field House Brewery
- Freddy's Pub Brewery (formerly Mill Creek)
- Foamers' Folly Brewery
- Four Winds Brewery
- Fuggles & Warlock Brewery
- Gibsons Tapworks
- Gladstone Brewery
- Granville Island Brewery
- Hastings Mill Brewery
- High Mountain Brewing
- House of Funk Brewery
- Howe Sound Brewery
- Iron Road Brewery
- Kettle River Brewery
- Kind Brewing
- KPU Brew Lab
- Land & Sea Brewery
- Lightheart Brewing
- Locality Brewing
- Longwood Brewery
- Luppolo Brewery
- Main Street Brewery
- Maple Meadows Brewery
- Mariner Brewery
- Mission Springs Brewery
- Monkey 9 Brewery
- Moody Ales Brewery
- Mount Arrowsmith Brewery
- Mountainview Brewing
- Northpaw Brewery
- North Point Brewery
- Off The Rail
- Old Yale Brewery
- Parallel 49 Brewery
- Parkside Brewery
- Persephone Brewery
- Powell Brewery
- R & B Brewery
- Ravens Brewery
- Red Arrow Brewery
- Red Collar Brewery
- Red Truck
- Rewind Beer Co
- Ridge Brewing
- Riot Brewery
- Russell Brewery (not open to the public)
- Silver Valley Brewery
- Slow Hand Brewery
- Small Block Brewery
- Spinnakers Brewery
- Steamworks Brewery
- Steel & Oak Brewery
- Storm Brewery
- Strange Fellows Brewery
- Strathcona Brewery
- Streetcar Brewery
- Superflux Brewery
- The 101 Brewhouse and Distillery
- Tinhouse Brewery
- Tofino Brewery
- Torchlight Brewery
- Train Wreck Brewing
- Tree Brewing
- Twin City Brewery
- Twin Sails Brewery
- Ursa Minor Brewery
- White Sails Brewery
- White Rock Beach Beer Brewing
- Wild Ambition
- Wildeye Brewery
- Wolf Brewery
- Yellow Dog Brewery
Currently in OSM
Here are all of the craft breweries I could find on OSM, along with any notes based on previous surveys.
craft=brewery
These do not get rendered on www.openstreetmap.org:
- Ace Brewing
- Arrowhead
- Cannery
- Category 12
- Salt Spring Island Ales (actually called Gulf Islands Brewing)
- Three Ranges
- Townsite
- Trench Brewing & Distilling
- Wheelhouse
- Whistler Brewing
- Whitetooth
amenity=pub and microbrewery=yes and craft=brewery
amenity=pub and microbrewery=yes
- Barley Station (Shuswap Lake Brewing)
- Kelowna Brewing Company
building=brewery and craft=brewery
- Victoria Caledonian (Twa Dogs)
building=commercial
building=yes
amenity=restaurant
amenity=pub
- Barley Mill
- Flying Beaver
- Heidout (Fisher Peak Brewing)
- Lion's Head
- Merecroft Pub -- unclear whether they brew their own, but it looks like they have the equipment
- Swans
- Rossland Beer Company
amenity=bar
shop=alcohol
shop=beverages
building=brewery and industrial=brewery and drink=beer and shop=alcohol
amenity=biergarten
Missing from OSM
- 100 Mile House:
- Jackson's Social Club and Brewhouse (in this building according to Google Maps)
- Abbotsford:
- Field House BRRL Room
- Castlegar:
- Tailout Brewing (somewhere in this building according to Google Maps)
- Chilliwack:
- Bricklayer (in this building according to Google Maps and BC Craft Brewers Guild)
- Farmhouse (in this building according to Google Maps and their website)
- Field House (somewhere in this building according to Google Maps)
- Flashback (in this building according to Google Maps)
- Creston:
- Wild North (around here according to BC Brewers' Guild)
- Delta:
- Fort St. John
- Beard's Brewing (in this building according to Google Maps)
- Mighty Peace (in this building according to Google Maps)
- Grand Forks:
- Spencer Hill Cottage Brewery (in this building according to Google Maps) -- it's not clear whether or not this "pico" brewery is still operating
- Kaslo:
- Angry Hen (in this building according to Google Maps)
- Kelowna:
- Barn Owl Brewing (in this building according to Google Maps)
- Copper Brewing (in this building according to Google Maps)
- Jackknife Brewing (in this building, West of Kettle River)
- Lakesider (in this building according to Google Maps)
- Shoreline Brewing (at this location)
- Rustic Reel (in this building according to Google Maps)
- Welton (in Boundary Brewing's old location)
- Kimberley:
- Over Time Beer Works (in this building according to Google Maps)
- Langley:
- Smugglers' Trail (in this building according to Google Maps)
- Nanaimo:
- Loveshack Libations (in this building according to Google Maps)
- Nelson:
- Backroads (in this building or this one according to Google Maps)
- Oliver:
- Firehall Brewery (in this building according to Google Maps)
- Trading Post Brewery, Tasting Room and Eatery (somewhere on this steet according to their website)
- Osoyoos:
- North Basin (in this building according to Google Maps)
- Pemberton:
- Beer Farmers (in this building according to Google Maps and StreetView)
- Pemberton Brewing (on this street)
- Penticton:
- Highway 97 (in this building according to Google Maps)
- Neighbourhood Brewing (around this building according to Google Maps)
- Slackwater (in this building according to Google Maps) -- used to be called Hatchery Brewing
- Tin Whistle (in this building according to Google Maps)
- Powell River:
- Wildwood Public House (replacing the Red Lion Pub in this building according to Google Maps)
- Revelstoke:
- Mt. Begbie (in this building according to Google Maps and StreetView)
- Rumpus Beer (in this building according to Google Maps)
- Salmo:
- Erie Creek (in this building according to Google Maps)
- Salmon Arm:
- Morrow (in this building according to Google Maps and BC Craft Brewers Guild)
- Sechelt:
- Batch 44 Brewery and Kitchen (in this building according to Google Maps)
- Smithers:
- Bulkley Valley (in this building according to Google Maps)
- Smithers Brewing (in this building according to Google Maps)
- Sooke:
- Bad Dog (presumably in this building according to Google Maps and the photos in the reviews)
- Sooke Brewing (in this building according to official website)
- Sooke Oceanside Brewery (in this building according to Google Maps)
- Terrace:
- Sherwood Mountain (in this building according to Google Maps)
- Trail:
- Trail Beer Refinery (in this building according to Google Maps)
- Ucluelet:
- Ucluelet Brewing (in this building according to Google Maps and Facebook page)
- Vernon:
- Marten Brewpub (in this building according to Google Maps)
- Victoria:
- Driftwood (in this building according to Google Maps)
- Herald Street (at this address)
- Howl (around this building according to Google Maps and StreetView)
- Hoyne (in this building according to Google Maps)
- Île Sauvage (in this building according to Google Maps)
- Lighthouse (in this building according to Google Maps)
- V2V Black Hops (in this space according to The Growler)
- Whistle Buoy (in this building according to Google Maps)
Future
These breweries are not open to the public yet but have a confirmed Internet presence at the very least.
- Campbell River:
- North Island College Craft Brewing and Malting Program (around this building according to Google Maps and BC Craft Brewers Guild)
- Cranbrook:
- Delta:
- Britannia will open a new Ladner location in the of Winter 2020.
- Grand Forks:
- Grand Forks Beer (in this building according to Google Maps)
- Home Town Beer Makers (in this building according to Google Maps and BC Craft Brewers Guild)
- Hornby Island:
- Hornby Island (on this island)
- Kelowna:
- Office (in this block according to Google Maps)
- Unleashed (in this block according to Google Maps)
- Langley:
- Brookswood (in the Brookswood neighbourhood)
- Lillooet:
- Lilooet Brewing Company (in this building according to Google Maps and BC Craft Brewers Guild)
- Nanaimo:
- Rusted Rake (in this building)
- Tidal Brewing (in the new East Village development according to The Growler)
- Penticton
- Abandoned Rail (on this side of the road according to BC Craft Brewers' Guild)
- Yellow Dog (at this location according to Penticton Western News and BC Ale Trail)
- Pitt Meadows:
- Tiki Jon's (according to Craft Brewers' Guild)
- Port Alberni:
- Alberni Brewing Company (in this building according to Google Maps and BC Craft Brewers' Guild).
- Port Coquitlam:
- Port McNeill:
- Devil's Bath (in this building according to Google Maps and BC Craft Brewers' Guild)
- Prince George:
- Qualicum Beach:
- Fern and Cedar (somewhere on this road)
- Radium Hot Springs:
- Radium (presumably in this block according to BC Craft Brewers Guild)
- Shirley:
- Squamish:
- Surrey:
- Victoria:
- Beacon Brewing (most likely in a building that was newly-constructed in this parking lot)
- Hudson Taproom & Brewpub
- Merridale Brewery and Distillery (in the Dockside Green area)
- Williams Lake:
- Fox Mountain Brewing (in the former Greyhound bus depot)
- White Rock:
Defunct
These breweries have closed and are no longer in operation.
- 100 Mile House:
- Broke ‘N Rode Brewing closed and was replaced with Jackson's Social Club and Brew House.
- Burnaby:
- Studio Brewing used to be in this building, but their last day was on 2023-12-22.
- Chilliwack:
- Chaos & Solace was rebranded as Flashback Brewing in this building.
- Courtenay:
- Forbidden Brewing used to be in this building next to the Westerly Hotel but it closed its doors in September 2019.
- Kelowna:
- Boundary Brewing used to be at this address but closed permanently as a casualty of COVID-19.
- Nelson:
- Savoy Brewing used to operate within the Savoy Hotel in this building.
- North Vancouver:
- Avalon Brewing was rebranded Taylor's Crossing Brewpub before shutting down and being replaced with Hearthstone.
- Deep Cove Brewing used to be in this building but shut down in 2023 blaming lease renewal problems.
- Hearthstone shut down its brewery and sold to [http://www.angryottertapandforno.com/ Otter Co-op.
- Sailor Hagar's used to be a brewpub and now merely exists as a brand brewed on contract.
- Penticton:
- Bad Tattoo used to be in this location but shut down in December 2022 and the space was sold to Yellow Dog who plan to open their second location.
- Prince George:
- Port Coquitlam:
- Taylight Brewing used to be at this address but closed permanently as a casualty of COVID-19 on November 5th 2021.
- Port Moody:
- The Bakery used to be in this building but was sold and reopened as Brave Brewing.
- Fraser Mills Fermentation used to be in this building but declared bankruptcy in September 2023.
- Richmond:
- Big River Brewpub was rebranded as Be Right Back Brewing before closing and being replaced with Monkey 9.
- Summerland:
- Breakaway used to be on this road and closed down in 2021.
- Surrey:
- Big Ridge used to be in this building but shut down its brewpub and liquor store in September 2022.
- White Rock Brewery used to be in this building but shut down in 2019 after being fined by the BC Liquor Distribution Branch.
- Vancouver:
- Callister Brewing used to be in this building until 2023-12-31.
- Coal Harbour used to be at this location.
- Dix BBQ & Brewery closed and was replaced by the Red Racer Taphouse.
- Doan's Craft used to have a brewery in this building but has now switched to producing their beers at Craft Collective
- Green Leaf Brewing used to be at this location.
- Hotel Pacific Pub & Brewery used to be in this building.
- Prohibition Brewing used to be in this location in Yaletown.
- Steel Toad closed and was replaced by Brewhall.
- Victoria:
- Axe & Barrel used to be in this building but their space was taken over by V2V Black Hops.
- Canoe Brewpub was purchased by CRAFT Beer Market and closed down on 2021-10-18.
- Hugo’s Grill and Brewhouse used to operate within the Magnolia Hotel
External sources of information
See https://brewmap.openstreetmap.de/#11/49.2257/-123.2865/0/0/f for a rendering of breweries and brewpubs. Note that it includes production breweries which are not open to the public.
These sites have fairly good lists of BC breweries:
- BC Ale Trail
- BC Breweries (Raincoast Brews)
- BC Brewery directory and map(Pacific Beer Chat)
- BC Brewery listings and map (Beer Me BC)
- BC Craft Brewers Guild (monitoring script)
- Big list and map of BC breweries (live-ish)
- Craft Beer Vancouver
- The Growler (new breweries blog tag)
- List of breweries in British Columbia (Wikipedia)
- Licensed Establishments in B.C. (BC Government) -- need to filter for "Manufacturer" and "Brewery"
- /r/VancouverCraftBeer
- BC Breweries Timeline (SFU Archives)