Mount Pleasant's benchmark tasting room, where the tap list changes weekly and the communal tables do the introductions for you.
Brassneck Brewery pours at 2148 Main Street, the room that helped make Mount Pleasant Vancouver's beer neighbourhood. Vancouver Magazine ranks its tasting room among the ten best in the city, and the tap list rotates fast enough that regulars check the board weekly.
You come here to drink beer a few feet from the tanks it came out of, at long communal tables, for less than almost any bar on this list. If you want table service, cocktails, or a private booth, this is the wrong room and it is not sorry.
The tasting room is long and narrow, lined with communal tables and stools that, as Tripadvisor reviewers put it, pretty much force people to get to know each other. It fills early most evenings.
The room stays simple on purpose: wood, taps, a chalkboard list, and the brewery working in plain view behind it.
Afternoons bring dog walkers and laptop free conversation; evenings bring the Main Street crowd in waves. Come before 5pm on a Friday or expect to hover for a table.
Food trucks pull up outside most evenings, and the room sells snacks like hummus and house made cookies that reviewers mention by name.
What to order
- 01
A flight
- 02
The Lager, then the Imperial Stout
- 03
Whatever the experiment is