On today's visit to Vancouver, Chris and I checked out Brewer's Row in Port Moody, BC. Brewer's Row is a pub crawl dream with five breweries within a five minute walk. The breweries consist of Yellow Dog, Twin Sails, The Parkside, The Bakery and Moody Ales. Since we quickly went from brewery to brewery, it's all a bit of a blur to me so you might not see as much writing this time around but hopefully you'll enjoy the photos! Warning: there's a LOT of photos. I could've split this into two parts but no, I'd rather get Brewers Row all in one shot.
Yellow Dog Brewing
The first stop we made in Port Moody was Yellow Dog Brewing. I've heard of Yellow Dog for a few years now, and every time I think about Yellow Dog, I think about the Yellow Dog Tavern in Winnipeg - a craft beer bar that I've had many amazing memories over the years with meeting up with Jonny (host of Weathered Beer Celebration), beer peeps who ended up opening up their own breweries and Flatlanders Beer Festival afterparty with the who's who of Winnipeg's beer industry. I've heard rave reviews about Yellow Dog Brewing in the past by many people so this was a must visit for our first stop of the day. In fact, I had three people ask me "are you going to Brewer's Row?! You have to visit!" when they heard I was going to Vancouver.
Unfortunately right as we got there, we found out about the news about Kobe Bryant so that became the hot story at every brewery went to for the day.
https://www.yellowdogbeer.com/
Twin Sails
Twin Sails is well known for their juicy IPAs - while some people are getting tired of them, I always love a well done one because I just never see them in my neck of the woods
http://www.twinsailsbrewing.com/
The Parkside Brewery
Stop number three of five is over at The Parkside Brewery. I never heard of The Parkside before visiting so was interested to try out their beer. The Parkside definitely had the largest crowd out of all the five breweries we visited that day. The staff was absolutely friendly, inviting and gave great advice on what I should try while there.
Edit: My awesome beer buddy Len let me know that Granville Island Brewing's former brewmaster Vern Lambourne is one of the co-owners and head brewer of The Parkside. I remember the news years ago that Vern started up a brewery but didn't realize it was this one. I had the pleasure of chatting with Vern many, many times on social media about beer back when he was at GIB, I actually went out of my way to pick up any of his beers because they were always great and he was always responding to my messages. Props to Vern & co!
http://www.theparksidebrewery.com/
The Bakery
Within two minutes of leaving The Parkside, we were already at The Bakery Brewing, that's darn close.. but all the breweries on Brewers Row are! The Bakery is another brewery I never heard of but I was told it was a spinoff of Moody Ales (which will be coming up next!)
The first thing I got from the brewery was that it was wayyyyyy too fancy for me, but in reality.. it wasn't. The beer was affordable and almost everything I had was experimental and something different - so a good amount of funky ales. The name The Bakery made me expect them to actually be a bakery but apparently the location once hosted a bakery way before the brewery existed.. thus.. The Bakery. The brewery's branding and bottles actually reminded me a bit of Brasserie Nonsuch out of Winnipeg, which has a very simplistic but very well done appearance to it.
http://www.thebakerybrewing.com/
Moody Ales
http://www.moodyales.com/
Check out my other Vancouver brewery visits:
Part 1 - Fuggles & Warlock and Barnside
Part 2 - Four Winds and Dageraad
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