Granville Island Brewing

8/1/2008 3:33:13 PM, friday, august 01, 2008
The beer was good, mostly drank the lagers. Pretty small restaurant area, they should cut back the tourist shop some and add more seating. But I guess it is a tourist area. Good, but nothing that really stands out.

7/16/2008 8:26:04 PM, wednesday, july 16, 2008
Not an overly impressive place, with a small breweryon the left and a tacky gift shop on the right. First of all its in a super touristy part of town, and damn near impossible to find a place to park. Super clean and up to date brewing area, with chalkboards explaning the process which always makes me laugh. The beers are well done and true to style, but I didn’t try the food.

5/31/2008 12:53:52 AM, saturday, may 31, 2008
It’s quite nice to be in the tasting room when the brewery is operational although it steam up so much you don’t see a whole lot. At other times it’s can feel a bit like you’re sandwiched between the brew room and the liquor store. Still Granville Island Market is one of the places to visit in this city so you may as well wet your whistle once you’re there. Service is hit and miss and sometimes there will be a crowd of friends around the bar area that interferes with speed of service. As to the selection, if you’re here, you’re here for GI product and you’ll get it in its freshest form for better or worse... and it’s certainly better than some of the GI bottles that are produced at the big brewery.

2/20/2008 11:28:49 PM, wednesday, february 20, 2008
This is the Granville Island location where there is an enormous and fairly busy place to drink beer, even during the week. Very large store selling heir retail items, I believe the biggest retails store I have yet been at. This is where you get the one seasonal on tap.

4/20/2005 1:48:41 AM, wednesday, april 20, 2005 [ Updated saturday, june 11, 2005 ]
GI makes their crappy beers at a big brewery in Kelowna. The eponymous location is the original brewery site and they keep a small brewery here to produce seasonals. One or two of these seasonals will be on tap (though they always have the horrid Honey Lager on) and the adjacent bottle shop is probably the most reliable place to grab bottles of the seasonals. It is a rare, true, tap room - just a bright open room with a couple of handles at the small bar. Limited pub snacks. Very casual. A decent place for a quick pint. Prices are outrageous, though, as five bucks only gets you a 12 oz "mug" and even a dinky sample glass is $2.75. The government mandates the tap limit..they should relicense the place as a brewpub and put all their beers on tap, cook sausages and pizzas in back, lower their prices a bit and get Vern working to full capacity.

3/30/2005 12:29:33 PM, wednesday, march 30, 2005
This place was ok when it first opened, but not much has been done since then.

3/18/2005 11:42:43 PM, friday, march 18, 2005
I found the Granville Island brewery to be somewhat underwhelming. Their beers are mediocre, the ambiance is plain and their beers are mediocre ;) It reminds me of more of a well-lit pub than a brewery/brewpub. Too bad the majority of their brewing is done off-site.

2/9/2005 10:08:50 PM, wednesday, february 09, 2005
I have heard that this is the most money spent of a brewery in Western North America and it shows. I have toured many a brewey and this is still one of the nicest I have seen. They make outstanding seasonals but the tour they just serve crap made for them in else where. The tour is worth it if you haven’t seen a ton of breweries

11/5/2004 5:18:14 PM, friday, november 05, 2004
Not a bad place. Has a typical brewery tour that includes a tasting at the end. Still, not a bad place to hang out if you need to catch a beer while on Granville Island.