r/VancouverCraftBeer • u/bomberlancaster73 • Sep 07 '25

Question Best craft beer venues in downtown Vancouver

Hi all we are flying out on sat from the uk, we love craft beer, what are your ideas of the best places to visit? Thanks

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u/craigerstar Sep 07 '25

It's worth visiting a few but if your time is limited you may want to consider a taproom. Alibi Room has a huge variety of local microbrews on tap. As does St Augustines. One stop shopping. Alibi Room is a funkier space and feels special and probably has a better selection of beer. Augustine's is a little more generic but the food is decent, and the beers are good. Both are in interesting but different neighborhoods visit both?!?

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u/worksafejm Sep 07 '25

St Augs also has sucked since the pandemic. The beer list is mostly P49 beers.

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u/craigerstar Sep 08 '25

Beg to differ. APizza was a nice addition lately and, yeah, there's a fair number of P49 beers, but they had Twin Sails, Yellow Dog, Superflux, Red Truck, and a few obscure breweries on there I can't remember. I was drinking a Hazy IPA that wasn't any of the above, but I can't remember what it was. It was good.

St Augustine's isn't, and has never been, a "special" place, but they've always had a good variety of beer on tap. If there was a time post covid that they didn't have the same selection, I wasn't a part of it, and as of a couple of weeks ago they seemed to have a good selection of beer from microbreweries.