Craft Beer at YVR
Feb 5, 2012 | 9:59 pm
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Craft Beer at YVR
I'll be transiting YVR this week and next: The international terminal (on my way to AMS and WAW) on Tuesday and the US terminal next Monday (on my way back to LAX)
I'll have a four hour layover each way. No lounge access unless I pay for the Plaza Premium. So are there any places with some BC craft beers? Or any non-mass-produced beers?
I'll have a four hour layover each way. No lounge access unless I pay for the Plaza Premium. So are there any places with some BC craft beers? Or any non-mass-produced beers?
Feb 6, 2012 | 7:16 am
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Not sure what beers they had, but your best bet for some brew - and a good meal while you're at it - is at Milestones.
Good luck on your trip to WAW, have my tickets already booked to fly over there in June.
Good luck on your trip to WAW, have my tickets already booked to fly over there in June.
Feb 6, 2012 | 8:06 am
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Agree with Aster - In the international terminal your best bet is Milestones:
http://milestonesrestaurants.com/
...although it's still pretty white-bread.
In the USA depatures "transborder" terminal your options are pretty bleak.
1) There's a bar about half way down the concourse (next to the Tim Hortons doughnut and sandwich shop) but it doesn't offer much other than mass-produced Canadian lager.
2) There's a restaurant up near gate 79 that might have some bottles of beer.
http://milestonesrestaurants.com/
...although it's still pretty white-bread.
In the USA depatures "transborder" terminal your options are pretty bleak.
1) There's a bar about half way down the concourse (next to the Tim Hortons doughnut and sandwich shop) but it doesn't offer much other than mass-produced Canadian lager.
2) There's a restaurant up near gate 79 that might have some bottles of beer.
Feb 11, 2012 | 9:17 pm
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P.S. I visited the Granville Island brewery but they have a low limit on how much beer they can serve you. In essence they are only allowed to have you sample their beers as they don't have a regular bar license. Still worth a trip though, and you can make it a nice, long walk from downtown via Kitsilano if you like.
Feb 14, 2012 | 2:48 pm
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Just an update to what I found: a Granville Island brewed Pale Ale and Honey Lager at Milestones on the International side. The tap handles said "Palomino" but was told was GIB.
On the return we were late out of AMS (bomb scare in another terminal) so not so much time. The restaurant near gate 83 (my gate) had some "Pale Ale" (the waitress warned me it was a "dark beer" ) and I didn't write down the name but it was pretty meh. It tasted like a megabrewery's stealth "craft beer." Sandwich was terrible, too.
On the return we were late out of AMS (bomb scare in another terminal) so not so much time. The restaurant near gate 83 (my gate) had some "Pale Ale" (the waitress warned me it was a "dark beer"
) and I didn't write down the name but it was pretty meh. It tasted like a megabrewery's stealth "craft beer." Sandwich was terrible, too.
Feb 14, 2012 | 11:43 pm
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Sadly, it was only Bud though the game was a truly memorable experience even if the beer wasn't.
Feb 15, 2012 | 5:51 pm
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The TacoMac chain in Atlanta (great beer place, BTW) has a policy of carding everybody, no matter what the apparent age. I actually think this is the way things should be, removes many problems.
Feb 15, 2012 | 7:29 pm
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Overall I liked Canadian beers, and as always stuck to some of the local brews over the big names.
Only place where I got carded was at Denny's btw.
Haven't been in one of those for over a decade so thought I'd pop in for old time's sake.
Feb 16, 2012 | 5:30 pm
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It was OK -- good for "Airport Beer" but no Sierra Nevada Draught Ale. Don't know much about Western Canadian "craft beer" -- my Ontario cousins always seem to bring beers from small Quebec breweries -- like from Les Trois Mousquetaires.
Feb 16, 2012 | 8:47 pm
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Feb 17, 2012 | 5:38 pm
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No idea if you can get it anywhere in YVR, but anything from the Russell brewery is worth trying, IMO. Excellent little BC craft brewery. Just wish we could get it out here in Ontario...