Granville Island Brewing
Granville Island Brewing opened in 1984 on Granville Island in Vancouver and describes itself as Canada's first licensed microbrewery. Island Lager was its first beer, followed in 1987 by the pale ale now sold as English Bay Ale. Molson Coors acquired the company in 2009 through its Creemore Springs subsidiary. The main range is named after places in and around Vancouver and is distributed across Canada, while the original brewhouse on the island now produces the small-batch Taproom Series poured on site.
Beers by Granville Island Brewing
11 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Granville Island Brewing brew a broad range across 7 style families.
Across these 11 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.
Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
English Bay Ale
Their beers place in the Top 22% of the catalogue on average, across 11 ranked beers. Consistent rather than spiky — no single standout carrying the rest.
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About Granville Island Brewing
Granville Island Brewing opened in 1984 on Granville Island in Vancouver and describes itself as Canada's first licensed microbrewery. Island Lager was its first beer, followed in 1987 by the pale ale now sold as English Bay Ale. Molson Coors acquired the company in 2009 through its Creemore Springs subsidiary. The main range is named after places in and around Vancouver and is distributed across Canada, while the original brewhouse on the island now produces the small-batch Taproom Series poured on site.
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