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Granville Island Brewing

🌍 Canada · Regional · Known for a full range of styles
Known for a full range of styles

Canada's first modern microbrewery, founded in 1984 on Granville Island in False Creek, Vancouver. Granville Island Brewing opened when craft brewing barely existed in Canada — they were brewing German-inspired lagers and British ales in Vancouver before there was a name for it. Their island taproom remains one of Vancouver's most visited destinations.

6Beers
5Styles
5.5%Avg ABV
1984Founded
Consistency· share of beers above catalogue avg
17%
catalogue avg 45%

Beers by Granville Island Brewing

6 beers

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Brewery DNA

The recurring character behind the beers

Drawn from all 6 beers in the catalogue.

Brewery signature · based on 6 beers
Signature
What keeps showing up across their beers.
maltyevery beer
6 of 6 beers
crisp
5 of 6 beers
clean
5 of 6 beers
refreshing
5 of 6 beers

Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.

Portfolio range
How broad they brew.
Broad6 beers · 5 style families
Lager 2IPA 1Pale Ale 1Strong 1Wheat Beer 1

Their signature has to hold across very different styles — which makes the notes that do recur more telling, not less.

How they compare
Each beer measured against others of its own style, then averaged across the range. Compared with 538 other breweries making West Coast IPA, American Pale Ale and Hefeweizen.

Across 6 beers in 5 style families, none of Granville Island Brewing's characters carry through the whole range — the mix of styles they brew is the signature here.

typical for West Coast IPA, American Pale Ale and HefeweizenGranville Island Brewing
in no beersin every beer
malty
in all 6 of their beers · typical West Coast IPA, American Pale Ale and Hefeweizen brewery: 4 in 5
A shade above, but within the field.
clean
in 5 of 6 · typical West Coast IPA, American Pale Ale and Hefeweizen brewery: 3 in 5
A shade above, but within the field.
refreshing
in 5 of 6 · typical West Coast IPA, American Pale Ale and Hefeweizen brewery: 3 in 5
A shade above, but within the field.
crisp
in 5 of 6 · typical West Coast IPA, American Pale Ale and Hefeweizen brewery: 3 in 5
A shade above, but within the field.
light
in 4 of 6 · typical West Coast IPA, American Pale Ale and Hefeweizen brewery: 3 in 5
A shade above, but within the field.
Brewery performance
How their beers place in the hopIQ ranking.
Top 66%
average beer performance
0
beers in the Top 100
1 / 6
beers above the median
#1353
best ranked beer
Granville Island English Bay Pale Ale

Their beers place in the Top 66% of the catalogue on average, across 6 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.

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About Granville Island Brewing

Canada's first modern microbrewery, founded in 1984 on Granville Island in False Creek, Vancouver. Granville Island Brewing opened when craft brewing barely existed in Canada — they were brewing German-inspired lagers and British ales in Vancouver before there was a name for it. Their island taproom remains one of Vancouver's most visited destinations.

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