Steamworks Brewing Company

Steamworks Brewing Company.
Location Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Active beers
Name Type
Lions Gate Lager Lager
Pale Ale Pale Ale
Empress India Pale Ale IPA
Coal Porter Porter
Oatmeal Stout Stout
Pilsner Pilsner
Seasonal beers
Name Type
Wheat Ale Hefeweizen
Skinny Tire Hefeweizen Hefeweizen
Raspberry Frambozen® Framboise
Sour Cherry Ale Ale
Great Pumpkin® Ale Ale
Blitzen® Christmas Ale Ale

Steamworks Brewing Company is a brewery located in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Started by owner Eli Gershkovitch, the company has been catering to locals since 1995.[1] Steamworks is located in the historic Landing Building on the edge of historic Gastown.[2]

Products

Steamworks brews a number of beers, some of which are on their tap year round and some that are seasonal. Year round, Steamworks offers Lions Gate Lager, Signature Pale Ale, Empress India Pale Ale & Coal Porter that alternates with Heroica Oatmeal Stout monthly.

Steamworks has a restaurant that serves a wide selection of food and beer. [3]

seasonal brews include the Ipanema Summer White beer,[4] Skinny Tire Hefeweizen, Raspberry Frambozen, & Sour Cherry Ale. Steamworks Great Pumpkin Ale has become one of the great beers in the Vancouver craft beer scene.[5] It is on tap at Steamworks around the time of Halloween. Finally Blitzen Christmas Ale is Steamworks Christmas beer.

As part of a 100th year commemoration, Steamworks brewed Copper Roof Ale, an ESB (extra special bitter) reflecting the copper roof of the original Vancouver Sun building located near Gastown.[6][7]

The entrance to Steamworks Brewing Company

References

  1. ↑ (June 9, 2011.) Steamworks Brewing Company: Vancouver-Gastown. Vancouver Beer Blog.
  2. ↑ The Landing (Vancouver, British Columbia). Wikimapia.
  3. ↑ http://steamworks.com/brew-pub. Check date values in: |access-date= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help); External link in |website= (help);
  4. ↑ The Seasonals and the Staples
  5. ↑ Green, Rick (September 18, 2008). "On the hunt for great beer in Vancouver". Straight.com. Retrieved May 13, 2012. External link in |publisher= (help)
  6. ↑ Shore, Randy (10 May 2012), "Sun anniversary brew made in B.C., naturally", The Vancounver Sun, retrieved 11 May 2012
  7. ↑ "Video: The Sun's Copper Roof 100th Anniversary Ale". The Vancouver Sun. May 9, 2012. Retrieved May 13, 2012. External link in |publisher= (help)

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