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e Brewery Creek area of the city got its name at the end of the 19th century because of the stream that ran from Tea Swamp (about 15th Ave.) down to False Creek, which extended east all the way to present-day Clark Drive. Sev- eral breweries set up shop along the creek – most near the current Main-Kingsway junction – using the creek water to power their machinery and as a principal ingredient in their beer. By 1920, the creek had been com- pletely paved over and redirected into sew- ers and the breweries were closed. In the past year, however, several new breweries and tap houses have returned to the 'hood with more on the way, resurrecting Brewery Creek in name and ful lling its rightful destiny. —Joe Wiebe 60 | bcliving.ca HOPPED UP HOODS It has always been one of those Vancouver mysteries, right along with sky-high real estate prices and indi erence to household earthquake kits: why was our city – so similar to Portland and Seattle in culture – such a craft-beer wall ower? e question is now irrelevant, because whatever was holding us back over the decades is long gone and Vancouver (and North Van and Surrey and New West) is brewing and pouring at an unprecedented rate. Six breweries opened their doors in 2013, and next month's Vancouver Craft Beer Week event will be the biggest yet. But revolutions are no fun from the sidelines, so we hand-picked three neighbourhoods where locally made beers and ambient tasting rooms to drink them in (and so are cabs and transit) are plentiful. Cheers. HAVE A BEER R&B Brewing 54 East 4th Avenue FOUNDED 1997 TASTING ROOM No GROWLER FILLS Yes BEST BEER Birra Fresca Cucumber Mint IPA R&B was an early pioneer in the neighbourhood – when founders Rick Dellow and Barry Benson opened the brewery in 1997, Main Street was decidedly uncool and very rough around the edges. But the postal code has improved considerably in recent years and now the brewing duo, who rst worked together at the Molson plant in the 1980s, nd themselves playing the role of mentor to the "youngsters" popping up all around them. R&B does not have a fancy tasting lounge like the new places, but you can ll your growler there on Friday and Saturday after- noons. Otherwise, look for their bottles in government and private liquor stores throughout B.C. r-and-b.com Brassneck Brewery 2148 Main Street FOUNDED 2013 TASTING ROOM Yes GROWLER FILLS Yes BEST BEER Passive Aggressive Dry-Hopped Pale Ale e only brewery with an actual address on Main Street, Brassneck is also Vancouver's most buzzed- Where to drink in the long-overdue craft-beer boom in Vancouver M A I N S T R E E T / B R E W E R Y C R E E K PHOTOS BEN OLIVER E 2ND AVE E 4TH AVE SCOTIA ST E 6TH AVE E 8TH AVE E 7TH AVE MAIN ST ONTARIO ST QUEBEC ST E 1ST AVE 6 2 2 E 8 3 1 1 4 5 p60-65_Beer_Hoods.indd 60 2014-03-19 9:12 AM