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63 | bcliving.ca Black Kettle Brewing 106 - 720 Copping Street FOUNDED 2014 TASTING ROOM Yes GROWLER FILLS Yes BEST BEER Black Kettle Pale Ale e rst craft brewery to open in 2014 is a tiny space in the shadow of the North Shore Auto Mall, almost abutting the trains that grind past its industrial building. Owner Bryan Lockhart and brewmaster Phil Vanden- borre have launched with a single beer, the 4.5% ABV Black Kettle Pale Ale, a subtly oral, nicely hopped pale. ey most recently added an IPA to their quiver – a slightly more bitter (equally oral) citrus brew liber- ally hopped up with Cascade hops. Black Kettle is selling 650-ml bomber bottles and kegs, as well as lling growlers on-site. If you drop by in June, they should be pouring a wheat beer that the sta calls the beer of the summer. black kettlebrewing.com Green Leaf Brewing 123 Carrie Cates Court FOUNDED 2013 TASTING ROOM Yes GROWLER FILLS Yes BEST BEER Green Leaf Brewing Co. Stout Another North Van brewery newcomer (opened in Decem- ber), Green Leaf Brewing Company nailed its location. Tucked amidst the bustle of Lonsdale Quay and the SeaBus station, the bright, soaring tast- ing room has been an instant hit with the locals shopping at the adjacent market and day- tripping tourists making the trip across the inlet. Brewery Joe Wiebe is the Thirsty Writer, BC's busiest beer writer. Check out thirstywriter.com or follow him on Twitter ThirstyWriter. 2012 with a ve-year goal to expand enough to allow him to give up his nine to ve. Less than half a year later, his Old Jalopy Pale Ale won 2013 Beer of the Year at the Canadian Brewing Awards, and since then Powell Street has not been able to keep up with demand. Bowkett's ve-year plan is being accelerated considerably – he plans on moving the brewery into a big- ger space later this summer. powellbeer.com Bomber Brewing 1488 Adanac Street FOUNDED February 2014 TASTING ROOM Yes GROWLER FILLS Yes BEST BEER ESB e newest brewery to open in Vancouver, Bomber (pictured top left) is located on the Adanac bike route, just east of Clark Drive, the perfect stop on your bike commute home after work or as a destina- tion on a sunny Saturday. Its founders include the owners of BierCraft, the pair of Belgian beer-focused restaurants with locations on Commercial Drive and Cambie Street, along with a home-brewing pal who all play together on a beer- league hockey team named, you guessed it, the Bombers. Core brands include an ESB, Pilsner and IPA in cans, along with a range of sea- sonal specialty releases in 650-ml "bomber" bottles. bomberbrewing.com Although the North Shore isn't exactly a craft-brewing destina- tion (the handful of original humble brewpubs that did pour here have all closed in the past few years), it does have the distinction of being the birthplace of craft brewing in the province. It was in Horseshoe Bay in 1982 that the eponymous brewery and its English- style ale rocked the local taste buds weaned on bland carbonation. It closed in 2000, but Horseshoe Bay Brewery started a revolution that continued with the opening of Bridge Brewing two years ago and three more in the past year, all within a bike ride or one-zone bus ride of each other. –Tom Gierasimczuk N O R T H V A N C O U V E R DEEP COVE BREWERS AND DISTILLERS always has a great selection of beers on tap that can be enjoyed in their 10-person tasting lounge PHOTOS BEN OLIVER, (DEEP COVE) LUMIN INC. PHOTOGRAPHY 5 1 2 p60-65_Beer_Hoods.indd 63 2014-03-19 9:12 AM