Vancouver Breweries and Sustainability: Upcycling Spent Grain

Marc Wandler, co-owner of Susgrainable (left) with Mauricio Lozano, owner/operator of Faculty Brewing Co. (right); sourced from Susgrainable

Vancouver’s craft brewery scene has been exploding over the last decade. This growth has been an incredibly exciting development for beer enthusiasts. However, beer production consumes considerable resources, such as water, and leads to waste, primarily in the form of spent grain. In fact, it’s estimated that breweries in Canada produce over 400,000 tonnes of spent grain per year. That’s a huge amount of waste potentially going to the landfill.

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Vancouver Breweries and Sustainability: Upcycling Spent Grain

Take a Self-Guided Mount Pleasant Brewery Tour

Tasting room at 33 Acres Brewery

Photo: 33 Acres Brewery

The Vancouver area is home to several dozen craft breweries, creating a wide variety of small-batch beers. The Mount Pleasant neighbourhood has a particularly dense concentration of microbreweries. In fact, the area was historically known as Brewery Creek and people have been making beer here since the 1880s. Today it’s a great spot to spend an afternoon biking or walking between tasting rooms. Our 1.5-kilometre-long route visits six different breweries!

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Take a Self-Guided Mount Pleasant Brewery Tour

Hula-La!: Main St. Brewing Announces Two New Vacation-Themed Beers


Main St. Brewing will transport local beer lovers on a virtual vacation once again by releasing the final two beers in its popular vacation-themed series! Continue reading:
Hula-La!: Main St. Brewing Announces Two New Vacation-Themed Beers

Vancouver Neighbourhoods: Mount Pleasant

Welcome to Mount Pleasant! (Tourism Vancouver/Hubert Kang)

Often referred to as “South Main”, Mount Pleasant encompasses the stretch of Main Street between East 2nd and East 33rd avenues, including the residential streets on either side. The neighbourhood is packed with stylish breweries, vintage boutiques and eclectic eateries, forming a hipster-preferred ‘hood that’s come a long way from its early industrial days.

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Vancouver Neighbourhoods: Mount Pleasant