About West Coast U Brew

West Coast U Brew is Vancouver’s first Brew-On Premise establishment.

West Coast first opened its doors on May 10, 1993 and has since provided the best products and services available in the on-premise brewing market, from their unique in-house beer recipes to some of Canada’s premium wine and cider kits.

The West Coast Brew Crew

Dave Harrop, chief cook and bottle washer took over West Coast Brewing from his close friend and associate Roger in 1995. Roger moved up to Campbell River where he and his partners started up West Coast Ubrew2. Still brewing up there on Willow ave.

Trevor, Mike, Bob, Ben, and Clayton, make up the team. While Trevor runs the place as the Manager, Mike will be busy on the kettles/bottling table. Ben usually hides in the wine room while Bob and Clayton scurry about filtering and carbonating and processing the brews.

Collectively, the team brings together more than 50 years experience. We believe, by far, that our brews can compete with any beer on the market and beat them. We make beers from easy slurping baseball beer to heavy dark stouts. Specializing in Hoppy IPA‘S we have special fresh hops that we use in transfusions to make wicked beers. If you love your hops then you found the right place to brew your beer.

Our Setup

We have a 300,000 BTU steam boiler that cranks out enough steam to cook all 7 100 litre kettles at once. The beautiful thing about steam is its efficiency. Indirect heating in the steam kettles prevent burning and over cooking. Our temperature controlled rooms are at the optimum temp for fermentation and conditioning. We also have a free bottle sanitizer that blasts 49 bottles at a time. Our stainless beer bottling table has 4 stations with plenty of room for your helpers to cap and put away your beers. Over all our near 5000 sq ft of space has plenty of free parking in the back and a great loading bay in the front for (un)loading all your bottles.

All-Grain Brewing

Finally we found a mash tun to suit our needs. Richmond Beerworks was nice enough to close down their operation in Richmond and we bought the mash tun at auction in January 2007. Now we are in the middle of converting a hot water system to work with steam. Soon, very soon we will be offering an all grain option to brew the best beer possible. We can say that we will be offering full mash brewing May 1st, 2008. While the recipe selection will be limited, we will be experimenting to broaden your choices ASAP. We expect delivery of our new on demand hot water tank April 15th. Then a few hook ups and we are off to the races.