Our Take on Parallel 49 Brewing
Triumph Street smells faintly of wort on brew days, and Parallel 49 has been part of that East Vancouver air since 2012. The taproom pours more than 20 beers at a time, and Scout Magazine documented its expansion into a full tasting room, beer store, and street kitchen under one roof.
The tap list is the argument for visiting the source rather than buying the cans. Experimental IPA series, employee pilot brews, and barrel aged one offs rotate through alongside the core lineup, and most of them never leave the building.
Reading the Room
The room seats well over 100 under an industrial ceiling, with glass garage doors across the front that open onto the sidewalk on sunny days. A permanent food truck, the Street Kitchen, runs service to the tables. It feels like drinking inside a working brewery because that is exactly what it is.
The Menu, Edited
Who Shows Up, and When
BeerAdvocate logs hundreds of ratings across the catalog, with the hop forward releases scoring strongest. Flights stay cheap enough to taste broadly without commitment.
Afternoons mix brewery tourists walking the East Van ale trail with locals and their dogs at the garage door end. Weekend peak hits between 2pm and 6pm, when flights crowd every table. Evenings settle into a neighbourhood pace.
The Word on the Street
- Tripadvisor reviewers rank it the best stop of multi brewery crawls, citing roughly 30 taps where everything tried landed.
- VanPours covered the 2017 renovation that turned a cramped tasting bar into the current room.
- Regulars steer first timers toward whatever pilot brew the staff poured themselves that week.
Go, or Skip
- Beer travelers working the East Vancouver ale trail
- Anyone who orders flights instead of pints
- Avoid if you need cocktails or a late night room
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