Strange Fellows Brewing

This beer is good, great, excellent. Dark IPA? Saison? Yes please. Also, their tasting bats come in little boxes and it’s adorable.
The space is lovely and pretty typical décor — you know, that hipstery wood and metal combo. There is a lot of seating, so you can usually find a spot even if it’s squeezed in at the counter. Their growler display/​set up is pretty gorgeous and makes me wanted to buy A LOT of beer to go… it’s a nice touch.
Ample bike parking and it looks like art. The parking is limited but you shouldn’t be driving anyway.
They also carry the infamous cheese buns, which I really should have started with because it’s all that matters to me.

Excellent beers. Great staff. Very helpful. Suggest you start with a sample rack and decide which beer suits your taste for the night. Parking is very limited but there is side street parking mist of the time

Great to have yet another East Van craft brewery and tasting room. Friends had told us about Strange Fellows and we included it as the 2^nd stop of a craft brewery tasting tour.
The tasting room is very unique with its collection of masks. It is clean, modern with plenty of natural light. The staff are very attentive, pleasant and happy to pass on their knowledge of their beers. Strange Fellows advised they celebrate the Strange — people, traditions and ways of life from around the world. The beers are not all that strange (except perhaps the names) and fit right in with the Vancouver craft beer scene. Being an IPA fan, I ordered the Nocturnum Dark IPA (6.5% and 65 IBU). Nice easy to drink middle of the road IPA.
We would be happy to return to Strange Fellows.

Very delicious beers in a cool warehouse-​like atmosphere. Everything I sampled (wit, dark and white IPAs) was quite good; even the raspberry ale was more than palatable, and I’m not usually a dark of berry beers. However, terrible service by hipsters more into their beards (figuratively and literally) than being kind to their patrons.

You might as well go to somewhere like St. Augustine’s for the selection and flight prices but it’s quite a nice place to sit in. Very pleasing to the senses.

This is probably one of the best interiors of all the breweries I’ve been to.
They are also dog friendly! (For now).
This place also has probably THE BEST service– the door/​bartender guy was so friendly and cute to boot!
Lighter beers here are meh.
Unfortunate that they don’t do Stouts or Porters during the summer months right now– I’ll be back for the Winter season when they have some of the fullest, malty stouts I’ve ever had.

I visited Saturday July 18^th — this beer is top shelf. We favoured the Jongleur, Belgian Wit. The building and its atmosphere is one of the best of the local breweries in east van. We enjoyed their small gallery and the artwork for the merchandizing was very special and appreciated.
Jumped into my top 5 of BC craft breweries. Will look for their beers in stores and worth going out of my way to fill my growler. (It is very conveniently located on Clark drive.)
btw, other top 5 — Parallel 49, Postmark, Bomber, and Central City.

Great beer, great place. Staff were super helpful in taking us through how to get into the growler fill experience after we had enjoyed a couple flights. Will be back for sure, make sure you Tey the grisette and the saison. Not generally a fan of the latter style, but theirs had an almost dunkel like root beer aroma to it with limited hoppy aftertaste. Delish!

Came back with a friend and mine for a celebration and still as awesome as I remembered it to be.

YES! Another excellent Vancouver brewery and tap room. We’re becoming spoiled for choice.
As with many of the other top-​notch East-​Van Vancouver breweries both beer and venue are excellent. Strange Fellows has a great selections of brews (combined with appropriately odd names, labels, and backward spelling on the board) with the Pale Ale, Dark IPA, and Saison all fantastic.
There’s also a great selection of, my personal craft beer accompaniment, cured meat sticks.
Oh, and if you think that this is a little out of the way for you, the No 22 bus drops off all but a block away!

Wonderful décor very tasty beer and what a surprise this place has some food to go with the beer. Delicious big cheesy things and two sizes of charcuterie plate really like it here most breweries do not have food so this is a bonus

Another solid addition to the Vancouver Beer scene.
I love the space + vibe more than anything.
It has high ceilings with an awesome view of the beer tanks + brewery room.
Their beer wasn’t too shabby either.
The west coast pale was my favourite followed by the dark IPA.
The other beers were just okay.
Not my favourite brewery, but it’s still a very solid brewery.
They have on-​street parking as well as some stalls right in front of the store.

Strange Fellows is already clearly the real deal. Recently opened, it already has a solid line up of beers.
Of the six brews available on tap, I partook in five of them (I sat out the stout). I sampled them first in flight form or as they call it, a «box of strange».
1) Jaune Fizzé (Helles style lager): A light, standard tasting lager. It was a very nice, all-​around basic beverage that’s clean and crisp.
2) Talisman (west coast pale): This was the easiest drinking of the bunch with a robust, almost fruity flavour and hop to it. I chose this for my growler fill for its refreshment.
3) Nocturnum (dark India pale ale): The IPA had a deep, rich taste full of interesting bits, but I can see an acquired taste feel to it. I need a second taste to see if its complexity jives with my tastes.
4) Jongleur (Belgian style wit): My highlight and initial standout pick of the bunch. I really dug the cloudy and full tasting wheat beer and all the flavourful hints.
5) Bière de Guarde (a French style saison): Sharp and biting, this French saison was full of great flavours and full-​bodied. Very French tasting.
I’m already plotting return visits to drink more of Strange Fellows’ well-​brewed, sophisticated concoctions as they’re off to a very promising start.

Quickly growing into my new favourite brewery. Some of the beers are hit and miss for me, but those tend to be personal taste differences rather than an issue with quality. I highly recommend the Nocturnum Dark IPA and the Talisman West Coast Pale Ale. I think Strange Fellows will soon become one of the best breweries in BC.
Aside from the beer (delicious), the décor and the service is fantastic. The Strange Fellows team is quite responsive to suggestions and I’ve never had a problem discussing concerns or asking questions. One time I complained about a beer I didn’t like and they comp’d me for it! Amazing service I don’t normally expect from breweries.

Strange Fellows Brewing is one of the many new breweries opening up in Vancouver and luckily like the rest is not only a great space but a great brewery! With a brewmaster like Iain Hill you should not be surprised though as he is one of the most experienced ones in Vancouver.
The tasting lounge and art Gallery have a ton of natural light from the huge bank of windows along the entire front of the brewery. The entire place is done in a great wood finish that really screams BC. The masks hung above the bar all pertain to a different beer they produce and a strange days event during the year. The beer on tap is great with a lager, wit, pale ale, black IPA and Russian imperial stout to name a few of their beers. The brewery is big already but there is a ton of space for expansion so these guys will be making their way into your fridge sooner than later you just may not know it yet. Head down and see for yourself.

I’m really liking the craft beer scene in Vancouver. Another hit with this place.
Parking is available both in the spots in front of the building (looks like an old warehouse), as well as on Clark.
The place definitely has a hipster feel, and it feels good. Nice high ceilings, and plenty of wood furniture. On one end is the merchandise section, and on the other end (where the loading bay once was) is a feel-​good art gallery. One can scratch one’s head and think deep thoughts while wandering through this room. Excellent atmosphere here — probably one of the best I’ve seen out of all the craft brew pubs. Special mention.
The bartender was quite helpful. I agree with Mark H. in that the menu is a bit tricky to read, especially with the occasionally backwards lettering. ESL people and dyslexics beware.
One special mention is that their flights (called «boxes of strange» here) are larger than the competition (which generally use 4oz glasses). I think the glasses are 6oz instead of 4oz. As a result, my friend and I ended up with much more beer than we expected. However, this kind of problem is easily solved, with the help of one’s liver. Once this is factored in, the pricing is actually in line with nearby P49, my craft beer benchmark.
As of the time of writing, they only sell 7 types of beer here, so 2 boxes of strange can clear out the menu. Beautiful. On the back of the label cards (where they write down which beers you’re having), are some etiquette tips, or words of wisdom. More fodder for thinking deep thoughts.
On the merchandise end, they sell growlers, shirts, and other goodies. I didn’t have a chance to take a good look, but it looks very well stocked.
They also sell some baked pastries and other snacks as well, for those who get the munchies.
I will definitely be back. Recommended.

Fun joint to make a destination. Can’t wait to be able to get there on bike. As soon as they get some bike racks.
Solid selection of beers. Really enjoyed the brown ale — one of the best in town, very smooth and drinkable. The others were solid and the weakest was the stout. Props for taking risks however; it paired ok with the food we brought in from outside but on its own its palate and finish is too acidic and yeasty for me.
Décor is cool. I like the darker ambience but because of that, the menu is unreadable. Not to mention it was put up by a dyslexic. Merch is also very cool. Bought a tee as a gift and it went over well.
A few suggestions to make this a even better destination if this hasn’t already been done:
1. Make the menu legible. One flipped letter is creative. The whole word flipped is just being weird. Put some light on it too.
2. Put out a bike rack or two. People will still ride in the rain if they want to drink.
3. Put up coat and purse hooks. If you have backless stools, you need hooks. Simple enough.
All in all, a great experience. Friendly people who are genuinely interested in making a better product.

What better way to spend part of the last day of 2014 than tasting some delicious new beers at the newest addition to Vancouver’s explosively incredible craft beer scene?
The décor is chic, clean, minimal, and modern. There’s an art space in the back with some great work, and it really adds a warmth to the industrial quality of the room. I love that you can see folks working in the brewery through the giant glass wall all down one side of the room — such a neat thing to see!
We stopped by late afternoon on New Year’s Eve and although the location is on Clark and therefore harder to get to walking (make sure you find a crosswalk, this is not a road to dash across!) it was BUSY! Luckily some people had left just before we arrived and we managed to snag a table, but there were lots of people milling around, and when we left a woman was definitely waiting to swoop in and grab our spot — it’s so awesome to see how passionate folks are about craft beer in Vancouver! It warms my heart!
We chatted to one of the people behind the bar for a couple of minutes to get some recommendations and ended up ordering two flights so we could taste everything. We both loved the Lager and the West Coast Pale Ale so filled our growlers with those! The prices for tasters and growler fills were very reasonable, and their growler labelling station is awesome! We had a lot of fun with the stamps, and even mixed and matched a bit! We’re both really looking forward to seeing what else they come up with, and I know I’ll be back very soon!

Great ambience. Lovely beers. Just opened a week or so ago. Nice variety in their seven opening beers.

Strange-​ly appealing addition to the craft beer revolution in Vancouver.
Fresh from Hawaii, I was craving some solid local brews. Browsing on Untapped, I noticed this new brewery that just officially opened today.
Located in what likely was an auto body shop on Clark Drive, the interior design is minimalistic and slick. The beer menu consists of printing press block letters. Although it doubles as a sobriety test, it is quite hard to read.
We had flights on all their beers available and walked away with growler fills of the Lager and Pale Ale.
Every one of the staff was super friendly and welcoming. Their growlers and mini growlers are unique as they are shorter and fatter. Definitely adding to the growler collection.
Welcome Fellows!