With a focus on quality over quantity, the VBS is a membership-driven community of like-minded individuals who share a common passion for BC craft beer.

Victoria Beer Society

Quality over Quantity!

Victoria

Ladysmith

Cobble Hill

Duncan

Qualicum Beach

Comox

Hornby Island

Nanaimo

Parksville

Langford

Cumberland

Saanichton

Port Alberni

Sidney

Sooke

Port McNeill

Chemainus

Ucluelet

Victoria 

Courtenay

Tofino

Langford 

Nanoose Bay

Campbell River

North Saanich

 Sooke

 Saanichton

Vancouver Island

Saanichton & Sidney

North Park

Downtown

Harris Green

Fairfield/Cook St.

Vic West

Fernwood

James Bay

Esquimalt

Rock Bay

West Shore

Oak Bay 

It’s amazing what some beer nerds can accomplish with a little creativity and a welding torch. Weathering the occasional catastrophic beer flood, imploding tanks, and a few address changes, we’ve taken it all in stride. We’ve always kept it unconventional in all our approaches to craft brewing, malting, and distilling as we constantly explore the craft beer frontier guided by unbridled creativity and unwavering attention to quality. At Phillips Brewing, we find inspiration through fermentation.

Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.

We’ve always kept it unconventional in all our approaches to craft brewing, malting, and distilling as we constantly explore the craft beer frontier guided by unbridled creativity and unwavering attention to quality. At Phillips Brewing, we find inspiration through fermentation.

Certified beer nerds! 

Île Sauvage is French for “Wild Island” and is a dual reference to the wilderness of Vancouver Island and our main focus on Belgian-style wild ales and sour beers. We make use of Kveik, Lactobacillus, and Brettanomyces fermentations, as well as secondary fermentations with fruit.
Our brewery consists of a combination of stainless steel tanks and an assortment of oak-ageing vessels. We offer a number of beers produced using sour worting methods, but we also release long-term blended, oak-aged sour beers.
Our main goal as a brewery is to release beers that excite us and our palates; therefore, a lot of the beers make use of fermentation-derived flavours, dry-hopping, and local fruit refermentations.
Santé!

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Ile Sauvage 

Our brewery consists of a combination of stainless steel tanks and an assortment of oak-ageing vessels. We offer a number of beers produced using sour worting methods, but we also release long-term blended, oak-aged sour beers.

Wild and sour beer. 

A warm welcome awaits you at The Penny Farthing Olde English Pub in the heart of Victoria’s Oak Bay Village. Here you’ll discover fires crackling in four fireplaces, rich dark wood, Victorian-etched glass doors and windows, a fascinating collection of memorabilia and a fabulous bar.

Visit us for a break or lunch. Drop by for drinks after work. Meet for a cozy dinner. Gather around the bar or on the patio with the gang. The Penny offers you a true English pub experience, right here in Victoria, BC.

Penny Farthing

The Penny offers you a true English pub experience, right here in Victoria, BC.

A warm welcome awaits you at The Penny Farthing.

A small batch, non-distribution brewery and tasting room located in Sidney by the Sea. We are your guiding light to great beer!

Beacon Brewing

A small batch, non-distribution brewery and tasting room located in Sidney by the Sea.

Your guiding light to great beer!

At Herald Street Brew Works we aim to brew with authenticity; our priorities in brewing are quality, integrity and education. Rather than commit to a set of core recipes, here we choose to explore and evolve recipes to continue to enrich the craft beer community we know and love. Almost every seat in our tasting room has a view of our towering double stacked bright tanks. 10 in total. Our taps draw directly from those tanks, giving you ‘tank fresh’ beer with every pour. We surrounded ourselves with people who are passionate about great beer, and we want to share that love with you. We aim to provide you with the freshest beer experience possible.

Herald Street Brew Works

Excellent quality beer served fresh from the tanks in Downtown Victoria. 

At Herald Street Brew Works we aim to brew with authenticity.

Canada’s first purpose-built gastro brewpub brings you Victoria’s largest selection of traditionally crafted brews and pub fare with a local twist.  A covered & heated waterfront patio, a dining & taproom with a view, a place to spend the night, growler fills and menu of local seasonal fare makes Spinnakers an essential taste of Victoria.

Spinnakers has led the renaissance of craft brewing. As artisan brewers, our philosophy is that great beer goes best with great food. Our brewery is a source of ingredients and inspiration for the food we create, a fact that makes Victoria's only gastro brewpub deliciously unique. 

After some food and drink, visit our provisions store and pick up your own Growler! 



Spinnakers Brewpub 

Classic ales, specialty beers, ciders, barrel aged & sours brewed with time honoured techniques and fresh ingredients for a signature flavour.

Victoria’s largest selection of traditionally crafted brews.

Small Gods Brewing Co. is a new family-owned and -operated brewery and taproom designed to fit into the community of Sidney by the Sea. We take inspiration from the world of literature and host monthly events, including author readings, literary trivia nights, and a Book Club. Our Taproom has a selection of inclusive books for kids and we strive to provide a family-friendly atmosphere where everyone is welcome to stop by, satiate their hunger with an artisan sandwich, and have a beer with friends, family, or with their favourite book. Our core purpose is to create a safe, sustainable, and inclusive community where people thrive through food, drink, and literature. Our values drive our purpose, provide the foundation of our operations, and inform our code of conduct.

Small Gods Brewing Co. 

Small Gods Brewing Co. is a new family-owned and -operated brewery and taproom designed to fit into the community of Sidney by the Sea. A safe, sustainable, and inclusive space where people thrive through food, drink, and literature!

A safe, sustainable, and inclusive brewery & taproom!

There is a great quote that says “A pub is a poor man’s university.” In many pubs, ideas are shared, stolen, improved, bastardized and, more often than not, forgotten.
A pub has always been where the community gathers to celebrate the good times and commiserate the bad. A pub really is just an extension of our living room, and as such, we want people to feel welcome like they are at our house, so do us a favour and keep your feet off the furniture…

Swans Pub is a place where life happens. A place where everyone could know your name. A place where the beer flows like wine. A pub worthy of the historic building’s roots.
A food program focused on the dishes we crave and that allows us to satisfy our true appetite.

Driven by nostalgia… And the Rolling Stones.

Swans Brewery is a hands-on facility where blood, sweat, and beers are part of the everyday cycle. It’s a brewer’s brewery, where beer is made by walking, crouching, turning, carrying, digging, scrubbing, lifting, sweeping, laughing, spraying, taping, hauling, rolling, twisting, delivering, speaking, touring, tasting, tightening, and loving.

Swans Brewery, Pub & Hotel 

Swans Pub is a place where life happens. A place where everyone could know your name. A place where the beer flows like wine. A pub worthy of the historic building’s roots.
A food program focused on the dishes we crave and that allows us to satisfy our true appetite.

A brewer's brewery. 



Howl Brewing is an independently owned and operated pico brewery, located in North Saanich, BC. We opened in June 2018, although the project was in the works for a couple years. Our focus is small batch high quality craft beer made from BC grown ingredients. Our ever changing menu is often dictated by what is available locally. Being a small brewery, customers can look forward to trying beer styles that are obsolete, beer that showcases local farms, traditional styles, as well as learn about beer from the staff. Join us on the adventure! 

Our tasting room is kid-friendly so you can come with the whole family! 

Howl Brewing

Independently owned and operated brewery serving up a rotating selection of unique beers. 

An ever-changing menu of small batch high-quality craft beer. 

Hoyne Brewing Co. is a family-owned brewery that believes in people. It is at the core of everything we do. We like to think of our team and community as our extended family—and what better way to celebrate than sharing a beer made from the finest ingredients and a deep love of the craft.

Hoyne Brewing 

What better way to celebrate than sharing a beer made from the finest ingredients and a deep love of the craft?

Family-owned, with a deep love of the craft. 

Driftwood Brewery is a craft brewery based in Victoria B.C., born in the fall of 2008 with a simple desire to brew beer that they are proud of. In the perpetual pursuit of innovation and quality, Driftwood quickly gained a reputation for brewing bold, west coast style beers and hasn't looked back since.

Driftwood Brewery

Driftwood Brewery is a craft brewery based in Victoria B.C., born in the fall of 2008 with a simple desire to brew beer that they are proud of.

Our beer is made by real people with high standards! 

With a rich history and arguably the most beautiful room in Victoria, The Bard provides the very best in food, drink, and music. Find the perfect drink to satisfy your thirst with everything from our mimosa towers, 31 craft and import taps, and handcrafted cocktails to our award-winning wine list.

The Executive Chef has created a full-service menu that is hearty, fast, locally sourced when possible, and made from scratch. He keeps things fresh and fun by creating new daily specials and features each week. The Bard takes pride in featuring the very best musical talents Victoria has to offer. Whether it is brunch with the girls, date night with your love, or late night with the boys, WE ARE ALL ABOUT GREAT SERVICE AT THE BARD!

Bard & Banker

With a rich history and arguably the most beautiful room in Victoria, The Bard provides the very best in food, drink, and music. Find the perfect drink to satisfy your thirst with everything from our mimosa towers, 31 craft and import taps, and handcrafted cocktails to our award-winning wine list.

Discover a rich history at the Bard!

Lighthouse Brewing Co. is a family-owned and operated Craft Brewery that has been handcrafting beer for 24 years since August 17th, 1998! We are more than a Craft Brewery – we are a family that offers you a taste of our passion for craft beer, and we love sharing life’s moments with you. From a fishing boat in the Salish Sea to the West Coast Trail, and anywhere in between, we’re honoured to be there with you however we can. - Cheers!

Lighthouse Brewing

Lighthouse Brewing Co. is a family-owned and operated Craft Brewery that has been handcrafting beer for 24 years since August 17th, 1998!

Handcrafting beer for 24 years! 

A family-run microbrewery in the back roads of Sooke (Otter Point District), brewing and packaging on site. The public is welcome. We have a tasting room (soon to be lounge, adding gluten-free options) with a 12-tap bar, an outside heated patio, a treed picnic area and our own hot food trailer with pub fare and weekly specials, for here or to go. Our tall cans, growler fills and kegs are available for takeaway. Product-related merchandise is also available at the brewery.

Bad Dog Brewing 

A family-run microbrewery in the back roads of Sooke, with a tasting room, 12-tap bar, outside heated patio, and our own hot food trailer with pub fare and weekly specials.

A family-run microbrewery in the back roads of Sooke.

Category 12’s head brewer and founder, Michael Kuzyk, has been brewing beer for more than 25 years and has his doctorate in microbiology and biochemistry from UVic. But all work and no play makes… well, you know the rest. After leading the creation of several world–class research labs, he decided it was time to make his own – dedicated to the pursuit of exceptional beer.

Category 12 Brewing

Category 12’s head brewer and founder, Michael Kuzyk, has been brewing beer for more than 25 years!

Dedicated to the pursuit of exceptional beer.

Our beer is inspired by centuries of European brewing tradition and propelled forward by Canadian passion and creativity. Our beautiful German brewhaus allows us to implement the most challenging brew methods into our processes from step-mashes to decoctions. These methods are what give our beer unmatched balance and depth. The newest and most exciting addition to the brewery is our barrel-aged sour program.

Come visit our Distillery Lounge, Pub, and Patio with a dog section. 

Moon Under Water

Bar-fare specials paired with German-style house beers in a funky pub attached to a brewery. Kid friendly pub, distillery and lounge! 

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