TASTE Summer 2025

La Cervecería Astilleros Tasting Room

A TASTE OF MEXICO IN BC Astilleros means “shipyard,” and the original Shipyards Brewery opened in North Vancouver’s Shipyards Brewery District in late 2020, with the intent to bring “colourful, rich Mexican culture…in the form of delicious craft beers.” A second location opened in Chinatown in 2024. Mexican beers are known for their crisp, refreshing taste and light flavours—typically pale, clean lagers with little bitterness and low alcohol. While his excitement for brewing in general shines The bright-blue-and-white Mexican tile patterns on the beer labels offer the first sign that La Cervecería Astilleros is up to something a little different. So does the name: this is the only cervecería , or Mexican-inspired brewery, in British Columbia (BC).

NORTH VANCOUVER

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La Cervecería Astilleros

BY JAMES NEVISON

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