Welcome to Dageraad Brewing’s Tasting Lounge! 

Thank you for visiting us today, we look forward to serving you and we hope you enjoy your time in our space. Our tasting room and bottle shop is open 12-9pm Saturday to Wednesday and 12-10pm Thursday and Friday.

Dageraad Brewing is situated on unceded, traditional, and ancestral lands of the Coast Salish peoples including the Tsleil-Waututh (səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ), Kwikwetlem (kʷikʷəƛ̓əm), Squamish (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw) and Musqueam (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm) Nations

Dageraad strives to be an inclusive safe space for patrons and staff. Racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism and any other forms of discrimination will not be tolerated.

We appreciate your support!

Cheers!

Dageraad Brewing is named after the Dageraadplaats, a neighbourhood square on the east side of Antwerp, Belgium. The brewery is our effort to transport a small piece of the beer culture I found in that square home to British Columbia.

About ten years ago, during a youth well-spent tramping about the world on a budget, I met three Belgians in Laos. We became fast friends. Over the years, I’ve visited them in Antwerp a number of times. Inevitably, at least once each visit we would find ourselves in the Dageraadplaats (“sunrise square” in Flemish) drinking the legendary beers of Belgium.

Those first encounters with Belgian beers led me to try to brew them myself at home. Gamblers talk about beginners’ luck, because people who are unlucky their first time don’t continue gambling. It’s the same with brewing. My first Belgian-style homebrew was incredible – fruity, spicy, complex, but light and drinkable. I was hooked.

Interest grew into obsession, and I began a period of intensive study. I went to brewing school. I took two beer sabbaticals to Belgium. I crisscrossed the country, visiting breweries in tiny Flemish villages and in abbeys in the Ardennes. I picked Belgian brewers’ brains to discover what made their beer so amazing. And I returned to the Dageraadplaats again and again.

Now, after years of study, setbacks and hard work, we have Dageraad Brewing. The brewery isn’t much to look at; just a handful of brewers reveling in their modest collection of stainless steel tanks in a warehouse in Burnaby. But there’s something I learned during my visits to Belgian breweries: it doesn’t take grandeur in a brewery to make magic in a bottle.

— Ben Coli, Dageraad Brewing