Boathouse Brewery has now been brewing for over a dozen years. There's always another exciting beer to brew!

From our humble beginnings brewing extract batches on the kitchen stove, we have evolved to now brewing ten gallon batches on a purpose built stand and kegging in stainless steel, along with cask-conditioning ales and serving them on authentic English handpumps. Cask-conditioned ale, also known as real ale, is our favourite way of enjoying beer. Not widely available in the USA, real ale is the main reason we got into homebrewing.

"A quart of Ale is a dish fit for a king" -William Shakespeare

Welcome to the online home of the Boathouse Brewery, a home brewery located in Columbus, Ohio. Boathouse Brewery has been going for a dozen years now, with over two hundred batches produced so far. Over a decade ago it all started with a $40 homebrew kit and a five gallon pot on the stove. Now we're doing all-grain batches on a half-barrel system with a pump, counterflow wort chiller, three handpumps dispensing real ale, nine stainless steel faucets serving force-carbonated beer, and enough refrigeration equipment to prompt a comment from our friend Brian Tuwalski, after he very kindly helped us move all of the equipment in, that "it looks like an HHGregg down here"!

The Boathouse name comes from my love of rowing and is derived from my years on the Ohio State University Crew while in college. We hope you enjoy our website and the diverse world of beer to which it is dedicated. For questions, comments, or suggestions, please email the brewmaster at benj@boathousebrewery.com. or the head brewer at steve@boathousebrewery.com.

updated 27 June 2009

Cask Conditioned:: Boathouse English IPA; Dark Star Hophead clone (firkin); Harvey's 1859 Porter clone
CO2 Dispense:: Harvey's 1859 Porter clone; Burly Blonde Belgian Ale; Boathouse English IPA; Boathouse Pale Ale (with home-grown Cascade hops); Boathouse Cols-ch (Kolsch style ale); Two Hearted Ale clone; Boathouse Milk Stout; Pliny the Elder clone (9.2%)
Ciders:: Tiddly Pommes Cider

Taplist for Boathouse Brewery – Portland

updated 27 June 2009

Boathouse Brewery has a west coast annex in Portland, Oregon. Brewing is not yet operational at the Portland location, but in the meantime there are great local craft beers on tap.

CO2 Dispense:: Baltic Porter, Max's Fanno Creek Brewery, Tigard, OR; Firestorm Red, Three Creeks Brewery, Sisters, OR; Crosstown Pale Ale, Hopworks Urban Brewery, Portland, OR; Brown Eyes Brown Ale, Silver Moon Brewing, Bend, OR; Elk Lake IPA, Bend Brewing Co., Bend, OR; Invasive Species IPA, Captured by Porches Brewing Company, St. Helens, OR; Klickitat Pale Ale, Alameda Brewing, Portland, OR